Rancho San Joaquin Golf Course

The good things first, Nice staff, attentive to pace of play, nice bathrooms on the course, and the bunkers have great sand.

The bad: The whole place needs work.

The fairways were drastically inconsistent. Hard pack dirt to swamp status, no reward or advantage to be in the fairway. The greens were also beat up, shaggy bumpy (to be fair some were recently aerated). You have dried muddy tire tracks around some greens, uneven tee-boxes, and generally frustrating conditions throughout. This place has potential but is just not reasonable for $54, if it was $20 then I wouldn't be writing a review. I'm not sure whats going on with management but the place essentially needs to be completely reworked.

The course fairways are in terrible condition - torn up, no grass, muddy. Greens are quite good.

I enjoy this course because its wide open. Hard to lose a ball. I usually score a 90 -+4 but don't get out as often as I used to so my hits off the tee box could be suspect at times. The water hazards aren't too much of a concern unless it just happens to be one of those days. I think its well worth the $35-50

There was a tourney that day so the greens and fairways were in great shape. pace was a bit slow for teeing off at 650am.

Greens are always in good condition. Fairways have some bare spots. Bunkers and most tee boxes have been redone recently. I always like coming to an open golf course. Not many Hazards. The issue is always someone who plays from the Blacks and should be playing from the red's. That contributes to the slow pace of play

I enjoy playing the course and the people who play there have been excellent to play with; but you have too many wet spots that don't give you a fair ability to score.

playing a course for the first time always has its issues. luckily for me I met a member that plays 8 times a week. he warned me of dangers with blind shots and green slopes. I will play it again because it is close and a good value. my concerns are: I didn't see a marshal after I teed off. there were many, many dirt patches along the fairways. the group in front of us( 4 men ) didn't obey the cart rules on the holes that were not to be driven on, again, no marshal. I didn't find any water coolers. there wasn't any patch soil on the par 3's. I understand that the course is getting better, but the dirt patches is just not excusable. I also stood in soogy grass at least 5 times near the greens. the greens were the best feature of the course. though I did find myself fixing ball marks on every green.

enjoyed the course at twilight rates. Seems too many golfers of below average ability. we were able to play by the slow group ahead and really enjoyed the course.

The greens were nice, but the fairways have a lot to be desired.

Slow pace. Too many players.

This course has a great layout with par fives, fours and threes. The greens were in good shape but fast with undulations that in our group were most punishing.

There are recent repairs on the fairways that were well done but many areas were hard and unforgiving.

People complained about slow play. We played the round in five hours which was not bad in my view since most of the time we moved along at a good pace with short waiting times.

Good pace of play but the fairway was like a dump.

So many GUR's and hardpans in the middle of fairway.

I had to dodge so many duck poops while walking toward the greens. I don't think I want to come back here again.

Played one time last week of April. Course was in poor condition. GUR everywhere. Greens not bad. Surprising that a muni course in such an upscale community is kept in such poor condition.

The course is still beat up in places, such as fairways with no grass. But our timing couldn't have been better as there was nobody in front of us the whole round and we finished in less than 4 hours!

Course is in ok shape, the pace is always slow here. Decent course for your money but the pace is what deters me. Other than that it's not bad.

Cart path uneven is breaking carts apart

Greens are good. Fairway is not but appears to be under attention. Bunkers are being refreshed with new sand.. Workers are considerate with players.

It appears improvements are in the works.

Fairways still sparse, new sand in some bunkers. The greens are typically in great shape and challenging

The greens were ok, but the fairways & traps need a lot of work.

Played the course with my wife as a twosome for our 25th wedding anniversary. We played fast for the first eight holes then hit the slowest twosome I have ever had the displeasure of playing behind. They never waived us ahead and we waited on every shot from the ninth hole on. They not only held us up but the two foursomes behind us as well. Complained to the marshall which was a mistake because they happened to be his buddies that were holding the course up. He was rude and disrespectful in their defense instead of managing pace of play. Course condition is marginal at best; rock hard bunkers, uneven tee boxes with little or no grass and patchy fairways. Last time I'll play here....

Course has a nice layout...lack of water is evident, but greens are in pretty good shape- Overall good value at $46 with cart on a Sunday at 11am tee time-Not to too busy either, so we move along OK.