Paulie here – I try to remove myself from the fray that a highly ranked course causes. I learned long ago that having a highly ranked course is somewhat of a curse, making the course, and you as an owner, a target. I do not usually stick my beak into these discussions, but this one I can't let slide.
For the record, I have never treated anyone who visits any of my courses with anything but courtesy, and respect. I am very customer service oriented, and pride myself in making all visitors to PF, BS, or MM feel like they are special, and try to make them feel "at home". There are many outright lies in this latest review, and the one that is most concerning to me is putting my character in question. I want to be very very clear about this, I have never, nor would I even consider, creating an alternate ID to put more phony reviews on this site. I value this site, and my integrity way to much. I have never taken credit for the Conifer course nor the Bailey course. If I have said anything in regards to these other local mountain courses, it is in reference to me being one of the many founding members of the Foothill Flyers DG Club who is responsible for the design and instillation of these mountain jewels, and explaining the order of instillation, and some history in regards to there creation. I also spend some time during the ½ hour orientation explaining where your customary donation money is spent. For the record, I schedule only one tee-time per day, so how much money could I really be "raking in". I also hire a groundskeeper for two days a week, and lease some of the property used to make the course. Every course has expenses and mine is no different. Where can you have 6 to 7 hours of fun for $20 anyway? There is one (and only one) bit of truth in this review, the truth is that with my age and injuries I can NOT throw much further than 300ft. All the other info on this review is outright lies and garbage.
In regards to Phantom Falls DGC, When you call me for your mandatory tee-time, I make it very clear that this is a "shorter, accuracy based, intermediate/advanced, and beginner friendly" DGC, nor do I hide the fact that there is a customary donation of $20 for around 6 to 7 hours of fun. If you chose to come to PF you have made a conscious choice to come to an accuracy based, ace run rich, fun factor, "shorter" 39 hole DGC that takes all day to play.
I am very passionate about growing our sport from the ground up by focusing on kids, women, and beginners (the future of our sport) and we have made some beginner friendly courses that groups can have for the day all to themselves. I understand that there are those who are not going to like the nature of these "shorter" beginner friendly courses, but we am also not forcing you to play them, we have many other local courses with much longer holes to chose from. You must also understand that there are many DG'ers who enjoy these types of accuracy based courses very much. Just look at the 11 TR's and 1 Diamond TR that gave PF an average rating of 4.58, so the notion that Phantom Falls is a course that deserves a rating any less that say 3 or 3.5 is revengeful at best. In my opinion the last two people are just reviewing PF so they can slam PF, and significantly lower its DGCR rating.
Not liking my/our courses is very different than not liking me, making false accusations of things I have done, and calling me names is the work of someone who has some sort of personal vendetta. To the person who wrote this latest garbage, I don't know what I did to you to make you so angry, but I feel bad that I made you feel that way, and I would change it if I could, I am also sorry that you did not enjoy your day at Phantom Falls. As for me being a douchbag, I think we all know who the DB is in this situation. Regards to all - Paulie
