Maderas Golf Club

Drove down at the crack of dawn to find out there was a frost delay. Was notified via email but was on the road so had no idea. Range jam packed. Restaurant not open to grab snacks/food. Starter rushing groups out to “catch up”. First hole is forgiving so no back up. Once we got to hole 3 it was a standstill.

Can’t control the weather but things could’ve been handled better. Discount? A “sorry” or two? Starter could’ve kept the 10min space between groups to avoid the pile up starting on the 3rd hole. Took 4:20 to finish 16 holes. Not worth the $215 it cost. Sure the regulars love it here. Won’t be back anytime soon, bad taste left

If you want to play a fantastic course. Play Maderas. The course is in beautiful condition. The greens are perfect and lightning quick. Staff was outstanding and welcoming. Don’t waste your time or money playing Torrey pines. Torrey pines does have the views but the course is constantly beat up from all the people who play. Play a course that is too favorite with all locals.

The pace of play was significantly slow, we waited probably 3-5 minutes on each T box and started about 4 minutes late, the people in front of us were waiting for the people in front of them so it was backed up, and the people behind us were hitting up on us especially on one green, I think it was the 6 hole where we are walking on the green and the ball landed about 2 feet from where we were standing. No apologies from the people behind us. This group actually complained about us playing slow although we had no control over the 2 groups in front of us. The golf cart #10 was giving us trouble starting on the first 9 holes and died on the 11th fairway and had to be rebooted by a golf staff which made us further behind in our play and then on the 13th fairway the golf cart died completely, we called 4 times trying to get help and we had to walk back after 4 phone calls did not result in any help from the staff. This was now past sunset. It is/was unclear that anybody actually came to help us. This is the first time in my golfing play over the last 10 years that I had to walk in. We did not expect this level of poor service from such a "high end course". Interesting that the group behind us, that hit up on us, were on the 13th fairway behind us and did not offer any help when our cart died, did not apologize for their close call hitting us.

Everything was great and clubhouse/grille atmosphere dead but that probably byproduct of current rules w/ local government. Course was great and starter Marshall was very friendly w/ one of our guys who was new to game. Only weird thing experience I had was the check in guy outside. He weren’t out of his way to tell me he never had to pay for golf. Thought that was odd since I was on my way to pay 800 for my groups round. Just weird way to start the experience but my group got passed it and had a great time w/ each other.

SAVE YOUR MONEY!!!

Play somewhere else that isn’t taking advantage of the COVID Golf Industry! This place is a rip off! Course is in “OK” condition... definitely have inflated prices... have a $5 “COVID Fee”?? Place of play was awful! Marshals were screaming at a group from on top of the hill while we were trying to tee off. Played on a 90 Degree day in January, gave us one MINI bottle of water. When the BevCart came around, the wanted $5 for another mini bottle. For $150+ customer service was terrible!

You’re welcome!

Course in great shape for time of year. Greens running very nice.

Wetness limited to cart path only. Bring your par 3 bag to carry clubs onto fairway from cart.

Only drawback today was the pins weren’t updated on carts so all yardages were incorrect. Glad I had range finder but until we noticed it had some serious discrepancies between the cart and what I was seeing in the finder.

Course layout is fabulous though.

I played this course with my husband and teenage daughter for my birthday.. We all had a great time. From the warm welcome we received from the attendants in the parking lot, to the very friendly starter, we had a great time. They even provide you with a nice bottle of water. Even though the course is not as green and lush due to the time of year, the course is gorgeous. It definitely ranks up there as one of my favorite courses.