Pace of play 3.5 (but could have been faster). Course is in winter conditions regarding the fairways. Have to deal with it until spring comes (fact of life). Tee boxes good. Bunkers good. Lots of mudd... Continue »

Pace of play 3.5 (but could have been faster). Course is in winter conditions regarding the fairways. Have to deal with it until spring comes (fact of life). Tee boxes good. Bunkers good. Lots of muddy areas (obviously) given the recent rain. Greens good and no sign of sand on greens as previously mentioned. Excellent customer service at all levels (but especially the starter - thanks Joe for keeping it moving).

Played early on Saturday, 1/16, walking on and getting out pretty fast around 7:00 am. Excellent POP. Bizarrely started out close to a hole behind because of no-shows and late arriving groups, the f... Continue »

Played early on Saturday, 1/16, walking on and getting out pretty fast around 7:00 am. Excellent POP. Bizarrely started out close to a hole behind because of no-shows and late arriving groups, the four Asian women and one guy in front had two holes on us by #13 which they maintained. Played in about 4:10 as a fivesome walking. The greens had an obviously recent top dressing of sand with lines of it needing to be brushed on occasion to putt. They rolled pretty well nonetheless with decent speed. The rest of the course was winter rough with tight lies in the fairway and spotty, low rough.

Played this AM in very cold conditions. Early off but ran into issues on back 9 with back 9 players who obviously waited until sun came up (added an additional 45 minutes to an otherwise 3 hour round)... Continue »

Played this AM in very cold conditions. Early off but ran into issues on back 9 with back 9 players who obviously waited until sun came up (added an additional 45 minutes to an otherwise 3 hour round). They were supposed to tee of no later than 7 AM but they did not. As the 10th tee is not visible from the clubhouse, perhaps a camera needs to be put in place, to avoid this activity in the future. Course was wet from previous days rain, but the tee boxes, fairways and greens showed no wet areas. The areas that have browned out during the drought and those areas left unattended where still wet and extremely muddy (to be expected). Many of the bunkers will need attending to over the next few days, to repair the erosion in them. Maintenance was cutting the greens and they were in great shape. Holding shots, chipping and putting very well. Marshals were out and monitoring the players (thanks). Customer service excellent at all levels.

Out early this AM and we finished in 3 hours. So much better than last week. Course is still in dormant stages in the fairways (nothing has changed). Tee boxes and traps are of course in good shape (a... Continue »

Out early this AM and we finished in 3 hours. So much better than last week. Course is still in dormant stages in the fairways (nothing has changed). Tee boxes and traps are of course in good shape (all done 2 years ago) and as many of us have mentioned, there is no rough. Depending upon where you land, you will get acceptable/thin/bare lies and always the possible roll into "who knows where" due to such dry/hard fairways. Greens were very nice and still fast and chipping/putting very well. Customer service was excellent as always (including the issue from last week).

My first round of 2016 was here yesterday with a 6:45 time...brrrrrrr it was cold for the first 9 holes.
I have played here many times so I know the course quite well. Still, it is hard to get a fee... Continue »

My first round of 2016 was here yesterday with a 6:45 time...brrrrrrr it was cold for the first 9 holes.
I have played here many times so I know the course quite well. Still, it is hard to get a feel for the greens. They are sloped and have a lot of grain which makes it difficult to judge the speeds. Fairways were okay but hard to hit on a few holes due to the extreme slopes and dry conditions. Rough was not good with very patchy areas throughout. Tees were nice and the value is great with the awesome views!!!

Played today and wished I hadn't. Early tee time, yet the marshal decided he would let groups off as they pleased as at 6:30 the 6:07 group was teeing off. When we inquired as to why this was occurrin... Continue »

Played today and wished I hadn't. Early tee time, yet the marshal decided he would let groups off as they pleased as at 6:30 the 6:07 group was teeing off. When we inquired as to why this was occurring he merely said "well they wanted to wait for more light." Really? If you make a 6:07 tee time in Dec use a glow ball or don't bother playing. And since when is it the marshal's decision to make life miserable for everyone else. And of course we had two groups in front of us who were walking and the first group of 4 struggled to stay up with the group in front of them who were riding (bet they finished early). And that same marshal never came around to move groups along? Yep you guessed it. 2 hrs 30 to play 9. Don't have any idea how the rest of my group finished? I was done at 9. Fairways are hard, uneven with lots of thin lies. Tee boxes/sand traps OK. Get off the fairway and you will roll forever into some unplayable areas, as many of you know who have or do play here. Greens while nothing to look at were in good shape for putting/chipping. Customer service excellent at all levels except one. Happy New Year.

Played very early Monday morning. I feel pretty much the same as MK who rated the course on the 6th. The fairways are pretty beat up and the greens had a layer of sand on them. I too get a little b... Continue »

Played very early Monday morning. I feel pretty much the same as MK who rated the course on the 6th. The fairways are pretty beat up and the greens had a layer of sand on them. I too get a little bent on how lazy some players are about fixing their ball marks on the greens. All in all I still like playing the course. The views are outstanding. The staff is great. I hope with some
decent rain all of the local golf courses get back to how the photographers shoot them on the websites come spring time.

Played Sat 12/5 early morning as a single joining 3 other nice people with glow ball the first 3 holes. POP was 4 hour walking the course on a beautiful morning and done before 10 a.m. to go home and ... Continue »

Played Sat 12/5 early morning as a single joining 3 other nice people with glow ball the first 3 holes. POP was 4 hour walking the course on a beautiful morning and done before 10 a.m. to go home and enjoy late breakfast with family. I love early morning golf, okay, not really, but I do like morning golf.. after the sun come up without glow ball. I still had a blast and would play that early with glow ball if I didn't have a tee time like yesterday as a walk on. The golf course is beautiful, the views of the ocean I meant. The course itself looks and plays pretty beaten up. I played last week and the greens were fast and smooth, but what happed in just 1 week?!? Looks like they dusted the greens with sand earlier this week even though they were aerated 3-4 weeks ago. I love this course and is my home course so it pains me so see people not repairing their ball marks on the green. I probably fixed 1/2 dozen marks on each green as I walked around to survey my putting line. The greens putted and held their line pretty decent but very quick on all downhill putts. Tee box and bunkers are always good here. Fairway had decent coverage with thin spots but playable. Rough is bad to non-existent due drought so no complaints here as I rather want them to water the fairway and greens and sacrifice the rough with water rations. Did I mention the views already?.. simple a fantastic!

Played yesterday in a nice pace of 3.5 hours. Customer service great as always. But the fairways at present (IMO) are the worst I have seen here. I realize they just aerated them but there is almost n... Continue »

Played yesterday in a nice pace of 3.5 hours. Customer service great as always. But the fairways at present (IMO) are the worst I have seen here. I realize they just aerated them but there is almost no grass, many bare areas and I personally never had a good lie all morning. If you miss the fairway (if that is what they are currently) you can end up in some spots that you never knew existed here? Of course the tee boxes and sand traps are good because they are all new in the last 2/3 years. Greens are very nice. But nice tee boxes, sand traps and greens don't make a complete golf experience (IMO). I suspect the course will play this way until spring and I can only imagine what the fairways will look like when it rains (I won't be there to find out either). At this point, I am going to not evaluate the course until I really really see some improvement (and I know it will happen).