Played at 1pm on Thursday and finished right behind the group in front of us, 5 hours later. Lots of time gets taken up looking for lost balls due to the narrow fairways, with many canyons and ravines alongside fairways and fronting tee boxes.

I played with a group of 15-20 handicapers who insisted on playing the blues--bad plan! This course is way too challenging to do that.

Fairways, greens, and tee boxes were in excellent shape despite some very hot weather lately. This is course is a great test of all parts of your game, and the scenery and views are as good as it gets (round here anyway).

I experienced nothing but good attitudes from everyone from the starter, cart barn guys, and especially the very cute beverage cart girls who came by three times during our round.

While a bit pricey, this course provides a challenge that is a cut above all but a few. Every shot requires making good decisions and a solid swing. I look forward to my next chance to play here...

While I live nearby, most of my golf is limited to back 9's early on weekdays on other course that allow that form of golf for the time limited golfer.

I have not played here in four years and I was impressed with the overall condition of the course-especially the greens, which were smooth, quick and challenging.

Played the dawn patrol back 11 on Sunday with my son (he's a new golfer) and I noticed the tee boxes are getting a bit rough.

Kukuya grass looks tough, but it has a shallow root structure and tears our under stretss. So it really doesn't handle heavy traffic all that well. Kukuya grows in stolons so is spreads as it regenerates, but struggles to keep up under high foot traffic in small tee boxes.

Like many older courses, many of the tee boxes aren't big enough to offer enough variance in player position to keep the tee boxes from wearing out. The new owners of the course have added some new tee areas, but they are mostly "black tees" and tend to be narrow areas , again limiting options of where to stand.

Fairways seemed fine but the Kukuya rough was very deep and with morning dew made them that much tougher to deal with.

Turf on the greens seemed very healthy (especially if you've played Los Robles lately) but after a long summer day of heavy play on Saturday, they needed mowing to be smoother.

The Springs is a nice course for those new to golf or high handicappers. It has lots of room to hit towards off the tee on most holes (although fair amount of water on the course although little of it comes into play). Not too many trees so you almost always have a decent second shot.

Greens are the most consistent part of this course-even in the dead of winter. They are fairly slow and have very little break making putting easier for newbies.