Played Saturday Afternoon. Great rate , booked a time online just made it there in time and was put right out on the course. Expected it to be busy, it was. The pace of play was pretty decent though. Teed off just before 2pm and finished at dark. They closed the gate behind us. Just under 4 hours. I have not been playing much at all and was rusty but I had a good time.

The course is not in very good shape. The fairways, loosely stated, are not nice looking.
Mostly hard pan tight lies all day even though the grass was moist. Every hole there was dirt marks on the ball. Tight lies from around the greens also.
There is patchy grass everywhere. The greens rolled well and were speedy, but the fungus looking color was weird. They held shots well. Very subtle breaks, some were tricky to read. I 2 putted most of the greens. They were consistent speed wise throughout. When I arrived at the course I saw a beverage cart going out, but never was seen again. Must have went out to the other course and then retired for the day.
The only other complaint was that the majority of the ball washers were bone dry. Is it that hard to put some liquid in them?
The course itself is surrounded by abandoned dairy farms. It used to smell worse out there. It is worth the green fee, and close enough to home to get some more golf in, so I will return.

Played Friday 10-17-14 Starter said they were punching the greens, we went out anyway. $28 each riding. A lot of cars in the parking lot was not a real good sign, but they have a decent sized driving range and a bar. Looked pretty open at the first tee but I knew it was not going to be a quick round. We were a twosome and we teed off after a threesome.
The course: knowing this course I was not expecting much. The course was way over watered, a lot of standing water out there although it was mostly around the tee areas and greens. Have to drive thru some flooded areas with the cart.
The fairways were thin but not wet at all. Never know what kind of crappy lie you will get to. The rough is pretty thick in some spots and then you get the bare dirt also. We had a few mud balls. It can be challenging just with the variety of surfaces you get to play off of. There are a lot of trees on the course, it is a flat course, the fairways are wide. The layout is questionable traffic wise in that you get a very reachable in two par five, (always wait for one or two players) followed by a par three, followed by a driveable par four. With them allowing fivesomes there was definitely some phone time.
The greens were very soft, held shots. Even though this course isn't the greatest conditions, it is challenging enough to come back to it. I am sure I will play it again as it is close to our office and a couple guys like to get out on Friday's . Some small wagers and good conversation, much better than working.

Played last week Mid Day. good pace of play. Was just able to finish before dark.
I did not think I would get that far around the course.
I have played this course many times as it is right in my area.
I was really disappointed over all. I thought the rate was too high first of all. I thought it would be discounted for the afternoon. Three and a half hours before darkness.
The greens were horrible, bumpy and they have some kind of fungus going on. The 16th ,17th, and 18th were the only greens that looked normal.
Greens rolled slow and I never saw a smooth rolling putt. Not very fun. I did make my share of putts as I hit the ball harder than I would normally just to avoid the slow pace and the valleys.
I do like the layout of the course, but conditions will have to improve.
Bunkers were solid. There is no beverage service out on the course.
Met a good guy named Jason out there, just moved in the area from Alaska. I hope to meet up another time. He can really smack the ball.
I enjoyed getting around the course although I did not keep score, I had a decent day.

Played yesterday afternoon, finally, my first round of 2014. The weather was great, and the course was not crowded. Cruised around the front nine pretty quick and hooked up with the assistant general manager of the course Brian.
Very nice guy, and fun to play the rest of the way in. He hit some great iron shots and really knew the breaks of the greens. A knowledge that is needed on this course. It is a fun layout, but some experience playing the course would go a long way in being able to score. Very relaxing experience with the deer on the course and the canyon quietness. The only houses are along the left side of the ninth tee and keeps you from cutting the corner.
The course is in quite good shape, although there were some patchy areas along the fairways, and many a divot along the way. The greens were in great condition and can be tricky. Really hard to stop the downhillers and uphill it was hard to hit it hard enough to get it to the hole without that last break taking the ball offline enough for a miss. ok, I four putted once and three putted twice. haha, if it weren't for the par threes I would have had a decent score.
Only a couple un level tee areas, but I was impressed with the course. Bunkers were very good, but the kids need to start raking and fixing their ball marks on the greens. The carts have a nice gps with some good advice on each hole. Good value for the afternoon rate. It is very close to where I live, I will need to visit more often.

This is an eye pleasing course. Great condition. We had perfect weather on Saturday afternoon. A little bit of waiting on some holes as there are some short go for it par fours that you need to wait til the green clears.
Fairways are wide except for the Par five 7th I think it was. Greens were firm but held the shots after the first couple bounces. They were smooth rolling. I did not see any putts bounce at all. They were not fast at all though. The traps were good but the sand was heavy feeling. I loved the course and hope to get back soon. The beverage cart was out there all day. Great service and great practice range. A must play.

Played Sunday at 8:06am. Started on time , or real close to it. Round took 5 hours though. Even though they tracked the times out on the course, the kid said we need to pick up the pace. We waited on 90 percent of the tee boxes.
It was a very pleasant day weather wise. The course is a fun and challenging layout. There are some holes where local knowledge could go a long way. Not every hole is a driver hole, be wise off the tee. The greens, not all of them, didn't hold the in coming shots. Best to play under the hole anyways. There are some mean undulations on some of the greens. Three and four tier greens. If you are on the high side, good luck getting your ball to stop. The greens ran pretty fast. A few too many un repaired ball marks.
The fairways ran also, which was not a bad thing. The rough was wet and stopped the ball in a hurry. Actually the course was way over watered. Mushy grass in many places. Bunkers were wet and some had standing water in them. Bunker shots were tough to judge unless you are familiar with wet sand shots.
There is no GPS on the carts. The tee boxes were terrible.
Saw the beverage cart enough times. Beware, the prices are insulting. One go and I didn't care to see her the rest of the day. Bring your own and save your cash. What a rip off. Seems unnecessary to me.
The best part of the day was the variety of holes and the shots you had to play. Made for a nice golf experience. I would play this course again.

Was able to get out there Tuesday Afternoon as I am working the night shift over in Carpenteria. The weather was great , a little breezy at times but expected, being this close to the coast. The course is in very nice shape, the fairways are like carpet, makes the ball sit up perfectly.
If it weren't for the four walkers and very slow playing practices they had, it would have been perfect. Made for a frustrating front nine. One of the guys I hooked up with had had enough at the 9th tee and called the front desk. They actually drove out to us to see the problem. By the time he got out to us he said I don't see that they are in your way at this time, and we replied, we have been waiting for fifteen minutes for these bozos to clear the way. Been that way all day. He proceeded to drive forward and came back to us as we were on the green and said he was going to have us play through on the tenth tee.
Great.. then these idiots teed off anyway. The guy from the office came back out when he saw what they did and drove out to them. It looked as if they were off to the side so we started teeing off, to get past these monkeys.
They had been told to wait... when we got to our tee shots this one guy, (one of four older Asian men) went off.. yelling at us, saying he has never seen anything like this in 45 years. Jeez he has been holding up the golfing public for a long time!!
They were three holes behind the pace. It was smooth sailing from then on and they never even came close to catching up with us. Kudos to the management. They only had to wait maybe three minutes for us to clear out?
Ok back to the course, haha fun layout, trouble awaits errant tee balls but then again you could get very lucky. The grasses on the sides are very long and tough to get out of with some open areas in between.
The short putts were hard to read for me as I saw more break than what was there. A little bumpy roll at times on the longer ones but seemed to roll true for the most part.
Greens were a little inconsistent on approach shots, some stopped close and others bounded through. Traps were good, consistent sand in them.
I can see having a good score here, wide fairways, avoid the trouble and pray for little less wind. I will play here again.

Weather report was wrong first of all. Said 10mph it was more like 25. I enjoyed this course. Even though there is a huge lake that a few holes border it, there is plenty of room to avoid it.

The greens are healing nicely from the aeration, but are still a little on the slow side. Patrons seem to repair their ball marks. I only had a few extras to repair. With the wind the greens firmed up and didn't hold the approaches too well.

The fairways were a little rough but there weren't too many bare spots, you just didn't get very many pure lies in the middle of the fairway.
The sand was pretty good over all, but the golfers ahead of us didn't care about who came in after them. Plenty of rakes around every bunker. I just don't get it. How lazy can you be???

Tee boxes are trying to be good, but the grass was a little too long. Some un levelness but room to find a good spot.

The course itself is straight forward, no blind shots from the tees. Some hills if you were wayward to see the flagstick on approaches, but what you see is what you get for the most part.

The beverage cart came by several times throughout the round. If you have deep pockets you won't go thirsty. (pricey)

With the wind today it was 50-50. down wind vs up wind about the same amount of chances.
Fairway bunkers were strategically placed and just enough sand in them.
Greenside bunkers were very good, some were deep enough to get you thinking.
I would play this course again. Grass range but crappy range balls.

Played Thursday GK plays with three other Gk members. Our tee time was for 1 pm in the afternoon, weather was great, felt like 80 to 85, then for a little while 90. The course is in fantastic condition, Striped mowed fairways looked awesome and were a pleasure to play from. The greens were large and rolled true, but for me difficult to read the breaks. Some of the greens seemed really slow. I guess they were against the grain type putts. I would say they were medium speed. We were told the greens were exactly like the practice green, and they were right on, even including the many caterpillars for some reason. The course is pleasing to the eye, not overly difficult unless you are really wild off the tee, which I was on a few occasions. Some water hazards, but for the most part any area off the course if you could find the ball was not in a staked situation. I enjoyed the par fives and the short go for the green par fours.
The layout was interesting, not boring, but not any ' wow ' moments . The conditions I would say were a big 'wow' because the green grass was great.
I really appreciated the beverage cart being out there so often as there were not many golfers out there. The gps on the carts was outstanding but the volume on the tips was too low for me to hear. I am looking forward to re visiting this great course behind the bushes behind the casino behind the parking lot.

There were recommendations to play this track and so I had to check it out before leaving Nor Cal. The starter was right up front and said they had just aerated last week and that there was still sand on the greens. I went out anyway because he said it would be $12 to play. I said I needed a cart and he said that was included. No brainer.
I really enjoyed this course. I bought the yardage book as I was told there were blind shots etc.. I received some good tips from the starter also. It was a late afternoon round. Did not see anyone out there til the sixth hole.
Some forced carries, great par fives, very stimulating lay out, was never bored out there. One slow moving foursome during the back nine kind of frustrating, because I knew there was nobody in front of them and they could care less about us waiting behind them. They could have let us play through and not even skipped a beat because there was no one behind us either.
The fairways were nice and the bunkers were excellent. Obviously the greens being aerated. This is a nice course, memorable. If I am back in the area I will definitely put this one on the list . I would not walk this course. Sometimes very long distance from green to tee and very elevated at times, nice views of the hills.

Played a twilight round here on the 26th, Starter was nice said if I wait 15 minutes or so instead of $38 it would be $22 to ride, so I waited. Then I watched as A high school group of walkers,(seven) then a threesome, and a couple twosomes went out then a guy from the cart shack came out and said go ahead and join the guys on the tee or wait more and go whenever you want. There were two guys on the tee that didn't even look at me as they went to their cart and took off to their crappy drives. They had butted in front of a man and his daughter that were essentially their on the tee box before them. The man told me he said they should go ahead of them. I asked to join he and his daughter, he said you go first, so I hit my tee shot and he said just go ahead... I guess she was a beginner and he wanted to help her out.
It was pretty windy that day but I was happy to be out there.
I really enjoyed this course, the greens were huge. Like the other courses in the area they had aerated not long ago, so the green were a little bumpy and slow. The fairways were really nice. The two guys that were bad golfers weren't so nice every time I would drive up to the tee and they had just hit they would just drive off as I sat there and waited for them on every shot. Well they finally had to wait on a tee box, I asked to join them and they said just go ahead and play through. Ok great see ya. The next group a threesome let me play through on the par three fourth and then there was the high schoolers, seven of them all walking and all playing the same hole, with their coach driving a cart, a par five as they all finally hit their second shot, I got to drive my tee ball out there. When I got to my ball they were all off to the side like they were playing a best ball scenario, I thought they were going to let me play through, because I could have hit and they wouldn't even skip a beat, but they did not. As they walked towards the green I just picked up and scooted off to the next tee box. Clear through to the tenth and then a very cool group of three let me join them.
There are some really easy holes on this course, then there are some really hard ones. A par three, must hit driver against the wind almost all carry over water 230 yards, a little bail out room to the left but very narrow. I hit a good drive but faded a little and did not make it over.
I did not see a beverage cart. Gps on the carts. Nice layout, tough in the wind. Very nice course.

Played last Wednesday afternoon, started at 4:30 walked on as a single and finished the round just as it got dark in three hours. Also I was messing around at times hitting more than ball getting some practice in.
The starter Brent was fantastic, the club house was great and there is a great patio in the back overlooking the putting green and course.
Nice practice facility and range.
The course was in really nice condition, very wide fairways, nice green grass all the way through. The greens had been aerated recently but should heal nicely. Some undulations and subtle breaks would take a few rounds to get used to. Wild turkeys and large geese do drop some large obstacles along the way but it was cool seeing them out there.
The rough was not very long but some of the yardages were very long. I played the black tees, but they weren't that much different than the blue markers on most holes. None of the par fives were reachable in two for me, and a few par four holes were long clubs after nice drives.
At $14 rate super twilight to walk it can't be beat. I will be back for sure, I really enjoyed the course and conditions.