Dormie club looks pretty cool and all but the story about the buried equipment brought back to memory an infamous local golf story from Weatherford, TX.
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Really, really like Dormie Club.
Only real disappointment there is that the old clubhouse is gone.
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1000% agree
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Sounds like something that would happen at some of the golf courses I worked at back in the day… What a great story
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Old clubhouse and the stay to play rule. Really wish that Tobacco road travel could still get a few times.
Beyond sad that you can’t get on and the old clubhouse is gone. I can’t imagine it has the same vibe as it did. I always said it felt like a rush gold sicko said I want a course in the woods and I don’t want to spend money on anything but the course itself. I haven’t watched this yet but just seeing what’s going on beyond the 18th green is just shitty. Two of the guys from my golf trip got into a slap fight one time by the benches. One of the funniest things I’ve ever witnessed.
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Loved the video. I played Dormie Club once after a full-day downpour in March 2019. Standing water everywhere, absolutely no bounce and roll. I can’t wait to go back someday.
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Yeah, it’s terrible. I took this from an Adirondack chair beyond 18 a few months ago with @JohnP while drinking bourbon and smoking a cigar, and I can’t tell you what a bummer it was.
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Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure it’s nice. Just not the same.
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Played it earlier this year right before it went private. It was the first weekend getaway my wife and I had taken since our honeymoon. I hadn’t played golf all winter at that point so I loved the course and kept dreaming of a return trip when I had my game going. Really wish they had kept the old vibe and clubhouse. Maybe I’ll get there again someday.
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I’m not bashing the new construction because I’m hoping to stay there some time in the near future. 
Never saw the old clubhouse, but this one didn’t suck…just wish I had better company that day
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@anon47037505 New facilities are surely nice, Zac Blair told me that this sort of destination private club thing is the only thing I should ever care about in golf. I guess if you need that to enjoy golf you just aren’t as much a purist as I.
In seriousness, Dormie Club was awesome the half dozen or so times I played it, and catching it in the “post recession, can’t make money, no real members” period was a really cool novelty. I’m happy it has a membership now because that course is so so good.
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When you play as badly as I do, yes you need those things most of the time.
But Dormie is a really fun golf course, and still not that difficult to get on. And when you do, you can play fast and feel uncrowded, etc.
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Curious if they have carts now…it’s kinda of a brutal walk. Enjoyable, but very tired legs after a round.
Yes.
How not difficult is not “that” difficult?
Dormie Network has thousands of members. It ain’t Pine Valley.