ABSOLUTELY NOT. You will waste your money and have your intelligence insulted. Here are some links to the grisly shuck they perpetrate on a daily basis.
Go play Hiawatha Landing or Conklin or Greystone instead.
http://www.golfobserver.com/features/Flemma/FlemmaTurningstone_092507.phphttp://jayflemma.thegolfspace.com/?p=460http://jayflemma.thegolfspace.com/?p=139You will waste your money. $225 for a waterfall a stained glass window and "oh no! we would never have a cross hazard!"
From my article:
The PGA Tour, as stewards of the game, have a duty to protect the good and welfare of golf by choosing worthy venues; venues free from the cloud of gambling and tax disputes, venues that promote excellent golf course architecture and venues that are respectful of the storied history, reputation and goodwill of sister courses. People rightfully should be furious when they see ads for a golf resort and find out they are coming instead to a gambling ranch…albeit one with a "world-class" spa facility for those tough days at the one-arm bandit. The difference between revealing this fact and concealing it, is - as author J.K. Rowling put it - the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice.
Worse still, promoting casinos promotes the misery of the golf populus at the expense of the most simoniacal people. The residents must pay taxes but, to paraphrase Mark Twain, these hapless people work so Atunyote may grow fat off them, drink misery to the dregs so Atunyote may wallow in cash, pay so that Atunyote can avoid taxes, and bow in adulation and genuflect so Atunyote may think itself a god of this world.
There is also a cultural dichotomy at work as well. The vast majority of golfers are not about foie gras and champagne, but bacon and egg sandwiches and a nip of scotch to keep warm. Golf is not about creature comforts, but comfortable playing partners. It’s not about taking your own Cessna to the course landing strip, but driving over dirt roads and finding the unobtrusive entrance and immersing yourself in the most important aspect of a great club - a great strategic course design which recreates the conditions of the best UK and Irish clubs.
Atunyote’s supporters pray to all the false idols of golf design, expense, a big-name architect and length/difficulty. The result was a long, but overly wide strategy-light, overpriced gaudy arcade of a golf course that summarizes all the design mistakes of the 80's and early 90's and boasts a price of $200 that is completely unjustifiable. In short, waterfalls, stained glass windows in the clubhouse, a private club gate and "Augusta White sand" in the bunkers are the drawing points according to the media relations team. It’s a kaleidoscopic whirligig of meaningless trash like waterfalls, but three scoops of unflavored yogurt for hole shapes and greens. They’ll try anything to distract you form the fact that the course isn’t worth half the fee it charges.
But worst of all, no matter how the Tour seeks to divest itself on paper and TV from the gambling and the tax mess, the firestorm of controversy surrounding the casino burns like a proprietary torch over the tournament and no amount of paper shuffling, name changing and charitable contribution change the fact that Turning Stone is the reddest of the Tour’s red light districts. In this case, when you ask yourself the question, "what are they trying to sell me?", simply remember Kurt Vonnegut’s admonition that "what sometimes passes for culture is often really just a commercial."