Carmel Valley Ranch Resort

Consequently, we didn't finish. Not good. Short par 70 and yet it took 2 hours and 15 minutes to play the front. We waited on every shot. The back side was more interesing by a long shot but I'll never know how it finished because it was pitch black by the time we got to 16.

Holes 11-14 can be card wreckers. The wind came up the last 5 holes and it played a lot harder. Beautiful elevated tee boxes on the back nine. Staff in the pro shop super helpful.

During a recent bucket list trip to play Pebble Beach and Spyglass Hill, we wanted to play a few other local courses. The caddie at Spyglass recommended Carmel Valley Ranch. It’s located in a gated golf community and is a beautiful and challenging course.

We played from the Lavender tees (5230 yards) to challenge ourselves but the forward tees are 4433 and would be challenging and fun too!

Lots of elevated tees and you quickly realized you need to play the slope on many holes. We played with a local who gave us tips on many holes.

The carts have gps, they give you towels and water in the cart. Nice driving range (balls provided) and a nice practice green.

Definitely go on GolfNow for a deal, otherwise it is expensive but w/the golf now deal we got it was a super value!

Conditions were great, pace was outstanding but it was very uncrowded. A few shots that were a little tricky if you haven’t been there before. I would most definitely play again.

Scheduled golf here with family member in town. Showed up to find greens had been punched and sanded and were basically unplayable. The person checling us in gave us a discount due to these conditions, but any reservations should have warned us about these issues. We would have never played a course with newly punched greens. A miserable day. No way to cancel and find another option at the last minute.

Back nine has cool elevation changes and nice views.

Arrived to find back 9 closed, had to play front 9 twice. Very good conditions tee/fairways but greens were heavily sanded, not advised until check-in. Would have preferred to know this in advance and would have played elsewhere.

The course I was in great shape, from tee to green. A beautiful layout with lots of elevation change. Some holes re a bit difficult to judge what to hit off the tee. Due to elevation as well as strategically placed bunkers. Nevertheless, the course is very fair and a lot of fun.

Upon arriving at the course I was told that a Member’s Match had been given my Tee Time and I had to Tee off 20 minutes later. The Match was sooo slow it turned into a 5.5 hour round of golf waiting on every shot on every hole.

RUDE!!!!