Dry Creek Ranch Golf Course is a mature and well established course of older design, but thanks to many of old growth trees,this property makes for an interesting and enjoyable round. The course str... Continue »

Dry Creek Ranch Golf Course is a mature and well established course of older design, but thanks to many of old growth trees,this property makes for an interesting and enjoyable round. The course straddles Highway 99, with holes 11 through 16 on the west side of the freeway with the remainder on the east side, with this location comes a few holes where the road noise might be bothersome to some.

What I enjoyed most were the massive oak trees and other mature tree foliage found on the course. Because of this robust tree growth, a number of fairways would be considered on the narrow side; also there is more than one hole where a single massive oak creates a narrow bottle neck approach shot to the green. However, the course is for all intent and purpose a massive plot of grass divided by trees which boarder/separate one fairway from the other, thus there is forgiveness errant shots.

Playing as a single I was able to walk the entire track in under 4 hours. The overall conditions of the course exceeded my expectations as I thought this might fall more under the municipal category - it does not! The tee boxes were generally level, I did note a few that were a bit on the concave side and though a majority of the boxes were lightly chewed up there was nothing to be alarmed about. The fairways and rough were both cut on the longer side, the number of divots encountered were minimal which was nice. The sand was decent, it didn't seem to be hard pan though I can't give a fair assessment as it had rained earlier in the day and the sand. The two times I built sand castles with my 56, the sand was rather sticky but the ball came out fine. I was pleasantly surprised to find the greens immaculate, the ball rolled true with no weird bouncing or wobbling around, a minimum of ball markings to be concerned with. I was honestly impressed by this, a major plus to say the least.

The service was OK and the facilities are on the antiquated side. Though I visited on a Wednesday afternoon I got the feeling this place wasn't too heavily patronized by the locals, this based on the lack of significant divots on the fairway and ball marks on the greens. However, this course will treat you right and is in far better condition than the much more heavily visited Micke Grove facility in Lodi, come here instead! It might cost a bit more, but for the dollar the quality is far superior, you might come away surprised.

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