Avila Beach Golf Resort

I have been wanting to play this course for sometime and finally had the opportunity to play with a friend. We had delicious lunch at Mulligan’s and then played the full 18 holes. The first nine were quite a challenge for us with the plateau greens. We found the second nine to be a bit more in our range of play. The location and scenery are marvelous! We certainly plan to play Avila again!

Some of the greens had divots built in and had areas that look like a tee box. But overall the speed of greens was good. Weather and location is plenty of reason to play this course. It’s fun. Staff is nice. Pace of play was slow, maybe the Marshall can speed it up. I’d play there again for a good price.

Been wanting to play this course for years. Decided to finally do it while on vacation in Avila. We brought our spouses to make it a full day of fun. I’ll just leave a lot of the good and the bad below…

The Good:

Very friendly staff

Good food at Muligens

Nice sitting areas and pro shop

The bad:

Course is in dire need of some TLC.

Cart paths are atrocious

Greens were okay

Fairways were in bad shape

Lots of dead grass or hard dirt/dead grass

36 dollars for wife to spectate

Oberall I still had a good time but I won’t be returning to this course. If they poured some money into it then it would have the potential to be one of the nicest courses I’ve ever played. Unfortunately, it’s one of the worse courses I’ve played.

Lots of dead fairway, very little direction (can be difficult to find the next tee box). Staff was friendly, and course layout is definitely fun. The lack of maintenance and care shows though, getting beat up by unpaved rutted out cart paths was not fun. Weather was gorgeous and we had a good time golfing, but we were backed up and the round took 6 hours.

This has potential to be the best course on the Central coast for casual golf, if they care to make the effort.

Very friendly staff at the Pro Shop, the Bar/Restaurant, and the Marshal; apparently the Beverage Cart Gal was in training and accompanied by another employee on her first day; although she was friendly, seemed to lack basic skills such as not restocking beverages players on the course ask for (and which are available at the bar/restaurant). The course itself was underwhelming, almost all cart paths were gravel, several were under repair and unusable therefore sensing golfers on other paths to access tee boxes, sometimes in the line of tee boxes and putting golfers at risk of being hit. There were many holes in fairways that we stepped in coming very close to being injured this way. The greens were quite slow and several has significant areas under repair. A pleasant surprise was how soft the sand bunkers were, especially considering the state of the rest of the course.

The course layout was interesting, lots of water crossings, dog legs, and sweeling fairways. We would play again; but only using disciunted rates found online. Full price play is just not worth it. Lastly, the bar and restaurant is considerably overpriced.

Was visiting a friend of mine for his birthday, and he mentioned that this course was supposed to be nice. It was not. Conditions were horrible, poorly maintained, and overall not what we expected.

Not worth the money, especially on weekends. Horrible pace of play with bad golfers constantly playing, along side of terrible upkeep. Not worth the money

Played this course last fall and it was so dry! Thought we’d give it another try now in the spring! There was more grass but some holes were crazy to get to because of flood damage that needs to get corrected

the starter should have extended the courtesy to let us know the course was in horrendous condition. grass was cut in the fairways, but you could never find your ball. the course should have been closed. its a shame we drove such a long way only to be disappointed. we have been playing this course on occasion for 15 years. this was the absolutely the worst condition possible. when it rains this much and maintenance cant possibly keep up, close the course for a day or two. make it playable again. wasted green fee, wasted range balls, wasted gas to get to the course, wasted expensive day.

This course is in very poor condition. Needs lots of work.

Front 9 was so overgrown that finding a ball that was not in the fairway or on the green was always a challenge to the point of impossible. More than one ball that was hit barely off a green was lost in foot high uncut grass. It shouldn't have been open. The back nine was better. The $90 price was at least 2x what it should've been. Very frustrating and disappointing. The staff was very friendly and the greens and tee boxes were not bad.

The tee boxes and greens were in good condition despite the back 9 being aerated just before I played them. The fairways were not mown and balls could not be easily found even in the middle of the fairway. I lost half a dozen balls in the fairway as I was playing solo, I didn't want to take more time looking for balls in large patches of overgrown grass/weed.in the fairways. Staff was aware of that when I brought that up at the end of the round. Drainage on the course could also be improved as there were many muddy areas, again in the fairways. The course is actually quite playable otherwise with doglegs and water in play on many holes that made it interesting.

I was very disappointed in the overall condition of the condition of the course. Many tee boxes looked like the rough, fairways were more weeds then grass.and the greens were below average. I seriously wold not consider playing this course again, under any condition.

Flooded, messy, no proper signages to next hole, on and on!