Shoreline Golf Links at Mountain View

I like the design of this course lots of sharp turns. It can be challenging at times but generally a very easy course. Lots of bird droppings everywhere that is the main downside.

The course was in pretty good condition after the recent rain, that we much needed. Due to the rain it was cart path only for the carts, which slowed play. Probably a good idea to keep the carts on the paths that day, as the course doesn't drain real well, but was adequate. Wind was out of a total different direction then ever before when I played the course. Made #11 and #17 much easier par 3s. All in all it was a pretty good day. No rain (until the 18th tee) lucky for us. Wind was down and temperature was cool but tolerable with just a sweater. Wish there was some cure for the coots and the geese, but I understand they have tried just about everything. With all the birds and ground squirrels something needs to be done, but I don't know what it is. Golf isn't so cool when almost every shot ends up with bird droppings on it.

Shoreline has always been an interesting and varied layout, but difficult to keep in good condition, possibly due to proximity to the salty bay. Unfortunately, over the past couple of years, the course condition has gotten noticeably worse: the fairways are patchy, frequently muddy, the rough extremely variable., the rapidly proliferating ground squirrels digging everywhere, and the greens lumpy. The pace has also slowed considerably, now frequently over 5 hours on weekends even with a dawn start. I love this course, but can no longer recommend it.

Had the first tee time of the day and they had a freeze warning. waited 15 minutes to tee off. Greens were great, a lot of waterfowl on the course, fairly wide-open

I wish you could get rid of all the birds droppings and control the
birds population.Other than this,this course is really fun to play.

Pro shop Staff very courteous, professional and helpful. Avian life on the course makes the round less enjoyable than it would otherwise be. As a single, was paired with three very nice people who play the course frequently -- glad they were gracious -- no on-course visual aids makes it difficult to envision some of the holes from the tee.

The fairways and greens were in very good condition. Cart paths a little rough but overall I liked it.

Tee boxes need rework. Some fairways had lots of bare spots. Greens were in good shape.

Considering several marshalls around, it looks like they are more concern on their visibility, rather than ensuring smooth fairway traffic. Since majority of players were walking, using cart is useless with this kind of course condition, even on weekdays (I played Monday). At any rate, I will still recommend this to friends who have the luxury of time to spend, with limited budget to play.

Overall good condition, goose drop-ins is still a problem, but not as bad as previous years. Greens were in OK condition.

Shoreline is one of the better muni in the Bay Area. You can usually play for ~$30 walking. It is a very pleasant course to walk. The difficulty of the course are well suited to beginners and intermediate players. Even scratch players would find it challenging if play from black on a windy day. Three par 3s are all over water and difficult. My favorite hole is hole 9 which is a great risk/reward hole. You can cut the corner to try to get two on for a eagle. The condition of the course is not very good though. A lot of bare spots on the fairway. Although the greens are in pretty good shape.

There has been a significant improvement in the greens. They where smooth and true with no significant iperfections that where on most every green the last time I played the course, still as fast as I remember. There is work to do on the fairways, they are still pleaged by bird dropings, ground in repair and the squirrel population has grown, but no lost balls down squirrel holes!

Fairway and green condition is much better than before. Range is also good, we can hit from grass.

Fairways need attention and some of the bunkers need better sand, most the bunkers have been re-sanded.

We skipped hole 11 due to a very slow foursome in front of us.

The course has some water saturated areas just off the fairway. They are unplayable unless you don't mind standing in the water up to your ankles. I only noticed them because I was in them on hole # 1 just five feet to the right of the fairway and on 13 just in front of the trap on the right. The sprinklers came on and nailed me as I was waiting to hit my shot on #9. I talked to the maintanence guy who was sitting close by and he didn't even notice. He was sorry and thanked me for bringing it to his attention.

There is no Marshall to help speed up play or at least tell the groups to pick up the pace. It's a nice place to play but not worth the price if it takes 5 plus hours to play and you're constantly waiting more than 15 minutes to tee off.

Shoreline is an excellent course to challenge any level...beware of wind on a few holes.

I like the general layout of Shoreline. It's a muni course with a more interesting layout than most munis. The tee boxes and greens were in good shape, but some of the fairways were torn up in places, and some of the bunkers need sand. The staff was friendly and it was a generally pleasant experience.

Great location, nice views, some holes have bad smell from the bay, easy course otherwise

I've played 100+ rounds at Shoreline, but due to injury this is the first time I've been there in ~ 2 years. Last year they got a new head groundkeeper who has really improved the greens and the teeing grounds. The greens are firmer, faster and roll much more smoothly than I remember them and the tee boxes are finally level. Most of the fairways are in good condition, but several (9, 10, 15 especially) were damaged by saltwater intrusion and a sinkhole last year and are still recovering. However, the main condition issue is the bunkers; the sand is hard, crusty and there was not enough of it in several bunkers. Also, it looked like they were not groomed or even raked by the grounds crew before play.

I like the layout a lot, the course has a nice variety of holes, a lot of risk/reward options and can be relatively easy or very difficult, depending on which tees you play. How strong and from which direction the wind is blowing can also make it a very different course. Fixing the problems I outlined would make this a 4 star course, IMO.