Played here this morning as a cheap and convenient "warm up" round. For that, Saticoy served its purpose. Otherwise, nothing too exciting to write about the course. OK 9-hole design, but good enough m... Continue »

Played here this morning as a cheap and convenient "warm up" round. For that, Saticoy served its purpose. Otherwise, nothing too exciting to write about the course. OK 9-hole design, but good enough mix of hole lengths and designs made it good for practice. A few funky holes as the course seems kind of crammed in the small property, but for the price it is about what you would expect.

The greens were actually pretty nice. Lush and soft, but still pretty quick on putts with some subtle breaks that can be tricky to read. There did seem to be a lot of little bits of debris on the greens (grass clippings, bits of leaves, etc.), so bring your Dustbuster. Fairways pretty thin and burned out. Tee boxes all a bit off-kilter. You had to tee off on the far left or far right sides to have a flat lie. I was in one sand trap and it was actually surprisingly nice sand. Nothing spectacular, but softer and more playable than you'd expect here.

Service left something to be desired, but again you get what you pay for. I booked a 7:41 tee time through Golfnow as a single. When I showed up, there were a bunch of dudes all gathering by the first tee—apparently a large group of regulars who play here every Saturday morning at the same time (not sure why there were so many tee times available online still). The girl in the pro shop didn't really give me much direction, so I ended up having to wait until their whole group was out. Teed off at 8am as a single behind them all, but the last group of that pack asked me to join them after a few holes. We played as a fivesome the rest of the nine. That helped the pacing for me. Even with all that, it was about 2 hours for the 9 holes, so not horrible, just a bit chaotic and frustrating at the beginning.

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