Early am in round in slightly over four hours on the Creek/Stonehouse nines. They have the Oaks closed for fall maintenance till Oct. 5th. Staff and facilities always top notch. Played with another single and a twosome that were decent hackers. The tee boxes are all level and most have real good coverage now. The mowers were out and the rough was being cut down to near fai... » More

Early am in round in slightly over four hours on the Creek/Stonehouse nines. They have the Oaks closed for fall maintenance till Oct. 5th. Staff and facilities always top notch. Played with another single and a twosome that were decent hackers. The tee boxes are all level and most have real good coverage now. The mowers were out and the rough was being cut down to near fairway length. The coverage on the Creek nine can be thin on a couple holes but good enough to hit from. The fairways were trimmed shorter than I can ever remember. The hot weather has not been to harsh as the fairways do not have any dry or bare sections on either nine. The fairways allowed for decent roll if you found the right line. The traps all have great plentiful sand but a few had clumps of grass growing in them. The greens were all in fantastic condition with very few ball marks. They were holding shots well and were slightly slower than usual while holding lines nicely. The staff said that they will be closing the Creek nine next followed by Stonehouse. The rates are going up but still acceptable for similar area courses.
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Played Pala Mesa early on 9/22. Conditions out here are probably as good or better than I have ever seen it out here. Fairways are great, thick and plush, but play slow and soft. Greens have good coverage and are very soft. Rough can be painfully thick just off the fairway.

The only negatives - lots of ball marks on the soft greens. And the bunkers, while the amount of... » More

Played Pala Mesa early on 9/22. Conditions out here are probably as good or better than I have ever seen it out here. Fairways are great, thick and plush, but play slow and soft. Greens have good coverage and are very soft. Rough can be painfully thick just off the fairway.

The only negatives - lots of ball marks on the soft greens. And the bunkers, while the amount of sand was good, were really unraked and quite a mess. We were 2nd off in the AM, and maybe the grounds crew hadn't gotten to the bunkers yet. But I didn't see anyone working sand traps. Luckily I had good lies in the two I was in, but it could have been in footprints easily. Still, it does not stop Pala Mesa from getting a high recommendation.
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Played today on a great weather morning w/o any wind. Rare when this happens around this location.

Tee boxes were all playable no issues.

Fairways still have good coverage and provided good lies and decent roll out all round.

Traps playable. Heard no complaints even from myself.

Rough is manageable and able find and advance your ball.

Gre... » More

Played today on a great weather morning w/o any wind. Rare when this happens around this location.

Tee boxes were all playable no issues.

Fairways still have good coverage and provided good lies and decent roll out all round.

Traps playable. Heard no complaints even from myself.

Rough is manageable and able find and advance your ball.

Greens were in good shape and chipped/putted great all round. They are all with a few exceptions elevated from the fairways guarded by bunkers so good iron play is necessary.

Good customer service in the shop.

Driving range and good practice area available.

Good golf prices if one does not want to pay the higher prices of Rancho Solano or Paradise Valley.

And the prices in the grill are fantastic. I don't know
why I don't eat here all the time. LOL.
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El Dorado Park has sanded greens at this time. No mention on GreensKeeper or in the pro shop. Its that time of year, getting the greens ready for fall/ winter. However paying full price for slow sanded greens is not fun. Head up!

Walked the Oranges this morning 9/21/26 at 1140am with my buddy Matt joined by two twin brothers. Very packed course today. When we arrived to the 1st tee there were three groups waiting to hit. Surprisingly once we hit the two groups ahead moved pretty well and we finished in 4 hrs 30 minutes which looked like a 5 plus hour round when starting. Weather was humid to start the ... » More

Walked the Oranges this morning 9/21/26 at 1140am with my buddy Matt joined by two twin brothers. Very packed course today. When we arrived to the 1st tee there were three groups waiting to hit. Surprisingly once we hit the two groups ahead moved pretty well and we finished in 4 hrs 30 minutes which looked like a 5 plus hour round when starting. Weather was humid to start the 1st 5 holes and when we turned to hole 6 the nice cool breeze picked up and cooled things off really nicely with temps around 75...pretty much perfect golf weather.

Greens were really healthy and approach shots were really soft and receptive. They putted fairly pure but slow maybe between a 9 and 10 on the stimp. They are resodding several sections on the front of number 5 green which is marked as Ground Under Repair..kudos to the course for the maintenance. Overall green rating 7.5/10

Fairways were nice and lush with just minor browning out patches here and there which still played nicely. Fairway rating 7.5/10

Tees looked to all be in good shape level and lush. They were doing maintenance on the back tee box on the short par 3 3rd hole. Tee rating 8/10

Rough was lusher kikuya grass which was manageable just off the fairways and grabby around some of the green complexes and a nice challenge. Rated 8/10

Was in greenside bunkers on 16 and 17 that were in great shape with nicely raked white beach sand. Rated 8.5/10.

As usual Soule provides a great parkland layout with its midsize fairways firing to large Gil Hanse undulating greens where maintenance has a choice to put in like 9 different pin positions. Always above average to great conditions and a great restaurant with a killer view to hang out after the round.

Highly recommended.
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