DeLaveaga Golf Course & Lodge

Despite the water shortage, the coarse was in great shape. The greens were amazing. Pray for rain this winter! DeLavaega is a great course.

Played just behind a tournament that was not being watched by course management.
Pace was slow and participants loud . Never saw a ranger or the beverage cart.

The course is scenic and a challenging layout
Conditions dry due to drought.
Priced too high for a muny and items in the pro shop marked up too high

fun course to play, need to manage your shots every hole to keep out of trouble, front nine fairways slope to the right and back nine fairways slope to the left, the greens were almost to soft from watering and a little bumpy, will play again with coupon.

The city of Santa Cruz cut the amount of water the course can use by 40%. The first 1/3 of all the fairways are dirt now. The rest of the course still looks good. The greens are in nice shape. The marshals do their job and keep the pace of play going well. If you hit most of your shots decent, then you will Ike the course. If you miss hit the ball a lot, you will be hitting out of dirt.

The greens were nice but some of the fairways were dirt due to the drought I expect. Some of the holes were narrow so be aware.

Course has been a local fixture for many years and is an economical option to nearby Pasatiempo. Has matured nicely over time and they manage limited water well. Walking is quite easy and the pace of play exceptional.

Too expensive, $53.00 with a county discount card @ 2pm. Very dry and slow. We had two groups behind us hit drives past us. One group finally left or jumped ahead somewhere. First cart had broken GPS. Greens in good shape, tee boxes recently seeded. Fairways dry, got a great rollout, had to take that into consideration when driving.

Goose and George are 1/2 the reason I drive here
and play.

I live down the road so this is my go-to course. I have a County Card, which brings the cost into the "reasonable" category. I certainly wouldn't want to pay full weekend price, but my option is to drive an hour for a better deal/course.
First, the CONS: Like others have noted, the drought has ravaged this course, and watering has been cut back 50% (or so I read). The are not watering many parts of the course (mostly off the tees), and where there is grass, the fairways are getting hard. Not the staff's fault, and it's sad to see. Also, like many lower-cost courses, there's no real "sand" in the bunkers, but we duffers lean to play with those conditions from many similar courses. Also, like others have noted, punks must play this course because there's an inordinate amount of divots and ball marks on the greens. But, this is no different than most <$60 courses I see.
On the PLUS side, the course is in a beautiful setting, and there is not a single house you can see, or hit. The layout is really fun, with Hole 10 being famously difficult (two perfect shots off the tee, and you have a change at par, otherwise--fergetit).
The course used to play insanely slow--6 hrs wasn't unusual. Now, depending on when you get out, the pace can be pretty fast. But I always walk (which is not hard on this course), so if I do 18 in under 4.5 hours, I think that's going pretty good. Folks who like to play fast use carts, and I say, "Where's the challenge in that?"
SUMMARY: A fantastic muni, but desperately needs rain in July '14. Get out there and enjoy the scenery of this track, I've heard pros say we're l lucky to have it in our backyard.

In spite of the water shortage, the ground crew is ingenious in maintaing the course. The greens are fast, but yet soft to receive a high lob shots.

Course is a bit dry. Very pricy as to other courses within 20 to 30 min driving
Need to have a few more $35 rates available. Then again the $50 $60 rate keeps the course in good condition and pace of play very good. Even with this ther are a few idiots not fixing their own ball marks on the green. So if you do play this course fix a couple extra marks for those with disrespect of a nice course. Course Could use an extra bottle of divot repair dirt on each cart. If you are a golfer with respect for the course you play. You will enjoy this one. Great layout

first time at course and enjoyed it. a course that requires a little course knowledge, so I look forward to the next round course is tough and requires some shotmaking

good value

Lack of water has left the course dry in many areas. Greens were nice. This is a fun muni course.

choosing the right club was my biggest challenge , make the wise choice

Nice day however pace was rather slow for a weekday due to some slow twosomes.
Tough narrow holes and very challenging!

I live so close to this course, I really want to like it. I've played it probably 30 times over the past three years, but the pace of play is just so lousy now that I am starting to drive much further away to play other courses. I wish they would put a ranger out on the actual course to move folks along. There are fivesomes playing, people looking in the woods for their balls for 10 - 12 minutes, etc. Last time I was there, I even saw a dude doing push ups in the middle of his run in the middle of the 10th fairway. Literally in the middle of the fairway. Makes me want to join some douchey country club.

Fairways were as bad as it gets on most holes. The greens were soft and slow due to the recent rain. The worst part about the greens was that a lot of players weren't fixing their ball divots. I fixed at least 15 that weren't mine.

This course is one of my goto courses but paying $45 to walk in this condition is way to much. There is no grass in most fairways(because of no rain) understandable. The greens are just horrible right now......which is not acceptable, since they are still watering the greens.

I would be really upset with the lack of green care if I was a annual member...

I liked this course before, but this times, green and fairway was not maintained. Green was really slow, and quite a lot of bumps.
And badly, the pace was terribly slow. We were waiting at every shot. We asked golf shop to improve it, but they didn't do anything. As a summary, it was really painful round.

Delaveaga is his all time favorite....greens well maintained and very nice environment...best weather the day before Thanksgiving