Carlton Oaks Lodge & Country Club

The fairways are much better this time of year. The greens as well. Can’t beat the price. Pace of play is good as long as you play early or late.

Haven’t played here in a while since the weekday rate went up to $65, but saw it was $48 and gave it a try. Same old poor conditions, greens and fringe are ok but fairways are poor. Loved the 2” rocks in the bunkers on 18. Marshall gave us crap for not joining the group ahead but made the turn in 2 hours.

I had a pleasant time playing this course, however, it was fairly ragged and a bit under-managed (tee times, pace of play, etc.) wise. I did enjoy the gentlemen I joined and played with, and thoroughly enjoyed the challenges this course offers on multiple holes. It's a fun course for a perfect afternoon spent golfing.

Highly suggest if you want a cheaper but quality-level course to play and if you go during the weekdays, this is a good choice.

Course was good once upon a time. Pete Dye design would have Pete rolling in his grave. Save your money and play somewhere else.

This course was the most poorly conditioned course I believe I have ever played. The only redeeming aspect was you could see the original routing of the course and appreciate that, but other than not bad greens, every other aspect was horrendous. Apparently a 2017 flood ravaged the course and it's never recovered. Hard pan, bare dirt, a million gopher holes, terrible bunkers, and on and on. I don't expect to see a puff of dust when my drives land.

This is the kind of course CPG posts photos of. IYKYK

This course challenges you and makes you play a complete round. Good tee shots followed by good fairway shots are rewarded.

Designed by Perry Dye ( relative of Pete) the “ bones “ of this course are awesome. However the condition of the course is beyond deplorable .

From tee to green nothing is maintained .

The course looks like what must be an after apocalypse war zone .

Golf now gave me a “ hot deal” at 72 bux .

I think a fair price would be more in the neighborhood of 22 bux when you consider that singing hills isn’t too far away and is 10,000% better in condition for the same or better hot deal prices .

It’s sad to see a Dye course in such disrepair

Played the back 9 Sunday morning, course was nice and weather was good.

Classic carlton. Decent greens. Patchy fairways. Layout superb.

I love Carlton Oaks. The staff is always friendly. The course is fun. My only complaint is that the sand trap are more like gravel traps. Other than that, love this hidden gem.

Difficult layout and poor conditions.

So…. Affordable prices for beginner golfers to an unfriendly course for beginners=

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Poor Conditions getting worse from beginners (fixed at least 4 pitch marks per green). Greens are not firm enough to withstand the onslaught of beginner golfers.

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Incredibly slow pace of play made worse by the employees putting up their hands (what are ya gonna do?)

I would play for $30 first thing in the morning. Not for $60.

Sad that one of the best layouts in San Diego has become an absolute dump. I wasn’t sure if it was a golf course or the surface of the moon. This could be one of the best tracks in the county if it were in good shape.

I’ve played this course at its absolute worst and it’s absolute best and right now the conditions are above average. I can see they’re starting to put some money into the course and the fairways are getting nicer! The greens are a little slow and could use a little overseeding. The biggest problem I The last time I played was the pace of play. It was very slow and took us almost 5 hours to finish 16 holes!