9 holes Thursday with breezy cool mostly sunny spring conditions. CPO fyi but I always walk.
only $9 the green aeration in progress, greens closed. Playing to hardly discernible temporary with a flag and cup well short.
Not worth a review but now you know. Give it 21 days if you want 100% putting
From the top$$$$ to the bottom $ it's just golf, and that's fun.
Upfront with the work and green fees a bargain. Better exercise than range work.

Course is only in ok shape for this time of year, good fairway coverage and greens are still good. Just not as good a shape for this time of year in desert. Course is for sale again we were told and for a Thursday there was very few players on the course.

Played 4/16 at 11:30am. 5 hr POP.

Course was in overall pretty good shape. Tee boxes and fairways were great to hit from. Greens still a bit scarred from aeration but were rolling pretty quickly with some slight bobbles from the punching. Played much better than they looked. Bunkers were a bit inconsistent. Very thin in some and fairly fluffy in others. Rough wasn't too long and was healthy, with some dead/dirt spots around.

Shout out to my playing partners, Tim, Vic, and Beth who were a blast to play with.

Played last evening for a twilight round. POP was great at 3.5H. Course is in great shape in all areas at the moment.

Nice clean level tee boxes.

Clean fairways providing good lies and great roll out.

Traps all playable though others still don't wish to rake them. Maybe we should install cameras like at stop signs. No raking gets you a fine when you finish.

Greens are wonderful. Getting better at finding landing areas to emliminate LONG putts as well as 3 putts. But they chip/putt great on every hole.

Rough is plentiful on this course and will take its toll if you are in it to often.

Great service in the pro shop, carts, marshals and the grill.

A real wonderful golf course to be so close to and reasonably priced as well.

Played Wednesday, April 15, around 7:00 am, walking from the blue tees. There were several openings for singles when I checked the website on Monday afternoon. Come to find out the reason was there was no back nine play, they were sending early 18-hole golfers off 1 and 10 because of a shotgun start for an outing later in the day. My group of four walkers finished in 4 hours. The range was not open when we started, it opens later on Wednesdays.

The course is really lush right now. Fairways are great and the rough is thick. There were areas of a second cut that were really punitive. Very thick kikuyu grass. The highlight was the greens. Fully healed from aeration, they were deceptively quick. Some tough downhill putts. The lowlight was the sand traps. They should be GUR until they can put some sand in them. I got out of the front right trap on #9 but there was no way to hold the green on the shot. The front left bunker on #17 was marginally better although I was in a low spot of what had recently been mud. The fairway bunker I was in on #16 was like hitting off the cart path.

The lush conditions and nice greens more than made up for the sad bunkers. Recommended.

The Saticoy Club is the closest course that resembles Augusta National here in Southern California. Golf greats in the past such as Fred Couples would use The Saticoy Club as a tune-up weeks prior to playing in the Masters. So its an honor to have our annual “Day After The Masters” event at this spectacular private course.

Monday featured, as always, an immaculate conditioned golf course, outstanding service and beautiful coastal weather with views of the ocean. The Saticoy Club is a special place for any golfer and a must play. It’s 1 on my list to join someday and it’s the #1 course in our Vivid Golf / Golf Moose/ Greenskeeper.org Private Course Events.

Thank you everyone that came to Monday’s event and others I’ve organized. Thank you to our Ventura County GK event staff of rgm2525, mark_6m and GDR23 that helps me make these event days so special.

Check out the photos I just posted and GDR23’s excellent review detailing the playing experience below mine :)

Played Sunday, April 12, around 7:00 am, walking from the blue tees. Cudos to the group in front of us, finished in 3.5 hours, rarely waiting after the third hole. Rained most of the front nine, at times hard, but cleared up for a beautiful day.

I knew before I went but the guy that made the tee time did not. They had aerated last Monday and Tuesday and the sand, especially on the front nine, was heavy. There was a temporary green on #14 on the left side. It was shaggy and very soft but still better than the aerated greens. They were using the right green on the par 3 16th. It was not aerated but it also was soft and shaggy. Weird considering it is a regular green. The greens were glacially slow on the front but much better on the back. Probably aerated them first and the rain compacted down the sand.

The rest of the course was in nice shape. It drained surprisingly well. I'll be back, hopefully after the greens have healed.

Great times out at the "Coy" today with buddies John, Ron and Mark riding the blues in 4 hrs 55 minutes as a part of the Vivid/Golfmoose event in group 1b. Weather started out calm and the breeze picked up to 2 clubs pretty much after hole 4. Beautiful day with clear skies and temps in the mid 60s.

The conditions here would continue to even impress tour pros.

Fast undulating green complexes where the stimp was maybe an 11. Most all shots held if struck with compression and spin. Hardly any ballmarks and a true fast pure roll was encountered. Rated 8.5/10

Fairways were in beautiful shape with great lies in addition to rollout if you stripe a lower trajectory drive. Rated 9/10.

I thought the rough was close to a 10/10 in that is was super lush even though just off the fairways it looked manageable. Very uniform in nature cut at the perfect challenging length

Parkland style layout with some elevation changes, doglegs, undulating green complexes, very nice strategic greenside and fairway bunkering, scoring holes in the par 5s and a couple strong par 3 holes in #4 and #10.

Never miss an opportunity to play the Saticoy Club if you have the chance to!

They are aerifying with small holes starting tomorrow which they should. The greens are in great shape and not crusty. The fairways are wonderful. The bunkers, likewise. I have always enjoyed this course(s). So sad the Players course closed several years ago.:(

The following was inspired by 4in1game's review: This is based on my experience with the atmosphere or vibe I always get here since the 1980's. Management wants to nickel and dime you every chance they get. There is nothing wrong with making money. It is our capitalist system, although not perfect, which has allowed for the great accumulation of prosperity and wealth in our society we so greatly benefit from. Luxuries such as golf become attainable even for one with relatively modest means like me. However, when a business has petty policies with the aim of "making money', the customer notices it and is at best indifferent, and at worst finds it repulsive and never patrons the business again. I think I am 70% indifferent and 30% repulsed. Such is the aura at this course since the 1980's. A good example is the ridiculousness of charging a fee to use a chipping/bunker postage stamp sized green. Hardly any other course does this. Or they didn't even have a replay rate when the course was 36 holes. Even 10 bucks off would have been nice. I get the feeling this is not a pleasant place to work at. I bet the employees are micromanaged. There are no or very few smiles by those in the pro shop. I suspect that management takes a very large chunk of the teaching pros lesson fees. What management needs to realize is how you treat your employees will reflect on how that employee relates to the customer. Recognize an employee as merely a pair of hands and you get bland service. Fortunately for management at Mile Square there are not a whole lot of competitors out there. If there where more golf courses, and more facilities with excellent, non-robotic employees who were engaging with the golfers, a great drift from Mile Square to other courses would be inevitable. Thanks for reading my "2 cents, or nickel and dime"

From 3/29

Finally made it to Reflection Bay!


Enjoyed a great day of Golf on a Sunny Sunday. RB is a fun / challenging Desert Player’s Course that is a Jack composite course set in in the LV Desert. at Lake LV. I can tell you that many of featured holes are incredible with great views of Lake LV.

RB is a very well-designed course that places premium on accuracy off the tee and into greens. The course features clear definition between its mid-sized undulating fairways and rough areas, well placed bunkering on fairways and proximate to greens, along with strategic water hazards on a few holes, and with fast and firm greens. The course is another great Jack design. I absolutey loved it!


The course is primarily flat but features lots of undulations, along with some attractive views of Lake LV and localized mountains. The course plays like a Championship Style Desert layout. The course seemed to play it's yardage. The course was in very good condition overall. The course layout is rated a 5 out of 5, conditions are rated a 4.48 out of 5. I note the following:


Tee Boxes: Level and lush, no damage. Condition was very nice.


Fairways: Green at times tight. Condition was very nice.


Greens: Fast in speed and very firm, got to play them links style as they were too firm. No damage observed. Speed about a 11. Condition was very nice.


Sand: Well maintained and firm. Condition was very nice.


Rough: rough was well defined from the fairway and green collars but not too overgrown, about 2 – 3 inches. Grabby at times. Condition was very nice.


Waste Areas: - Waste areas on various holes did not offer the opportunity of recovery due to their overgrown nature. Condition was very nice.


Driving Range: Not existent - warm up nets only. This was very weak sauce! Warmed up at a diving range elsewhere prior.


Practice Putting Greens: Practice putting greens are ample and very well maintained. Seemed consistent with the speed of the course greens on this day. Condition was very nice.


POP: 4.26 hours – no wait was encountered.

RB features a beautiful restaurant with very good food, along with a very well stocked high-end pro shop. The customer service received at this facility was perfect. I can't voice how great they were here.

This is a top-level golf experience! A+ all the way. Strongly endorsed...

Ventured out for a rare away game with an invitation from a high school buddy to join him at SJH at 130pm on Monday, 4/6/26. It was a sunny, breezy day with a steady SW wind of 10-15 mph. We went out on time as a twosome bracketed by foursomes.

Conditions were standard SJH – tight fairways with good coverage and mostly good lies, benign rough, flat tee boxes with not too much divot damage. I wasn’t in any sand but no complaints from my playing partner. Greens were fairly firm and turf depth was thin, with ballmarks (many on all greens) exposing a damp, fine-grained muddy soil beneath. Greens rolled well at medium-fast speed – many greens had substantial breaks right around the hole. Speeds were consistent across the course. Over the past few years several of the greens have been rebuilt/relocated, holes abandoned to development or flooding and rebuilt elsewhere. The triangle of holes at the far point of the back nine (holes 13-15) are some of the newer holes and have the best turfgrass of any part of the course.

Driving range is across a busy street, reachable by car but make time allowances for the logistics. Small snack shop at the turn was out of many menu items by the time we came through. We saw the cart girl a couple times on the front and back. We didn’t push the group ahead and weren’t pushed by those behind us, finishing the round in just over 5 hours.

Clubhouse restaurant area was very busy and this appears to be quite a local social hub. They remodeled the old clubhouse several years ago with more emphasis on community appeal and local event venues.

The kikuyu is not my favorite, but today it was cut fairly tight and very playable.

If only there was a website where one could find out in advance that golf courses had punched their greens! Yeah, I was that guy. I was so shocked to find a great 11am tee time the next day for me and my buddy, I simply took it right away and never checked GK. Duh.

The greens are heavily sanded right now but much worse on the front nine. I assume they did the back nine first and the wind took some of the sand off of those holes, but I'm just guessing. It was of course not great, but I managed to adjust properly (as one must) and ended with a nice 30 putts with no three-jacks.

The fairways have good spots but I would say a greater majority (but not by much) is decent coverage but a bit thin for most's liking. It's completely playable for sure, but there was a lot of picking going on. Rough where there was grass was nice and thick, but some areas off-fairway were very dry and lots of hardpan if you're off on your shots.

Tee boxes were just okay but serviceable, while the bunkers had enough sand to be pretty good, but another layer wouldn't hurt right now. Overall things are good but shy of great. It's still a fun round and a decently engaging layout with just a few 'meh' holes (like hole 10).

POP was unbelievable - my buddy and I got paired with an older gentleman with limited movement, so he took a while with every shot, but we never waited once on a single hole, nor were we ever pushed from behind. Finished the round in 3:45 which was absolutely stunning (especially after a six-hour round last Saturday at The Friends).

Hansen remains a very serviceable round right now with some good aspects to enjoy, but of course I would most certainly give the greens some time to heal before you head over there.