Cherry Island Golf Course

Nice Spring Weather round, course conditions were great especially considering the recent storms, greens were excellent! Staff (Geoff) was friendly and accommodating!

1) Front desk staff not friendly at all.

2) Did not have enough carts at check in for entire group.

3) Stacked tee times too close so backed up at 1st tee.

4) 4 hour pace took almost 5 1/2 hours due to back up.

5) course was hammered.

After waiting over a hour past my tee time. I finally just left. This place was terrible. They overbooked and had no carts ready. I sat and watched hole 18 while waiting for my cart and no one played hole 18 for over 30 minutes,meaning that they had no marshall and could care less about the pace of play. Pro shop could care less. They already got their money. I will not go back.

Course was in decent shape overall. Greens were ok, but rolling slow. Also, some of the tee boxes were in rough condition, almost like we were hitting out of a bunker or off hard pan. The cart girl was rolling around doing a good job, but as I’ve experienced before in the past, at times they don’t answer their phone when you try to call the pro shop or restaurant. For the price better than playing some other courses around Sac/Roseville area. And last but not least, the pace of play was actually good. If you’ve played here on a weekend before you’ll understand when I say I was excited to get done in 4 hrs.

Robert Muir Graves is a noted golf architect.

He was delt a bad hand at woodcreek Note 11th 13th at woodcreek. vernal pools. At Cherry Island

The original 1st and 10th holes were

incumbered because the Dry Creek Relocation was not allowed by dogmatic environmental concerns.

Relocation would have made the 10th and 1st great Par 4 s with the creek moved to the south.

Hard to find grass driving range in a public course.

Cherry island is more challenging than a muni course with more hazards to deal with. Excellent for beginners transitioning over to intermediate. The course was in good condition for February. There were some tee boxes where the stance was off kilter. Love the lay out and definitely will play again.

Don’t get an afternoon t-time because I’ve experience a 6 hour round out there before. The Marshalls don’t get paid they volunteer so the Pro in charge most likely won’t fire them for how poorly they do their job keeping the course moving on time. But that’s not the worse thing. Many of the t-boxes were set up where it was just dirt and they have been hitting from that area since last year and not picking a better area. I decided to hit from where there was grass instead of dirt just to clear my mind so I wasn’t frustrated and focus more on hitting a good drive instead. Next time I’ll take pictures so you can see how bad the golf course maintenance people do there job so poorly

They should be fired and replaced for how stupid they are

Course in pretty good shape considering the weather and winds we’ve had.