Played 10-14. Course is in very good shape. Lots of watering has been done following course aeration. In fact, there wer... » More

Played 10-14. Course is in very good shape. Lots of watering has been done following course aeration. In fact, there were many wet areas from overwatering. Course plays too short from the white tees. However, on this day, they were overseeding a lot of the tee boxes and all the markers were grouped together - so it played even shorter. Fairways are lush and the ball sits up nicely. The only detracting feature is that a lot of the bunkers are thin with lots of rocks. Fortunately, with the new rules, you can remove rocks that interfere with your ball. But, still, those rocky bunkers are not an asset. Most of the greenside bunkers were beautiful and devoid rocks. Nice coupon for $32 here on Greenskeeper. Thanks to Eagle Glen and our own John Hakim for that. Makes for a really good playing experience/deal.
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Played today with our weekly foursome. The course in good condition. The course is being overly watered to fight it fr... » More

Played today with our weekly foursome. The course in good condition. The course is being overly watered to fight it from drying up. The fairways did start to dry up midday and your ball did roll if you landed on it. The greens have recovered from being aerated approximately 4 weeks ago. The greens were rolling slow as they are still a little shaggy. Great staff. They do need to change the range balls as they are torn up. Still one of the best track to play especially the 18th hole. POP was slightly over 4 hours.
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Played Wednesday late morning and finished in 4:40. The greens were aerated two weeks ago. There are still signs of punc... » More

Played Wednesday late morning and finished in 4:40. The greens were aerated two weeks ago. There are still signs of punching but the greens are very playable. Putting was fairly smooth with a little bumpiness, medium speed, and held shots. The fairways had good coverage with a few thin spots. The rough along the fairways was good with some thin/bare spots and not too penal. The rough around the greens was good. The bunkers were a little crusty but in overall good condition. The tee boxes are fair to good mostly due to mild unlevelness.

The course offers a nice variety of holes with water coming into play on several holes. The driving range rotates between mats and grass depending on the day (don't know the rotation schedule). There are two putting greens and a chipping green with a bunker. The restaurant has good food. The staff is friendly.
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Early round with a friend who lives in the Temecula area. Would have preferred Cross Creek, but we don't always get wha... » More

Early round with a friend who lives in the Temecula area. Would have preferred Cross Creek, but we don't always get what we desire. As it turned out, worked out fine as the staff was friendly and accommodating and we were able to get around in well under four hours.

Course conditions are a mixed bag. Some of the greens were firm, some soft, same with pace, but because there are so many tiers on these greens, I'm sure that made it seem inconsistent. The rough however is inconsistent, from thin/bare to thick, depending upon where the ball ends up. Bunkers were OK, enough sand, well raked.

Because I tend to flight the ball lower than most, this course plays tough for me, with so many elevated greens. Some interesting holes. I really enjoy the finishing hole, providing a great opportunity for a birdie, but it makes you hit the shots.
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Having to be in the area later in the AM, decided to play here. Thought I would use Weber's definition: "it's inexpensiv... » More

Having to be in the area later in the AM, decided to play here. Thought I would use Weber's definition: "it's inexpensive basic golf, which sometimes is all I'm looking for." I looked on the site last night, no maintenance posted. Checked in and was told "doing the greens - front yesterday back today and you play the front and if you want 18, you play it twice." Guess they don't wish to use GK? The guy was pleasant, but it was not what I wanted to hear @ 6:15 AM. So I asked the price? "$20 with cart for 18." Decided to play and got right out. I actually found some of the fairways with decent coverage/green grass (kikyu/bermuda) but not all fairways had coverage and the lies were thin for the most part. Some fairways had large bare spots (4 and 5) and I swear they were there when I played some years ago? Tee boxes were OK and were mowed and tee friendly. The rough is hit/miss and needs attending to, soon please. Not in any bunkers, but they did not look good? Of course there were large holes and sand on the greens, so putting was nothing to be happy with. But they looked like they might have been pretty good prior to aerating? Old course layout that no doubt at one time was pretty good? Personally I would have preferred to play all 18, even with green sanding. But this course has outlived its time for me, but serves a useful purpose for those in Azusa and the area no doubt.
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Posted: 10/18/19
By: i4golf

Played with 2 gents from Valencia on Wednesday middle day with a Golfnow hot de... » More

Posted: 10/18/19
By: i4golf

Played with 2 gents from Valencia on Wednesday middle day with a Golfnow hot deal. Finished the round in 3.5 hrs. I assume the morning walkers is off for a relative hot day :) Have not played this course for awhile. Course is in a great shape. Everything is green here for this time of the year.
Green is on the soft side compared with what I used to play, having troubles to judge the speed for first few holes. The holes were already beaten up by middle day due to soft condition, or didn’t get recut it today.
My play partners provided me some play tips from tee box which helped my drive. Rough area is not very deep but take some efforts to have a solid shot to the green. Sand is prefect for all bunkers compared with many courses in this area. But can be tricky due to some server slopes if you’re unlucky to land there. Avoid them at any costs! Few water holes, but luckily are not in play today due to my solid drive. Thanks to my partner!
First time smelled weeds on a golf course! Turn out, a weed field is planted on the other side of the course. Try to avoid this place if you’re allergic to the smell.
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Posted: 10/17/19
By: JStillman3

Golfed here on 10/15, Tuesday at 12:18, with my Girlfriend. We had some fre... » More

Posted: 10/17/19
By: JStillman3

Golfed here on 10/15, Tuesday at 12:18, with my Girlfriend. We had some free vouchers issued from a scramble we were in last year.

There were two foursomes in front of us and the lead foursome was extremely slow. 30+ minutes per hole. There’s 15 minute gaps between tee offs, which is awesome, but we still caught up by the 3rd tee box. Luckily, both foursomes let us squeak by on the 10th which was nice.

Pace of play, not very fun on the front.

Course lay out is not extremely challenging. Most fairways are pretty open and large. What make’s this course tough are the green layouts. Green speeds can be quick. Most of them are raised and have pretty challenging undulations, as well as some challenging pin placements. Although, the greens were soft so if your ball striking is on, you can stick some shots pretty close.

Course maintenance. This part was kind of a bummer. Almost all greens had tons of divots. Especially since the greens were soft, the divots were huge. Most fairways had no fill on divots as well. So I fell into some nasty empty steaks on the fairway. Plus, A lot of the tee boxes were uneven and slanted to a good degree. I will say the sand traps I was in had really good, fluffy, sand.

All in all, this course could be so awesome, but it needs some love from the locals, maybe? I don’t really mind uneven tee boxes or the occasional divot on greens, but for $135 I expect a course to be better maintained by staff and golfers. And 17$ for a bucket on the range? Crazy town.

I’ll be back since we have two more vouchers and I’ll wait until after it’s punched. Could have caught a bad day, but way better choices to get bang for your buck.
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Posted: 10/15/19
By: morning277

Played a charity event at Alta Vista. It’s a private course so I don’t thi... » More

Posted: 10/15/19
By: morning277

Played a charity event at Alta Vista. It’s a private course so I don’t think I’ll be back anytime soon (unless I get the opportunity with a member). The overall course design is great. Plenty of uphill and downhill holes, doglegs, water, tree lines, etc. unfortunately we came at a bad time. The tee boxes were high due to overseeding and they had us tees up pretty much in dirt patches away from he newly seeded areas. The fairways were drenched and muddy (surprises they let us have carts out there). You can tell this place is flush when in season but we just happened to catch it at the time of year when everyone is overseeding.
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Posted: 10/12/19
By: golferic420

Played Turtle Bay Palmer on 10/12 @ 10am local time. POP was right at 4 ho... » More

Posted: 10/12/19
By: golferic420

Played Turtle Bay Palmer on 10/12 @ 10am local time. POP was right at 4 hours. Moderately busy, but everyone kept decent pace. Course is in pretty good shape. Tee boxes level and well groomed. Fairways for the most part were good. A couple wet/damp spots due to recent rain storms. Bunkers were good with the orange sand. Greens are healing nicely from aeration about 4 weeks ago. They are ‘grainy’ like most tropical destinations (Maui, Cabo, Dominican Republic), but rolled true. Just a little slow.
Overall great course. Staying at the resort cost $169 for the Palmer, and I’d say it’s worth it. The Fazio course looked like average muni in LA (with better conditions), whereas the Palmer has the ‘Championship’ caliber course. Weather was windy, probably 25-30 mph, but that didn’t take away from enjoyment. Since staying at Turtle Bay, it’s not really in the cards to head closer to Honolulu or Ko Olina to play. Service was top notch, and Lei Lei’s has great food after the round (or before). Definitely worth playing if you’re up in the North Shore.
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Posted: 10/9/19
By: rayrazor

Played a round at the Arroyo Golf course this past Sunday. The course seemed a... » More

Posted: 10/9/19
By: rayrazor

Played a round at the Arroyo Golf course this past Sunday. The course seemed a bit empty, possibly due to the Shriner’s tournament. The course was in great shape except for the greens on the first two holes.

Nice fairways, I only noticed on a couple of holes where there were patches of fairways not fully repaired.

The tee boxes were in great shape too. Not many divots, and they were for the most part level.

The greens were in good shape. Firm, seemed a little dry, but can still hold the green. I had seen this course in better shape, but after just a couple of weeks from over seeding it really was not bad.

Pace of play was great too, as my group and I was not great golfers. But we still managed to finish a round of golf under 4 hours.
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Posted: 10/8/19
By: morning277

Course is in nice shape. Only been opened for a few weeks after over seeding... » More

Posted: 10/8/19
By: morning277

Course is in nice shape. Only been opened for a few weeks after over seeding. There are still a few areas of rough around tee boxes that are coming back but shouldn’t be more than a week to be 100%. Fairways and greens are perfect. Greens running a little slower than normal but they are the greenest I have ever seen them at the course. I am a little biased because this is one of my favorite courses but will honestly say it’s in great shape.
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Posted: 10/8/19
By: pedro7170

Finally, I got some free time from all kids activities and got a few hours to... » More

Posted: 10/8/19
By: pedro7170

Finally, I got some free time from all kids activities and got a few hours to play a round of my favorite game. This passed Sunday I played Buenaventura with my buddies Sherwin and Carlos. Golf course is in great shape. Fairways are in great conditions except a few of them had to much water around the greens (I just wish that golfers take time to fix their ball marks and be respectful to others golfers. There were to many ball marks to fix) tees were in good shape, sand traps in perfect conditions and well kept. Our tee time was 11:27am and finished by 4:00pm. If you haven’t played Buenaventura’s golf course you have to visit as it’s a good conditions to play.
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