Played this AM prior to aeration. Course has dried very well since all the rain. Unfortunately more is on the way. Tee boxes fine. Fairways a little firmer and decent roll out. Greens were playing much faster today. With the sun out one can really appreciate the setting of this course in and around the hills of Fairfield. Restaurant serves some great food at really reasonable prices. Truly a great place to play golf.

Another great greens keeper event today! Lucky to get added late…

First time playing here, and all I knew going in was it is a pure golf club. No extra country club amenities. That should have been my warning sign it was going to be a fun but challenging course. Every tee shot comes with risk and reward, and unfortunately for me not having any local knowledge meant even good drives usually meant tough approaches. Not a lot of flat lies to be found. Greens all fast and pure minus the 8th, which it looked like they were having challenges with (patcy). Greens also all protected by bunkers with a lot of them having big lips and steep slopes. Fairways all green, with either the grass growing in for the season or another issue having each fairway full of random spots of thicker grass (impacted a few of my lies, but nothing major). Bunker sand harder on fairway bunkers but nice and soft around the greens. Tee boxes were nearly perfect—level and fully grasses minus the divots from today. Also nice they kept the snack bar open for us a little longer to be able to restock and get some food when passing by clubhouse on our shotgun start.

Got there early to make sure I could get a bay on the range with no rush—-nice range with mats and a grass area in front to tee up drives without worrying about the person next to you. Two putting greens made sure there was never any crowding to warm up putting.

Rode the blues this morning in group 1b with buddies Ron, John and Mark under perfect weather conditions 75 degrees and hardly any wind. 127 player Golfmoose/Vivid event had POP at 5 hours 20 minutes but it didn't seem to bad.

Greens were terrific pure glass, quick maybe a 12 on the stimp. Firm on approaches but still receptive. Giving the greens a 10/10 rating.

Fairways nicely padded with tighter lies and very green. Lots of rain last couple weeks and staff do a great job. Rated 8/10

I thought the rough was in very good shape. Long, lush and thick. Beautiful greenside rough in the 9/10 range.

Tees were level and in good shape. Rated 8/10

Was in 4 greenside bunkers that varied from thinner sand on the front that was adequate and beautiful thicker sand on the back. Rated 7/10

This is the best back nine in Ventura County. Terrific golf course that is both fun and very challenging at the same time. Highly recommended!

A quick review of El Dorado a few days after taking on a couple inches of rain and the results are in: no good! It was cart path only but didn't matter to me since I walk, but I would wager the people in the carts got more steps in than I did. CPO was brutal on POP; teed off at 12:30 and finished right around 5:40 with a sliver of light still. Lots of waiting on tee boxes and watching people park and walk 100 yards from path to their shot and then walk back to their cart. It was a beautiful day at least.

As for course conditions: woof. Almost every fairway had numerous small ponds, and if there wasn't standing water the turf was extremely soggy. Feels like it's gonna take some time for things to dry out. But even looking past that, there were still lots of areas in fairways that look like they need to work on. I will say the greens and tee boxes were in pretty good shape. Was in one trap and it had good sand. Rough was pretty short and playable.

Don't get to play this one very often so I was disappointed in the conditions but hopefully I get a chance to play once conditions improve

First out on another cold morning. Still cart path only, which was a bit surprising, but better to err on the side of caution. The course is in really nice shape right now, and since they have brought the green speeds down a touch, much more manageable. For a while it was borderline unfair at times, if you were above the cup or short sided yourself. With the rains, not a lot of roll out in the fairways, which I rely on. Better weather expected, so I'm confident things will change.

Have not played here since the mid 90's soon after it opened. I have always enjoyed playing Robert Muir Graves designs and this was IMO one of his better public courses.

Found the course to be in great shape and better than I remember it but that goes w/o saying as it is now over 40 years old. And many will say things get better with age. This one did.

The recent rains have the course nice and lush and the bent grass greens and winter rye fairways are really in great shape.

I took a cart today but I can see that the course is very walkable. I will give that a try here soon.

Found the tee boxes to be very good. Fairways had some firmness and some roll even after the rain and provided good lies as well.

Lots of sand traps. My playing partners said there about 50 on the course. The few I found were playable.

A few water hazards are on the course and again I had local players in our group who were kind enough to point them out before teeing off. So no lost balls.

Greens are large but played excellent and found no issues with chipping, putting. And they were well maintained.

Great customer service from pro shop and nice driving range and short game practice area. Also custom fitting and repair services onsite. Its obvious management takes great pride in keeping the place up.

Did not eat in the restaurant as the course was crowded but looked great as well as the bar area.

Very nice course in addition to Rancho Solano and Cypress Lakes my golfing itch will be well taken care of.

VERY late review. An unusual round (for me) away from Laguna Woods GC at my first GM/Vivid outing at El Camino CC in Oceanside on 2/9/26. Paired with Ryan, Scott, and Mike and a better group could not be had – I think we all enjoyed the round in spite of a well-distributed array of poor shots and missed putts.

El Camino has a fairly similar group of holes that play mainly up and down the hillsides and canyons surrounding the course. Many holes are straight and flanked on one or both side with OB stakes to discourage hitting into the surrounding homes. Most greens are perched up above the surrounds without a lot of tiering; only a few holes have distinct tiers. Occasional fairway traps, with most greens being well-trapped, and some traps set well below green level. Fairways had good coverage and the ball sat nicely. Rough was short and pretty benign. Tees were level and provided good hitting surfaces.

None of the holes stood out for me as memorable, or tricked up for that matter. Everything is right there in front of you. My main concern is the firmness of the greens and the speeds which the club maintains. I’m an advocate of players being offered a chance to make most putts – the speeds on these greens, especially downhill, were pretty silly. A tapped putt above the hole rolled out 15 or 20 feet. For me, that’s not fun. It’s beyond challenging, just discouraging.

A couple of very late reviews. Played 9 holes (Course 1) with GKers Itslikeimsayin and TomHooter on 1/30/26, then tried to play 18 holes (Course 1/Course 3) with GKer lkmckin on 2/5/26. Tee times are hard to come here by if you don’t jump on them immediately (available 7 days in advance), so in both rounds we got later start times and limited light. The round on 2/5 was scheduled for 1:30 pm, but the tee sheet was running late and we were behind a deliberate foursome; we finally jumped ahead of them by skipping holes 2&3 on Course 3, then raced to finish 15 holes before the cart return deadline. Thanks to Mark, Tom, and Lindsay for joining me for these rounds.

Conditions continue to be pretty solid as we go through a mild, damp winter. Greens coverage is good with a few scattered bare spots. Green speeds are usually pretty constant through the round; uphill putts need to be struck solidly and downhill putts, especially to the SW, can surprise with rollout. Greenside bunkers usually have adequate sand, a firm base and adequate playing layer. Fairway coverages are good; rough can be cut low and playable or deeper/bushy/juicy and be difficult to effectively move the ball forward. Tees are generally flat, set wide, and provide a good hitting surface. Some show a lot of divot damage. As with most courses, many players fail to fill divots and repair ballmarks on greens.

Since Weber reviewed the South today, I will comment on the North course.

North is higher elevation than South and all the water drains towards the South. 43 degrees at tee off. Surprising the North fairways were reasonably dry. A few mud balls here and there. CPO today. Greens were soft but retained all their speed. Holes were place in high spots which created some absurd putts if slightly past pin high. Sand was perfect today. The maintenance crew has really dialed itself in over the past month. Drainage improvements made in the last year have limited the amount of downtime to prepare the golf course for play.

Went out this AM to play temp said 32F yikes. Went to the course and of course they had a frost delay. Had cup of coffee and breakfast sandwich (wow a whole 5 bucks no tax) and came home. Went back out after Noon and it was a balmy 48 F but acceptable.

Walked 9 holes as only the back 9 was open due to some areas on the front still needing water draining and repair from the storm.

Back 9 was clean and playable with no issues. I like this little track a lot. Keep it in the fairway and all is good.

Boxes, fairways and greens all playable with no issues. I will go back and play 18 on Sunday morning as the weather is expected to be much nicer by then.

As excepted, it was and will continue to be cart path only for a while. Other than a brief shower on a few holes, conditions weren't all that unpleasant. Course has handled the rain very well. no issues at all. Greens still had good speed and rolled well and were very receptive. Despite the amount of rain, all the bunkers were excellent. However, looking forward to warmer/drier conditions.

I finally got my clubs out here so I wanted to play a “nice” course. I’ve been cycling around Key Biscayne a bit and have passed by Crandon Golf course, so I chose this as my first stop here in the Miami area. I played on Tuesday with a 10AM tee time. Chandon Golf sits in the middle of Key Biscayne island so I was expecting great things as this is a nice area just over the bridge from downtown Miami. The price point also suggested that I was in for a treat. Whereas the course layout was very nice with numerous water hazards and forced carries throughout the entire course, the conditions were a let down.

The greens themselves were large with moderate undulations. Basically what you would expect on a resort course. They didn’t look very pretty, but actually rolled ok. Fairly smooth at a medium pace was not desirable but acceptable. Fairways were the big letdown. Brown and bare spots throughout the entire course. What wasn’t bare was generally patchy. Fairways were generously wide and offered good roll out. If you don’t mind a little foot nudge to give yourself a good lie then all is well. If you play the ball down then it’s a frustrating day for sure.

Tee boxes were ok. Definitely level and most were divot free or at least had plenty of area you could find good footing and area to tee it up. Bunkers were really nice. They matched the price point. The sand traps were consistent throughout the entire course and between the four of us, we were in probably a total 30 bunkers so we had a good sampling of the bunkers. It was one of those days!

Carts had GPS to the flag and cart service came around a couple of times. Overall customer service was ok. Nothing to brag about, but nothing to complain about either.

The course had easily 15+ water hazards plus a few views of the Miami skyline. A big plus on that. I do think give the location of this course right on the edge of the water, they could have done a better job with views of the bay but overall, not bad. Given the location and course layout, I’m sure I’ll play here again at some point but not sure it’ll be anytime soon given the current conditions. I would just like it to be a little better for the cost.