Golf Course Reviews

Played 5-13-25 early morning walking as a single in a little over 3 hours, taking my time and enjoying the course. Easy check in as usual. Tee boxes in good shape, level and lush. Fairways were in really nice shape with minimal roll out and a great surface to hit from. Rough is in good condition, 1-2 inches with some thicker stuff on a few of the holes. Was in one greenside bu... » More

Played 5-13-25 early morning walking as a single in a little over 3 hours, taking my time and enjoying the course. Easy check in as usual. Tee boxes in good shape, level and lush. Fairways were in really nice shape with minimal roll out and a great surface to hit from. Rough is in good condition, 1-2 inches with some thicker stuff on a few of the holes. Was in one greenside bunker that had very nice white sand. Greens had had a micro punch done to them so they were a little slow with an occasional bump but not to bad, and playing a little on the soft side. Overall great conditions for an early morning walk.
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played this course for first time with some friends in afternoon. pleasantly surprised, some reviews had been negative but the course was in decent condition and the layout was interesting. a couple of funky holes but nothing too narrow or gimmicky. blue teeboxes were in decent condition and level, fairway was well covered and spots that were not were marked GUR. greens wer... » More

played this course for first time with some friends in afternoon. pleasantly surprised, some reviews had been negative but the course was in decent condition and the layout was interesting. a couple of funky holes but nothing too narrow or gimmicky. blue teeboxes were in decent condition and level, fairway was well covered and spots that were not were marked GUR. greens were quick especially downhill. very few people out despite a beautiful 70 degree day. no cart service and snack bar closes at 130pm. would play again for the right price though i worry about these privates that convert to public as they never seem to do well.
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After finding another GN Hot Deal, I headed back to Pala Mesa 3 weeks after my prior review.

Last time, I commented on the near excellent conditions all around - with some minor reservations on the greens. 3 weeks later, I have no more reservations on the greens. They were really nice this time, and any prior observations of "competing grass types" were very minimal th... » More

After finding another GN Hot Deal, I headed back to Pala Mesa 3 weeks after my prior review.

Last time, I commented on the near excellent conditions all around - with some minor reservations on the greens. 3 weeks later, I have no more reservations on the greens. They were really nice this time, and any prior observations of "competing grass types" were very minimal this time. They do have one green with some challenges (#8 I think), but outside of that, they were great.

Highly recommended.
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Played 5/13. First time out here in a while. Course is in the best shape I have seen it in some time. Greens were nice and smooth, fairways had good coverage. Sand traps pretty good overall. Price included lunch, cart and small bucket so it's a good deal. I always liked the layout here. Will definitely be back.

Wow that was awful. 5 hours on a Tuesday afternoon teeing off just after 1pm.
Dunno why it was so slow, it took 2.5 hours for the front 9, and then may be just barely under 5 hours by like a couple minutes. Waited on every shot, every hole.
The course is in TERRIBLE shape. They have done NOTHING to the course in the WHOLE PAST YEAR!!!!! With all the rain we had, with ... » More

Wow that was awful. 5 hours on a Tuesday afternoon teeing off just after 1pm.
Dunno why it was so slow, it took 2.5 hours for the front 9, and then may be just barely under 5 hours by like a couple minutes. Waited on every shot, every hole.
The course is in TERRIBLE shape. They have done NOTHING to the course in the WHOLE PAST YEAR!!!!! With all the rain we had, with the great cooler weather we had this year in this area that was almost unheard of, even getting a downpour here beginning of May, and the course is dried out, crusty, with lots of bare spots and dead spots all over the place!!!! I don't understand it. We told them this is a problem LAST YEAR!!!!! A YEAR AGO!!!!! What the heck happened to the maintenance?????
NONE of the tee boxes had been fixed. They are exactly as bad as they were last year, with cavities and divot holes and bare dirt patches all over them all. We told them this is a problem!!!! How can they let the course get like this, when every other course nearby are all lush and green, even the LA City courses are in better shape than this!!!!, not this thin, crusty, pock-marked mess!!!!
Why did it tale so long to play today? 5 hours just, and most of the tees were up on the gold or even forward than that!!!! There was a little bit of wind, but my gawd, why????? The course is 6300 yards from the gold tees!!!!
The Pace of Play was unconscionable, as was the conditions. I was shocked how badly scrappy it looked. Sure, most of the areas around the greens had some green and some grass, but wow, the rough down the fairways were mostly brown, the the fairways that had always had dead spots are the same if not worse!!!!! Who the heck is looking after this place?
The bunkers are the same crusty, hard-bottom, thin crap. Still?????
It's been another year!!!! A WHOLE YEAR!!!!! and nothing has changed. Well, some things have got worse.
Disgraceful. They are making hand over fist from the food and drinks, but nobody is putting it back into the golf course itself. You let it go a bit more, it will look like how the courses everywhere used to look a decade ago when we went through the drought - dry and terrible fairways and crusty rough, with barely passable greens. Remember that????
So sad.
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