Just played Tumble Creek Club with head pro, Scott Syns. Absolutely stunning setting. I'm still sorting my feelings out about the course.
I played 'the Doak' tees and played off the Doak card (Tom's course within a course) and found it short but quite tough. An outward half, very penal and demanding on those that hit it left, is punctuated by the jaw-dropping 4th - a sloping par 5 which may require seat belts to play safely.
Back nine works its way down to a flatter valley and plays around with some water features.
Barely a ball mark on the entire course, the conditioning bordered on being antiseptic. MacKenzie highly detailed and hand worked bunkering and closely cut transitions to the putting surfaces (you can put from 20 yds off some of these greens) are, like other Renaissance GD courses, present here.
We walked the course - very walkable which is surprising in such a hilly area.
I'm not sure I would place it high on the list of Doak courses and I don't know why. Like a million other places I probably need to play it a few times to better cement an opinion.
Any others seen it?
JC