I got an invite from a longtime friend I had not seen in 12 years to tee it up at El Caballero yesterday 5/8. I hadn’t played El Cab in over 15 years since attending one of Spencer’s events supporting children’s cancer treatment and research. What seems like a lifetime ago, El Cab used to be my golf team’s home course while I was at Taft high (84 grad) so in many ways this is a... » More

I got an invite from a longtime friend I had not seen in 12 years to tee it up at El Caballero yesterday 5/8. I hadn’t played El Cab in over 15 years since attending one of Spencer’s events supporting children’s cancer treatment and research. What seems like a lifetime ago, El Cab used to be my golf team’s home course while I was at Taft high (84 grad) so in many ways this is a very special place for me.

I arrived at 2:45pm for our 3:45pm tee time to take it all in and more so check out how much the club has changed2 2 since my last visit. I was blown away. While maintaining all its legacy charm, Reese Jones did an incredible job in 2021 renovating/upgrading an already fantastic golf course design, massively improving the practice facilities and fully replacing the turf tee-green. From a design standpoint, most noticeable we’re the added/improved bunkers, improved tee box sightlines, added back tee boxes, new trees replacing many of the old trees and redone large, potato chips shaped green complexes. El Cab has a discrete cell phone/photo taking policy allowing only limited use to maintain a peaceful club experience, so I snapped just a few out of respect.

Conditions at El Cab were immaculate. Medium-Fast greens, very firm and smooth. Lush, cut tight, perfect bermunda fairways. 2–3-inch grabby bermunda rough making greenside pitching/chipping super challenging. Immaculate groomed bunkers with perfect white sand (I was in a lot of them). Level, lush, perfect tee boxes.

According to the members I played with, El Caballero CC has hosted the LPGA JM Eagle Championship for the last two years, but next year the event will likely be hosted by Wilshire CC. I’ve now been blessed to play two recent LPGA host courses, El Cab and The Saticoy Club. Incredible golf courses.

Never miss an opportunity to play El Caballero CC.

Highly Recommended!
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Went off at 1:12 on 5/7, finished at 5:50.
Greens coming off punching. They were hard and fast with just a bit of bump. Difficult to hole putts.
The rest of the course was in fine shape.
Give the greens a bit more time and it will be a good value.

Played this AM. Course was in spectacular shape as they had a tournament later in the morning.

Tees all mowed, cleaned up and no trouble finding a good spot for the tee.

All greens and fairways mowed and devoid of moisture. So fast roll out and greens IMO rolling at 12. I even had a few putts roll back after reaching the flag from were some diabolical greens... » More

Played this AM. Course was in spectacular shape as they had a tournament later in the morning.

Tees all mowed, cleaned up and no trouble finding a good spot for the tee.

All greens and fairways mowed and devoid of moisture. So fast roll out and greens IMO rolling at 12. I even had a few putts roll back after reaching the flag from were some diabolical greenskeeper place the flags for the tournament.

Traps were in great shape and so very playable. Wish more courses would prepare their traps like they do here.

Rough was about2 an inch long and no fun at all to play out of.

Terrific customer service from all staff encountered.

Easily one of the best public courses you can find in either N or S CA.

Highly recommended if you are coming through the area and have time to play a round.
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Fairways and tee were in fair condition 5.0. Greens are still recovering from latest punching. They do a hard punch on these city greens so with the lack of spring rains they are hard, fast, and not very true. Not fair to rate them because they are still recovering. We played late afternoon towards dusk and sited many coyotes. Play took 4 hours and we still got in 16 hole... » More

Fairways and tee were in fair condition 5.0. Greens are still recovering from latest punching. They do a hard punch on these city greens so with the lack of spring rains they are hard, fast, and not very true. Not fair to rate them because they are still recovering. We played late afternoon towards dusk and sited many coyotes. Play took 4 hours and we still got in 16 holes teeing off at 4:00pm.
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Warning to others. Don't waste your money. Adding to other reviews, played on May 6. No mention of greens condition from staff before booking or playing, and they were in atrocious condition. Feel like this was intentional, and dishonest. This should have disclosed prior, with reduced rates offered, at the very least. Unplayable really. Barely a hint of grass on any of the gree... » More

Warning to others. Don't waste your money. Adding to other reviews, played on May 6. No mention of greens condition from staff before booking or playing, and they were in atrocious condition. Feel like this was intentional, and dishonest. This should have disclosed prior, with reduced rates offered, at the very least. Unplayable really. Barely a hint of grass on any of the greens, just a strangely colored sand/dirt surface. Stopped keeping score after first green. Worst greens I've seen on any usually good course. After the round, was told 8 weeks max to get the greens back. No way. A year maybe? Come on Arrowood. You screwed up. Come clean.
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