Got a hot deal on Golfnow for $24 with cart for a 7:08 time this morning. This is the first time I have played here and drove over an hour because of this discounted rate. Played as a 3 ball behind a ... Continue »

Got a hot deal on Golfnow for $24 with cart for a 7:08 time this morning. This is the first time I have played here and drove over an hour because of this discounted rate. Played as a 3 ball behind a 4 ball that was really struggling out there and therefore held up our pace quite a bit. Still finished in about 4 hours. This does try to play as a links course where the tees, fairways, and collars around the greens are all cut to the same height. Everything was immaculate except for the greens. The tees and fairways were cut tight and extremely lush. The ball doesn't really sit up in the fairways but allows a great hitting surface to really compress the ball and get some spin. The regular rough was very lush and consistent throughout the course. Once you get into the native areas you can get some dirt lies or simply not find the ball as these areas are not maintained which is the design of the course. The greens were slower than they looked and that I expected. They were also very receptive and showed it with all of the pitch marks. Granted the pitch marks were somewhat repaired (not very well with dirt marks all over) they still detracted from the quality of the greens. The bunkers were perfect with what seemed to be beach sand which provided a great surface to hit from. They are getting ready for the Ventura City Championship next weekend and is seems like this course is going to play plenty tough for it. Get out and play it soon!!!