I love this course. The course play is great for what it is. It is a wonderful, beautiful hidden gem. I love that there are no houses on the course. Usually when someone says that the main attribute of the course is its beauty, it can be a bit of a dog - but not Arroyo Trabuco. The fairways are the best that I have ever seen the course. The greenskeeper has been there for over ... » More

I love this course. The course play is great for what it is. It is a wonderful, beautiful hidden gem. I love that there are no houses on the course. Usually when someone says that the main attribute of the course is its beauty, it can be a bit of a dog - but not Arroyo Trabuco. The fairways are the best that I have ever seen the course. The greenskeeper has been there for over a year and their efforts are paying off albeit at the expense of some beautiful trees, shrubs and the likes. The removal of the greenery takes away from the beauty of the course, but it has made it so that the playing course has benefited where it gets more sunlight and can breath better. There are few spots here and there that might be brownish (not bare), but not really too bad at all, I am nit picking as the course is in really great condition. I play early or later in the day, so the pace of play for me is usually always quick and I usually play under three hours. I love this course, I hope you can tell from the pictures I have taken/posted and how much I still speak so well of it. This course is beautiful.
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Played Ridge Creek Friday morning with a 7AM tee time. Staff is excellent and they let me start on the back nine so I could join JusGas88 and another friend for the front nine on their 9AM tee time. Fairways continue to steal the show with absolutely near perfect fairways. Very lush and a nice deep emerald green color for the most part.

Greens rolled a little slowe... » More

Played Ridge Creek Friday morning with a 7AM tee time. Staff is excellent and they let me start on the back nine so I could join JusGas88 and another friend for the front nine on their 9AM tee time. Fairways continue to steal the show with absolutely near perfect fairways. Very lush and a nice deep emerald green color for the most part.

Greens rolled a little slower (still a decent pace) early on due to the moisture but then sped up after the turn and the sun was out. Greens rolled nice and smooth. I did notice that a couple of greens and some bad areas around the edges, similar to that of the greens at Riverside. I’m curious if it has something to due with the smoke/ash filled air due to the fires in the area? Ridge Creek greens have never had any issues like this in the past.
Greens remain soft and very receptive to approach shots.

Tee boxes were fine and not sure if I mentioned this when I played here last week before heading to Vegas, but they have now marked some of the bunkers as Ground Under Repair. As mentioned before, half of the bunkers are fine and the other half are horrible. They have now deemed the bad ones as GUR.

Ridge Creek is definitely a go to course in the valley.
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Played here today with Nickesquire for our GK Cup semi-final. 1:54 tee time, sent off by ourselves. Quickly caught the group in front of us and invited a twosome behind to join us on the third tee. One of those guys bailed after 9. Total POP a little erratic 4:40-ish where sometimes it seemed like we were fast and other times seemed like we were holding everyone up. Quite windy... » More

Played here today with Nickesquire for our GK Cup semi-final. 1:54 tee time, sent off by ourselves. Quickly caught the group in front of us and invited a twosome behind to join us on the third tee. One of those guys bailed after 9. Total POP a little erratic 4:40-ish where sometimes it seemed like we were fast and other times seemed like we were holding everyone up. Quite windy and warm for the first 12 holes or so, and then it seemed like the wind mostly stopped and the air temperature became almost cool late in the afternoon. Felt great but wasn't the prettiest day with mostly cloudy skies.

Conditions are very similar to my last review except it's clear that another four weeks of high temps have taken a bit of a toll on the course. Fairways and rough were a little scruffier than last time, and the blue tee boxes seemed even lumpier. I wasn't in a bunker. Greens ran mostly smooth around medium speed but did have quite a few ball marks. Still loved it, though.
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