Haven't been here in ages. Played yesterday and wow, Eagle Glen, I give you guys credit. The greens are absolutely the best! Hard, fast and pure. Amazing. It really does make playing here a real challenge with greens this fast. This place was awful not too long ago, but now, it's way better. Still spotty in a few fairways, but overall, it's a massive improvement.

Played yesterday and got the full wind treatment. Blowing pretty steady at 30-35mph with gusts of 45-50mph. Tough day to score but actually it was kinda fun and challenging to hit 6 iron from 80 yds out. Then, you can hit your sand wedge 160 yds downwind. Throw the yardage away and just hit shots. Pure golf. Loved it. As for the course, this course just amazes me. I've probably played here over 150 times and never tire of it. The amazing thing, though, is the overall health of the grass. Goose can sometimes get ragged, but not because there's weeds and fungus everywhere. The turf is generally very healthy and vibrant. Right now it's in fantastic shape. Greens are rolling nice, the fairways and "rough" is outstanding, the whole course is alive and well. The bunkers could use some more sand, but when the course sits in a windy, vulnerable area like this, I can understand why there's bunkers that are thin. Give that head super. a raise...Goose is awesome.

Played here early Sunday morning. My God, what in the Lord's name has happened to this place??? Unbelievably bad, horrible conditions. Fairways are just awful, got like 20 different tufts of weeds/grass growing all together. The greens are like fairways, really I'm not kidding. New ownership has put sand in the bunkers, I'll give them that, but man, this place ranks a solid 2 on a 10 scale for condition. Dos Lagos has better conditons that here and it pains me to say that, but it's the truth. Best thing about this golf course is the new speed bumps they put on the cart paths. Ingenious, where the wheels would go over the bump it's flat, so you have to slow down to put the wheels of the cart through the "holes" in the bump, so you you don't have that annoying bump going over them. Why didn't I think of that?? I don't think I'm ever going back here..

Played here yesterday and man, I forgot how nice this place is. I played here 10 years ago, and it's like time stood still. This place, and the area around this place, is unchanged. I LOVE IT. No Starbucks, no strip malls around here, just a gorgeous golf course and solitude all around. The condition of the course is superb. Tee, fairways, bunkers and greens are all good. Greens are coming back from aeration but they rolled good. It's a real treat to play here. A bit of a drive from my place in Los Altos, but worth every penny. I really enjoyed our time here. Don't know when I"ll return, but don't pass this place up if you're on your way to the famed Monterey Peninsula.

Okay, just showed up here today and wandered into the makeshift proshop looking to get out. Paid and cart was ready with my bag on it and I was off, nice service guys!. The range is all-grass, very nice, plush, balls are all Taylor Made Black. Nice touch. Short game area is stellar and they have a seperate putting green. Very nice practice facility. Probably the best practice facility in all of SoCal. The only drawback is that you have to drive your cart all the way over there, then back-track to the first tee when you're ready. Now, the course. Starts off fairly flatish first 3 holes, kinda like CrossCreek. After the 4th hole you really start going crazy with all the elevation. Up/down all around. Crazy holes. Long ways driving your cart from the green to the next tee boxes. On the 488 yd. par 4 6th hole, your view of the Temecula Valley is spectacular. Then you hit down to a fairway ala Trilogy at Glen Ivy's 18th hole, only much higher. Kinda fun, kinda gimmicky. Next few holes takes you down off the mountain to finish on the par 5 9th hole. You go right by the halfway house to 10 so getting something to eat is easy. The back nine is more flatish, but alot more doglegs. You're reminded where you are as there are smokehouses sprinkled throughout the back nine, so the culture of the Pechanga Indian tribe isn't forgotten here. Then you ascend up again to 17, a 243 yd par 3 that plays downhill but tough as nails. All carry, right is dead and a sliver of a bailout left. Difficult hole, par is stealing a stroke. Then the 18th is again, a bomber's paradise, 431 yd par 4 on a elevated tee hitting down to a fairway like Trilogy's 18th again.

Overall, I enjoyed myself immensly. It was hot, but cart girls came plenty of times with ice cold towels. The condition of the golf course was 100% PERFECT. Tees, fairways were immaculate. Greens are absolutely the best I've putted on in sometime. There are no ball marks, greens are nicer than The Quarry in La Quinta and Stone Eagle down in Palm Desert, and those courses' greens are exquisite. The layout of the course is like a mix of CrossCreek and Lost Canyons, so it's nice, but a little weird. Not my favorite kind of routing for a golf course, but there are worse ones out there...(err..dos lagos and the retreat).. I'd come back, but only when the real clubhouse is done being built. Looks like it might be a few more months, but it does look very, very nice.

BTW, I know the casino is hurting really bad. They're laying off people left and right. So I wonder how this place can stay open, being that they charge 150-200 bucks for a green fee. Hope this place doesn't go belly up as fast as The Retreat in Corona did. But putting on greens like this, it's almost worth the $150. In fact, to be able to play on greens like this, that's a bargain.

Played last week and had a blast. Golf course was in good shape. Tees, fairways and greens were very, very good and lush. The rough was very long and nasty, not your typical resort 1 inch rough. It was playing very difficult. The restoration is very minimal, it's basically the same course as before. On the 2nd hole the bunker on the right side is gone, now it's all grass. The trees lining the whole right side of the fairway were supposed to be removed, giving one an all-ocean view, but the trees are still there so you still cannot see the ocean on this hole. Everything else is pretty much the same. Got an email special here so used it and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. Food was good, service was superb. Pelican represents everything I don't like about golf, the snob factor is extremely high here, but if someone wants to clean my shoes, give me a cold hand/face towel after the round, pull out my chair in the bar for me to sit down, I'm not gonna stop 'em.

Played Sunday(yesterday) at 8:20am. Where is everyone? Parking lot had 12 cars in it. Had one foursome in front of us, nobody behind us. Had a 2some roll up on us at 16th tee. Place was deserted. Course was very wet, but fairways, tees and greens were decent at best. Went inside to eat and heard that this place is for sale, no buyer yet. Cart girl was inside saying that she only sold 3 beers all day. Guys in pro-shop were cool, but they seemed like they didn't want to be there. No carts allowed to the driving range, you have to be driven down there by a cart guy. By now, everyone knows now that the nines have been reversed. It's really weird and bizarre but they're not changing it back so we have to get used to it. All in all, very surprised that nobody's here on a Sunday morning, but maybe it's the gas prices and the foreclosure capital of the world.....Riverside County that's killing all the golfers. With the impending sale, who knows what the future holds for the SCGA. What once was a bright light in SoCal golf is now dimming fast.

Played Pasa again today and it was an absolutely spectacular day on the course. Guys inside were cool, members were nice, and we were treated well. 6500 yds. from the tips but slope is 140. It should be 150. Greens were immaculate and punishing. Struck the ball well but really struggled on the greens. 1 four putt and 5 three putts killed me, but that's normal for Pasa. The sand was excellent, the fairways and rough were perfect, and I really enjoyed myself here, as I always do, have never been disappointed. Will return next month.

After playing here throughout the years, I've come to the conclusion that this is the best golf course I've ever played, and I've played Olympic, Riviera, Pebble, Spyglass, Bandon, Shadow Creek and El Rancho Verde. Sure Pebble/Spy get more pub down the coast but now that the Tom Doak restoration is complete, this course is an absolute crown jewel in California golf history. Toughest green complex's you'll ever play that demands a jeweler's touch and the ebb and flow to the course is unbelievable. Still very demanding and it doesn't suffer fools lightly. This course demands you pay attention, be razor sharp in thought and intellect, yet be mindful enough to know when to lay down and walk humbly between shots. Everything here is first class but very understated, clean and simple, the way it should be (take note Pelican Hill). The turf was brown in spots, but the heatwave will do this, however, the greens were fine and rolling very well. Everyone should play here at least once. It was a little ragged and beaten down 10-15 years ago but now, it's back to its rightful place as an icon in California golf history.

I love this place. Sure, it gets ripped alot on internet forums and bashed alot by "purists", but I absolutely love playing here. The elements will dictate your round, and that's why everytime I play here it feels like a completly different golf course. The course itself is in fantastic condition. Everything is green, lush and inviting. E-club helps on the pocketbook, but frankly I don't even care. Here, you have to strike the ball purely to control your ball in the wind and manuever yourself around the course. Fantastic way to spend 4 1/2 hours. Obviously the hotel is an eyesore, but hey, when seals are frolicking off the rocks to the left of the 17th green, its all good.

The schmoozing starts before you even play. Bag guys, pro shop people, guy in the locker room fawn all over your every need or want. The only thing missing are the 2 slaves on either side of the pro shop counter manually fanning you with big, oversize palm leaves. I expected the palm leaves for $235/round. Course was in good to excellent shape. Tees, fairways, rough, bunkers and greens were all very true and very uniform. Course is basically the same as before but the turf is much better. Practice facility is pretty nice as well. Food was above average and overall, playing with a deep marine blue ocean as your backdrop speckled with snow white sailboats and watching pelicans fly by, well, it ain't your typical day at the muni. I enjoyed the day immensely. Will play the other side to see the "changes" there next week.

Played today and really enjoyed the place. It's really a fun place to play, a unique style of play where it rewards "playing it along the ground". Typical stuff for a brand new golf course, tight lies, inconsistent greens, but the overall layout is impressive. You do need to play it about 2 or 3 times to get the feel of it. Lots of times, when standing on the tee, you don't really know on what line to hit it on, wish they had a yardage book or a picture of the layout on the back of the scorecard. The GPS is old-school, yardage only, no pics. For a links style layout, Rustic Canyon is miles better, but the Links at Summerly is going to be a big hit. It's gonna get a lot of play, as it challenges all kinds of handicaps. Dos Lagos should take note on how to open a golf course. The wind is this course's few defenses, as is the burn(water) areas that flow in and around a lot of the holes, as they are not readily seen from the tee or from the fairway when approaching the green. No real rough to speak of, but the challenge here really is to stay out of the fairway bunkers when tee'ing off. The greens have some swales and contours in them to make for some brutal future pin placements. Greens don't roll really quick right now, but in the future, these greens could be absolutely killer putting on them if they keep 'em fast. Pace of play wasn't very fast, I didn't expect it to be, as this course can be difficult to navigate at first. The range is fantastic, and people in the shop were very nice. One curious thing, they do have a walking rate, and they don't mind people walking but checking in, then walking out to the first tee is really a long ways, as is the walk from the 9th green to the 10th tee. Overall, enjoyed my day, and will definitely be back. 2 big thumbs up for The Links at Summerly..