Ventura Country Club

Club is very unfriendly to rideshare or taxi. I played a round before heading to airport after visiting area and multiple ubers got lost because of the numerous resident only entrances and then security wouldn't let my next ride in to pickup. Ended up missing my flight because of it. Security was very rude and refused to help me determine best way to get ride out of club.

1 hcp player - Course is borderline unplayable. Fairways are decent but everything else is rock hard. Literally could not push a tee into the dirt for a drive. Forget about short game, chipping off concrete. Greens were baked out and bare in some spots. Worst of all, 15 of 18 greens full of invasive grass. Holes 16,17 and 18 were Ventura of old but hard to justify the rate for 3 holes.

Greens appear to have, at worst, disease, at best 2 different grasses growing at different speeds…was very disappointing as putting was a lottery. You can tolerate inconsistent conditioning on other parts of the course, but not on the greens.

Layout was a little disappointing too compared with other places we’ve played. Played close by on Tuesday, and it was better in all respects.

I’m afraid I won’t be back, and that’s in spite of the very nice staff and food offering.

Nice course, having come back to playing after a year layoff, shoulder surgery, more than a challenging course to play. Course was a bit dry and greens were fast.