First trip to San Diego/Escondido area. Played The Vineyard at Escondido 9/5/19, 10:45 tee time. Thoroughly enjoyed the course. As a high handicapper, I'm usually taking in the surroundings when playing a course away from home. The views here were very nice, peaceful. A bit of construction on the course #8 is shortened to a par 3 while the fairway is being re-sodded. Both #9 and #11 have portions of the fairways roped off from recent repair. Dumped two in the pond on par 3, #12 being distracted by the homes on the hill. We were in our fair share of bunkers, but each was playable with adequate sand. The staff were all great, and the starter was very helpful. We were only a twosome, and the PoP was exactly at 3.5 hrs. We caught the crowd on #7, and it was pretty slow from there. The rough was more punitive than what we're used too, but we managed to find "most" of our wayward tee balls. The greens rolled pretty true, medium speed. My one and only complaint is not with the course, but with the BALLMARKS NOT BEING REPAIRED! We spent time repairing marks on nearly every green. Not sure how to improve that situation. The weather was great, only 93* for the high. But I did have a laugh when I heard a local complaining about the heat. When I told him I had to wait for the temps to drop to 105* so I could go out a couple weeks ago, he reconsidered his complaints....all things are relative I guess. The drive from SD wasn't too bad, but I need to know who to talk to about interstate traffic around here....hahahahaha. We'll definitely be back.