St. Peters Golf Club, Saint Peters, MO

A decent course at a nice price

This course is deceptively difficult. The difficulty is actually only slightly above average, but definitely higher than it appears from the tee-box. A straight, accurate hitter will find this course easy to dominate, but wayward shots are punished by a lot of lateral water hazards, a creek that runs across several of the hole, several tight fairways, and a length longer than the rating and slope might suggest. Greens are for the most part boring and mostly flat, with the occassional testing sloped green. If you can find out when they aerate the greens, give it a month or so, as the greens are horrible after aeration. There are relatively few bunkers, and none of them terribly difficult. Overall maintenance is fairly good. A good value, but nothing to get too excited about.

Yep, it's a muni

OK, so it is not usually in the best shape -- that is in no small part because it does get a large amount of play. But it is cheap, has some tricky holes, and is reasonably enjoyable. A very nice course for a beginner to cut their teeth on, the fairways are usually open, and open to the adjacent fairway too for slicers or hookers.