Black Gold Golf Club: Member Reviews

1 Black Gold Drive
Yorba Linda, CA 92886 • (714) 961-0060

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Yorba Linda, CA (92886)

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Sunset: 7:04 pm
green Sunrise: 6:46 am

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71. 24hourgolf

Posted: 01/08/19 1:11p
Member Since: Jun 6, 2011
From: Monterey Park

Played today in very windy conditions (very challenging). POP was 3 H. Found the course to be in good condition, even after the recent rain (only 1 hole was CPO). Fairways had great roll and decent li... Continue »

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Rated
6.9 Conditions

72. slicer

Posted: 12/20/18 5:21p
Member Since: Feb 11, 2004
From: HB

Played today 12/20. It's been many months since we last played here due to the high green fees. However this is one of our favorite courses and thanks to management for offering specials, which allo... Continue »

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73. 24hourgolf

Posted: 12/11/18 1:05p
Member Since: Jun 6, 2011
From: Monterey Park

Played today in a POP of 3 H. Found the course to still be feeling the effects of the rain from last week. Several holes were CPO, some bunkers still had mud in them (most of them were playable howeve... Continue »

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10 Likes.

Rated
6.8 Conditions

74. 24hourgolf

Posted: 11/26/18 12:25p
Member Since: Jun 6, 2011
From: Monterey Park

Played today. 2nd off and then passed the 2 some and done in 2.5 H. Course is in great shape (as bogeygolf said in previous post). Maintenance was out in front of me and had everything clean and ready... Continue »

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Rated
6.9 Conditions

75. bogeygolf

Posted: 11/22/18 7:03a
Member Since: Sep 2, 2005
From: Fountain Valley, CA

Played 11/21, 711a tee time and done in 4 hrs. Course was in great condition! Greens were tuned up for some reason and really rolling fast! Probably 11ish on the stimp. The course plays hard in the fi... Continue »

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9 Likes.

Rated
6.9 Conditions

76. leef2020

Posted: 11/07/18 10:14p
Member Since: Mar 26, 2016
From: Huntington Beach, CA

Played Monday, 11/5, teeing off a few minutes after noon w/Larryq2001 and was paired with friendly GKer Dubwiser. We finished a bit over 4 hours, with a few short waits on a lovely day. They played th... Continue »

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10 Likes.

Rated
6.8 Conditions

77. dethman

Posted: 11/06/18 10:14p
Member Since: Sep 14, 2006
From: irvine

played early afternoon in 4H and finished just at sunset. Course is in good condition, fairways are green and full. Important to hit the ball long and straight on this course otherwise it will be a ... Continue »

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10 Likes.

Rated
7.0 Conditions

78. mcgolfer

Posted: 10/24/18 3:26p
Member Since: Dec 25, 2003
From: RSM

With all the local local courses in poor shape Tijeras, Arroyo, Telega and just punched greens at San Juan I decided to take the group to Black Gold in Yoruba Linda and what a good choice it was. It b... Continue »

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Rated
7.1 Conditions

79. JohnnyGK

Posted: 10/17/18 5:38a
Member Since: Dec 30, 2002
From: Thousand Oaks

Good times out at Black Gold Golf Club Sunday with GK’ers Mattias, roarksown1 and kassper7.

Sunday was a great testament of how much I like this layout even when I was looking for my tee shot on the majority of holes. My driver was as bad as I can remember as far as accuracy and let me tell you this course will eat you up on a day like that. However, take a drop, or two (lol) and play out the holes, enjoy the great views. I still had fun with the approach shots, be it many different angles than I am used to. The challenging green complexes and putting greens.

As for the conditions, very nice for October. Like roarksown1 I was expecting the golf course to be a little on the brown side but rather it was green. Good lies when I found the fairway. The rough was hit and miss as far as lush long or thin in areas. We played after the big rain on Saturday so it was still damp in places. Damp + Kikuyu grass is a tough combo! Noticed many greenside bunkers with new sand. Played a couple shots from them. Very nice. Tee boxes in good shape. Some were closed for what appeared to be nothing more than just giving them a break to grow in more. Last but not least the greens. They were in very good shape BUT very soft for Black Gold standards and consequently a bit bumpy and slower than I’ve experience in the past. I’m sure it has to do with the fact the greens were softer due to aeration 4 weeks ago combined with heavy rain the night before. Add to that we played in the afternoon on full tee sheet of players before us. You put all that together and still get very good greens, you know these greens are going to be rolling fast and smooth again likely by the time you read this review.

Service was excellent all day. Check-in, starter and on-course beverage service. After our round there was a wedding taking the whole clubhouse but normally I always enjoy their food/drink on the patio. I might try to get back out here again this fall/winter. Need to redeem myself for my poor play but more so just love this place.

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Rated
7.0 Conditions

80. roarksown1

Posted: 10/14/18 9:51p
Member Since: Jan 6, 2013
From: Playa del Rey

Had a super fun Sunday round with Johnny, Kassper7 and Mattias at Black Gold. The staff there did an absolutely amazing job taking care of us and it was well worth the drive out to Yorba Linda. We had a late tee time but ample time to finish as the long shadows began covering the course late.

This is such a very tough course where every errant shot will be penalized handsomely. There's just not a lot of room for error and club selection here is absolutely critical. Pick the wrong club and go just a bit long or too short and all of a sudden you'll find yourself in a whole lot of hurt. But when you do hit the right shots, it feels pretty great.

The course is quite green right now considering the time of year and looked very good from the visual aspect. You may find an occasional thinner lie here or there, but mostly we found ourselves hitting from very good lies in the fairways all day. Of course the rough is fairly grabby with the type of grass they have in play here, and if you're off the fairways then you never quite know what you'll get. Plenty of places to lose balls off the fairways and when you find them, it's often no picnic to get back into the fairways.

Greens I found to be in really nice shape. A few ball marks here and there and maybe not as fast as I've seen the greens here before, but they were holding shots quite well and rolling very true. Some tricky pin positions today made putting an adventure for sure, but nothing gimmicky or over the top. Bunkers seemed really good by the greens optically, but they're not as fluffy as they look when you're in them, however the fairways bunkers are the perfect type of thin sand to still be able to hit good shots. Tee boxes were level and had mostly good coverage.

We had a pretty decent POP for most of the day and were having a such a good time that it was surprising when we did actually come in right around five hours. The cart service came around numerous times and I did see water stations on a few holes, so that's good service.

All in all it was big winner of a day out at Black Gold and I would definitely recommend a trip out there if you're feeling pretty confident in your game and want to have an enjoyable round at a quality establishment while the conditions are still very good overall. Just know that this course is no cakewalk and you're in for a big challenge, but you'll enjoy every bit of it.

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7.0 Conditions

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