Sycamore Creek Golf Course — Local services in Short Pump

Ah, Sycamore Creek:

A welcoming and completely NOT racist golf course!

I have played this golf course at least 15 times, and when I am playing with a white man I have never been bothered about the pace of play! As I said, this is a welcoming and completely NOT racist golf course!

This is the 2nd time I have brought my former pastor (who happens to be an older black gentleman), and surprise, surprise, the 2nd time an old white man harassed us about pace of play. But remember, this is a welcoming and completely NOT racist golf course!

Both times, this Barney fife wannabe has harassed us about pace of play despite our being within the expected norms of finish time. This time, he actually drove onto the course, and stopped us from playing TWICE, on two separate holes, to tell us to “pick it up.” But Sycamore Creek is a welcoming and completely NOT racist golf course!

Based upon every golf website I have ever seen, 18 holes should take 4-4 1/2 hours. This follows that 9 holes should take 2-2:15. Even with him harassing us twice, and being paired with a walking player that we did not know, we finished our 9 holes in 2 hours & 16 minutes (9:04-11:21). But remember, this is a welcoming and completely NOT racist golf course!

We allowed one group to play through, and still finished within that time. That group was 2 white men who were not paired up with someone they didn’t know. But remember, this is a welcoming and completely NOT racist golf course!

The second group that was behind us was two older white gentlemen, each riding in THEIR OWN golf cart. They were also not matched up with anyone that they didn’t know. But remember, this is a welcoming and completely NOT racist golf course!

We went into the golf shop to complain about our treatment. The guy behind the counter AGREED that we should not have been harassed, and that we were not slow, because we finished within a reasonable amount of time. So, at least there’s that! He admitted that we were treated wrongly! Because, please remember, this is a welcoming and completely NOT racist golf course!

Instead of owning it (despite admitting it) that we were provided a very poor experience because of staff and refunded, or at partially refunded, we got the proverbial “I’ll talk to him.“ Which is “customer service“ language for “I’m not going to do anything. Just shut up & leave.” But remember, this is a welcoming and completely NOT racist golf course!

I’m glad we got a couple pictures, because this is the last time we will be...

Had not played this course for a while until a month ago and had a great round and a great time. Decided to come back when I had another chance about a month later and sadly I have had to add it to the DNP (do not play) list. Employees on power trips is what make courses like Sycamore and Hunting Hawk unplayable. I once worked at a golf course and loved it but these two courses share employees that hate the game of golf and everything that comes with it and that is sad because a good course then loses players and eventually gets developed on. The younger curly haired, earring wearing, cashier that has been unpleasant to deal with on both occasions this summer lost the course 4 customers during our last outing. I bought two adult bevarages from him at the turn and he rushed to follow me outside where he heard me drop my divot fixer on the pavement and proceeded to accuse me of dropping a bottle cap. He proceeded to stare us down from outside the clubhouse the entire time we played the tenth hole. To make things worse this round was well over 5 hours as the course did not care that a group in front us repeatedly kept joining together to play as an 8some. Instead of harrasing customers they should spend more time ensuring the pace of play is kept up on their course as they are known for being the slowest course in the area. I also run a league of 40+ guys and was considering this course for next summer but I now know our money and time is better...

The course itself was just fine and well maintained. We booked a tee time for 5 players. Nothing was brought to our attention about having too many players. Obviously with a larger group we’re gonna play slower. We had no issues letting folks play through. No one seemed upset about our pace. As we were finishing the front nine, the illustrious marshal Pete, decided to ride on in mounted upon his high horse to read us the riot act about our play speed. When we kindly explained that we’d been allowing the faster folks to play through. Pete continued to berate us and be disrespectful and insist that we speed up and continued to trash talk our group saying that we ought to know better and have groups of either 2,3 or 4. Ultimately the issue here is two fold. If group size is that much of an issue, the starter should have split us up to begin with. But the marshal added insult to injury. Pete’s final issue was driving straight at our cart on the wrong side of the road and being indignant, waving me out of his path. I guess it’s just Pete’s world and we’re merely living in it. As visitors to the area, and being recommended to play this course, we looked forward to getting a round in. After the ignorance we received, I can say I’m sorry we played here and I won’t be recommending this course to anyone, unless they want to be treated like second class citizens. News flash Pete, this...