Oak Valley Golf Club

The rough was thick throughout the course...hadn't been mowed in awhile.

Past two weeks and 6/17/26: best overall (greens, fairways, bunkers) conditions ever; could be best public golf course greens in SoCal!

Was a warm but breezy day. Only suggestion to management...keep local kids off the 17th fairway; were fishing along the pond while in driving distance.

The course is well laid out and in excellent condition with fast greens. Score card yardage is deceptive since most of the greens are extremely elevated which adds nearly 500 yard to the real playing length. Starters were very friendly.

The downside is the food area. A sign states there are no cart girls so you have to provide your own beverages which is fine. I have to drink Gatorade Zero to watch my sugar intake. So here was the weird part and a first for me. Although the carts have a cooler on them there is no ice in them. As one who has played across the country I found this a bit unusual for higher end courses I hit areas like this, but I can get my own ice. Needing ice for my drink I went into the club house bar area and asked for a cup of ice. The girl behind the counter said “I have to charge you for a drink, our manager James sent us a text reminding us no more free ice”. I could not believe my ears. I asked if there was an ice machine outside. Nope. So I had to pay for a drink which was $5 by the time I tipped the girl. Then ask her not to put soda into the plain paper cup, just the ice. So I ended up paying $5 for a cup of ice.

To say that James the restaurant manager is the village idiot is probably being kind. Why would you do this to your customers? The man needs to be fired. How about filling the cart coolers with ice.

Only reason not excellent course conditions rating is: white tees 1&2 need re-sodding; over-seeding 2X/yr not working; No.4 white tee also needs help. Otherwise this public course is primo.

For a course that doesn’t have a lot of elevation changes, the lay out sure makes up for it. Have always loved playing this course and it’s truly the definition of a hidden gem.

Love this track. Great pace of play, but if you miss the fairways you’ll be looking for your ball for a min.

Overall, I will play at oak valley again.

Played on a Saturday at 8:20 pace of play was excellent about 4-1/2 hr had a Marshal. This course had to be fabulous when it was built. Seems like the outlying areas are over grown and not maintained. The good is the fairways and greens are in good shape. Well worth the price . Also plenty of tee times available. I would recommend playing here . It definitely was a PGA design.

A really good layout; could be fantastic with some minor fixes. Well kept fairways and roughs. Excellent greens recovering from punching (about 85%). Bunkers have poor drainage/muddy; some have sugar-type sand - some, more dirt-like.; very poor heavy rakes...despite all that, this course is well worth playing.

Piece of play is fairly slow in the evenings there is no one monitoring what people are doing. I feel that that would be a simple fix if addressed.

Play the course first time in the past about 10 months and condition is great. Staff was very friendly!

This is always a well maintained course. Fun and challenging with a good pace of play.