La Purisima has always been a favorite and after reading the Greenskeeper reviews and having 9+ rating we had high expectations. Sadly not realized.

We also played Rancho San Marcos the day prior and RSM was head and shoulders in much better condition than La Purisima. La Purisima has a huge gopher/ground squirrel problem and there were holes and dirt piles everywhere in the rough. Looks like a scene from Caddy Shack.

The layout is stellar, the conditions a bit disappointing.

Bear Mountain is in better shape right now than any time we have played in the past years...if you are "on-the-hill" it is worth the time and $.

Pretty typical course conditions now for mid-August. Seems as though they are having and issue with some fungus on a few greens and the rough seems unusually thin.

Still one of the better courses and better values around.

The staff couldn't have been better. Many of the greens are a disaster, while others seem to be in good shape...

Course is reporting closed for the winter season as of November 1, 2009......

Course still in reasonably good condition as of Labor Day weekend.

We thought our last experience here was perhaps just a bad circumstance and didn't comment on it in our review, but the experience repeated itself twice this weekend both Saturday and Sunday. Some of the staff has an attitude that they are the only game in town and you will play here "whether you like it or not.." Surly comments, rude and very strict enforcement of "course policies" and just a general attitude that as a customer you are interrupting their day makes for as less than ideal experience.

Very unfortunate. I am sure that our experience, now repeated on all three of our rounds here this summer, is not isolated to our group. Perhaps when they notice that the rounds are down while course conditions are improved they will ask themselves why.....but not likely.

The Springs has really made a turn around. This is not at all the course you might remember from years passed. The fairways are lush and maintained, the rough has actually been maintained and sculpted to frame the fairways, new tees...A real transformation from many years of marginal conditions.
However a newer policy of "be off the course by 8pm, no exceptions" (when it is light enough to play well beyond that time), communcated by the course marshall in a rather surly fashion really detracts from what could have been a great experience.
After many years of playing here and enduring very marginal maintenance and playing conditions the consensus of our group was we won't be returning.
If you want to try Camarillo in it's finest conditions in years, go for it....if you want some level of courtesy as a paying customer, you might want to pass.

Bear Mountain is in better condition right now than it has been anytime in recent memory. Certainly not the meadow/pasture of yesteryear. It appears the renovation and transformation are on-going with some new tee box's and areas where previously deferred maintenance are being addressed. The staff and management are really on their "A" game this year.

An exceptional layout. The prevailing afternoon wind always a real factor. Fairways iffy, disappointing for a "newer" course.

Better condition now than the GK rating might indicate. The new holes (#'s 3-6) on the Vineyard (original) course are very well done.

Valley course, our favorite of the two, is in outstanding shape right now. Very much a central California country club feel to the place. Avoid windy days, can also be very hot here.

WOW! What an excellent renovation of this course. Olivas, once such a dog track has been completely reconfigured and is a fantastic layout. A true links style, feels like you are playing a coastal course in NorCal somewhere. The wind in the afternoons only adds to the feel and the layout plays you against the wind on nearly every hole.
Only disappointment to an otherwise great day was the turf conditions on a number of the fairways. I do hope that these issues will be resolved and that Olivas won't revert back to the pasture lands of the past.