599 Skyline Blvd, San Francisco, California, 94132
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Ron Brown
San Francisco
2015-07-30
Guest (cart included), played on Wednesday, July 2015 at 4:00 PM
Amazing place! It is a very private club - I played it as a guest (twice), so some of the questions don't apply for me. (Additionally, the greens had been punched/sanded this week, so can't evaluate the greens from yesterday's round - three weeks earlier, they were excellent, although did not hold as well as I had expected.)
This is a phenomenal course. We played (as guests) in the late afternoon - and nearly had the course to ourselves. We played in a cart - as it would be a difficult walk with so much elevation change. Even from the white tees, it is about 6300 yards and rated at 72.2 and 128 - and plays much longer than 6300 yards because it is so lush. The white tees were more than enough golf course to be a challenge. At 75 years old (long for my age, but not long on any absolute standards), I had lots of long irons and hybrids for second shots. There are no water holes, only a couple of places where one could go out-of-bounds, and only one or two fairway bunkers. Don't let that make you think this course should be easy. Fairways are generous but tree-lined (often with overhanging canopies that have to be avoided), but you have to be precise for decent second shots to holes - often with big elevation changes to small, well-bunkered greens. Visually, this course is amazing. Most courses that one considers beautiful are such because of the surrounding views - oceans, lakes, mountains, or whatever. This course is beautiful because of the course itself, the shapes of the holes, the elevation changes, the huge trees lining fairways, the lush green fairways, and the thick and juicy rough (yes, keep the ball in the fairway).
Would I play it again? Without doubt - any time I get the chance.
Would travel: 120-300 Miles, Vacation Worthy
Bottom line: I would play again
Condition of Course, Pace of Play, Difficulty, Ambiance, Pro Shop, Layout, No Houses on Course, Clubhouse
Guest (cart included), played on Wednesday, July 2015 at 4:00 PM
Amazing place! It is a very private club - I played it as a guest (twice), so some of the questions don't apply for me. (Additionally, the greens had been punched/sanded this week, so can't evaluate the greens from yesterday's round - three weeks earlier, they were excellent, although did not hold as well as I had expected.) This is a phenomenal course. We played (as guests) in the late afternoon - and nearly had the course to ourselves. We played in a cart - as it would be a difficult walk with so much elevation change. Even from the white tees, it is about 6300 yards and rated at 72.2 and 128 - and plays much longer than 6300 yards because it is so lush. The white tees were more than enough golf course to be a challenge. At 75 years old (long for my age, but not long on any absolute standards), I had lots of long irons and hybrids for second shots. There are no water holes, only a couple of places where one could go out-of-bounds, and only one or two fairway bunkers. Don't let that make you think this course should be easy. Fairways are generous but tree-lined (often with overhanging canopies that have to be avoided), but you have to be precise for decent second shots to holes - often with big elevation changes to small, well-bunkered greens. Visually, this course is amazing. Most courses that one considers beautiful are such because of the surrounding views - oceans, lakes, mountains, or whatever. This course is beautiful because of the course itself, the shapes of the holes, the elevation changes, the huge trees lining fairways, the lush green fairways, and the thick and juicy rough (yes, keep the ball in the fairway). Would I play it again? Without doubt - any time I get the chance.