I last reviewed the Links at Echo Springs last spring. At the time, I indicated that this was a beautiful«links style» course and that it was one of the better maintained courses that we normally played. Last year, they also had an annoying policy that prohibited«walkers» before 1 or 2:00 on Saturdays and Sundays. The course is now under new management and the good news is that they’ve eliminated the rule prohibiting walkers before early afternoon. The bad news is that course maintenance has gone way down. There were dandelions EVERYWHERE and the t-boxes were particularly bad. The fairways could best be described as FAIR. The greens were decent but not great. In my last review, I rated this course as «4-stars». This year, I’m ranking it as 3-stars and — sadly — even that is a stretch.