Played here 10/20 with my girlfriend's father on a GolfNow Hot Deal for ~$75 on what was originally a 12:50PM tee time. ... » More

Played here 10/20 with my girlfriend's father on a GolfNow Hot Deal for ~$75 on what was originally a 12:50PM tee time. There was lots to unpack from this round which I will save for my ETC section. The review of the actual course is as follows:

Tee boxes: The weakest part of the course today and that's really not saying much as they were fairly playable, sans a couple of holes that were more then beat up. I imagine with this course being so short that the blue tee boxes get a massive amount of play and the latter tee times will always suffer. Outside of those that were mangled a bit, the rest had enough land to try and find good footing.

Fairways: Good shape. They were still green and had good coverage. I didn't find a single bad lie all day and the carts had a good amount of mix available so golfers must have been on it today. Roll was also more than fair since we played on a day where the sun baked the fairway turf quite a bit.

Rough: Pretty penal on certain holes. It was never Torrey length, but it had teeth. The natural landscape of the land certainly was more penal than the rough but you still had to be careful no to spray your drives.

Bunkers: Was in a handful today and they had enough sand (not pear white nor beach sand, something in between). People seemed to rake up and leave them in good shape, which would mean my bad sand play today was all on me.

Greens: The highlight of the round. They were green, fast, and had some tricky breaks to them. I distinctly remember the breaks on hole 8 really got me even when they didn't look at all complicated. A few ball marks left unrepaired by those ahead of us, but what can you do other than fix them.

ETC: Showed up to the course around 12:05PM and decided to skip the valet this time. This property (resort) really isn't set up for this so keep this in mind, as spots in the lot for non-valet are very limited. We also walked our clubs over to the golf shop as no carts stopped to offer us a ride, they seemed far more interested in shuttling employees (rightfully so) and other guests to/from. It's a haul if you aren't ready for it so also prepare for this. Once at the starter, around 12:20 he allowed us to tee off immediately, giving the impression the course was wide open, but this was far from true. In fact, the course was nothing but twosomes so I think the starter sent out anyone who showed up and said "go." Although the round was roughly 4.5 hours, it felt endless and we literally waited on every hole and nearly every shot. This made rhythm something hard to obtain. The cart attendant also never came around to our group. I'm not kidding when I say she looked over at us from the next hole and went around us! Layout is fun but also being so short, sets up for lots of holes with forced waits so be prepared for that. Overall, it is still a wonderful setting for golf and any price under $80 warrants a visit.
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Golfed the white tees alone, Monday 10/21, as there were still some empty slots allowing it. Weather was awesome.
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Golfed the white tees alone, Monday 10/21, as there were still some empty slots allowing it. Weather was awesome.
I left my driver and 3 wood in the truck, but kept the 22 deg hybrid in the bag. My Ginty was the only wood in the bag, and I used it only twice from the deep rough(no lie is safe from my Ginty). Every club in the bag, got exercise today ;-)

Tee boxes have new seeded grass coming in nicely, not cut today, about an inch high. This was present, and you were mindful of it, mostly on those par 3's, but it did not affect tee shots. Golfers are not repairing/filling their tee box divots, so I did it.

The fairways are doing good, especially for late October. However, golfers are not repairing their fairway divots! So I did all those near mine. Maybe golfing alone makes this more obvious? ;-)

The traps are better than a month ago, and play exactly the way they appear, barely acceptable. I successfully got out of and on, 3 out of 4 greens because they were in better shape. They are still denser than they should be, but they do give way,  more than an inch of depth if you need it. All appeared raked after watering.

Greens were in good shape and accepted all my decent attempts at them...they made me look like I know what I'm doing. That nasty trough, that was on the lower right quadrant of green #4 a month ago, is completely gone.

This course is continually improving and now more worthy of the $35 morning weekday rate. I used all my cart sand, and had to refill from the sand bin at the hole 16 tee box. Now we golfer's need to up our game...and look out for each other, by looking after the courses we play!

*found two nice sand wedges on green #1, suspected I would encounter the owners backtracking to find them...sure enough, they were re-united with their lost clubs by hole#3 :-) I have a long way to go, to pay it forward by re-uniting lost clubs to their owners...as it was done for me about a dozen times over all these years.
Cheers,
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Played 10-20-19 with a group of GKers. Took advantage of the pre opening deal. Course is almost ready but could use a co... » More

Played 10-20-19 with a group of GKers. Took advantage of the pre opening deal. Course is almost ready but could use a couple more weeks to fill in. Tee boxes were flat and nice. Bunkers were perfect. Greens were OK running a bit slower than what it will be later in the season. There were several spots in the fairways that hadn't grown in and should have been marked as ground under repair so no one played out of them but not the case. On cart scoring system was a huge frustration. Would take scores fine for a couple holes then we would have to go through a bunch of steps to get the scores to enter. We experienced a few other glitches. No starter and we didn't find out till the next day there was a closest to the pin competition and the simulator was closed when we got in. The staff went above and beyond to try and make up for some of the problems but kind of angry to know there were other contests going on.
Still love the course and will play again when the opportunity presents itself!
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Met some good friends and GKers at the course on Sunday 10/20 for the pre-opening. It was cart path only- which sounded ... » More

Met some good friends and GKers at the course on Sunday 10/20 for the pre-opening. It was cart path only- which sounded a lot easier than it was!! LOTS of walking. Fairways are for the most part looking pretty good. Tee boxes were level and lush. Greens were mostly in good shape and breaking at every little bump. Fun! Some of the greens were still recovering from some kind of virus or something. Sand was beautiful- and I wish I didn't know that! This is a beautiful course and one of our favorites so we forgive it some of the idiosyncrasies that come from being baked to death all summer! The staff was friendly, some still learning the ropes. The management screwed up big time- they offered free tacos on the course if you came and played cart path only for the pre-opening, and then the taco makers closed up and left around 1. Right before we got to the 14th. Since our tee time was 9:51 it wasn't like we were a late group. We were later than we'd like to have been because of the slow group in front of us (would have loved a marshal to tickle them up somewhere on the round). BUT, and this is what separates this great course from a good course, several different people went above and beyond to make this snafu up to us! From a free beer to Alex taking our orders and delivering our tacos to us on the 18th it all helped to get soothe our feelings. They'll get the kinks worked out and I sure wouldn't hesitate to play here again any chance I get. Worth the drive! (7 hour round trip for us!)
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Played Oaks to Creek today. Unexpected 18 @ TCI today. My bro invited me to a tournament at legends golf club. Yes I’ll ... » More

Played Oaks to Creek today. Unexpected 18 @ TCI today. My bro invited me to a tournament at legends golf club. Yes I’ll play! The person sending out the emails says it’s at legends golf club. We are at legends @ 10 am, no one around, no tourney here. Come to find out it’s at Bear Creek. AAAAAAHHHHH. SO we say F it. Let’s play TCI.
Oaks is completely healed from over seeding.
Lush flat tee boxes very few divots(less than 5) on any tee box. Very green lush wide open fairways! The greens are rolling true. Very few divots. (I always fix what ever I see). The greens are rolling at 12 I would guess. Shots held well, as long as they had spin.
Creek is still healing.
A couple of the tee boxes that are in the shade most of the day, still have thin teeing ground. The fairways are very nice. You can still run into some very damp areas. But all the ground under repair is marked. The greens on the creek side are still punched and a little sandy. They are healing nicely and should be more puttable by this weekend.
All of the bunkers have new sand. It needs to rain, so the sand can become more compact. Everything that lands in a bunker is gonna be a fried egg. Once the sand settles they will be awesome!
I did find out not all of the carts have GPS. But if you request it, they will find one for you.

Have fun and play more golf!
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Met an old friend out at Mile Square Classic for a 7:52 tee time, today 10/21. Cool morning but it warmed up nicely and... » More

Met an old friend out at Mile Square Classic for a 7:52 tee time, today 10/21. Cool morning but it warmed up nicely and really was a beautiful day. Not very crowded that early and followed a slow 4 some (that had no business teeing off from the blues) but it was fine as I got a chance to catch up with my friend. Sill finished in just under 4 hours.

Check in was easy enough but paid $54($54 seemed a bit steep for this course. $39 to walk and always do but we decided to ride). Wanted to inquire more about the announced closing of one the courses but the guys in the clubhouse were busy to talk with so no news to report there.

The course is in good condition. For the most part, good coverage in the fairways. Some bare spots where they were aerated but not many. Rough was that kikuyu stuff and wasn’t too thick. Bunkers were in nice shape. Good firm sand but c’mon Mile Square players, rake your bunkers after use. Hint: That’s why they leave a couple of rakes by each bunker. Many deep foot prints in all the ones I was in.

Greens were in pretty good shape after being aerated with little holes a couple of weeks. They just were not very fast. Not at all as fast as they looked. They should be rolling better in about a week or 2.

I always enjoy playing here even though I usually face freeway traffic to get out there for a morning round. Not the most challenging course but the layout is fun.
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Played the course back on Oct. 9th, a Wednesday. The good. Pace of play. Didn't think we'd finish after teeing off at 2p... » More

Played the course back on Oct. 9th, a Wednesday. The good. Pace of play. Didn't think we'd finish after teeing off at 2pm but we did. Fairways weren't too bare but barely. The bad. Greens were never great here. They are inconsistent, not smooth. Add the bumpiness and you're lucky if you make a putt. The bunkers were consistently NOT RAKED. The players here have NO SENSE OF GOLF ETIQUETTE. There were also NO carts available. Apparently no mechanic to fix the carts. It sounds like this course is just getting cheap. They don't want to spend the money to keep it nice. This course is so busy, I don't know why they don't just raise the price a bit and get more money to fix the carts, smooth the greens, get rid of bare spots, and have adequate sand in the bunkers. The range balls are also terrible. You know when you see white and yellow balls that they're too cheap to buy decent ones. Stay away from this course if you're a semi-serious golfer.
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Played Saturday Oct 19 in the afternoon. Had not played too often here the last year or so, but the course had improved ... » More

Played Saturday Oct 19 in the afternoon. Had not played too often here the last year or so, but the course had improved compared to a few years ago. However, this outing was very disappointing. The greens weren't too slow but some were very chewed up. Every putt started with a bounce. The fairways were also terrible. Shots in the middle of the fairway were penalized by dirt lies. This happened numerous times. The bunker sand was nice as usual, but this is a course to stay away from for now. I feel bad for the staff at Los Amigos because they are always so nice.
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Played Riverwalk 18 today using the coupon from GK, such a good deal at $35. Course was in overall good shape. Tee boxes... » More

Played Riverwalk 18 today using the coupon from GK, such a good deal at $35. Course was in overall good shape. Tee boxes were a little beat up but playable. Fairways were good for the most part, a lot of new sod but mostly playable. Wasn’t in the sand but my partner was and seemed to be good. Greens were good but a little bumpy. They have recovered from maintenance but need a good mow.

For the price it’s a good deal. Pace was under 4 hours and the course didn’t seem to busy.
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I always have a chuckle whenever I play here. Our foursome had a 6:37am tee time, but when I arrived at 5:40am, groups ... » More

I always have a chuckle whenever I play here. Our foursome had a 6:37am tee time, but when I arrived at 5:40am, groups were already teeing off. I mentioned to the guy in the pro shop how funny it is to see everyone teeing off in the dark, and he replied that "yeah they start teeing off at 6am" ( Are you not aware of what's going on?) Here is the crazy part; despite an unknown number of groups going out in the pitch black, we actually were called to the tee and teed off 12 minutes prior to our tee time ! (Of course it was still totally dark ) However even with all the people, we finished in less than four hours - not too bad considering.

Sadly the course is in the worse condition I have seen it. Greens were good, above average, rolled well but a bit slower than normal. Lots of bare areas in the fairways. Rough was inconsistent, as were the tee boxes. Bunkers were for the most part pretty good. Past experience here has never found a general "scruffiness" to the course. In fairness, it appears they are working on these areas, so let's hope this is a temporary condition ?
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Played there this morning 10/21/19. From the recent review I was expecting gloom and doom! To my surprise the course was... » More

Played there this morning 10/21/19. From the recent review I was expecting gloom and doom! To my surprise the course was in great shape, one tee box was just planted maybe a week ago but was level. One green, I think #9 had some dead patches on the green,otherwise the rest of the greens where flat and fast. Is this a tuff course, no arguement there it loves to eat balls that are not struck well. The bunkers are dirt, always have been and most likely will always be, the wind blows in this area and any sand just blows away. One of my favorite tracks. Fairways and ruff cut close just a few holes with a few bare spots.
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Played Fri 10/18, 8:50am. 4 hr rd. Course in decent, very playable shape. Greens running a quick 10. Course in better... » More

Played Fri 10/18, 8:50am. 4 hr rd. Course in decent, very playable shape. Greens running a quick 10. Course in better than average muni shape with some areas of struggle, but overall in good shape. Bunkers hit or miss. I usually enjoy myself here, and this day was no exception.
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