The Oakmont East Course was a fun executive course to start our GK Review Guru day at Oakmont Golf Club. Served as a good warm-up for the regulation main course, West. Oakmont Golf Club in general att... Continue »

The Oakmont East Course was a fun executive course to start our GK Review Guru day at Oakmont Golf Club. Served as a good warm-up for the regulation main course, West. Oakmont Golf Club in general attracts 60% of its play from the public and 40% of its play from its members. The members are largely seniors and you could tell the East Course is predominantly played by them.

I enjoyed this little executive track. Par 63 with more challenge than I anticipated. Lots of long par 3’s and in almost all cases large trees requiring shot shaping on every hole. It was a beautiful time to play Oakmont Golf Club with Fall colors in full bloom plus we caught a sunny day.

I went into this round knowing the course was still under maintenance on the tail end of green aeration recovery and in the midst of fairway aeration. GK Review Guru rounds are typically timed to catch golf courses when they are out of maintenance and in better shape. But being I was visiting NorCal from SoCal, I needed to hit it while I was up there. Fellow GK Review Guru’s sixpez and rgm2525 joined for the round.

I thought the course was in decent condition. Greens ran on the slower side which was expected and still a bit bumpy. Fairways thin in some places and lush in others. Rough was spotty with some thin spots and lush spots. Tee boxes in good shape, mostly level. Sand traps were in general thin and firm. My guess in about couple weeks the greens will be in much better shape.

After the round I was impressed with the cleaning station fully equipped with air compressor to blow off your spikes and water hose to wash off your pull cart.

A well-organized little course with a good deal of challenge and beautiful natural surrounding scenery. Would play again if I was visiting the area in need a quick round or warmup round for the West Course. Check out the photos I posted.