Mission Hills - Gary Player Course

The course has wonderful mountain vistas (like all courses in the area) and is great to play. All areas that normally apply to the game were really good. Tee boxes and fairways were lush but cut well and with consistent height throughout. The fairway was always well defined from the dormant rough which has a nice effect. Greens weren't super quick but rolled well and felt consistent. Everyone was over-reading break all day so I recommend just going at the cup. We missed so many just burning edges because of over-reading. Rough was also evenly lush throughout and easy to hit from so it's nice to have some forgiveness because most of the fairways aren't very wide.

The only negatives about the course:

1) bunkers were generally hard packed and not fluffy. Sure they had a little rain recently but these looked more like neglected maintenance.

2) For the price you would hope the areas surrounding the playing surface would be in better shape. Maybe it's still residual damage from hurricane hillary that hasn't been done but again it felt like much of the aesthetic areas bordering the playing surface were either dead or washed out or unkempt. Most of the stone tablet-signs for each hole were weathered and stained, some areas around the cart paths had standing water and seemingly there were problems with irrigation in various spots. Looked more like scenery at an old budget muni especially considering the great playing surfaces. I wish I could have played it back when it was first constructed. The layout would have really shined visually with full water hazards and sharp manicuring.

If you come to play golf you won't be disappointed, but don't expect a pretty course.

This beautiful course is in excellent condition as usual

Very impressed with condition of tees, fairways, and greens. Greens were a little slow (assume due to overseeding) but rolled great. Played this course two years ago in early April and was not nearly as impressed with the course as I was today.

For a top notch course I would expected a grand entrance and clubhouse, with that not being a thing case, the course was spectacular. I really like the contrast of the green lush fairways and greens vs the winter grass. The staff were amazing and very helpful, I will definitely play here again.

The staff at Mission Hills North went out of their way to accommodate our group after we had some last minute changes.

We originally had five players and two tee times - one tee time for two and a second tee time for three. On the day of our tee time, one player cancelled. The staff not only waived the cancellation fee, but worked with the other players that were originally paired with us so that the remaining four players could be in one group.

The staff's efforts were very much appreciated. I have already booked another tee time there for our next trip in February.