About
Perched in the hills above Santa Cruz, DeLaveaga Golf Course & Lodge features plenty of elevation changes as well as tight, tree-lined fairways making this short layout anything but a cinch. The result of the tight layout, however, often translates into long rounds as higher handicappers look for their golf balls in the woods. Designed by Bert Stamps, the golf course opened in 1970. Conditioning is average, but DeLaveaga Golf Course & Lodge's green fees are a small fraction of its more famous neighbors.
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Golfer Photos
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Photo submitted by Chrisgolf123 on 01/24/2022
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Photo submitted by AlliDoisWin2416 on 08/11/2021
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Green and lush ! Photo submitted by trat10 on 06/05/2019
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Photo submitted by uPPGO6271PP on 11/29/2013
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Short Par 3 over a ravine Photo submitted by dwl613 on 09/22/2012
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Downhill Par 3 Photo submitted by dwl613 on 09/22/2012
Golfer Reviews
Rainy round
I was playing all by myself. Greens are very well maintained, Fairway could be challenging on a few holes. I will most definitely come back and play some more
Great Old layout in extreme disaray
In looking for a place to play, I choose a course that I had not played in a while and wanted to revisit. In checking on GolfNow, there were no alerts for this course and I booked it. The course was in horrible shape. The fairways had been punched and the rough had not been cut in a long time. The greens were in reasonable shape, but bumpy. I had heard that this course picked up a questionable greenskeeper-- guess its not a question anymore
I play a lot of golf and this is one of my favorites
Nice day
Fun day. Spring conditions where the ball tends to hide in rough along the fairways and around the greens so you better make good shots or you'll be spending a lot of time looking for your ball.since the restraunt and bar are closed there's not much to say.
First Time at DeLaveaga
First Time playing this course and loved it, little challenging but if it was easy it would be boring. I was put with 3 very friendly members. thanks
Poor Management!!!!
I'm a small business owner and plays very weekend. We played a round yesterday for 4 1/2hours. We got a group and marshall yell at us for show play with cart path only!!! I wouldn't recommend anyone bother drive over the hill for poor management. Never come back again!!!
Delavega
Great course.
Beautiful Very challenging. But way to much recent rain. Just bad timing. Great course.
Too wet to play
This course is still way too wet to play. You may have to wait at least two weeks with no rain to get in a quality round here. I lost so many balls, not from bad shots, but from plugged shots in the fairway. Also, there are little white dandelions all over the course which makes it difficult to find balls.
If you do go out, it's currently cart path only. Beware of hole number 7 as there appears to be a cart path that turns left towards the middle of the fairway only to dead in about 100 yards in. I took that path only to have the marshal tell me later to be sure to stay on the cart path. "I thought I was." All in all, the course could be decent when it's not wet and when mowed.
Wet and muddy
After several days of rain obviously I knew there would be some areas that would be fairly wet. However, pretty much the entire course was mud. Terrible drainage on this course. Perfect shots in the fairway were getting plugged deep and couldn't find them.
winter golf is difficult!
Course is in good shape in spite of the rain, but winter golf is hard! Pace of play was slow and the clubhouse staff must have been new. Got dropped from starting list! Started 1/2 hr late.
Round took almost 5 hrs...couldn't finish.
Awesome Par 3's!!!
I had an opportunity to play this course on a wet rainy weekday. Very few bothered to go out. But I braved the weather and was rewarded by really nice par 3 holes on this course. It was cart path only for obvious reasons. But since no one was out I finished in 2 1/2 hrs. Plenty of parking, a driving range nearby. A couple of implausible holes like 10th. Great finishing hole 18th. Too soaked and muddy to try the restaurant maybe next time.
Great Value
It was a no hassle experience confirming and processing my order. I liked that the golf course confirmed my order by email so there was no questions about the terms. Great experience
Great walk and good greens
Dela has been 1 of my favorites. I would join the membership if they had a better rate for county residents who support from property tax to local taxes as well as local goods and services patronize. Even with the county card i find other courses to be more competitive. You would think the city would give a better break as they may lise some in revenue but make it many more times in the volume. Its sad i cant play there more often due to this! Otherwise good course
Good condition and greens were great
Had a nice round good pace and friendly staff, only complant was snack shack was closes on a Sunday, not good