Monday 1/13 at The Saticoy Club was our 58th Private Course Outing since I started these events in Southern California in 2021. For The Saticoy Club, it was their 9th time hosting our group and we can’t appreciate them enough. It’s a spectacular, challenging, beautiful LPGA Tour golf course. The event service, facilities and food are excellent. Every year we pick a special cour... » More

Monday 1/13 at The Saticoy Club was our 58th Private Course Outing since I started these events in Southern California in 2021. For The Saticoy Club, it was their 9th time hosting our group and we can’t appreciate them enough. It’s a spectacular, challenging, beautiful LPGA Tour golf course. The event service, facilities and food are excellent. Every year we pick a special course to host our Day After The Masters Event, this year, as in previous years, it will be at The Saticoy Club.

Conditions on Monday were superb given our current 6+ months drought and November’s “Mountain Fire” that burned right up to edge of the course. Greens were fast and smooth. Fairways provided full dormant bermunda grass coverage. The lies were a little tight but consistent with good roll out. The primary rough had full coverage, mostly dormant but still challenging. Tee boxes were in great shape, we played the blue tees, lush, tight, some divot damage so not pristine, but solid.

We’ve played the Saticoy Club mostly on perfect weather days, once in the fog, some windy days but never with 20 to 40 mph winds. Once out on the course, I was happy to find many holes on the course protected by hillsides and large trees from the strong winds.

I highly recommend playing or joining this “players” club. Try not to ever miss an opportunity to experience an invite or event here. Check out the photos I posted.

Awesome time teeing it up with GKers rgm2525, mark_6m and GDR23. Thanks everyone that came and comes out to these events. You can find more information about these events on the GK Events page. Top right corner link.
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Made a mini-road trip to join Alex326 here Wednesday just before noon. Paired with Bill wearing a spyglass cap and then joining Mike a single both local frequent players to complete the 4-some on the 5th hole.
Perfect weather mostly sunny light breeze low 60's.
Used the large putting green to get the roll down. A quick but fair pace given the undulations a Johnny Mil... » More

Made a mini-road trip to join Alex326 here Wednesday just before noon. Paired with Bill wearing a spyglass cap and then joining Mike a single both local frequent players to complete the 4-some on the 5th hole.
Perfect weather mostly sunny light breeze low 60's.
Used the large putting green to get the roll down. A quick but fair pace given the undulations a Johnny Miller course is known for I thought. The starter got us off on time 1st tee nearby and adjacent to parking lot. Dog leg left to a downhill landing area the fairway and rough defined nicely.
Ample tee boxes some a touch shabby and most not perfectly level. The course through the green was clean as my shoes had little to no debris on them when finished.
My ball flight offered some fairway roll where as Alex was stuck in soft spots with little roll many times. The areas off the fairways has been cleaned up over the years the locals explained, making the course much more playable and mis-hits could and did bounce back into rough or the cart path curb a few times.
The wild coyote bush areas have been tamed but still many areas to lose balls and some forced carries. Fun course testing all skills. Out of position punishment to stay within yourself and the hole design and escape with bogey. Subtle breaks on large greens.
The greens are 30 +/- yard size on average with three distinct pin possibilities (#3 today) Size and variety that the everyday player has a new look and wouldn't tire of.
The 16th par 4 green is a whopping 75 yards said to be the biggest around.
All were smooth at medium speed. The highlight of the course. Cut tight and rolled yikes could be scary fast.
Recommend because more than once is for sure required to score your best and it was perfect weather and golfing company fun!
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Played Ocean Course on 12/14/2024. Course undergoing a number of changes - temporary parking lot was a long way from small clubhouse near 1st tee and range - minimal services available. Course was in very good shape except for a couple of par 3 teeing areas (which unfortunately were on signature holes 5 and 14). The course played quite long from the white tees (6600+ yards) a... » More

Played Ocean Course on 12/14/2024. Course undergoing a number of changes - temporary parking lot was a long way from small clubhouse near 1st tee and range - minimal services available. Course was in very good shape except for a couple of par 3 teeing areas (which unfortunately were on signature holes 5 and 14). The course played quite long from the white tees (6600+ yards) and as a senior player found myself hitting a lot of hybrids to a good number of greens in what seemed to be mild wind conditions (by Hawaii standards). Overall felt that the $315 was a bit expensive for a course without a proper restaurant and a complicated parking situation even with the pair of spectacular oceanfront holes 14 and 16
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Play with my buddies on beautiful morning with 10-15 mph winds. Overseeded fairways are beautiful that enables us to play the ball down as that had been an issue last month. Greens are firm and fast, but you need to control your spin due to some false fronts. Too many unrepaired ball marks as some members are lazy and don't like to bend over much or walk three extra steps to t... » More

Play with my buddies on beautiful morning with 10-15 mph winds. Overseeded fairways are beautiful that enables us to play the ball down as that had been an issue last month. Greens are firm and fast, but you need to control your spin due to some false fronts. Too many unrepaired ball marks as some members are lazy and don't like to bend over much or walk three extra steps to their mark. Bunkers have new sand, almost too much at this point but I expect maintenance to spread it around more evenly during the next few weeks. Lucky if members rake bunkers properly. They almost expect someone to magically appear and do it for them. Tee boxes are level are green. The par 3 boxes have lots of divots in certain areas mainly due to not moving them more frequently. Rough is very knarly, dormant bermuda grass that makes it near impossible to get clean contact. The fairway lines on #6 and #9 have been shifted up near the green which helps out sightlines.
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Played Spanish Bay a couple of times in the last week or so. First joining DeepSea14 and my buddy from the Valley in what turned out to be the only 4 hours of fog in the peninsula in a 2 week stretch. Today was just the opposite, SDF, Bob and I were the first off at 8AM in chilly but bright sunny skies. Both times the course was pretty empty.

Last week the gre... » More

Played Spanish Bay a couple of times in the last week or so. First joining DeepSea14 and my buddy from the Valley in what turned out to be the only 4 hours of fog in the peninsula in a 2 week stretch. Today was just the opposite, SDF, Bob and I were the first off at 8AM in chilly but bright sunny skies. Both times the course was pretty empty.

Last week the greens were slow. My guess is they hadn’t been mowed in a couple of days due to prior rains. Today they were back to normal medium fast pace. Greens roll smooth and has mentioned before they have severe undulations to them. Fairways are now starting to dry out to offer some roll. Even before, the fairways presented a fine hitting surface, just the ball would often plug upon impact. Not a problem today. Sand traps. Were hit and miss. Some were very thin and others offered plenty of fluffy sand. Rough is a bit penal and patchy in places. Tee boxes were excellent.

Course is very green and lush and always a joy to play. If this weather keeps up, I might just have to sneak back out before the PGA circus comes to town.
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