Steele Canyon Golf Club - Canyon/Ranch

Great golf course! Challenging to a mid handicapper. If you shoot over 100's I don't recommend playing here. Greens were nice and fast, fairways were green and tee boxes were nice. Barring the east county heat, the course was fun to play. Sand traps were slightly in need of service, bunkers near the greens were both fluffy and hard it would be nice if they were consistent.

Other than our experience upon check in Steele Canyon was a superb course and would recommend it to anyone. Greens were in good shape as were the fairways and sand Traps.

Recently played on a visit to San Diego, and was excited given prior reviews and Golf Digest's rating. So disappointed !!

The course has a great layout and fabulous scenery. But the area is in a drought and Steele Canyon is just not watering. The fairways are brown, and worn to dirt in some areas. Tee boxes are in poor condition with some just plain terrible with more sand than grass. Green's were well watered, but not very fast. I'd have to say that I'll pass on any future return. Recommend you pass as well.

This course has some amazing hole where you will Tee off from approx. 200' above the fairway.

I really enjoy this course, and have played here 2-3 times per year for the last 4 years. It's usually a nice treat and worth the comparatively higher green fees. The Bermuda grass is usually beautiful and well-maintained in the summer and brown, but highly playable in the winter. HOWEVER, I was shocked this time (played Meadow to Canyon as usual). I don't know if they tried to conserve water or save costs, but the fairways have gone downhill, and most of the course apart from the greens is brown. Many (seemed like most?) of the holes are cart-path only as well, which I've never seen there. The staff remain highly professional and the pace of play is great as always. The course just needs some serious attention right now. I would call to see if things have improved first.

played all 27 holes, was real nice and pace of play was very good. I will be back to play this course many times

This is a long and challenging course but fun to play!!

This is easily one of my favorite courses in San Diego. I like to play here as much as I can. Unfortunately, the summer as really taken its toll on the fairways as they were littered dried out and dirt patches... This is abnormal from my past experiences here. The greens, however, were still in excellent shape, which I've always found to be the case here. As always, the layout is challenging and the views are incredible. My only complaint is that the fairway conditions are not at their best at the moment.

Although the course is starting to get a little brown in spots due to the summer heat, it is still in good shape with nice greens. Challenging but fair, avoid the bunkers, the sand tends to be hard and more of a dirt consistency than sand with high lips.

We got paired up with two members, who where extremely friendly and helped us navigate the course.

The course was dry, understandably though as the region was in a drought.

The greens where super-tough but I was still able to shoot in the low 70's - Some short par 3's and 5's that can be easy birdies.

Enjoyed the course - Staff are great but some of the patrons are fairly rude. glad our pairing went well.

Have not been out there for a number of years, course is in very good shape, and as challenging as it gets!

Course has three seperate nine holes. We played meadow for the front nine and liked it a lot. Had some really cool elevated tee boxes. The back nine was ranch and wasn't as cool I thought but was still nice.
When it came to approach shots the greens are pretty tricky. The rough was fairly easy to get out of and bunkers were maintained well. Definitely a smart play kind of course

The only negative was we didn't see the cart girl the entire time so no beer and food during the round was a real bummer.

Friendly staffs, great challenging course that will definitely
required you to use all your clubs and talents to play well. Fortunately there are several tee boxes to chose.

At these prices, there should be GPS on the golf carts. There were too many brown spots on the fairways.

To me, this is the best course in East County San Diego. It's appropriately challenging, offers choices of 9 holes based on your abilities, and the greens are super true. I love Steele Canyon. You appreciate it even more when you're on the hole that borders Cottonwood Golf Course. You look over and thank the lord you're not playing over there!

This is such a great course if you want a real challenge. Always well maintained and really nice greens. A rare thing for San Diego courses is sandy bunkers and Steele Canyon has them. This course has everything - water, some elevation, long par 4s, tight, split fairways and semi-blind tee shots. Be prepared to lose a few balls and have a few penalty strokes added to your score! This course has a way of ripping your heart out just when you feel like you are getting on top of it. If you are looking for a course you can score on ... this may not be it, but if you are looking for a really nice course at reasonable value (esp the $59 rates they sometimes offer on an early Sunday morning) that will challenge you - well you found it.

It's just ok, staff could use a customer service coach!

I've played all 3 9's in the past & after this previous round, the 2 to play are the ranch & canyon coarses. I played the meadow & canyon 9's & definetly enjoyed the canyon better b/c of it's upkeep & elevated t boxes. Most of the t boxes on the meadow coarse need some attention; fairways are decent for the time of season & all the greens are in great shape & roll true but a bit slower than the practice greens. The coarse should allow you to play a par 71 & not a 70 if requested.

Steele Canyon is a nice course. We played Ranch/Meadow and the course was in nice shape. The only negative was that several of the holes were cart path only, but other than that it was a fun day.