I played Spyglass back with DeapSea14 on what was another perfect Monterey Peninsula weather day. I’m starting to think that if you want guaranteed good weather, just invite Peter! Anyway, he did a great job explaining in the conditions. I just thought I’d provide an update after talking to my buddy who’s a caddie for PB and played with us last week. He said the greens are 100% healed from the aeration and are rolling great. The fairways are still showing signs of maintenance but they aren’t too bad. Just some brown showing in a few places from the fill sand that was applied.

I played Crandon GC at KB yesterday with a 7AM tee time. This is my second time playing here. Conditions have improved slightly over the last go round. Mainly the fairways. They are still not quite up to my expectations for a course of this caliber but there were’t any real dead or bare spots. Just mainly thin coverage throughout. Greens were firm but rolled at a medium pace. Tee boxes and sand traps were all fine. Given the fun layout along with the improved conditions to go along with the price break with my resident card, I’ll give the course a “recommendation”.

Back out to Bonita for some more cruel and unusual punishment yesterday, Thursday. Walked on around 2pm and checked in as a single on the wait list. Teed off at 3pm. $40 to walk. Excellent POP at a little over 4hrs. That's about the best part of the review.

Blue tees were a mixed bag. Most were level with adequate coverage. Some were completely closed for maintenance (I guess it's a good thing, because they sure need work). They were probably the highlight of the course rated at 5/10.

Fairways, gosh I wish I knew what was going on here. Some holes were in decent shape and some parts were in fantastic shape!! But the remaining 70% of the fairways were awful, dirt patches everywhere. Definitely think about playing all fairways as GUR. You will experience horrible lies at some point in the round. It's a shame and a mystery as you see a gleaming perfect patch of fairway right along side of bare dirt. Can't explain it.

Greens were punched a few weeks ago and are not healed from that quite yet. They were very bumpy. Furthermore, I'm not sure what is happening to the outlining areas, but they are deplorable!!! These patches weren't even on the fringe, these bare areas are all over the surrounding parts of the actual green.

I didn't find any sand traps, but they looked ok. Might be the best part of the course. Rough is really not existent.

I can't recommend right now and not sure if and when I will return. Truly sad, because the layout is not bad, especially the back nine.

Played here today. I lived/worked in Silicon Valley 25 years and nobody ever told be about the E and W courses here in Vallejo. I wish they had.

Played the E this AM with a local (thank goodness) and we had a POP 3H as first off. Local knowledge was very helpful.

Built in 1949 the W course was designed by course architect Jack Fleming and the E in 1993 by Robert Muir Graves (one of my personal favorite architects).

I describe the E course as a hidden gem of a public course and add its like Black Gold and Westridge on steroids. The elevation changes are fantastic. Number 5 hdcp # 1 makes number 17 at Westridge, 18 at Laguna Seca, and Number 2 at Black Gold look like ant hills. When I say straight up, I mean 488 yards straight up and then an elevated green (only flat lie on the whole hole).

Number 7 is a par 5 downhill then back uphill that looks like a snake slithering across the ground.

And the 5 par 3's are are all unique and great designs. Loved every one of them.

If the W course is anything like the E I can't wait to play here.

You would think on a hilly course tee boxes would be unlevel. Nope every one was level, clean and peg friendly.

Fairways are well groomed, provide good roll out but have many OB lining them. Being in the fairway is necessary as the rough around the whole course is thick and hard to play out of.

Traps are decent size but deep and IMO could use more sand. Maybe because of all the rain they have become compacted and just need turning? But the same people up here are related to those in S CA that don't know how to rake a trap.

Greens are good size, clean and receptive to good high shots, release shots and chip and putt just fine on all holes. In very nice shape.

This course is one to put on your list if you are in N CA Bay Area. I look forward to playing the W course and seeing the differences in the two. Located minutes right off Columbus Parkway on I 80.

Friendly staff all around. $47 Sr rate. I believe $29 for Sr to walk and no idea what the other rates are.

I will go back and play this and the W course in the near future.

9 holes Thursday with breezy cool mostly sunny spring conditions. CPO fyi but I always walk.
only $9 the green aeration in progress, greens closed. Playing to hardly discernible temporary with a flag and cup well short.
Not worth a review but now you know. Give it 21 days if you want 100% putting
From the top$$$$ to the bottom $ it's just golf, and that's fun.
Upfront with the work and green fees a bargain. Better exercise than range work.

Course is only in ok shape for this time of year, good fairway coverage and greens are still good. Just not as good a shape for this time of year in desert. Course is for sale again we were told and for a Thursday there was very few players on the course.

Played 4/16 at 11:30am. 5 hr POP.

Course was in overall pretty good shape. Tee boxes and fairways were great to hit from. Greens still a bit scarred from aeration but were rolling pretty quickly with some slight bobbles from the punching. Played much better than they looked. Bunkers were a bit inconsistent. Very thin in some and fairly fluffy in others. Rough wasn't too long and was healthy, with some dead/dirt spots around.

Shout out to my playing partners, Tim, Vic, and Beth who were a blast to play with.

Played last evening for a twilight round. POP was great at 3.5H. Course is in great shape in all areas at the moment.

Nice clean level tee boxes.

Clean fairways providing good lies and great roll out.

Traps all playable though others still don't wish to rake them. Maybe we should install cameras like at stop signs. No raking gets you a fine when you finish.

Greens are wonderful. Getting better at finding landing areas to emliminate LONG putts as well as 3 putts. But they chip/putt great on every hole.

Rough is plentiful on this course and will take its toll if you are in it to often.

Great service in the pro shop, carts, marshals and the grill.

A real wonderful golf course to be so close to and reasonably priced as well.

Played Wednesday, April 15, around 7:00 am, walking from the blue tees. There were several openings for singles when I checked the website on Monday afternoon. Come to find out the reason was there was no back nine play, they were sending early 18-hole golfers off 1 and 10 because of a shotgun start for an outing later in the day. My group of four walkers finished in 4 hours. The range was not open when we started, it opens later on Wednesdays.

The course is really lush right now. Fairways are great and the rough is thick. There were areas of a second cut that were really punitive. Very thick kikuyu grass. The highlight was the greens. Fully healed from aeration, they were deceptively quick. Some tough downhill putts. The lowlight was the sand traps. They should be GUR until they can put some sand in them. I got out of the front right trap on #9 but there was no way to hold the green on the shot. The front left bunker on #17 was marginally better although I was in a low spot of what had recently been mud. The fairway bunker I was in on #16 was like hitting off the cart path.

The lush conditions and nice greens more than made up for the sad bunkers. Recommended.

The Saticoy Club is the closest course that resembles Augusta National here in Southern California. Golf greats in the past such as Fred Couples would use The Saticoy Club as a tune-up weeks prior to playing in the Masters. So its an honor to have our annual “Day After The Masters” event at this spectacular private course.

Monday featured, as always, an immaculate conditioned golf course, outstanding service and beautiful coastal weather with views of the ocean. The Saticoy Club is a special place for any golfer and a must play. It’s 1 on my list to join someday and it’s the #1 course in our Vivid Golf / Golf Moose/ Greenskeeper.org Private Course Events.

Thank you everyone that came to Monday’s event and others I’ve organized. Thank you to our Ventura County GK event staff of rgm2525, mark_6m and GDR23 that helps me make these event days so special.

Check out the photos I just posted and GDR23’s excellent review detailing the playing experience below mine :)

Played Sunday, April 12, around 7:00 am, walking from the blue tees. Cudos to the group in front of us, finished in 3.5 hours, rarely waiting after the third hole. Rained most of the front nine, at times hard, but cleared up for a beautiful day.

I knew before I went but the guy that made the tee time did not. They had aerated last Monday and Tuesday and the sand, especially on the front nine, was heavy. There was a temporary green on #14 on the left side. It was shaggy and very soft but still better than the aerated greens. They were using the right green on the par 3 16th. It was not aerated but it also was soft and shaggy. Weird considering it is a regular green. The greens were glacially slow on the front but much better on the back. Probably aerated them first and the rain compacted down the sand.

The rest of the course was in nice shape. It drained surprisingly well. I'll be back, hopefully after the greens have healed.

Great times out at the "Coy" today with buddies John, Ron and Mark riding the blues in 4 hrs 55 minutes as a part of the Vivid/Golfmoose event in group 1b. Weather started out calm and the breeze picked up to 2 clubs pretty much after hole 4. Beautiful day with clear skies and temps in the mid 60s.

The conditions here would continue to even impress tour pros.

Fast undulating green complexes where the stimp was maybe an 11. Most all shots held if struck with compression and spin. Hardly any ballmarks and a true fast pure roll was encountered. Rated 8.5/10

Fairways were in beautiful shape with great lies in addition to rollout if you stripe a lower trajectory drive. Rated 9/10.

I thought the rough was close to a 10/10 in that is was super lush even though just off the fairways it looked manageable. Very uniform in nature cut at the perfect challenging length

Parkland style layout with some elevation changes, doglegs, undulating green complexes, very nice strategic greenside and fairway bunkering, scoring holes in the par 5s and a couple strong par 3 holes in #4 and #10.

Never miss an opportunity to play the Saticoy Club if you have the chance to!