Jurupa Hills Country Club - $
6161 Moraga Avenue • Riverside, CA 92509 • (951) 685-7214
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6161 Moraga Avenue • Riverside, CA 92509 • (951) 685-7214
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 Surveyor Report: 5/30/2004 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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From the tips, Jurupa Hills is a short course at only 6022 yards (Par 70). The terrain seems to lend itself to a good deal of variety, but with 10 of the 12 par 4s falling between 340 and 380 yards, the course unfairly relegates itself to feeling repetitive. Granted, there are no two holes that I would characterize as similar beyond yardage alone, but by the ninth hole, it is very possible that you may have used only 2 or 3 clubs in your bag beyond the driver and putter. Depending on your tastes, you may find the putting greens to be either interesting and varied, or silly and unnecessary. Many of them are shaped in amoeba-like forms with irrational corners, nooks, and shelves that appear to be either too small or too penal to hold a viable pin position (the back left location on number 3 being an excellent example - if you cant put a pin there, why have that shape?) Visually, there are some beautiful views and backdrops - the par 4 5th comes to mind as a hole that takes advantage of the surrounding mountains. Unfortunately, for every beautiful panorama, there is an eyesore. Several holes have power lines stretched across them, and the 9th and 17th both have utility poles in the center of the fairway. Obviously, these are not there by choice of the management, but still, they are distracting and a disappointment to say the least. Perhaps the biggest letdown of all is the less-than-dramatic finale to the round, the 99% blind par 3 18th (Completely blind if not for the very tip of the flagstick). The line of sight to the green of this downhill one-shotter is completely obscured by overgrown vegetation at the edge of the one pond on the golf course. Jurupa Hills has it's merits - the 15th hole is an excellent par 5, and 12 is a fun short par 4, but the length of the course places limits on how good it can be, the quirks restrict it even further, and the conditions were average at best, with little differentiation between the fairways and the rough, and greens that rolled slowly, though relatively truly. The staff was friendly and the facilities were adequate, but overall, Jurupa Hills is an average golf course. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
