What you are about to read underscores why it's so important to "consider the source" when researching your golf vacations.
On a recent trip to play several Maine golf courses, we were met
with a few unpleasant surprises at the venerable Sugarloaf Resort and
its Sugarloaf Golf Course, which some mainstream golf publications have
placed on their top-100 lists. For one thing, we discovered that it's
really only the back nine holes — not the entire 18 — that make this
Maine golf course memorable.
More disturbing, however, was that its greens were in horrible
condition, particularly on the front side. This, despite the fact that
the "Course Report" on the Sugarloaf Golf Course website proudly
proclaimed that, "the fairways are in the best shape of the year." It
made no mention whatsoever of the damage to the greens caused by the
harsh winter. While we understand that the greens normally aren't in
such terrible condition, it strikes us as disingenuous,at best, to
entice visitors this way.