Mill Creek Golf

Such a rip off! We paid big bucks and played for 4 minutes until a thunderstorm rolled in. No rain check for tomorrow and they were jerks about it.
Sadly, this new owner will probably have to shut down like the last one.

What a disappointment. They took our money as the course was closing. Then, minutes later when a thunderstorm struck, they wouldn’t give us a rain check. Very rude manager. I expect they will soon go out of business again. Don’t waste the time.

Grandkids and I had a great time! Course is fun and challenging, very well kept. Ice cream treat after the game was EXCELLENT.

Bland and not well play-​tested long-​putt-​only style course on nicely-​kept up grounds with good maintenance. It’s the kind of course that, after having toured 13 other courses in the region this summer, we would like to give props to for the effort of having a nice course but which made us yawn for the most part.
Pricing $ 7 for adults, $ 6 for kids, and «printed coupons only», as the sign in the window says, so you can forget the smartphone revolution, my fellow Unilocalers.
This is a medium-​long putt course with a ton of purple geraniums, nice-​looking granite boulders, decorative rocks, and watercourses and a waterfall in the middle. These parts are spiffy, and despite the piped-​in-​overloud music, add to the experience. Unfortunately the water isn’t really used as play hazard much — there are three holes where it’s possible to hit it into the water, but the rough keeps the ball out on one and sort of does on another, and on the third you’d have to be the worst golfer ever to hit it into the water right off the tee. The boulders and bricks tend to make the balls bounce hard, and the course plays fast in part due to worn turf and lots of uphill /​downhill holes, so «skill» shots are very randomized. Smaller kids will not do well on this course because of the requirement to hit hard, and even we ran up against the per hole stroke limit a number of times (not to boast, but we’ve become very seasoned mini golfers from all this gadding about.)
There are some tells as to how this was not designed for playability. There are «drain zones», spots where balls tend to end up no matter where they’re hit, on many of the holes. On very few of the holes is there a meaningful choice to play the hole two or more different ways — when this is done properly it makes a good course into a great one, and when it’s done poorly, as here, it just makes the holes kind of mechanical.
There were a few holes we liked OK — #17, a nice water hole in a sort of teardrop pattern with a kickout into a pond, #11, and #14, the hole in front of the waterfall. #2 features a bed of flowers as a sort of sand trap, which was nifty, but they’re easily avoidable.
It’s tempting to downgrade this to two stars out of sheer boredom and lack of respect for the game, but for a casual game you can do worse. I’d call this more of a dating-​course than one for kids or others who want a «serious» /​fun game — it has ambiance and the randomization will probably mean your scores will end up close no matter who the better player is.