Indian Peaks Golf Course — Local services in Lafayette

This course is like a girl who is a soft 5, but thinks she's a hard 9. It gets good ratings because it 'has good views'. We live in Colorado, the parking lot of 7/11 has good views. The course is WAYYY over priced, at around $50 to walk 18. The staff are really rude. The first time I called there the girl was so rude I called back 10 minutes later and told them frankly 'I don't want to give you my money, cancel that tee time'. The kid working the pro shop today wasn't a whole lot better. Very short and snarky. The range was mats only, because 'it's too early in the year, the grass isn't growing'. Nope. This is the only place I've been to in the past month that is still off mats, which are about an inch thick and on concrete here, so pretty crappy. The chipping green is about the size of my kitchen table and some knucklehead was hitting literally 50-75 balls to one hole, taking 1/3 of the green out of commission. (On a side note, STOP DOING THIS. I see it all the time. Hitting into a pile of balls does nothing for your game and gets in everyone else's way. 10 balls at a time. Max.) The course wasn't in terrible condition, but the greens were extraordinarily slow. Oddly, they don't hold shots. I've been playing for many years (27) and am a high-spin player, and I couldn't get the ball to stop on chips to save my life. To make up for the extreme lack of length of this course there are all sorts of dog legs, with allegedly local rules of 'don't cut the corners'. They put a lot of bunkers/lakes through the fairways and on the corners to try to force you not to hit driver. You can find lots of courses that are equal quality in the North Suburbs of Denver for around $20-$30 and probably have a way better experience.

The positives are that the putting green is really nice and smooth, but also rolls about 3x faster than the actual greens, so don't fall in love with the speed before you tee off. The bathroom in the clubhouse is really nice, and they have these nice futuristic urinals that are fun to pee in. There are nice views here, I will admit...but as indicated earlier, that means very little to me.

On a personal note, there was some very creepy guy who walked into the clubhouse at the same time I did. He didn't say anything, didn't walk up to the counter, but was straight up staring at me. I saw it right away, could feel his eyes burning into my back when I was paying, and when I turned around he had this insanely scary smirk on his face. I very seriously thought Uncle Touchy was going to get handsy with me. Not a good experience. If you play here, watch...

Not much of a review guy. Generally not worth my time. But here I just felt the need. I played Indian Peaks this past Saturday. I have to say the course, club house were fantastic so it gets a 3 still. Kuddos to the maintenance crew and club house staff. My issue is purely with the ranger working the morning shift. To frame the story a bit I ready reviews of the course the night before snd there were a lot of complaints regarding how pushy the rangers were. I sort of thought typical folk complaining while they probably were slow. Fast forward to our round Saturday. We approached the 9th tee box and teed off. The golf cart at the time said 5 behind pace. The group ahead was getting to ten tee while we were hitting our tee shots on 9. It was kind of a give and take onnthe front. Some holes we did wait some holes the gap widened to this. The ranger approaches us and immediately says I need your help picking up the pace. We were sort of taken a back as the group behind had not been waiting on us at all and we stated that. The ranger immediately got angry to where that's where things got sort of comical. We were a foursome and playing in a tournament and he goes "this is the problem guys, you hit 4 or 5 balls off the tee!" Well yeah we did because there were 4 golfers and one golfer took a mulligan. Ranger storms off and then decides to come back to get a final word in which was so unnecessary. By the time we got to ten tee we had to wait as its a drivable par 4. We ended up finishing at 4 hours and 12 minutes which is well ahead of their designated pace. Again the course itself and the pro shop staff were great. I am a big pace of play guy as I play 2 to 3 tines a week but this approach is not encouraging. Instead maybe approach us and say "hey guys not bad let's ensure we keep up...

VERY UNWELCOMING!

The older of the two gentleman working the morning of July 5th was particularly unprofessional. At 8am, I checked online for a tee time and saw one available for 8:36, but was hoping to pay cash. I walk into the clubhouse sometime between 8:20-8:25 and I ask about the 8:36 tee time I saw online with 2 spots left and wanting to pay cash. He replies with no hesitation a crotchety, “they’re already out.” Shucks. Kind of early for the slot, but not a big deal, it’s a busy week for golf and I knew that. I look around the shop a quick bit, then walking back to the parking lot, I see the 2some 8:36 tee time still waiting to tee off…. If I’d just walked out after the interaction and seen them still there I’d have said something, but by the time I was walking out it was for sure too late. Come on!! The guy working the desk couldn’t have even been bothered to just turn around and look at the tee box!!!!

Not really sure why they wouldn’t want another greens fee coming in, but it’s really disappointing to be turned away when there is room. Going to be hard to justify giving my money to a business that doesn’t want it. Every other course out here is happy to fill up every single tee time with a full group, especially to cash paying customers. It may have been a bad morning for him, but I was expecting quite a bit more professionalism from someone who was fully decked in golf garb and has clearly been golfing for a very long time. It’s a game of etiquette after all. Might make for a better ranger...