Went off at 10:21 on a blustery but warm day. The course was in better condition than I imagined it might be. The mowers were out but the course was wet in spots without much rollout in the fairways. Greens were a tick slower than normal, rough was thick in most areas, bunkers in nice condition. Overall very playable. Torrey is coming out of maintenance so Balboa is the spot fo... » More

Went off at 10:21 on a blustery but warm day. The course was in better condition than I imagined it might be. The mowers were out but the course was wet in spots without much rollout in the fairways. Greens were a tick slower than normal, rough was thick in most areas, bunkers in nice condition. Overall very playable. Torrey is coming out of maintenance so Balboa is the spot for city golf right now.
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Played the Vineyard course with two buddies on 10/10, teed off at 7:40. Was looking for a more casual round as was playing with a higher handicapper in the group. Range was the range. Tee boxes and fairways were in good shape. Didn't have any memorably bad lies that were not my own fault. Fringe on Hole 3 was kind of thin at the back of the green, it has always been like that s... » More

Played the Vineyard course with two buddies on 10/10, teed off at 7:40. Was looking for a more casual round as was playing with a higher handicapper in the group. Range was the range. Tee boxes and fairways were in good shape. Didn't have any memorably bad lies that were not my own fault. Fringe on Hole 3 was kind of thin at the back of the green, it has always been like that so I recommend putting there. Pace of play was an issue - we finished in about 4:45 due to extremely, extremely slow play by some group 2-3 groups ahead of us. Heading into Hole #9 we saw a 3-group backup, so we took our time on Hole #8.

The slow play really backed up again on Holes 17 and 18. Not sure what the holdup was, but heard the same thing on the range before the round. Course officials to their credit were out and about for each slowdown, and were on the groups ahead of us.

I'm sure the group behind us was tired of waiting for us, but at least it wasn't like that all day. Not bad for muni golf, course conditions were good, greens were in good shape although about to be punched. I know that's kind of odd about the greens as I've seen others complain about them here, but all three of us had some consistent, quality putting, and only saw 2-3 bumpy putts.
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The Mountain 18 just closed for overseeding and the Canyon 18 just reopened from over seeding. Lush all around. Greens firm and medium fast. Everything in almost perfect condition first day reopening after over seeding. CPO til the end of October. Recent rains have the course playing softer and longer than usual. 2 yards of roll on drives instead of 20-30 makes a huge differenc... » More

The Mountain 18 just closed for overseeding and the Canyon 18 just reopened from over seeding. Lush all around. Greens firm and medium fast. Everything in almost perfect condition first day reopening after over seeding. CPO til the end of October. Recent rains have the course playing softer and longer than usual. 2 yards of roll on drives instead of 20-30 makes a huge difference. Customer service VG and attentive. Played as a single in barely 1H per 9 with few snow birds here yet. Highly recommended.
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Played SCGA, oops, GC Rancho California on 10/12/26 after the storms. First time here in almost 13 years. Sad to say this is not the SCGA Member's Course that I remember.

Greens are about 3 weeks post aeration, and they are in pretty good shape by now. Really soft after the weekend rains, so they were a bit bumpy, but in all the greens are good.

The praise sto... » More

Played SCGA, oops, GC Rancho California on 10/12/26 after the storms. First time here in almost 13 years. Sad to say this is not the SCGA Member's Course that I remember.

Greens are about 3 weeks post aeration, and they are in pretty good shape by now. Really soft after the weekend rains, so they were a bit bumpy, but in all the greens are good.

The praise stops there. The rest of the course is kind of a mess. I'll give the sand traps a pass as I suspect they were messed up from the rains. The tees are all over the place, fairways are generally ok but lots of bad areas.

Still it is a great layout, and if I was local, I'd still come out once in a while. But for me with over an hour drive, it is not worth the gas with many better options in the area.

I do hope there are some improvements coming at this great old course.
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Well, I am part of a yearly tournament that we play 18 times in 9 different courses, including Traditions and Cypress, both courses at Cypress wood Golf course (Its 32 people in this tournament). I am a 12 HDCP but we play with help's all the way to 36. The rough is long and thick, professional stile and it's impossible to find the ball if you are not in the fairway. The ISSUE ... » More

Well, I am part of a yearly tournament that we play 18 times in 9 different courses, including Traditions and Cypress, both courses at Cypress wood Golf course (Its 32 people in this tournament). I am a 12 HDCP but we play with help's all the way to 36. The rough is long and thick, professional stile and it's impossible to find the ball if you are not in the fairway. The ISSUE we had was that as we were finishing up hole 9, one of the Marshalls came to us and said we had to skip hole 10 to get caught up. I told him that the 2 foursomes in from of us were 3 somes and the foursome behind us hadn't even tee off on the 9th hole. I really thought he was kidding as we were in the tournament and you just don't skip a hole... I follow to try to tee off on hole 10 and he came rushing in the cart in front of the tee box and started screaming to us saying that we had to skip the hole. I kept telling him that we were in a tournament and that we couldn't just skip a hole but he was so rude and upset that I told him that it was fine but I need it a full refund... We proceded to the trailer to get our refund and he call the "Manager", I think he was the person in charge because he was rude and defensive as well. He was not able to listen about the tournament and about the foursome behind us which was just teen off on the 9th hole. He proceded to call the "General Manager" by phone, who was not there and I don't think he liked the call on Saturday at 10am given the reaction from the manager in turn as he responded, "Yes sir, I wouldn't call you about this again". He proceeded to give us our refund and I told him that I couldn't understand how a golf course wouldn't care about losing customers been so disrespectful and make such a strange decision because the Marshall was rude and in a bad mood... But that's fine. I even told my father in law "Que situation tan estupida" which means what a stupid situation... And this " Shift manager" started fighting with me because he said he understands Spanish and that I shouldn't disrespect anyone in the club house (Trailer) to what I responded.... Yes, you don't understand anything because what I said was that this was a stupid situation.... Ok, long story short. I have never been treated this way in my 35 years playing golf and specially by staff that doesn't have a clue what they are doing... At the end, 20 minutes later we came out of the shack (trainer) and the foursome behind us which was in the tournament as well, were just finishing up hole 9.. Nice courses which I play a good 6-8 times per year but unfortunately I wouldn't be playing or recommending any longer. I know that my review doesn't make a difference for the golf course or people seen the review but I wanted to express my frustration on a situation badly handled.
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