Crystal Springs Golf Course

We were scheduled to tee off at 11:04 but dd not tee off until after 11:30. Then it took 5 1/ 2 hours to play 18. Often there were two foursome waiting at the tee when we completed the hole ahead. For the entire front nine. Back nine the pace picked up somewhat. So do not play here on a weekend.

Played here today waited approximately 20 minutes per hole per shot. Never saw one marshal come out to speed things along. Horrible time management in a course I usually love playing. Get it together.

Good day, good greens. Better pace than usual made for a great day.

I really enjoyed this course. It’s quite picturesque but does have a lot of narrow holes! Gotta be on your game! Thinking about playing here again today as a matter of fact.

Unfortunately the drought (and likely revenues) have really taken a toll on Crystal Springs. I really enjoyed playing here in college in the 80's but things are a bit rough now.

First the good. This track has always had a nice layout and that, of course remains. Winding back and forth against the hillside above Crystal Springs reservoir, the views are nice and the routing is good.

There is also abundant wildlife along the way including deer that, if anything, are too friendly. A guy on a tee box ahead of me had to literally shoo away a deer so he could play.

The course is very affordable for bay area golf and the pro-shop staff was fantastic and went out of their way to be helpful.

Now the not so good. The tee boxes, fairways and greens were all in really rough shape, including bare spots. Everything was hard and fast (and seemingly very much lacking in water). It was playable, but really only just so.

Magnifying the issue, the pace of play (to be fair this was a late Saturday afternoon tee time) was horribly slow to that point that nearing 3 hours in I left after the 9th hole (I almost *never* walk off a golf course). This was after two groups insisted that we played through.

My hope is that I caught Crystal Springs at it's worst and things will be better next time in in the bay area, the course I recall from my youth was really quite nice. With this in mind I'll withhold a commitment on whether I'll play there again.

first nice hole is in a good pace , but last nine hole is very slow. Total time to play 18 holes is 4.5 hours.

Cart Broke on 1st 9 holes. Delay to replace it. Since it was late didn't played back 9 hole. No refund was given.

It's memorial day weekend , so the pace is very slow. It took almost 6 hours to finish the 18 holes. The green is a little bit tricky and not in perfect condition. Be patient and just enjoy!

Not too muddy. Greens were decent but slow. Rough is long and tough to find balls. Pace is slow. Great and demanding layout. High handicaps should move up a tee box

Course is a great layout in reasonably decent condition. Day I played it was extremely cold and windy and length from blue tees was good challenge. Not a lot of flat lies out there.

Course was very wet. Cart path only. Rough was grown up. Impossible to find your ball. Also using 1 temporary green. Plus greens had been aerated recently. There was no mention of any of this when booked. I am a VIP member . I was very disappointed. They also allowed a fivesome with no marshalled. Started 30 minutes late then it was a 5 hour 15 minute round

Course was in very poor condition. They did not disclose the greens were being aerated. Fairways were very wet and muddy and the rough was overgrown with lots of daisies. I would not recommend playing here during the winter months even though it was sunny today

New to the area so playing everywhere. Grew up playing muni’s, and have a real love for them.....This course however, was the worst experience I’ve ever had. Fairways were basically the rough at 2 inches thick, the rough was easily 6 inches. Groups spent 10 minutes trying to find their tee ball on every hole. Pace of play was a joke. Tee’d off at 9am, and didn’t finish till almost 3pm. The saddest part was the course layout, which is great, but conditions and pace of play ruined the round. There is also no food on the course, or beverage cart (on a Saturday morning, sunny, and 70 degrees outside). Will never play the course again, even if give a free round!

It's been rainy, I get it. Course is going to be in rough shape. That's fine. But the greens were un-puttable on top of a temporary green on #3. Again, that's all fine, but not for $87,. Also, there's nowhere to get food on the course. No cart, nothing. $87!!?? Come on!