The Golf Club at Rancho California

Very nice course with beautiful views and good greens! Great twilight rate of $49 for a quality course! Give it a try!

Before I get to the "course condition", I want to address the girl at the cafe/bar. I brought her the ice chest from the golf cart and she put two scoups of ice in it. Then she tells me it's $2.00. I tell he "no" so she dumps the ice into her sink and sends me back to my cart without ice. The ice she dumped melts into the sink instead of going out with us on our $240 round (foursome). The course never told "Golfnow" that they were "over-seeding" and that they were "over-watering" the course. It was super wet and soggy everywhere on the course. Not a good day of golf by any means. And definitely not worth the money. Some bunkers had white sand, but most had brown dirt/rocks in them. Tee boxes were slippery. Golf shoes were full of mud. Of course this place could have done a lot better for their patrons, but they either don't care or they are not capable of thinking things through. Hopefully next year they won't water as much, or offer a discount, or close the course for a month while the seeds grow.

the course is in nice shape, the greens are spectacular, nice sand in traps

Designed by a one of the best architects, Maintain his standard

I was visiting from out of town and found this course by sheer luck. I picked it because it was designed by Robert Trent Jones. This course was in very good shape fairways and greens were outstanding for a public course. Many of the bunkers were just redone. A few need to be redone still. That was the only drawback. I’ve played many RTJ courses around the country and this one did not disappoint. Every hole was unique in its own way. If I get back to the area, I will be sure to play this course again. The driving range needs help. It could use some seed and water. The balls I hit were a thousand years old.

This time of year, all of the golf course are being aerated, it's a necessity. Rancho California punched on 10/25-26, they are almost playable again. I didn't expect them to be this good, so soon, but I'm glad the greens will be 100% sooner than later. I noticed that they filled a few more bunkers with pretty white sand, I just wish their were more golfers that cleaned up after themselves and raked them. Ball marks too!

This course remains one of my favorites. I enjoy trying to overcome any challenges or obstacles that may have befallen me during a prior round.

Rancho California was in very good condition on the day before aeration on the 25th. My only complaint was the big globs of cut rough that caused me two lost balls. I played by myself at my own pace on an idyllic Sunday afternoon, I'll be back in three weeks, for sure!

Pace of play was perfect, greens and fairways, bunkers were excellent, layout was fantastic and challenging. Staff helpful and friendly. Drove an hour to get there and wasn’t disappointed. So many public and semi public courses should care as much here in SoCal before charging/ gouging for their rates for conditions not even half as good as Rancho California. This golf club is a good blueprint on how to value and care for patrons. Thank you all at Rancho!

The greens were in the best condition of the 4 weeks in a row that I've played here recently. I played at 7:35 each day and the greens were soggy until today's round, when they were nice and firm. The rest of the course was in good shape also, except for half of the bunkers being dirt clay without any sand. I played the White tee boxes, with many of them needing to be leveled and resodded. I Everything else in the course is better than good. At this price point, a great golf course!

Played the course four years ago, it was in terrible condition. The greens were a little spongy, the rest of the course is in excellent condition.

This round was my third round in 3 weeks. I've been playing golf for 59 years, I've been working in the industry for 40. The first time I played Rancho California was in 1990, the course was good enough for me to drive here several times from Costa Mesa. I played Rancho around 2008 and things were far different with much worse course conditions (I dented my 7 iron in the middle of the 13th fairway). So it has been over a decade since I tried Rancho, what a pleasant surprise! I have a couple suggestions, bulldoze every tee that isn't level and instead of only putting expensive white sand in less than half of the course, fill all the bunkers with a less expensive sand that is heavier, so it doesn't blue away... I'm playing again next Wednesday!

Can't complain about the current green fees...pretty fair. Need improvement on starting the groups and keeping the groups spaced out. Some dead spots on certain fairways need attention. PEOPLE...fix your divots on the green. Other than a few minor things, this is still a great track to play...please don't let things slip any further.

Course is in good shape. New sand In green side bunkers on front nine. Now back nine needs it

Rancho California is a demanding golf course. It has lots of elevation, water hazards and once they fill all the bunkers with the white sand that's in about 30% of them around the course, it'll be fairer. PLEASE FIX YOUR BALL MARK'S! The greens are lush, so everybody needs to repair then...