Overpriced Keystone Ranch Golf Course in Colorado plagued with 'unassistants,' bad conditions, says reader

Keystone Ranch Golf CourseKEYSTONE, CO - A local July mountain getaway for golf found Keystone Ranch Golf Course to be a mediocre layout with worse maintenance touted as a high-end mountain course; maybe once upon a time, but this is 2005. I've played better muni's. And, you might get lucky and have to play cart-path only day! If you like variable green surfaces, week old cups, horse/black/deer fly bites, and rude player's assistants (unassistants, we called them), this is the place for you. On the 9th hole, I pulled my tee shot left of the green and had to hit a lob wedge over the cart path, which contained a player's assistant and a beverage cart, both behaving as if I didn't exist. I think they're weary of tourists at this place. All this for $110 a pop (oh...that includes range balls and cart).

Take your money to Breckenridge for a pleasurable outing on a well-maintained, traditional layout, with nice people.

-- Bert McCauley

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    David R. Holland wrote on: May 2, 2009

    Bert McCauley must work for Breckenridge. I love Keystone Ranch and the people that work there are A-1. The golf courses are superior.
    I also love Breckenridge. What a great layout, but I don't like the cart path only. All in all I wouldn't mind playing Keystone and Breckenridge every day, any day.
    This story should be removed.

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    Jon Welles wrote on: Jul 29, 2005

    In response to Mr. McCauley's review of Keyston Ranch, I find McCauley's review off base. When I played this course earlier this spring I was extremely impressed, minus the high greens fee, I enjoy my experience thoroughly.
    I found the staff to be very friendly and thought the course was in wonderful condition. We played on a "cart path only" day and had no problems doing so, maybe McCauley is just a bit too lazy to walk to his ball from the path or his shots are so errant that it becomes a hike to his ball.
    Maybe Mr. McCauley is a bit snobbier than I when it comes to the game of golf, but I find his review to be borish, whiney, and weak at best.

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