Boone's Trace National Golf Club — Local services in Kentucky

The woman who greeted us at the pro shop was very nice. The rest of the staff I encountered- indifferent. The first thing I saw from the first tee was a tractor with two huge outriggers painting the fairway. Not sure if it was paint or fertilizer or what, but it got green stuff on my ball and shoes. (I had to change from sandals to sneakers because I didn't want the stuff getting on my feet.) The modern electric carts were ruined by the addition of an obnoxious cart monitoring GPS system. The carts cut out without warning and gave snarky messages about going for the green in two and trying to drive a par four, which is not what we were doing at all. And finally, the course was gimmicky in my opinion. It had too many blind landings for my tastes. I couldn't find a couple of balls that were not bad shots. The crazy elevation changes and total lack of flat lies is manageable. It doesn't play extremely difficult. It was in nice shape. Tees, fairways, bunkers and greens were all in very nice condition. At one of the ponds we commented about the pretty scum pattern :) We saw a...

The Boone's Trace staff might just be the friendliest folk in any golf club I've visited in Kentucky. I find a warm welcome in the pro shop jumpstarts my round before I've started onto the tee box. The new layout of the course on the front nine works well and eases players into the round, leaving those treacherous sloped fairways until later on the front. Greens are quick yet manageable. Fairways are neat and crisp, though the onslaught of the sprinkler washed out the most prized area on 14 at around 5 o' clock, making a clean approach more difficult. The rough is worth staying out of. You'll be rewarded for greens and fairways perhaps more than other, flatter courses in Kentucky. The club has done a lot to continue to improve the experience playing here, including updating the carts, which now have accurate GPS systems that track all the distances you'll need on your round. Food and bev are tasty and reasonably...

Having never played the course before, I found the Course is in pretty decent shape. Narrow fairways and a lot of side to side slopes. Have to play down usually the right side of rough to get the ball to hold the fairway on the left. Lots of interesting lies. Only real issue we had was using a yardage book available in the Proshop. Course starts on # 1 while yardage book indicates #1 but it is actually # 8. It took me until the 7th hole to figure out that #8 used to be #1. Drawings were misleading, confusing and just wrong. Finally paired up with someone on 12 who gave me much better info having played it before

Should also mention that we got wet several times due to sprinklers starting up in the middle of the day.

People there very nice and polite. Just wished that they would have told us the difference between the course and the yardage book. Hard to figure out where to...