San Vicente Golf Resort: #3
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4.3
704 Reviews (704)
5 Stars
277
4 Stars
300
3 Stars
74
2 Stars
36
1 Stars
17
Conditions
4.2
Value
4.1
Layout
4.5
Friendliness
4.4
Pace
4.0
Amenities
4.1
88.8%
Recommend this course
614 out of 704 reviews
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4.3
15 Reviews (15)
5 Stars
9
4 Stars
3
3 Stars
2
2 Stars
0
1 Stars
1
Conditions
4.3
Value
4.0
Layout
4.4
Pace
3.9
Amenities
4.1
StaffFriendliness
4.3
73.3%
Recommend this course
11 out of 15 reviews
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4.3
54 Reviews (54)
5 Stars
22
4 Stars
27
3 Stars
4
2 Stars
0
1 Stars
1
Conditions
4.2
Value
4.1
Layout
4.5
Pace
4.0
Amenities
4.1
StaffFriendliness
4.4
88.9%
Recommend this course
48 out of 54 reviews
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About

Holes 18
Type Resort
Par 72
Length 6822 yards
Slope 135
Rating 73.7

San Vicente Golf Resort sprawls across lush rolling hills in Ramona, though it is conveniently only 20 minutes from San Diego's many attractions. Situated in the Valley of the Sun, the golf course boasts scenic views of the surrounding mountains as well as temperate weather for most of the year. Ted Robinson designed the layout, utilizing the natural contours and features of the terrain. The golf course only measures to 6,633 yards from the back tees but it seems to play much longer because of the elevation changes throughout, which range from subtle to dramatic. The undulating nature of the landscape gives each hole a unique character. No two holes even vaguely resemble one another on this layout. San Vicente is not only for golfers though, there are also lighted tennis courts, two equestrian centers, and a year-round heated pool.

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Course Details

Year Built 1971
Fairways Bermuda Grass
Greens Bermuda Grass
Golf Season Year round. Weather permitting
Architect Ted Robinson, Sr. (1971) Andy Staples (2021)

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes
Pull-carts Yes
Clubs Yes

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Golf School/Academy Yes - "San Vicente Golf School"
Golf Simulator Yes
Teaching Pro Yes
Pitching/Chipping Area Yes
Indoor Practice Yes
Putting Green Yes

Policies

Credit Cards Accepted VISA, MasterCard, Amex Welcomed
Metal Spikes Allowed No
Walking Allowed Yes

Food & Beverage

Bar, Grill, Restaurant

Available Facilities

Banquet Facilities, Spa, Jacuzzi

Available Activities

Swimming, Billiards

Available Sports

Fitness, Tennis

Accolades

  • Golf Advisor: Top 25 Most Improved U.S. Golf Courses (2021 #9)
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4.3
704 Reviews (704)
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Reviews 2
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Previously Played

Greens need attention

Good layout with good place of play. Soccer greens need to be redone as the are bald spots especially on hole #1. I hear they are going to work some magic on the course but we shall see. I will wait till late summer to play this track again.

Conditions Fair
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Amenities Good
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Commented on 04/11/2019

Thank you so much for letting us know about your recent experience. Your satisfaction is a deep concern of ours as we always aim to exceed expectations. Our playing conditions are very important to us and we do strive daily to maintain high standards. Please come back soon and allow us to WOW you on your next visit! Until then, take care!

Played On
Reviews 18
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Awesome day!

Old guy at the counter was his usual grouchy self; actually a real jerk.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Poor
Pace Good
Difficulty Moderate
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Commented on 04/03/2019

Thank you so much for letting us know about your recent experience. Your satisfaction is a deep concern of ours as we always aim to exceed expectations. Your review will allow us to follow up in areas you voiced concern. We hope you will come back soon so we can WOW you on your next visit. Until then, take care!

Played On
Reviews 5
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

The course has some great hole layouts

Unfortunately most of the fairways had only patchy grass and the greens were in bad condition as well

Conditions Poor
Value Average
Layout Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
1.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Disappointed

I’ve been browsing and playing golf courses in the SD Area for my vacation. In spite of the recent comments regarding the conditions of the course specially the greens I decided to give it a shot.

The course not only is in terrible condition (tell me if you find any grass in the fairway) as the three other people that would be playing with me got there as a foursome. This way I ended up being set to play by myself squeezed between 2 foursomes. Result: 10 minutes waiting for my second shot IN THE FIRST HOLE. And people shooting balls in me.

The only thing not terrible was the treatment given to me when I stopped my round and asked for my money back. The guys from the Pro Shop were polite and never argued.

But not only my experience was terrible but the course is unplayable right now. A shame.

Conditions Poor
Value Fair
Layout Poor
Friendliness Good
Pace Poor
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once every three months
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Bautiful course

San Vicente is a fantastic golf course. The staff are very friendly and helpful. The course blends in with the surrounding oak trees and creek bed very well. Lots of beautiful birds around, Including a dozen wild Turkeys that greeted us at the 16th green. The greens definitely need some love and it sounds like they are completely re-doing the greens this Summer. Looking forward to that. Would definitely recommend.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Good
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Commented on 05/12/2021

Thanks so much for the review. We look forward to welcoming you back to our course soon. Thanks for choosing San Vicente Golf Resort.

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Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Problematic Greens

Greens have a disease and large patches of green are dirt. impossible to take putting seriously as ball bounces of target due to holes in the green due to disease

Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Difficulty Fairly Easy
Response from on 01/15/2019:
Hello, thank you for the taking the time to review our course. We appreciate your feedback on the conditions of the greens. Thank you for playing San Vicente Golf Course and we hope to earn your business again.
Played On
Reviews 1
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Response from on 01/07/2019:
Hello u000007921121, thank you for the four-star rating. We are glad you had a great golf experience at San Vicente Golf Course. Thank you for visiting us and we hope to see you again soon!
Played On
Reviews 4
Handicap 15-19
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
1.0
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

What a Dump!

I played this course this past November. All 18 greens had cancer. 50% of every green had large bare sports. Some of the greens - well, you could not call them greens as they were brown, basically dirt. I had not played this course for narely 25 years; however, at that time, it was in pristine condition. The only hope for this course is that they tear out every green and build them from scratch. I am writing this review 6 months later as I forgot to write it when I returned home from a short stay in Ramona. I am also planning another short stay in Ramona and again will be looking to play a round of golf.

Perhaps they have completed the rebuild of the greens by now. Otheriwise the 45 dollars they charged me was wasted. In the condition that I played this course, I would not recommend it to a sheep or cattle rancher.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Average
Amenities Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 15
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Course needs work

Price from golf now was good but course fairways & greens pretty shabby

Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Response from on 01/02/2019:
Hello Bob7781510, thank you for taking the time to write a review of our course. We are glad you enjoyed our affordable rates and we appreciate your feedback on the course conditions. Thank you for playing San Vicente Golf Course and we hope to see you again soon!
Played On
Reviews 12
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Cold weather
Used cart
Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Response from on 12/03/2018:
Hello msorchy1, thank you for the four-star rating. We are glad you enjoyed our course conditions and the pace of play. Thank you for visiting us and we hope to see you again soon!
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Good
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Response from on 11/28/2018:
Hello Robin60, thank you for taking the time to rate our course. We are glad you enjoyed our course layout and we appreciate your rating on the course conditions. Thank you for playing San Vicente Golf Course and we hope to see you again soon.
Played On
Reviews 6
Handicap 0-4
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Greens

I’ve played this course many times, and have always been impressed with the course conditions especially the greens.This year has been especially humid and many local courses have had issues with their greens.

I will not let this one bad experience stop me from playing this course again.

The greens will recover, and when they re-build the greens next year this will be one of the best courses to play in the region.

Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Response from on 10/18/2018:
Thank you for your review, and we are working on our putting surfaces. We had a very hot and humid Summer which resulted in turf loss due to fungal activity and other highly challenging conditions. Work by our Golf Course Maintenance team has greens in full recovery mode, and the cooler weather is allowing for conditions to improve.
Played On
Reviews 6
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Wet weather
Used cart

Course good, greens terrible

Have played San V a handful of times, I have to drive a long way to get there but it's a course I like so it's worth it, until today. Greens were in terrible shape, lots of dirt patches and very bumpy, certainly not a true roll. Played here a few weeks back and they were no where near this bad so I don't know what happened, but until they're fixed it's not a course I'll be back to in a hurry. Tee boxes and fairways were fine so it can't just be lack of water.

Conditions Poor
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Response from on 10/16/2018:
Thank you for your review, and we are working on our putting surfaces. We had a very hot and humid Summer which resulted in turf loss due to fungal activity and other highly challenging conditions. Work by our Golf Course Maintenance team has greens in full recovery mode, and the cooler weather is allowing for conditions to improve.
Played On
Reviews 8
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
2.0
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

They should disclose...

Just like the other reviews the greens pretty much unplayable. Myself and 3 friends played golf at San Vicente Golf Resort yesterday and it was TERRIBLE. We have played there a few times before and the course was always in great shape, tee to green. But yesterday when we played the greens were in TERRIBLE shape, LOTS of bare sections, not spots but sections of the green, they are blaming it on a fungus. We will go back once they get their greens fixed, there are others places to play in San Diego until they get this problem fixed.

Conditions Fair
Value Poor
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Average
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Response from on 10/11/2018:
Hello SoCalWaldo, thank you for taking the time to write a review of our course. We appreciate your feedback on the conditions of our greens and we escalated it to the appropriate departments. Thank you for visiting us and we hope to earn your business again.
Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 10-14
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
2.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

good course but terrible green condition

I played this golf course first time. The course layout was good but the green condition was terrible. We gave up the putting in almost course.

I am not recommend this course this time.

Conditions Fair
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Fair
Amenities Good
Response from on 10/09/2018:
Hello SSOON, thank you for taking the time to write a review of our course. We appreciate your feedback on the conditions of our greens and we escalated it to the appropriate departments. Thank you for visiting San Vicente Golf Course and we hope to earn your business again.
Played On
Reviews 12
Handicap 0-4
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Wait for a while!

San Vicente is one of my favorite courses in the county. I was excited to have two friends come along to play it for the first time. WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT! The greens are awful. Not truly playable. The GolfNow listing should DEFINITELY forewarn prospective players that the greens are a big problem. Looks like they got a fungus. But the "good parts" of the green are horribly long and bumpy. Wish we'd played elsewhere.

Conditions Fair
Value Fair
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Response from on 10/08/2018:
Hello Bruce1622, thank you for taking the time to write a review of our course. We appreciate your feedback on the conditions of our greens, we escalated it to the appropriate departments. Thank you for visiting San Vicente Golf Course and we hope to earn your business again.
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Greens where terrible

The greens where so bad half dirt and half shag carpet and a temp green. No advisory on golf now about conditions pretty disappointing

Conditions Fair
Value Fair
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Response from on 10/02/2018:
Hello Grc1, thank you for taking the time to write a review of our course. We appreciate your feedback on the conditions of the greens. We escalated your feedback to the appropriate departments. Thank you for visiting San Vicente Golf Course and we value your feedback.
Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

San-V

Always a great course. The greens are burned very badly due to the extremely hot summer weather. We just play 2 putts each hole. Fairways, bunkers and tee boxes are good. Many courses arround San Diego have burned greens this summer so we accept that here. Really a fun course.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Response from on 09/26/2018:
Hello, thank you for the four-star review. We are glad you enjoyed our course and we appreciate your feedback on the conditions of our greens. Thank you for playing San Vicente Golf Course and we hope to see you again soon!
Played On
Reviews 6
Handicap 15-19
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Bad greens

Fair fairways, very bad greens. Most if not all have 80 percent dead grass.

Conditions Fair
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Response from on 09/13/2018:
Hello Teamms, thank you for taking the time to write a review of our course. We appreciate your feedback on the conditions of our greens, we escalated your feedback to the appropriate departments. Thank you for visiting us and we hope to see you again soon!
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Fair
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Response from on 09/04/2018:
Hello, thank you for taking the time to write a review of our course. We are glad you enjoyed our course layout and we appreciate your feedback on the conditions of our greens. Thank you for playing San Vicente Golf Course and we hope to earn your business again.
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