Wolf Creek Golf Resort, Ponoka, AB

I golfed this course yesterday for the first time. I just moved to Red Deer from BC and picked the most expensive course around to take my wife out for our anniversary. We thought for this money it would be a nice experience. Well, we were very upset about the $200 we had to spend to golf a course which is at best, average. There is NOTHING special here at all. For that kind of cash, we've golfed some great courses, Greywolf in Panarama, Tobinao in Kamloops, The Dunes in Kamloops, and others. They all had something special, scenery, location, you get the idea. Yea, we had a late spring this year but it's the 22nd of June and the fairways are winterkilled everywhere still. Cart paths are a mess and the greens had pock marks all over them. What the heck did we pay so much money for??? If we wanted to golf a recovered pasture we'd have gone back to Saskatchewan and hit my old home town for $10. We've golfed for many years, over 30, and enjoy treating ourselves to an expensive course on occasion and this was a terrible experience. 5 holes right along Hwy #2 with no barrier to reduce the noise from all the traffic on a 4 lane highway.

Some of the holes are quite scenic and nice layout but grooming was below average and there are too many interactions with cross flight balls coming from other fairways for my taste. I have golfed similar courses for a lot less money, $85 per person here would compare to similar couses at $35 per person. The Nursery Golf and Country Club is 10 minuites away near Lacombe for $35 per person and I'd bet it's comparable if not better. Save your money and go to The Nursery.

We'll never golf there again and will let the word out to everyone we know and caution them of the same. I'd go if the rates were dropped to a reasonable $35 per person as that is the kind of course this is...NOT WORTH THE MONEY FOR WHAT YOU GET!! LOOK ELSEWHERE!! This was very dissapointing.