Had some business in Glendora so decided to play S D C on their recently posted specials. I thought I would pay $24.99 w cart and food, but took the option of no food and paid $20 w cart (nice deal). ... Continue »

Had some business in Glendora so decided to play S D C on their recently posted specials. I thought I would pay $24.99 w cart and food, but took the option of no food and paid $20 w cart (nice deal). Course was not to crowded and we played in 4 hours (we did wait but not long) and the weather was great. Course is in decent shape, after all the recent warm weather. Tee boxes were clean and tee receptive; fairways were clean and provided good bounce/roll, even though there are some dry spots (playable) and you will find some patchy areas, that are less than desirable; heard no complaints on bunkers and they appeared fine; very little, if any rough; greens were great and they chipped/putted well on every hole. Customer service was excellent at all levels.

Something happened today at San Dimas that only be described as a miracle of epic proportions. Tee time of noon as single on a GN hot deal of $25, got there a little early and was paired up with anoth... Continue »

Something happened today at San Dimas that only be described as a miracle of epic proportions. Tee time of noon as single on a GN hot deal of $25, got there a little early and was paired up with another single and twosome and we were on the 1st tee, balls in the air by 11:45am, shaking hands and walking back to my car at 3:00pm! Yes you read that right! A 3:15 round at San Dimas (home of the 5+ hour round), on an American Golf managed course (home of the fivesomes and 4 min spacing). Someone wake me up because I must be dreaming...

BTW, the golf was fine and conditions were same ol same ol. Greens are outstanding with minimal ball marks & rolling medium fast and true and holding well. Fairways mostly good with a few dry patches. Rough is a grab bag of lush, patchy, bare, penal, not so penal...you get the point. Bunkers fair with mostly good sand but they need a raking. Tees (blues) were poor. They had decent coverage but too many unlevel lies to contend with all day.

To recap: A 3hr 15min round at San Dimas with some waiting on the front 9! That's a typical time for 9 holes on the weekends here. Well I can say it happened once in my lifetime. Never to happen again...

Played at 915am with my monthly group on a warm sunny day with very little wind until we hit those “into the …” holes #13-14, on Saturday 3/11/17. The first tee looked open for a long time as our tee ... Continue »

Played at 915am with my monthly group on a warm sunny day with very little wind until we hit those “into the …” holes #13-14, on Saturday 3/11/17. The first tee looked open for a long time as our tee time approached, but a shotgun of novice golfers had gone off the back nine at 7am, and they cycled out just in front of us, and by hole #4 the lower part of the course looked like the Harlem Globetrotters in carts, weaving back and forth across the fairways and stacked up on every tee. Overall POP was a horrific 5.5 hr. But, hey, the weather was nice! Course conditions range from nice to horribly hard/bare/bumpy. Greens were the best part of the course, rolling fairly smoothly at medium-fast speeds, although the firmness and receptiveness varied through the course. [They plan to start aerating ½ of each green beginning 3/20.] Fairways were fairly lush to thin and hard – the ball sat pretty tight everywhere. Rough was variable but generally drier and harder. Sand was fluffy everywhere – great around greens but challenging from fairway bunkers. Many tees are sloping, and par-3 tees are very torn up. Prolink GPS that looks OK but is not interactive, and it was so dim in the bright sunlight that it was basically useless. Starter said it couldn’t be adjusted for brightness. And, OMG, please stop with the on-screen messages (and beeps!) – like 3 or 4 per hole to “keep up”, “repair ballmarks”, “wave up on par-3s”, and “thanks for playing, return carts to the barn”! STOP!! (No, you can’t adjust THAT either!). Carts are basic. Sand bottle rack on #10 was full ..... of empty bottles. We flagged down a wandering marshal to get more sand. Warm-up area is mats hitting into a net. Two fairly large putting greens will put the fear into you before the round, especially downhill. The course is wedged into a minimal area and there are several places where trees and protective fences severely restrict lines and options of play – probably not trimmed since opening. While distances are not great, many holes are extremely narrow and hazards and OB are very close by. Be careful on the narrow par-5 #17 – left of the cart path is OB within a few feet of the path, and balls headed left of the fairway there get quickly onto very firm bumpy ground, so there’s no real margin for error. The course used a front/middle/back rotation on the front nine, the changed it up on the back to be unpredictable (but you can get pin position on the GPS ..... oh, wait! [See above!]). With par-5s coming at holes #3, #6, and #9, and with the pin on hole #12 being back, all four of these par-5s had pins on the back.

Played on valentine's day 2/14 with a tee time around 11 am. POP was around 5 hours. Being a weekday, we thought it would play a little faster. It was mostly twosomes and threesomes today. But we h... Continue »

Played on valentine's day 2/14 with a tee time around 11 am. POP was around 5 hours. Being a weekday, we thought it would play a little faster. It was mostly twosomes and threesomes today. But we had to wait on every hole.

Course conditions were very nice. Course was not muddy at all. It has been a few days since it last rained. Tee boxes had good coverage. Fairways had very good coverage too. There were some bare spots here and there on the fairways but the fairways were fairly green. The bunkers were nice too. The sand was nice and fluffy. The greens were in great shape. Greens were running a little fast.

Water does come into play on a few holes. Some of the water is off to side either on the left or right side of the fairway. There are a couple of holes where you need to carry water. On hole #14 you need to lay up on your tee shot to be short of the water. Then on your next shot, you hit over the water to the green. I find that a lot of players on hole #14 tend to hit their 2nd shot either to the right or left of 14th fairway. So therefore these players are playing on either hole #11 and hole #15 fairways. Not good if you're playing these holes and you have to wait for these players to get off your fairway. The 16th hole is the other hole where you need to carry water. It's a par 3 hole with a feel of island green in front. Course is not flat but it's a fun and challenging course to play.

It's a nice course to play. Driving range here is hitting in a net maybe around 100 yards. More of a warm up area on the driving range. There is a chipping area next to the driving range. There's a nice restaurant and bar here. Will be back again.

Like the two previous reviewers, I also played San Dimas on Veterans Day, 11/11. Its been several years since I’ve played here and knew it would be crowded but didn’t quite expect what we encountered... Continue »

Like the two previous reviewers, I also played San Dimas on Veterans Day, 11/11. Its been several years since I’ve played here and knew it would be crowded but didn’t quite expect what we encountered. 5½ hour round! We had an 8:45 time but was delayed 30 minutes. They had a starter out there but he did very little to organize. He made no announcements as to who was up. We had to keep asking him, “now who do we follow”? This is so typical of American Golf. Also, When we made the reservation, they mentioned we would get the senior rate of $35. When we checked in the guy says its $36.99. It was only a couple of bucks different I realize but when I questioned him, he claimed there was a communication error, take it or leave it. Again, American Golf at its best. Lastly, there were some slow 5 somes out there and with 8 minutes in between tee times, you are guaranteed a slow round. Again, American Golf likes to pack ‘em in. I won’t even bring up the bad experience we had at scramble tournament there a few years ago. Poorly organized. Get it together American Golf! Quit gouging. Ok enough of my crap, now to the course. Pace of play was terrible. The group ahead of us fell behind largely because of they struggled off the tee. Can’t criticize people for playing poorly but still enjoying themselves but 5½ round is a bit much :-) Marshals were out there but admitted there wasn’t much they could do as there were quite a few groups out there. The course is actually in pretty good condition and is challenging. Fairways were very good. A few brown spots but overall the fairways were in pretty good shape. The greens were very nice. They rolled very nicely and they also held good shots. Some of the tee boxes however were uneven. Some were like pitcher’s mounds. Was in only one bunker and it had good, soft sand. I really enjoy this course and would like to come back but not on a holiday or weekend.

Played San Dimas on Friday Nov 11th, Had a 7:46 tee time, teed off 30 minutes late. Also while waiting to tee off I saw numerous 5 somes going off at 6:45 to 7:15. Come on, please San Dimas, you only ... Continue »

Played San Dimas on Friday Nov 11th, Had a 7:46 tee time, teed off 30 minutes late. Also while waiting to tee off I saw numerous 5 somes going off at 6:45 to 7:15. Come on, please San Dimas, you only place the tee times 8 minutes apart and then you put out 5 some to start the day, and the first 2 holes cause back ups all the time. A 5 hour 20 minute round of golf is unacceptable. Waited on "every" hole, how can anyone get in a rhythm. Now about the course, IMHO they need to bulldoze all the tee boxes and level every one out, nearly impossible to find a flat area. The fairways were good, no brown spots and had a nice amount of grass, I was in one fairway bunker and one greenside bunker and no issues with the amount of sand. The greens were the best part of the course and the day. They actually rolled nice and were in great shape. Even though there was allot of golfers they must have fixed their ball marks. Really did not have a good time. We got done so late we did not even stay for lunch.

Played on 11/11 and the POP was the worst i have experienced anywhere. The marshall on duty was worthless and all he could do was say its slow today. First issues, we were to tee off at noon and we ... Continue »

Played on 11/11 and the POP was the worst i have experienced anywhere. The marshall on duty was worthless and all he could do was say its slow today. First issues, we were to tee off at noon and we didnt tee of till 12:30. Second, the management team needs to stop allowing tee times every 7 and and 8 minutes. (I will not play here again until this change is made and it was the same feeling for others in my group, On the course for 5hrs and we only played 12 holes, thats BS). Third, this is for all the hacks out there, if you cant hit your driver consistently 225yrds. You need to play the whites. If you cant hit your 7 iron 145 yards you need to play whites. You dont need to wait until the group in front of you to be on the green for you to begin teeing up.

Walked the Blues (6400/71.7/126) with Greg & Mike in 4 1/2H mid day 10/26. The weather was 80ish & clear with a little wind. The tees had mostly adequate coverage. However, several could use divot r... Continue »

Walked the Blues (6400/71.7/126) with Greg & Mike in 4 1/2H mid day 10/26. The weather was 80ish & clear with a little wind. The tees had mostly adequate coverage. However, several could use divot repair and a few could use leveling. The fairways were on the verge of becoming mostly lush with much more consistent coverage than a few months ago. The rough was generally thin, but becoming thicker than a few months ago. The sand traps were slightly better than average with good quality sand. A challenge here is that too few players adequately rake. They sanded the greens on Wed. 10/26. I would wait at least 10 days and they should be very good. However, as of this writing, they were poor. The 1/2 of the greens just aerated last week were bumpy. The 1/2 of the greens aerated last month where all the pins were located almost back to normal before the sanding. Mostly smooth and medium fast the day before and held approach shots well. Excellent customer service from all encountered. Challenging course to walk, constantly up/down rolling hills. No beverage cart but they have a restaurant on the turn. Recommended = Wait at least a week on the greens.

Walked the Blues (6400/71.7/126) with Mickey in 5H, 15M mid day. There were often 2 groups waiting to hit per tee, probably the busiest course I have ever seen on a regular (non holiday) Tuesday after... Continue »

Walked the Blues (6400/71.7/126) with Mickey in 5H, 15M mid day. There were often 2 groups waiting to hit per tee, probably the busiest course I have ever seen on a regular (non holiday) Tuesday afternoon? The weather was in the 80's & clear with a little wind. Challenging course to walk, constantly up/down rolling hills. Excellent customer service from all encountered. The tees were mediocre, mostly adequate coverage but several could use divot repair and a few could use leveling. The fairways were the best I have seen them here, now at least average. Did not look like they have been mowed since the rain, they were a little long but on the verge of becoming mostly lush with much more consistent coverage. The rough was also a step up from when I last played here a couple of months ago. Still generally thin, but becoming thicker. The sand traps were better maintained than previous visits with good sand, better than average. The 1/2 of the greens just aerated last week were bumpy and furry as you would expect. The 1/2 of the greens aerated last month where all the pins were located was 95% back to normal and were mostly smooth and medium fast. They held approach shots well. Fun layout with a few quirky holes and lots of mature trees. Some doglegs and water to keep things interesting, can be challenging for any shots offline. No beverage cart but they have a restaurant on the turn. Recommended = Yes.