Castle Creek Country Club

This was apocalyptic. The worst course in the U.S. Please wear a hazmat suit while playing. The pictures on golf now were from 1972. Bring antibiotics. We lost more balls on the fairway to gophers and squirrels. We pulled more weeds than the greens keeper. Don’t get catfished! 100% pass on this course. Purgatory has a better course than this.

I would rather go to the range any day. Don't even show up here. It's basically a closed golf course .

DO NOT BOOK THIS COURSE! THE PLACE LOOKS ABANDONED AND THE COURSE IS NO LONGER VIABLE. WHOEVER OWNS THIS COURSE IS STEALING GOLFERS MONEY! THE ENTIRE PLACE LOOKS LIKE AN APOCALYPSE HAS OCCURRED AND THE COURSE IS LEFT FOR DEAD! IT USED TO BE A DECENT PLACE, BUT NOW THERE HAS BEEN NO IRRIGATION (SAVE A TINY BIT ON THE GREENS) IN A LONG TIME AND THE COURSE IS LITERALLY DIRT, STRAW, AND GOPHER HOLES!!! THE CLUBHOUSE, RESTAURANT AND BANQUET ROOMS ARE ALL ABANDONED AS WELL. THERE NEEDS TO BE SOME SORT OF REPRISAL FOR SITUATIONS SUCH AS THIS!

There should be a warning on GolfNow about this course. There's no justification for charging $65 to play here. This place used to be generally ok, but not anymore. Every fairway was dead, and filled with gopher holes. The entire place looks like its on its death bed. Bathroom in the "clubhouse" has no running water and everything else is falling apart. The greens are the only things getting watered but they are extremely slow, likely because they haven't been cut in quite some time. You could maybe feel ok about playing here if it were $10 per person, but when I asked for a discount based solely on the view from the parking lot they wouldn't budge. Definitely avoid this place, I won't be going back unless someone buys it and completely revitalizes it....or if it only costs a few bucks. Only positive was that there was only one other person on the whole course and our twosome finished in 3 hours.

Zero water being used in the fairways, greens are ok , but haven’t been mowed in days.

We used GolfNow for a discount but won’t play again due to conditions.

This course I have played for the past 20 years but I will not be going back. In complete disrepair bordering on a cow pasture. It wouldn't be worth $10 much less $45. This course will close I'm sure which is a shame as it was good in the old days. Fairways lack grass and watering. Bunkers have weeds growing and are not maintained. Probably the worst course in San Diego county.

It would be easy to complain about all of the problems at this course. Instead, I'll offer some suggestions as to how to make it better.

1. Trees: Many of the trees on this course have gone decades without PROFESSIONAL trimming. Quite a few are dead but remain standing. Trimming the trees properly and with a "golfer's eye" (don't block a nice draw shot) will add to the golfer's experience. Removing many of the Eucalyptus will also help reduce the debris and provide for healthier growth of grass. Trees that are not removed should be heavily "laced" or "pollard cut". The trees are trying to get water to all branches and they are drying out because they have to work too hard. You need a major tree company to work with a true greenskeeper to get this course back to playable and fun.

2. Grass: The course is no longer in a position to just aerate the grass (which you never do, especially the fairways) - You need to consider resodding. Just take one hole and prove to the public what you can do. Right now, people never want to come back because it just doesn't seem like it's ever going to get better. Leaving all the Eucalyptus debris on the grass just makes it worse. The rodent control is non-existent and makes the cart ride a very rough experience.

3. Sand Traps: Please visit the golf courses around town and take a survey of the traps. These are the worst in town. To improve, you need to remove much of the dirt that exists now and replace with proper sand. Another idea would be to eliminate a few. (example Hole 15 trap behind the hole) Then you could allocate sand trap resources to fewer traps.

4. General Maintenance: Much improvement can be made by simply raking, weed whipping, blowing leaves off, etc. Here again, if the trees get taken care of, there would be a lot less to maintain.

5. Revenue: You must invest in your future. The Vineyard brings in more than $300K/month because they offer a desireable product. When people are done playing Castle, they don't want to come back. If you upgraded your product, more people will play. You can barely get a tee time at other courses but CC is wide open. There is a reason for that. How about buying one of those 5 station practice nets, setting it up in the parking lot and offer $15 bucket of balls with a beer special? How about reaching out to locals and giving them a special deal if they bring new players?

This course sits right on the interstate in an incredibly fast growing area. It has a liquor license. How can it be that you don't compare with Pala? Vineyard? Golf Club Fallbrook? Temecula? Rather than think you can do all of this yourself, what you really need to do is hire a real golf course manager, pay him or her well and hand over responsibility to them. You need to give the crew better equipment. They can't do this without proper resources.

I urge you to take this to heart. I want nothing but success for this unpolished gem.

Disappointed no grass just weeds in fairways looks like there out of water on course probably will not stay open much longer feel sorry for homeowners that bought there home on this course Sad situation

Nice setting, not busy, but the course requires some maintenance

This course has gopher holes everywhere. The fairways looked like they haven’t bee watered and look terrible. . There is no driving range. The restaurant is closed. It is not worth the money.

Horrible course. Horrible conditions. For 65$ is robbery.

This course is so poorly maintained that the entire fairway feels and look like you are playing from inside the hazards. The entire course is dry and hard also full of holes. It should not be called a golf course. The bunkers are so dry dry and hard it feels like you are playing in a jungle because they are also full of weeds and other bushes.

The worse part are their prices.

Castlecreek, is one of my favorite layouts for a golf course. It’s fair, challenging and pretty fun. The greens are coming back a little bit - the fairways are rough, but the pace of play is fantastic and the price is pretty good / I go there to practice a lot. I’d like to see it come back to its former glory, but I don’t know if that’s gonna happen. The restaurant is closed.

I’m not sure what was worse, the gopher holes everywhere or the rock hard/grass infested bunkers. This course has the potential to be really good, just needs to be taken care of. This course was probably really good back in the day but it is a run down has been.

Pro shop was in serious disrepair, as were all other amenities. Most of the greens were in good shape, but fairways and bunkers very poor. Overall had an alright experience, but for $45 there are much nicer places to play a round.