Played yesterday 7/14 in a SCGA one-day event. We were the second from the last group at 11:10 and because of the tournament, the pace was very slow. At SCGA events the pace of play is printed on your scorecard e.g. you should be finished with the 6th hole at 12:15. They shoot for a 4 hour 15 minute round. We were in the 5+ hour range. The course however was great. The fairways were excellent as were the greens were smooth, receptive and relatively quick. I play this course 3 to 4 times a year and it is a really good layout and is always in good condition. The staff is good. The driving range is all grass. There is a short game practice area and a huge practice green. I only wish this course was closer to my house

Played 7/11 with a group of 10. We paid only $45.00 included cart and range balls, normally it would be $55.00 for seniors. Customer service good. I had been told 2 weeks ago that the course was in great shape. It must have peaked. The tee boxes on the par 3’s were pretty beat up or were closed to allow the grass to grow back. The other tee boxes were fine. The fairways were great except where they had been over watered. We teed off at 6:30 so the watering had just stopped. The greens had considerable ball marking but were smooth and receptive, a little slow but that I think was again due to the early hour and having just been watered. Pace of play was great. Our first 3 some finished in 3.5 hours. I was in the second 3some and we finished in a little less than 4, but we fooled around and practiced putts and chips after finishing on some holes. The group behind us was nowhere to be seen. Great layout. If you have never played here the 2 nines look as though they are from 2 completely different courses. The front 9 wanders through houses and condos. The back 9 is all California costal scrub. This is really a fun and challenging golf course

Played here today, Wednesday, 6/29 and the course is in excellent condition. From tee through green I would rate this course a 9 for a public course. The only draw back was that the greens were a little slow and that may have been because of the early hour I played. Our 3some teed off at 6:50 and finished at 10:15, so pace of play was excellent. The greens are smooth and receptive. The fairways are great and allow for good roll. I payed $50.00 for green fee, cart and a hamburger after the round. The staff in the proshop and restaurant were terrific. The course is a great combination of short par 4s with challenging approach shots, long par 4s, longish par 3’s with 2 easy par 5’s and 2 more difficult par 5’s. If you get down this way give this course a chance.

I played here Saturday, June 11. This is the longer of the two courses. The course is in excellent condition. For me one or two of the par 4's are not reachable in 2 from any tee other than the white and then that is a struggle. The fairways allow good roll, but in some cases they are sloped so that the ball can still end up in the rough. The greens on this day were not as fast as the Babe’s but then there was heavy mist (rain) for a while in the morning and that slowed them down. It was fun to play some of the same wholes the woman played in the Kia Classic and see how you compared to them as far as distance and accuracy. Don’t ever kid yourself; those women can hit the ball a long way

I played here today, Sunday, June 12. The course is in excellent condition, both fairways and greens. The greens are not pool table quick, but with all the undulations, that is a good thing. Still there are places on these greens that if you miss your putt, your next shot could be a chip. Because this was a kind of a big deal member/guest tournament the superintendent had tucked the holes in some pretty diabolical locations. The long time member, of whom I was a guest, said he had never seen some of these hole locations. The locations were by no means typical. The Babe is the tighter but shorter of the two courses. You need to move the ball both ways in order to place the ball in the right place. And in some cases this means to go after the green, let alone the hole. This is a great course that makes you play all the shots, and I don’t have all the shots.

Played here yesterday, a Wednesday. I paid $65.00 as a senior. The course is fine. The fairways are relatively tight, but the ball sits up just fine. The greens are smooth, but not nearly as fast as they look. Overall the course is in good shape. The layout is …. cumbersome. You need to play the course to know where to hit the ball. The carts (and you need a cart) have excellent gps systems that show you the layout, the distance to the trouble areas and even where other golf carts are located, which you need as there are several blind shots. The greens are the “new style” meaning lots of undulations, but the slower speed makes this OK. The course seems to be one of those that the secondary purpose is golf, the primary being to enhance the value of the surrounding houses. The 2 worst examples of this type of course that I know of are Marbella CC in San Juan Capistrano and La Canada-Flintridge Country Club. I don’t know, the $65.00 I paid is the lowest fee available, before twilight rates and I think that is as much as I am willing to pay for this golf course

Just finished playing this great golf course. The course is in great condition except for a couple of fairways that have been aerated. The first hole is one that has been punched. The other fairways are in great condition and give a lot of roll. The greens are very smooth and roll absolutely true, but are pretty firm even though they were aerated 2 months ago. There are quite a few elevation changes and almost all the holes play either up the hill or down. Overall the course is not too difficult until you reach the finishing holes. Sixteen, seventeen and eighteen can and will bite you in the butt. The sixteenth hole may be the toughest par 4 in Southern California; 465 from the blacks, 442 from the blues, downhill but into the wind and a large pond on 3 sides of the green. All lies in the fairway or rough are downhill. A bogey is not that bad. This is a really fun course. I paid only $45.00 as a senior; Monday – Thursday. Well worth the green fees.

I played Coronado Golf Course Saturday and Sunday during an SCGA event. Even though I forgot to list it, this is one of my favorite golf courses. It is extremely busy, but it is in excellent condition considering. The greens were very smooth, but not too fast. They were firm but would still hold a short iron shot or a high trajectory mid iron shot. The fairways are great, they have lots of roll but are still lush enough. The rough is almost nonexistent. The only way to loose a ball is too put in the San Diego Bay, a water hazard, or into one of the untrimmed palm trees (this happened to one of my fellow competitors twice). The course is flat so consequently easy to walk. The greens don’t have a lot of break. The course sounds easy but there are trees, water and OB’s that can jump out and bite you real quick. Also in the afternoon there is wind and it can get fairly fierce. The great thing about the course is even if the pace is slow; there is always something to see out on the bay or the beach that makes the time go quickly. This is a great course to play and well worth the green fees of $30.00 weekdays, $35.00 weekends. It is no wonder that the men’s club at Coronado GC has a waiting list of over 200!

Played here Saturday, 02/12/2011. This was the first time I'd ever played here. It is a course with a lot of mature trees that make the fairways tight. You have to be aware of overhanging branches so that you are not blocked out from the green (assuming you hit the fairway). To take advantage of this course you need to move the ball both ways off the tee, but it seems to me it calls for more draw shots, than fades, but then I tend to hit the ball from right to left so that may color my assessment. The fairways were dormant (bremuda, I assume) so got a lot of roll, which can be detrimental as many of the fairways have a lot of slope and or mounds that can move your ball to places you don’t want to be, i.e. behind trees or in water. The ninth hole is almost unfair, a longish par 4 with protective fences and large mounds on the right and water starting about 175 yards from the green on the left. The fairway is narrow and slopes to the water. The mounds of course can either kick your ball toward the water or behind the protective fence. These are the type of fences that are perpendicular to the fairway so if you are behind one you either chance hitting under it or pitching out toward the water.
The greens were fairly smooth and quick. Since Downey is a fairly flat city, the greens read true to the mounding and slopes you see. The pace of play was fairly typical for a muni- course, Saturday mid-morning tee-time, 5 hours. I rather enjoyed the course as you have to thin your way around it. I have a friend who won’t play here as he feels the course is Mickey Mouse, but then he hits a semi-controlled hook of the tee, off the fairway, off the fringe, hell I think he hooks his putts.

Played here for Thursday Team play on January 26. The heavy rains severly damaged most of the bunkers. Only a few have been repaired. Most had to be played as GUR and the ball removed from the bunker. Other than that the course was in excellent condition and the staff very helpful. There is no driving range only a "warmup area", meaning hitting off mats into netting. There is an excellent short game practice area with a large bunker (not rain damaged.) The course does not play long but is relative tight so accuracy is important. This is a private course that is open for public play on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Played 9/18. Just like Chino Creek, really soft greens, rugged fairways. The greens are spongy and for the most part the fairways are OK, but there are quite a few bare spots. The cost/quality is OK because the green fees are relatively low.

Played Sunday 9/19. The greens were really, really soft. If you were chipping to the green with a lob or sand wedge you had to throw the ball all the way to the pin, there was little or no roll. The greens were therefore rather slow and bumpy. Lots of bare spots on the sides of the fairways. Pace of play was good, customer service was good. I like the El Prado courses because I have played them for so many years. I live 45 minutes away now so I won't drive to them other than for tournaments, but the greens are always interesting.