Wild Ridge makes up half of the 36 holes on this property. It has a sister course, Mill Run, (odd name for a sister) with its own clubhouse and practice facilities.

The facilities at Wild Ridge don't really impress, but the first time you set foot on that first tee you pretty much forget about everything else. (Except picking your jaw up off the ground.) You wouldn't be more stunned at this point if a shark suddenly flew through the air and ate you alive. The elevated tee box reveals a serene, pristine, near perfect golf hole. (How they don't have the photo from this tee box on their website is beyond us!) You figure it can only go downhill from there. And it does but it doesn't. You go downhill after you hit your tee shot, and your game might as well, but the rest of the course is a meandering cascade of surprise after pleasant surprise. This is the kind of course one used to write home about. Now one just sends a text message.

The service here is excellent. But truthfully, writing about anything other than the course is wasting a golden opportunity to verbally drool. We have a skeleton worth of bones to pick with #3 (657 from the tips) but it is literally the only "hateful" blemish on the front nine. Even as you proceed onto the back, you'll be hard pressed to find an unremarkable hole. There are tough ones, sure, but they're all fun and different. What a phenomenal golfing experience!

One point needs to be made though. If the website for this course even remotely revealed the beauty, course conditions, amazing holes and fun you find here, people would be stupid not to come here from all over. We'd have been here LONG ago.

Latest Update: 1/27/2011