Played here two years ago and it was in beautiful condition. A drastic difference from our round yesterday. The course layout with the large number of bunkers promise a fun and challenging day but the conditions are really terrible now. Fairways have large areas of dead grass and patchy bare areas which could be justified by the extreme water shortages due to the California drought. But you can't blame the drought for the rocks and hard packed dirt in 95% of the bunkers. Or for the uneven and chewed up tee boxes or the cart GPS system that lacks coverage for all 18 holes.

During the current water drought all golf courses have to drastically reduce water usage. The better courses have been strategically eliminating areas of grass and rearranging sprinklers to make the most of less resources. This course appears like it hasn't even tried. Very sad to see a good course go down like this without an effort.

September 7, 2015