Played Bonita with a 1pm start time on Saturday. The fairways are cut very tight, and there are the browning patches you would expect to start seeing as the weather turns cooler. Greens have recentl... Continue »

Played Bonita with a 1pm start time on Saturday. The fairways are cut very tight, and there are the browning patches you would expect to start seeing as the weather turns cooler. Greens have recently been punched, and have not fully recovered, but still putted at a medium, medium-fast speed. It was a gorgeous day to be out, and many other people seemed to have had the same thought as the course was pretty busy. We were waiting on pretty much every hole, but not unnecessarily so as the foursome in front of us was keeping up. One of our foursome had never played Bonita before, and he was suitably impressed. He was lucky to be with us though, to navigate the convoluted, snake-eating-itself layout at Bonita. Got around in 4 hours and 38 minutes. Great value at $40 with cart for afternoon rates.

Played Bonita on 12-27-17, beautiful day golfing. I have not played Bonita since early March 2017. I was very happy to see that the course was in good condition for the winter. The playing rate of $33... Continue »

Played Bonita on 12-27-17, beautiful day golfing. I have not played Bonita since early March 2017. I was very happy to see that the course was in good condition for the winter. The playing rate of $33 to walk was reasonable. Bunkers and greens were in excellent shape, however some of the tee boxes and fairways need some attention. Looking forward to playing there again soon.

Great condition and great service and pace of play. Greens, traps, fairways were in great shape. Easy walking and challenging course. Great course and no problems to get a tee time, fair rates an... Continue »

Great condition and great service and pace of play. Greens, traps, fairways were in great shape. Easy walking and challenging course. Great course and no problems to get a tee time, fair rates and I would recommend playing here!

played here for the first time ever on 7/6/17 thursday at 653am for a walking rate of 28.00(14.00 more if you ride)course was in good to very good overall conditions.
tee boxs large and nice grass/bu... Continue »

played here for the first time ever on 7/6/17 thursday at 653am for a walking rate of 28.00(14.00 more if you ride)course was in good to very good overall conditions.
tee boxs large and nice grass/bunkers nice sand quality (really no fairway bunkers to speak of)fairways had good coverage for 90 to 95% , really no rough to speak of/greens were very good and large sized but if you want to score you must be below the pin...overall I was very happy with the course and will return again,very nice resturant and bar..double sided driving range and a large putting green/the only negitive thing I could say is that there are alot of side to side fairways so keep your head on a swivel!!

Let me start off by saying I have been a big fan of this course. I am a member of the email club receiving a few benefits and emails and updates.
I got an update that the course was in great conditio... Continue »

Let me start off by saying I have been a big fan of this course. I am a member of the email club receiving a few benefits and emails and updates.
I got an update that the course was in great condition, come out, greens are great, etc etc.
$20 Noon Twilite Email Club Rate and a 208pm Tee Time Single Player with no one in front of back of me had me there.
I was sadly disappointed once I got on the course.
The tee boxes were fine, the fairways were brown all over the place, patchy.
Rough on the course is no problem, the rough around the greens is a couple of inches long presenting a little difficulty with chip shots.
Bunkers were thin with sand and hard dirt below.
Last but not least the highlight of this course for me, the greens were terrible, bumpy, not healed from Aeration.
I would say 90 percent with that 10 percent affecting putts for sure.
Plus lots of the greens, I would say more than 6, are burnt around the edges.
Bare, dirt, no other way to explain it. Very sad.
This course does not believe in water fountains or cart service however they do have the watering hole snack shop after hole 7 that you can catch close to hole 9 and 13 as well.
POP was incredible with me playing solo in 3 hours walking.

Played here friday afternoon 240pm finishing up 3.5 hours later.
I really do like this course and wish they would take better care of it. I stopped playing it because after a month the damage to a f... Continue »

Played here friday afternoon 240pm finishing up 3.5 hours later.
I really do like this course and wish they would take better care of it. I stopped playing it because after a month the damage to a few of the greens still hadn't been repaired and the fairways were thin to the dirt with lots of GUR.
Imagine my surprise when I find that the damage to the greens that were damaged months ago is still there as is the thin fairways. Makes me sad since from afar the course looks great.
Tee boxes are a bit beat up but playable, fairways thin as I said, rough is rough 2-3 inches deep.
Greens are bumpy as heck for the most part, no one fixes divots here it seems so the greens aren't healing well. I did find some smooth spots.
Sand traps are horrible mostly dirt.
This course has so much potential to be good once again.
It is well worth the $20 dollar walking twilite rate for the exercise if nothing else.

Greens were in great shape. Sand traps were consistent. They had a player assistant that provided water and helped with pace of play. Great to see Fairways were nice and grass was mowed tight ... Continue »

Greens were in great shape. Sand traps were consistent. They had a player assistant that provided water and helped with pace of play. Great to see Fairways were nice and grass was mowed tight Affordable and a great place to play.

Played a noontime round on Saturday. I haven't played Bonita since 2004, and I believe they renovated the course sometime around 2012. This was my first time experiencing the re-sequenced hole numbe... Continue »

Played a noontime round on Saturday. I haven't played Bonita since 2004, and I believe they renovated the course sometime around 2012. This was my first time experiencing the re-sequenced hole numbers. The look and feel of the course has been improved. Old trees that had becoming big and billowy have been cut back, widening the feel of the holes. And the greens are a vast improvement, rolling at a medium-fast pace with plenty of slope on almost every putt. The bunkers are also vastly improved, with nice fluffy sand inside. I used to think of Bonita as a good course for beginners to step up from Par 3 or Executive courses, which it still is and may even be better for that purpose now. But the holes used to feel so tight against one another that you would constantly have to have your head on a swivel from cries of "Fore!" The course feels a little more open, and much safer now. There are still holes that cluster against each other, and the map on the back of the scorecard was invaluable for knowing where to go when holes criss-crossed. Our threesome was behind a tournament, so it was a slow go with a wait on pretty much every shot. But it was a nice cool day, and we enjoyed ourselves, finishing in 5 hours 5 minutes or so. Service at the pro shop and the snack shop was very friendly. It's tough to beat $40 for walking on a weekend (and I had a much easier time walking here than at Balboa Park a couple of weeks ago). I'm sure I'll be back. p.s. The scorecard for this course on Greenskeeper.org needs to be updated to reflect the new sequence of holes.

Played 8/30. Got the twilight rate of $40 w/ a cart which I thought was pretty reasonable since I started just after 12. The course was in pretty good condition. The Tee boxes were mostly level. T... Continue »

Played 8/30. Got the twilight rate of $40 w/ a cart which I thought was pretty reasonable since I started just after 12. The course was in pretty good condition. The Tee boxes were mostly level. The fairways were decent enough to have a clean lie. The rough seemed ok. Patchy grass with brown spots but with the drought, that is to be expected. Greens had a bit of damage to them but for the most part were still pretty good and rolled true.