The Golf Club at Rancho California

1st time any of us had played this course.
Senior foursome out celebrating a birthday.
Had a good round.
Course was in good shape.
Especially liked that there was white fluffy sand in the greenside bunkers!!!
Only negative comment... at 19th hole apparently the cook had quit and there was no one to prepare our food order.
So, we had a couple of cold ones and left.
Overall, a good day.
I would play this course again

Had not played this course for a few years, enjoyed the re-visit. Greens were in excellent condition, some of the rough was punitive, fairways were very good. Overall a nice outing.

Great place to play. excellent layout. Moderate difficulty. Great pacer of play. .

Certain patches of fairway were pretty sparse but not enough to really affect play. Greens stuck pretty well. Last played when it was SCGA more than 15 years ago and I remember then that the greens were hard af. Hardly anyone playing after 1pm. My foursome finished in just under 4 hours. Only complaint was a slow twosome in front of us. Nothing that a few early drives didn't take care of.

Lots of the bunkers are being renovated with fresh sand and all which is great. Others while maintained are not nearly as playable and basically just groomed dirt.

Course was in generally good repair.

Course does see a wide range of playing abilities so keep that in mind as it might slow down your round a bit depending on who's in front of you. For instance, I'm pretty sure the group on 10 picked up my wayward ball from #9 tee when I played, even though they disavowed any of it.

Great layout maintenance on the bunkers in progress

The Marshall was buddy buddy with 1st off, that tee’d off at 545, After calling in 2x in front 9 to speed them up he only came out one time and waved and didn’t say anything. We teed off just after 600 and got to #10 at 9:07. After finishing #10 we waited behind 2 groups on 11. When we finished 11, the lead group was still on tee box on 12. We jumped in front of 3 groups on 12 tee box and jumped straight to 13. Our 3 some finished at 1053. We waited and watched the lead group finish at 11:11.
If you cant finish a round under 4 hours you shouldn’t be setting up a tee time first off in the morning, Tell me I’m wrong!!! We won’t be back anytime soon!!!

The course was challenging lots of hazards throughout the course ravines, water on some holes left and right with bunkers placed in areas that make it hard to play it safe . The front and back bunkers closer to the club house have that pebble beach sand very fluffy the bunkers all in between are hard dry sand/dirt the greens were very well taken care fairways and tee boxes were in good shape . Overall had a Greta time and would go back to this course especially in the winter months where she isn't as necessary.

I was surprised to see white fluffy sand at the 1st greenside bunkers. Then saw the same white fluffy sand at the 2nd greenside bunkers. Throughout my round, i noticed the majority of the greenside bunkers have the white fluffy sand making the experience enjoyable. Unfortunately the fairway bunkers have the brown hard dirt, but i hope it's work in progress.

I was able to hit 2 balls at every hole and played best ball since the guy ahead of me was long gone and nobody was behind me. I had thoughts of practicing greenside bunkers shots since there wasn't anybody following me. I also thought about hitting 4 balls just like a regular 4some, but that'll wear me out especially with the warm weather. There was no marshall and no cart girl.

Can't wait to play there again

The greens were fantastic and overall conditions very good. Carts did not gps but worked well

the course especially the greens in great conditions...staff is awesome especially Terrance the starter!!!!! pace a play was just under 4 hours ..love this course!!!!

Course condition greatly improved since last played. Greens in great condition. Many new white sand bunkers a nice feature. Was very enjoyable to play.