Maderas Golf Club

Great experience. Course was in great shape overall. I'll give them a little pass on the average-paced greens as they were still recovering from aerification. But the layout is interesting with every hole being different and fairly memorable. No spectacular holes IMO but 18 pretty good ones. Fairway, tees and rough were in great condition with no worn or burnt spots. Nice carts with accurate GPS right to the accurate hole location.

Hard to rate courses nowadays for value with green fees out of control, but I would say it is a good $150-$250 course. Not a very good value as a $300 course, except for maybe once to check it off your bucket list. And I do consider it in the bucket list conversation, as it was a Golf Digest Top 100 US course 2013 to 2015.

Put this one in the top public courses in the area list that includes Torrey Pines North and South, Aviara, The Grand, and maybe The Journey at Pechanga.

What a great course. Love playing there. Expensive but awesome

Greens were aerated recently, so that slightly lowers my rating, but that is also great to see a beauty such as this continue to do the required maintenance to keep it great. Layout is very great, scenery is just as good, and I would absolutely play here again, Hole 8 is a little wonky, but most courses have one of those holes. Staff was great, and I didn't feel that there were any shots required that were unfair to the player. This is worth the time and money to play!

Would play here all the time if it wasn't so pricey. Great course

This was my fourth time playing here. Every time has been extremely enjoyable. I guess my only gripe is the pace of play does goes over 4 1/2 hours if you get out after noon. Otherwise, greens, fairways, bunkers are all in tremendous shape. But I will be back.

Great staff, great course, great pace, great value when you get an afternoon twilight rate. Under $150, take it and you won’t be disappointed.

Maderas is a fantastic course in great condition (give or take some rough patches on the greens) with super helpful and friendly staff. I’ve played here a few times over the last 5 years. However, after Jeff (the starter) kindly paired me up with a husband and wife couple so as to avoid me playing on my own, they unceremoniously dumped me after 4 holes leaving me to play on my own for the rest of the round. It was certainly nothing that I’d done wrong, and suffice to say, it totally spoilt my experience. I ended up racing round instead of taking in the scenery and beauty of this great track. I’d recommend this place to anyone, but on this occasion I was left totally disappointed and regretting signing up to play that afternoon (not the fault of any one at Madera).

We were the second group out on 9/3 and played in 31/2 hours. Course was in great shape and staff was awesome. This is a must play.