Played this AM. The fairways were damp so lies were good (not on all fairways) so little to no roll out.

Tee boxes were all playable and traps have new sand (not all yet) and they are very playabl... Continue »

Played this AM. The fairways were damp so lies were good (not on all fairways) so little to no roll out.

Tee boxes were all playable and traps have new sand (not all yet) and they are very playable. But I would be remiss not mentioning no one rakes, nor cares or does not know how to rake a bunker. After all these years of playing the only think I can come up with is that players today are just lazy.

Greens are getting better and firming up and getting faster. I was told that they are going to remove the bent grass greens that have been there since the 80's and seed them with poa annua but no time schedule was given.

I would not say the course is in as good as shape at present as I have seen it over the years. So I certainly hope we will see improvement over the coming months.

As always excellent customer service from every employee who I came in contact with.

Restaurant still open only W through Sun.

Played today. Course was a little drier than I expected. Unfortunately we are having rain again. Tee boxes were playable. The new sand in the bunkers withstood the rain well. But players are not rakin... Continue »

Played today. Course was a little drier than I expected. Unfortunately we are having rain again. Tee boxes were playable. The new sand in the bunkers withstood the rain well. But players are not raking them sad to say. Fairways damp of course and mud on balls expected so not very good lies. But I was impressed with the greens. Even with the rain they still had some firmness which they did not have last week. But they still putted slow. The usual great service in the shop. And restaurant was open serving good food and great prices.

Played today before the rains come. Course is really not shaping up very quickly. In fact they were laying sand in the fairways today which seemed odd given the rain that is expected? And fairways l... Continue »

Played today before the rains come. Course is really not shaping up very quickly. In fact they were laying sand in the fairways today which seemed odd given the rain that is expected? And fairways looked punched and that seems strange as they just did them last month. Pehaps the soil here is not that good and it needs a lot more TLC before we see improved conditions? So with poor fairways we still have less than improved greens. They are not mowing them close and thus you get slowww greens all 18. And this was a course that always had good firm fast greens in the past. Tee boxes were all playable. They have not finished re sanding all the bunkers but the ones they have done are very nice and very playable in comparison to the old ones. Still good customer service but better course conditions would be even better. Hopefully my trip to CO Thanksgiving week will allow me some golf on some better courses.

Played today and after 1 week very little improvement is apparent in course conditions. Fairways are not mowed and very wet conditions on many of them prevail. They are not even drying out in many a... Continue »

Played today and after 1 week very little improvement is apparent in course conditions. Fairways are not mowed and very wet conditions on many of them prevail. They are not even drying out in many areas. The middle of # 18 is a muddy mess. Nice new sand in almost all the traps now. Very playable. But no one still rakes the traps. Unbelievable. Greens need mowing and rolling. They are the slowest I have ever seen them. Tee boxes are also in need of mowing and at least you can get a tee in the ground. For a course that is under the control of Troon I really don't understand why conditions are so lacking in improvement after all the aertion they did last month. Pace of play is pathetic unless you are one of the first 3 to 4 groups out in the AM.

From last week to this week not a lot of changes in the course.

Greens have dried out but still seem soft and very slow at present.

Tee boxes IMO did not come out of aeration very well. And th... Continue »

From last week to this week not a lot of changes in the course.

Greens have dried out but still seem soft and very slow at present.

Tee boxes IMO did not come out of aeration very well. And they are all very wet. So from one source I heard that they are watering the place too much?

Fairways need cutting badly but they also are very wet and provide no roll and not very good lies.

But the new white sand in the bunkers (and they are not done with all of them) is fantastic. 110% improvement over the way they were before.

Always great customer service from Madison and Christian in the shop. And Rich who runs the cart portion of the course is just terrific.

Hopefully sunny weather, warm days will allow the maintenance crew to get a handle on things and bring the course around to better playing conditions.

Played this AM. All tee boxes now open. Greens healed. Nice white sand in front 9 bunkers. Still some back 9 holes not done yet. Other than damp fairways that need mowing the place looks good. Excelle... Continue »

Played this AM. All tee boxes now open. Greens healed. Nice white sand in front 9 bunkers. Still some back 9 holes not done yet. Other than damp fairways that need mowing the place looks good. Excellent customer service from Mateo and Christian in the shop. With some mowing and dry temps course should dry out and firm up over the coming weeks.

Went to play today. Lasted 3 holes. I knew the greens had been aerated but I was not expecting what else I found.

1. Fairways have not been mowed and look and play awful. And there was no mowing b... Continue »

Went to play today. Lasted 3 holes. I knew the greens had been aerated but I was not expecting what else I found.

1. Fairways have not been mowed and look and play awful. And there was no mowing being done today.

2. Sand traps are being worked and they have numerous temporary greens and no information on how long this will last. And its not minor work but a total overhaul of each trap.

3. On Oct 6 ALL tee boxes will be aerated and tees moved up 30 to 40 yards. And they are stating that the tees will not open for one month.

4. They are charging normal green fees during all this work as well. No discounts.

Combine bad fairways, trap overhaul, sanded greens, and closing of tees for 1 month for aeration. That in my mind does not make for an enjoyable round of golf.

Personally I don't think its worth the $$ to play here for the present.

Played two rounds here over the weekend and to echo previous reviews, conditions here are suboptimal. Hitting from the fairway is like hitting out of the first cut if you're lucky, and thick rough if ... Continue »

Played two rounds here over the weekend and to echo previous reviews, conditions here are suboptimal. Hitting from the fairway is like hitting out of the first cut if you're lucky, and thick rough if you're not. Easy to lose a ball in these conditions with the fairways overgrown and overwatered with absolutely no roll out.

The rough is extremely overgrown as well, which is actually kind of cool and presents a good challenge for such a short course. Wouldn't mind it staying this juicy to be honest, but it does make finding your ball hard. Pace of play both days was around 5 hours which is brutal for such a short course.

Thankfully the greens are being aerated today and tomorrow (9/22-23) so hopefully they'll be good again in a few weeks, because they were in pretty poor shape. Tons of unfixed pitch marks along with crabgrass growing in made for a very bumpy putting surface.

I wasn't in any bunkers so can't speak on them, but I did hear that they're going to be renovating a number of bunkers soon by adding in new liners/drainage as well as fresh sand, so that's something to look forward to.

For now give I'm going to take Alhambra out of the rotation for at least a few weeks while they work to get conditions back to their normal levels

Played today. Sad to say course is getting worse than better. Totally over watered and carts are danaging the turf. Greens potmarked with divots and poorly repaired divots. Many areas of grass needs m... Continue »

Played today. Sad to say course is getting worse than better. Totally over watered and carts are danaging the turf. Greens potmarked with divots and poorly repaired divots. Many areas of grass needs mowing and you will loose balls if you land there. At this point its not worth the $$ to play here in IMO. And play is atrociously slow due to these conditions. Only hope is cooler weather comes soon.