07/09/2011 - Saturday - 12:00 pm tee time - $48.00 + $1.99 (online discount website)
Range balls and cart included.

# of players in group: 4

Played from the white tee box

Pace of play: 4.5 h... Continue »

07/09/2011 - Saturday - 12:00 pm tee time - $48.00 + $1.99 (online discount website)
Range balls and cart included.

# of players in group: 4

Played from the white tee box

Pace of play: 4.5 hours, but could have played faster but took time to enjoy the scenery, hitting provisional tee shots, generously taking mulligans and looking for lost balls.

I cannot justify playing any of the public courses in Orange County after playing this course for around $50 with cart and range balls. Only a 30 minute drive from the Anaheim Hills/Yorba Linda area; the course proved to be well worth the drive.

If you live in Tustin, Irvine, Anaheim, Fullerton, Brea, La Habra, Yorba Linda, Orange then you owe it to yourself to take a drive out to Riverside if you like playing on top notch courses for the same money that you would pay to play at any of the munis in OC.

Customer service (limited to paying green fees and buying a couple of candy bars at the turn) seemed good, nothing really to report here. On the course marshals were great, very courteous and stayed mostly invisible through the round.

The course layout is extremely fun, with some elevation changes, mostly open landing areas off the tee and great views. Definitely some target golf here, but nothing like Badlands in Vegas and definitely some blind shots but nothing like PGA Stadium West. A nice and very playable course that I could play almost every weekend (although Goose Creek or Hidden Valley still have my top votes if I had to choose a course).

Parts of the fairway were thin and brown, but overall the fairways were in good condition and not hard or dry as I had expected it to be when I noticed the thin and brown areas.

Rough was a bit on the short side (which I prefer) and finding a ball was not an issue at all.

Sand in bunkers were soft and fluffy.

Greens were a tad slow and soft. I misjudged speed all day and were leaving putts short more often than usual. Some unfixed marks (only takes a few seconds to repair your mark and maybe even if it's not yours), but it wasn't an issue at all.

Tee boxes, nice and level.

I do agree with previous posters, the course could use more yardage markers or cart gps, but thankfully I can't hit consistently enough for yardage to be that big of a concern.

The 18th does live up to the hype, huge drop from tee to fairway. I hit my first drive into the lake on the left and my second drive I hit the clubhouse, way left...oops (took the distance after that). But really fun hole, which by the way, you can get away with 3 wood or long iron and still be in position to have an approach shot to get you on the green in regulation. Otherwise if you are like me, you can contribute to the inventory at lostgolfballs.com.

A great time!!

PS, didn't get a chance to really check out the 19th hole but I plan on it my next round.