Delaware Springs Golf - Burnet

Great golf course. Gem hidden away in the Texas hill country. Great facilities

Golf course was in good shape....especially the greens. Food service was terrible. The lady behind the counter was the only person working. She handled everyone's money, picked up trash, and rubbed her nose all with the same pair of gloves on and proceeded to work on our food order without changing the gloves. My fiance tried to get her attention and she was ignored. She also tried to insist that a tip should be left on her credit card. We left in total disgust without waiting for our food.

Course was great, greens and fairways were in great condition. Staff was some of the rudest grumpiest I've ever dealt with from beginning to end. Unfortunate for a decent course...

I 've played Delaware Springs several times before. My friends and I USUALLY enjoy the course. Today was a s stark exception. It had nothing to do with the conditions for the course or the weather. It is about lack of course management/pace of play. Clearly one of the local 'men 's groups ' was doing an event (probably a frequent thing) that day. There were closest to the hole markers on par threes. Not a tournament, just a club outing of some sort. The guy in the pro shop even said I think my seniors have made the turn, so you can go ahead and head out . So something was going on. Had several very slow groups ahead of us. Some of them were 5 deep (which is ridiculous) one allowed to play through, the others had no such etiquette. A Marshal took my receipt, doing the starter role. Then disappeared. No one out there to monitor pace of play. HORRIBLE. What makes it worse is that I called the day before when one my group got injured and couldn 't play. I advised them of this and asked if we could be moved to a different start time since it was a smaller group...might be better for them and us. (I checked their website first LOTS of times were still open) I was told 'Nope don 't have room to move you around '...I told them it could be earlier or later. Still NO. And there was no mention of the the time we did have being in the middle of this men 's club/group. Completely ridiculous and avoidable. I 'm not playing golf to be in any kind of hurry, but slow play and '5 somes ' are something altogether different. At the next team meeting for the staff, maybe discuss the basics of management of play, start times, etc. I play all over the area and this was beyond the pale.

Fantastic round of golf! Course was in great shape despite very hot weather leading up to our vacation. Staff was great and even called me after I forgot my range finder!