First time out at goat hill this morning. Had wanted to check it out for a while, with the kind of publicity this place gets for its vibes and style. I knew what this course was about but was not as g... Continue »

First time out at goat hill this morning. Had wanted to check it out for a while, with the kind of publicity this place gets for its vibes and style. I knew what this course was about but was not as good as I was expecting to be honest. The second and third holes both had mud for tee boxes so on number two we hit off a mat. On three the hole was played from a temporary 175 tee instead of par four. The fairways and rough are about as bad as you can find at a course in business except number ten which looks recently resodded. The saving grace is the green complexes are good, small, sloped and in fairly good shape, being pretty smooth and medium speed. Our round took 4 hours and 20 minutes for a course measuring 4400 yards which is an absolute joke to me. Our group almost got hit multiple times by errant shots. There are also 3-4 blind tee shots where you can’t tell if the group in front of you has cleared the fairway or not, which I thought was pretty strange. Luckily we came down to play Torrey pines and this was just an extra round, would’ve been pretty bummed to drive down from OC for this place. I have plenty of friends who enjoy this course though, don’t know if we caught it at a bad time or just not my cup of tea, probably both.