I really like this course. The layout is challenging but playable from any tee, the service is customer service, is awesome, and the fairways offer some roll. HOWEVER, they have to do something with the greens. They are pockmarked, bumpy and really SLOW. Their condition and playablility just doesn't match up with the rest of the course. I've been playing here since they opened and the greens constanty disappoint. If they were rolled, repaired, and true, this would be a premier golf course.

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This course advertises "meticulously groomed fairways and greens" and that they stress customer service. I played Avila Beach on 4-3-11, while on a coastal golf trip with friends. The course is neither groomed nor is it customer service oriented. We arrived an hour early to hit the range and loosen up after a 4+ hour drive. There is a range, but the starter explained that they didn't have any range balls. WOW!!!??? The starter was a nice, yet somewhat confused, guy who did get us out a little early. This course is only missing one thing...goats. The rough was inconsistent, clumpy and unkept, the fairway grass was long and uncut and the greens were bumpy and slow. The layout itself is the mystery to me. Without going into great detail, I will say that I have played courses all over the country and never seen anything like this. The only thing missing was a rubber putter and a brightly colored ball to hit into the clown's mouth on 18. The course is just plain old weird, including the par 5 where you hit through what looks like a man-made wedge cut into a hillside. Additionally, in several placed throughout the course, there was rancid stinking accumulated water and mud. All of this for $84 with a cart? I give Avila Beach Golf Resort a 2 on a 10 scale. They get a 2 only because I was golfing with great friends so we made a good time out of it. Spend your money elsewhere.