A big dissapointment.

Greens have some really wierd grain and get worse as the day goes on. Very slow and bumpy greens for such a highly rated course. Layouts on both courses are pretty boring. Maybe desert golf just ain't for me. Lack of visual enticment. Hole's are too similair. Tee boxes are not well marked--tee markers were completely off the tee in some cases. What are you supposed to do? Tee off from the rough?

I prefer greens like those of La Purisma, Robinson Ranch, Valencia TPC, Santa Anita, Sand Piper, Rancho San marcos, Rustic Canyon, Moorpark CC, etc. Desert Willows greens are some form of crabgrass that has somehow been cutdown to represent a smooth surface which they just aren't!! The result is a multidirectional grain which throws putts in anywhich direction it chooses too. Ram all your putts here and hope they find the hole. Lipouts were the norm.

Bunkers have good sand, Fairways are decent, Rough is playable but sticky therefore penalizing regaurdless of the short length of it. Service was ok no complaints.

Rake deal is absolutely stupid.

Too crowded!! Pace of play was inconsistent.

It's too hot anyway--118 degrees in the shade!!!

I just won the Diamond Bar Club Championship last weekend(5/20-21).
So that makes me the Club Champ!!

What a year!! My first ace on #3, and now I'm the club champ...what gives?!!

The wind was blowing on Sunday. The course has teeth with the wind blowing, especially from the blue markers.

The course is in decent shape. Greens need just a wee bit of TLC from the maintenance crews. However, not many ball marks were left unfixed--and that's good to see. They are smooth but are just a bit slower than your eyes percieve them to be. They speed up as the sun bakes them out however.

All the bunkers have plenty of sand, are nice and easy to get out of-- nothing too hard-packed, nothing too fluffy.

I guess I can't say anything good about the pace of play since I play in the men's club groups, however, they are the quickest men's club I've ever played with or behind. Ya'll should come out and join Diamond Bar MC. We need younger players, like me!!( I'm only 28)

Anyway, customer service has been great. The guys in the shop are very helpful and will do their best to fit in players on the waiting list.

All tees are in good shape.
I think they did a little tree trimming here and there over the past few months
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Hole 12 and 14 still need some cosmetic work but overall the entire course is in good of shape as you'll ever find it. I hope the improvments and upkeep continue.

A neat thing that most golfers don't care to notice is the alternate tees available on #4 and #13. They really stretch the layout. It makes #4 about a 460 yard par 4 uphill rather than a 378 yard hole, plus it brings both of the fairway bunkers on the left in play for longer hittters. On the par 3 #13 the alternate tee adds an additional 25-30 yards to a hole that already plays 191 yards from the blue marker.

Additionally, if you can sneak in a tee shot from the back of the old par five tees on the first hole and still play it as a par four, and then play the entire course from the tips of the back tees, including the alternate tees mentioned above, you're looking at a golf course close to 7000 yards.

GO join Diamond Bar!!!!!!

It was "huge"!!

Donald did well.

I enjoyed my lunch upstairs in the grand ballroom.....lol....sorry for using that white linnen knapkins to wipe the bbq and mayo off my face from the great burgers and chicken sandwiches at the turn, donald!!

My only complaint is the d%mn wind. I shot a 82 from the black tees and felt it was an exceptional round. What a tough test. 18 tee from the back is brutal into the wind. You gotta try it. I bet I could shoot a few strokes under par at most. I'll be back to tame this beauty soon. We got lucky and dodged the rain last week and had a unbelievable clear view out to sea....well past catalina...... It's pretty d%mn tough golf though. Listen to your GPS.... it will save you a ton of strokes here.

The trash cans are lined with white linnens!!! Holly s-----h---i----t !!!!!

Just look at those houses across from the front gate. There must be 500 windows on the one directly accross the street from the front driveway!!!!

You're fired!

I made my first hole in one on the third hole from 191 yards with a titleist prov1x #4 golf ball using a titleist 690mb 5-iron, exactly one month after my 28th birthday. It was a perfectly struck shot and I meant to hit it exactly the way I did. The ball tracked straight to the pin with about three feet of draw, bounced once and went directly into the cup. I watched it the whole way...but I still didn't believe it actually went in until I got to the green. What a feeling!!! If you look at the photo of this hole on GK, the pin was set in the same position as it was in the photo. Obviously I have made this my screensaver background now.

I hope everybody gets to feel this feeling once in their lives....I feel guilty under such blissful happiness. This was a goal that I have been waitiing to accomplish and never thought it would happen in a million years. I'm inspired further to go towards professional competitive golf. You'll see me on TV one day, I promise.


I just joined the Diamond Bar Men's club a month ago and made the ace during their monthly home tournament, yesterday. With over 80 guys in the field, needless to say, I made many new friends at the nineteenth hole. My bar tab was suprisingly low, however, at a mere $125. Thanks to Richard the bartender!!!!! I tipped him very well, however.


I made $55 on the skin for that hole and $500 for the ace. It's the only thing I have ever won in my entire golfing carreer, which started over 12 years ago. I've also made an albatross (a double-eagle) on the short Par 5 16th hole on Brookside #2 in Pasadena when I was 16 years old. I had several close encounters with aces, but, close only counts with horseshoes and hand grenades, right???!!

Anyway the conditions at Diamond bar are just great if your in the fairway and on the green. The rough is average and spotty in some places...some spots of severe maintenance on the back nine but nothing that bothers play. Greens are like lightning when the dew burns off.

I shot a 75 despite the ace, but managed to finish in the top five or six spots. This is cleary one of my best performances ever and is a clear sign that all the work I have been putting into my game is helping. I have goals to make a living playing this game. I've shot much lower scores before, but this was by far my best day ever!!

Diamond bar is a great course--It's very underrated if you ask me!!

Christmas is coming and SANTA anita is coming to town. Pushing great conditions despite irrigation efforts which really don't bother play. I just hope they work on the drainage after the new sprinklers are put in. This course has never had very good drainage. Certainly not terrible, but not the best drainage.

I've shot 74-72 in my last two rounds here over the last four days. It helps to have nice smooth greens and a few players who care for the course(replacing divots and fixing ball marks). Too bad I have trouble taking my game from this course to another, which suggests this course plays on the easy side. But mix in the long to medium length par 3's on this course in addition to the heavily wooded tree-line's....& you've got one heck of a test if you are even slightly off your game.

Great group of players and staff here. Hope it stays that way!!

Even the "Eastern Fivesomes" have a clue here as to what is going on!!

SEalskinz

FORE!!!!!!!!!!

Played with a buddy on Sunday. Went out on Canyon Crest first and played from as far back as the markers let us. It was my first time on the newest nine holes. I had shot a couple low 70's rounds on the original course and had good expectations from the looks of the new clubhouse and facilities that tie together the facility just perfectly.

My buddy as a witness, I had no more than four feet for birdie on five of the first six holes. Of course I missed some of those but I made birdies on 2, 4, and 5. I then struggled through holes 7 & 8 and was back to 1 under after a par on #9. A very good round for my first experience on the new nine.

We went on to ridgeline where both our games sorta fell apart. Ridgeline is by far the toughest of the layouts at Moorpark. But I've learned that being conservative will help your score on this side.
I stopped the bleeding after four holes and put together a fairly decent 18 hole score of four over par. We started out at 10:00 am and managed to finish an additional 9 holes on the Creekside course. Pace of play was for the most part awesome as we finished 27 holes before sundown.

All the courses had great conditions with the exception of some overly lush fairways on Creekside......however it looked as if they had punched the fairways a few weeks back---still very playable from just about anywhere on the fairway. Rough is forgiving enough for novice players. Bunker sand is perfect.

Some of the holes at this facility have some extreme course architecture. The 650+ yeard par five on ridgeline has a very steep slop in the fairway. I once witnessed a out-of-control cart hydroplane nearly completely off the right hand side of the hole at the top of the hill. Luckily the cart hit a bush and I didn't need to identify any dead bodies that day. BE EXTRA CAREFUL RIDING YOUR CART AT MOORPARK!!

Besides all that....the golf shop staff seems a bit rude to young flat bellies like myself. I expected a little more compensation for suckh steep green fees. $70 for twilight is way too much, when there's hardly anybody out here in the afternoon. I sure didn't like the fact that range balls were not included in the price of the round. We got rushed out...didn't have a chance to practice putts or chips....can't complain had a terrific first nine.

Cartgirl was a blast but a little refined for being tipped so well.

I've complained in the past about plenty. But there is one thing this course could do to improve. Open the clubhouse at 5:00am instead of 6:30 and have some god d%mn loud speakers in the clubhouse so you can hear your name being called while warming up with a cup of coffee or coccoa in the restaraunt-- So that way you don't have to show up at 4:00am to be first single on the waiting list and then be forced to have to wait outside in the cold for three f***ing hours before they finally call your name. Some people might say just go get your cup of coffee and go back outside. Well, in the time you go get your coffee they'll call your name three times and then your screwed without even knowing it. This has actually happened to me before.

What's the point of warming up on the range when it's fourty degrees outside? You simply will not get warmed up!!
What the hell do they have a clubhouse for anyway?!!
For christ sake make some use out of those couches sitting in the front lobby. Why not have a waiting list to sign-up on in the coffee shop every morning? That way when the sleepy starter staff finally moseys in at 6:00 am, your name will already be on a list that they can pick up when they grab their morning cup of coffee. I'm sick and tired of waitng out in the cold just to play some golf. USE THE CLUBHOUSE TO KEEP COLD PLAYERS WARM, AND GET SOME SPEAKERS INSTALLED INDOORS. GOD I HATE AMERICAN GOLF!!!!

I've complained in the past about plenty. But there is one thing this course could do to improve. Open the clubhouse at 5:00am instead of 6:30 and have some god d%mn loud speakers in the clubhouse so you can hear your name being called while warming up with a cup of coffee or coccoa in the restaraunt-- So that way you don't have to show up at 4:00am to be first single on the waiting list and then be forced to have to wait outside in the cold for three f***ing hours before they finally call your name. Some people might say just go get your cup of coffee and go back outside. Well, in the time you go get your coffee they'll call your name three times and then your screwed without even knowing it. This has actually happened to me before.

What's the point of warming up on the range when it's fourty degrees outside? You simply will not get warmed up!!
What the hell do they have a clubhouse for anyway?!!
For christ sake make some use out of those couches sitting in the front lobby. Why not have a waiting list to sign-up on in the coffee shop every morning? That way when the sleepy starter staff finally moseys in at 6:00 am, your name will already be on a list that they can pick up when they grab their morning cup of coffee. I'm sick and tired of waitng out in the cold just to play some golf. USE THE CLUBHOUSE TO KEEP COLD PLAYERS WARM, AND GET SOME SPEAKERS INSTALLED INDOORS. GOD I HATE AMERICAN GOLF!!!!

the ast guy should play behind me when I'm hitting from the back tees.

played the same day as the last posting, 10-16-2005. Started earlier, in the Diamond Bar Men's Club Sunday Skins.

Greens rolling alright.....a little too slow.....they need to hand out repair tools here. I shot a 81 with two triple bogies and one double bogey, my worst score in about two months. It was raining here and there and there were lots of soggy spots on the fairways and plenty more in the rough. I had a couple other bogies, but made 3 birdies. I think I won closest to the pin on #4. I'm still waitng for the results.

We waited for the first few groups to come in, and two of my three birdies were holding up with only one or two groups left out on the course. If they do hold up, with the closest to the pin and two skins I just about broke even. I'll just have to call up my tournament commitee chairperson and find out what happened.

Good course. We played the longer combo...which is it? River-Pine? Creek-Valley? Mountain-Lake? I dunno.....the longer one, whichever combination that is!! Good Driving range but be prepared with one dollar bills o feed the range machine. No tokens here!!

Just had to say..... great course....good scenery......good mix of holes....... too expensive.......yada yada yada.......TERRIBLE SERVICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The &ssh*le marshall actually tried to force me to hit from the short tees. I kindly refused and it caused a big ruckuss. It was like I was breaking the law or something. He got on his walkie-talkie, next thing, the Spanish Inquisition shows up squaking something about index of 0 to 5...yada yada yada. At the timeI didn't carry an index, I just gave out strokes. I'm a scratch flatbelly rarin' to turn professional.

So, I just ignored everybody and proclaimed that I was a paying customer and I had the right to hit from whichever tees I fancied. I proceeded to launch a drive 330 down the middle whiched promted them to shutup, immediately.

I then went out and shot 2 under par from the back tee markers. Finished in four hours flat, all over the group in front of us....Now what's the big hairy deal with hitting from the back tee!!!???

I think the old marshalls and incoherent staff are just jealous of a player who can actually score from the back tee.....that's what I think! Their all just jealous and intimidated by a player of my caliber. AAARRRGGHHHH!!!!! I will play here again for sure. And I will tee up and aim right at the window of the new clubhouse, whenever it gets built!!

Good tee boxes, Good fairways, Good greens. They should use dirt cart paths....less concrete better.

Played 10/01 with my neighbor who convinced me to join the Men's club there. First time I had played it since I narrowly lost a tournament as a junior golfer about 10 years ago. The greens were punched, which really sucked, but to my disbelief the greens are still very fast, but very hard to judge because of the punch.

Tee boxes were good. I only saw them from the tips, though. Play from the tips. Get the most yardage for your buck, unless you suck and are slow, then play from the new short course orange tees.

Fairways were rolling well. Its nice to be in the fairway here. But it is just the opposite in the rough aroung the greens. Just a terrible mix of what seems like Bermuda and Kikuya combined. You can't bump and run through that junk on a short chip--you'll end up on the very edge of the green every time, the rough simply will not let the ball roll forward---land the ball on the green for the best results with the right amount of loft....you've got to have soft hands to get close.

Overall, very enjoyable for $40, cart included, but take my advice and walk because the pace of play is too slow to be romping down the cartpath at 15 mph in a cart. Just walk and enjoy the round. Course conditions will remain consistently good if there are less carts.

After playing, I'm not as apprehensive about joining the Men's club. I'm actually looking forward to it. Stay away from this golf course so there is more room for me. =)