Technical. You'll do well if you know your shot shape and distances. Holes 1, 2 and 3 are pretty good to get you dialed in before presenting the 1st elevated tee box and green combination with a fai... Continue »

Technical. You'll do well if you know your shot shape and distances. Holes 1, 2 and 3 are pretty good to get you dialed in before presenting the 1st elevated tee box and green combination with a fairly narrow fairway (compared to the first) and that's pretty much the rest of the course with a few embankment to embankment par 3s.

As of Feb 7th, they are using the rain layout. They have Course Conditions on their site explaining why.

Pace is slowish on weekends/holidays, I played 2/18 with a 9am tee time and was in the car heading home at 10:49am after playing 9 holes. During the week it can be pretty empty.

played here saturday 12/16 as a threesome. never played here before, but thinking it was a course along the river, figured it'd be fairly flat. WRONG. this is a pretty tough course for walkers, with a... Continue »

played here saturday 12/16 as a threesome. never played here before, but thinking it was a course along the river, figured it'd be fairly flat. WRONG. this is a pretty tough course for walkers, with a lot of ups and downs and long tee to green walks through some interesting terrain. certainly not a very pretty course as it runs alongside the river. many holes are very very narrow and close to each other, so it's very target golf oriented. not a forgiving course, especially if you're not sure where to miss. a lot of tiny fairways that roll out into a sandy/watery wasteland area. some of those sandy areas are very beach-like and you can hit off them but not fun. tee boxes were all pretty beat up, fairways had decent lies, some better than others. greens are in good shape but could not judge speeds on them all day. some were very soft, many of the greens are also very small. pace of play is awful. basically a wait on every tee box, sometimes 2 groups behind. overall a little over 5.5 hours. as i mentioned, not a course conducive to walking as there were no benches anywhere on the course. there was a cart girl, but she was parked. definitely won't be coming back here any time soon as the course is just too gimicky for my liking

12/11 nice late fall morning. POP right at 4hr on a fairly busy day. Course is in generally ok shape with some residual damage from the hurricane. Some fairways were flooded and #13 specifically ha... Continue »

12/11 nice late fall morning. POP right at 4hr on a fairly busy day. Course is in generally ok shape with some residual damage from the hurricane. Some fairways were flooded and #13 specifically has about 1/4 of its fairway left with sand and dirt adjacent to the river. No overseeding so fairways are a mix of grasses and lies are varied and random. So you get the rub of the green experience on occassion. Rough is spotty with again varied grasses so some areas thin others coud be longer and thicker. Tees on the par 3s are beat up. Bunkers have enough sand and overall were playable.
Greens have good cover but tended to vary in speed and had some grain to factor in along with the slope. Overall River View is worth the occasional play and considering green fees now days it is definitely a value play, just dont expect higher end fancy.

Played 8/21/22 1:09 tee time. Course was in typical shape (i.e. terrible). Pace of play was slow, the carts were constantly hampered by the GPS restrictions, the tee boxes were abysmal, the fairways w... Continue »

Played 8/21/22 1:09 tee time. Course was in typical shape (i.e. terrible). Pace of play was slow, the carts were constantly hampered by the GPS restrictions, the tee boxes were abysmal, the fairways were shoddy; the greens were however in decent shape, so I will give them that. I would generally advise you avoid this course if you care about conditions even a little. If, however, you enjoy playing on a run down goat track, THIS IS THE PLACE FOR YOU!

Played River View for the first time with an OC Meetup group at 8:21am on Sunday morning, 6/12/22. First time here for the two guys I played with, as well, so we all discovered the course together. I’... Continue »

Played River View for the first time with an OC Meetup group at 8:21am on Sunday morning, 6/12/22. First time here for the two guys I played with, as well, so we all discovered the course together. I’ve lived in the OC for 45 years and never played here, and I have to say I won’t likely be rushing back. The course is pretty quirky and limited in design by playing up and back along the river and up and down off the riverside bluffs and down onto the banks. So there are a lot of holes that look and play very similar.

The course was crowded and, while we started on time, we waited on every shot after that. Seemed longer than the 2:20 on each side, I guess because of the waiting, but finished in around 4:40, which isn’t too bad on a weekend morning. There was a “lesson”-type thing going on in the group ahead of us, but it looked like they were waiting on the people in front of them, as well.

Conditions were pretty average. Greens had good coverage and rolled pretty well at medium+ speed. Not too many unrepaired ballmarks. Some greens have minor tiering at the back or some minor undulation, but most are fairly level. Some greens were pretty soft and receptive; others were much firmer and approaches took longer bounces. Fairway lies were pretty thin and we saw many large areas where turf was patchy or absent. Rough was variable, from mown areas to wildly-growing deep yikes, as well as areas that were bares and leaf-covered. Holes playing along the river had large stretches of river sand to be avoided. It’s hard to hit to these elevated greens off a bare/thin lie, and then the slope/runup to these perched greens is lush and difficult to play from. Traps were firm with thin layers of coarse sand. Tees were generally flat but many showed a lot of divot damages – partially-filled divot mix bottles on the carts, but no divot mix boxes on the par-3 tees, and no refill rack.

Some really visually-challenging holes. #3 is a longer very narrow par-3 flanked by large trees with a couple of intervening traps. Hole #11 is even more extreme – a shorter par-4 that basically a hallway between huge trees, with a ridge running down the fairway to funnel your ball into the bare dirt under the right trees, if you can hit straight enough to avoid the forest.

Shop is very basic, and so were carts with only a generic GPS to the MOG. No cart girl, but a snack bar in the clubhouse at the turn. Range on mats. Huge putting green with a putting “course” set up – conditions of that green were pretty lush and similar/nicer than the on-course greens. Course infrastructure conditions cry out for maintenance/improvement, but it doesn’t look like ownership is putting much back into the place.

We also had the new experience of seeing a homeless guy get arrested right next to us as we were playing the 4th green – cops had guns drawn and everything. Apparently he was following/harassing a woman golfer in the group ahead of us. So more of the local charm here.

Meat and potatoes golf and what would be a last option for me. Hilarious comment of the day by one of my playing partners: “seems like they packed 10 pounds of sh*t into a 5-pound bag!”

found out i had the day off in the morning and looked for a same day tee time just to get some practice in. river view had wide open spots, so ok, it's not the best but it's cheap and close. booked.... Continue »

found out i had the day off in the morning and looked for a same day tee time just to get some practice in. river view had wide open spots, so ok, it's not the best but it's cheap and close. booked. regretted it as soon as i got there. no starter, about 12 people in chaos on the 1st tee. guy in pro shop said it's a 'free for all.' super slow 5 hours of torture behind groups looking for their balls all day. course layout is just weird. tee boxes were actually sort of okay, fairways were kind of patchy but overall had fair but uneven coverage. greens were soft, spongy, and shaggy running very slow. sand was wet and compacted. do not recommend unless you have at least 5-6 beers in you.

1/12 $28 using teeoff dealtime was able to join a 2some and get out about 30 min early but still puit in a 430 POP which was mostly on our group as we started slowly waiting for the 1st 4 holes then j... Continue »

1/12 $28 using teeoff dealtime was able to join a 2some and get out about 30 min early but still puit in a 430 POP which was mostly on our group as we started slowly waiting for the 1st 4 holes then just continued to meander even as the groups ahead moved out, also there was no push from behind until the last 2 holes.
Conditions were mixed with the greens bing the highlight, very healthy and well maintained, receptive to full shots while being deceptively quick with some subtle breaks both from the slope and to an extent the grain. Tees thin and damaged on the 3s. Bunkers either had heavy sand or some really coarse river sand.
Fairways were marginal with varied grasses some thin sandy areas and a few patches of good grass. Recent rains/floods did not help. Rough also patchy.
Carts have good GPS. Large putting green. Range with soft mats. Friendly staff.

Played here on 10/11 with a tee time at 10:30. The girl working the front counter was friendly and got us out quickly. The range and putting area is nice, the range recently had new mats installed wit... Continue »

Played here on 10/11 with a tee time at 10:30. The girl working the front counter was friendly and got us out quickly. The range and putting area is nice, the range recently had new mats installed within the last 6-9 months and there are some new targets out there. The balls werent in bad shape, I was pleasantly surprised. Was paired up with a random two-some and pace of play was good until just before the turn, a couple of slow groups out there but we still finished in about 4 hours. The tee boxes were hit or miss, some were very thin and you were teeing off of dirt. The fairways are usually nice and that day they were, but you need to be hitting the fair way because just off the fairway is often dirt, sand, bare spots, etc. The course is short, but challenging because you are often hitting up to an elevated green from down in the riverbed and the front half is narrow. All and all had a good time and would come back, just find a good time with a cheap rate.

8/27 930 tee off warm and humid 345 POP which felt slower until the 3some ahead quit after 9so had 3 holes with no waiting until caught up 15. Fairways were mostly ok with some areas of really good c... Continue »

8/27 930 tee off warm and humid 345 POP which felt slower until the 3some ahead quit after 9so had 3 holes with no waiting until caught up 15. Fairways were mostly ok with some areas of really good cover and some spots not so much. Rough mostly sparse along most fairways with some patches of long and juicy on some slopes and around some swales closer to the greens. Bunkers have been groomed but still are exposed to the covid parameters. Tees are thin and many are quite beat up from the divots.
Greens are healthy but left a little longish to handle the heat so about medium speed with a little more grain to consider.
Staff is friendly and welcoming.