Sandy Burr

Address:
103 Cochituate Rd
Wayland, MA 01778
Phone: 508-358-7211
Website: http://www.sandyburr.com/

Golf Mash Rating: 6/10
Course Quality: 6/10
Course Difficulty: 5/10
Price: Fair: $45-52

Full Review:

"The Burr", as our playing partners called it, is a pretty good course. There is nothing too spectacular nor too bad about The Burr. The price isn't bad and the course is decent. It is also closer to the city than many courses which makes playing easy.

The Good

• Pretty decent layout with some nice golf holes.
• Decent maintenance: there was a bunch of damage from Spring rains on the day we played, but that seems to be typical for early season this year.
• Pleasant atmosphere: The Burr definitely doesn't take itself overly serious.
• Full hole location numbering system with the location map on the scorecard. Unlike some higher priced courses, the holes actually were in the spots that the scorecard said they would be.

The Bad

• The hole maps on tee signs are cartoon versions of the hole rather than the actual layout. If you're playing The Burr for the first time, play with someone who knows the course because some holes have some demanding tee shoots (see notes below).
• All play is first-come-first-served rather than accepting tee times.
• We experienced some slow play even on a weekday. Although the scorecard calls for a 4:10 round, we didn't see that in practice and the rangers didn't really seem to care.
• The starter has everyone congregate near the first tee regardless of whose turn it is. Your first shot will have an audience.
• Some bland holes in the middle of the course with parallel fairways and little imagination in their design. It definitely doesn't seem that a true golf course architect laid out the holes.
• Some strange features on the course. Number 9 is and exceedingly short par 4 and number 12 has a cart path in the middle of the fairway.

Other Notes

• The following holes do require some prior knowledge to play them well:
  • Number 6: play your tee shot just to the left of the blue spruce. Aiming at the willow will probably put you in the trees, and getting too far right of the spruce may catch the swamp.
  • Number 8: Play a driver over the middle of the three trees or a long iron to the corner. Hitting driver at the corner will go into the march.
  • Number 9: hit a long iron over the trees protecting the corner. Something around 180-190 yards should be fine.
  • Number 11: this hole opens up much more than it appears from the tee.
  • Number 12: play an easy driver or fairway wood from the tee. Look out for the cart path running down the center of the fairway (!)
  • Number 15: the aggressive play is to hit over the edge of the willow on the right or try to fade a ball. If I had it to do over again though, I'd just take a long iron from the tee and not challenge the narrow opening of the fairway from the tee.
• It's not quite a negative, but I've now seen the halfway house callboxes on number 9 on a few courses. At least The Burr's works, but I'm not a big fan of the system. Every other time, I never get them to work, and this time, talking with the attendant was a pain.

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