Wisconsin to North Dakota Golfing Blogger: King's Walk Golf Course Review

A few months ago a friend and I played some evening golf at King's Walk Golf Course in Grand Forks North Dakota. Now this was my first time playing a 4 star course so I had some high hopes. First we got a pretty cheap rate. First we got twilight rates then on top of it we got student discounts. It came to around $20 a person. It seemed pretty reasonable to me and also my friend. We had to make a reservation which we expected considering it is considered the best course open to the public in town. The clubhouse was nice but the guy doing reservations gave us a little bit of attitude like we were not welcomed there. We got to the first tee and one thing I noticed was the course was in amazing shape. Even better than other course I have been to so far. We started golfing and I was playing horrible. I couldn't hit a straight shot with a driver to save my life again! I need to work on it once I can afford to golf again. Anyway we were enjoying ourselves putting and such.

There were a lot of members on the course that day with golf carts going at a much faster rate than us. We let them play though every time. It usually ended up as us visiting with them anyway due to the fact the course was so busy. This is where the enjoyment of the course ended though. After letting two or so groups catch up to us and play through the groups behind us started getting ruder and ruder. We would still let the faster players play through politely but would not get any thanks or anything like that. We were in no hurry to finish the course like they were we just wanted to enjoy ourselves. Again there was a huge clog up on the course so letting people play though did not get them any further in front of us, because we were always waiting behind them at the next hole waiting for the people in front of them to finish. We got up to play the 8th hold after waiting for the group ahead of us to get out of driving range a visibly drunk guy came screaming up on his golf cart across multiple fairways. He screamed at us saying "You fuckers are holding everyone up!" We calmly explained to him and showed him we must wait there are people in front of us. He then not so kindly expressed to us that we should get off the course anyway since we were not members nor good at golf. Then drove off. My friend and I did not enjoy this to much. A few minutes later that guy and his friend on the cart went blowing buy us just to cut in front of us. I'm sure he passed quite a few golfers and have no idea which hole he went on. By this point my friend and I were convinced this was not the place for use. We finished up the front 9 went into the clubhouse and ate some food. The food was very good by the way and the price was just a little bit pricey in our opinions. We were still upset about what had happened to us and decided this course was not for use at all.

We came to the conclusion that the higher priced the courses get the more assholes the course gets. It seemed like mostly everyone was out having a good time on the cheaper courses and not much would upset them. King's walk was not like that at all. Yes there were nice people, but in the end it seemed like those people were few and far between. I'm still upset when I think how I was treated to this day. My friend and I both decided never again would we golf at King's Walk.

In conclusion the golf course was in amazing shape and the food in the clubhouse was very good, but I cannot recommend this course due to the attitude of many of the golfers (mostly members) on the course. People like that can easily ruin a good day of golf, and when your paying more you expect to have more fun. This is sad, because it is such a beautiful course.

Here are some pictures of the day. By the way I decided to try out a Zazzle account and put some of the pictures on there in case some one actually wants to buy the pictures I took. You can view the Zazzles site here. I don't know how long I will stay with Zazzle though, because they are more frustrating than anything.
Anyway onto the pictures...