Del Monte Golf Course

Please have the greens keeper turn all the sand in the fairway and green side bunkers. All the sand had a very hard surface. Need to turn and rake the sand or remove and replace with new, fresh sand. Very poor conditions.

I had heard that the condition of the course was like a dust bowl but,maybe because of recent rains, the course was in much better condition than I expected. Grass is growing in areas. The greens were beautiful and very fast. Watch out!

The course is quite short and is very much intertwined. The challenge is playing the course which is up and down hills with extremely small greens. Your chipping and putting will be put to the test. Nice course and quite challenging in that it will let you beat yourself.

I suggest that this course is harmed by its association with Pebble Beach. It's not a resort style course, there's no sweeping ocean views, and you don't get resort amenities. That said, it's a really nice course in pretty good shape, and I'd love to play it again.

I enjoyed playing Del Monte today. I got a hot deal on Golfnow and for $55 this was pretty good. The layout is challenging and fairways are fairly tight. Great walking course actually - not a lot of elevation changes and tees are near the greens that precede it. It's a very classic design. I especially liked the Oakmont-style sand trap on 10 (you don't want to be in there). I don't agree with an earlier review about 17 - there's adequate room (probably about 8 yards) to miss the green without hitting a hotel guest, but I suppose with a bad shot, it's doable.

Fairways were pretty well kept, tees and greens and traps were great, rough needed a little water. Course conditions were generally good, and we played 18 in 4 hours and 10 minutes. There's no driving range (hence just 2 stars for off course amenities), and restroom/locker room were similar to what you'd get at a muni instead of a resort.

Staff was very friendly. Looking forward to returning. Think $55 is the right price - I understand their rack rate is $100, but at that number there are many better options.

I got a hot deal($56) at GolfNow. Fair for the price I paid but not sure if it is worth the regular rate of $100. The condition of the course maintenance is not that of Pebble Beach. I played at Spanish Bay before where the fair way is really beautiful and the green is silky as velvet but this is more like a local municipal course. Hole to hole is too close - two greens are close to each other at some point of the course.

Having said that, it was pretty good to play with my little son. He liked it very much.

The staffs are very friendly but they don't give you the Pebble Beach medallion after you play like others - Spanish Bay, SpyGlass Hill and Pebble Beach Links.

Del Monte has always been one of my favorites because I remember riding in the cart with my dad when I was about six years old. 53 years ago. We played the day after the Mecum auto auction was held on the 18th fairway. So the 18th was pretty wet but they warned us ahead of time on that. The greens and fairways had been aerated fairly recently so it wasn't in perfect condition but still a pleasure.

Gopher holes everywhere. Some of the greens are extremely small, well bunkered with little sand in them. Have to be crazy to pay $100 for this place. Much better value at Ft Ord. Nice views and ok layout but many greens way to small. White line demarcating gopher damage throughout. 17th hole very difficult with people eating just behind the green. Could break some windows or hurt someone very easily. Won't go back. Good lunch at the course though.

Paid $55 and it was just about worth it. Despite a comp. going out just before us the pace of play was good and the staff were great in getting us out. The course was disappointing for a pebble mill course with waste ground around fairways.

Paid $50.00 on Golf Now. Worth that price. Don't know if I would pay more than $75.00 to play. Pace of play was fine. Played in under 4 hours. Finished at 515, Bar was closed.

For a "Pebble Beach" course it was not what we expected. Fairways and greens kept up, but the rest of the course was average.

Pace of play is slow. Cost does not out weigh the benefits.

Great warm up course if playing some of the harder courses in the area. Greens can be tricky but fair. Pretty flat course but overall a nice course in good condition. We love to play this one to get ready for Spyglass or Poppy Hills. You want to feel relatively good about your game either on the front end or before you head home. This course will help.

Very nice coarse. Well laid out, greens were in excellent condition. Bunkers were in great shape.

All the staff were very friendly.

Will definitely go back

The course was in good condition, the pace of play was good until we got on the back nine. The staff was was very friendly, I would go back and play again !

A good test of golf, Del Monte was a decent test at a decent price. Caught a $50 hot deal on a Sunday afternoon. Bunkers were in great shape. Greens small but reasonably quick. Looks and plays like a typical muni. Nothing particularly memorable about the course but nothing poor to note either. Would not pay the normal $100 price tag , but for $50 it was a good deal.

I played Del Monte many, many times when I was a Dukes Club member in the 80s and 90s and loved it. At the time I was between a 1.5 and 5 index and I appreciated the challenges this course brought to bear. It rewarded long drives and punished even slightly errant ones.

However, back then, Del Monte had a lot more trees and the course was more picturesque and more challenging. As the trees came down, the owners never bothered to plant more. They've had thirty years to do this! Now, where there once were beautiful, strategically-placed trees, there are stumps and trunks with few limbs remaining. I saw no staked trees but I confess I was not looking for them. On a number of holes, "Old Del" is looking like an uninteresting, muni course. There was barely a dusting of sand over hardpack dirt in some bunkers and a full complement of Pebble Beach-quality sand in others. The inconsistency was disappointing. The greens were punched so I can't speak to the quality of the putting surface (Del Monte's postage-stamp-sized greens were always great. I assume they still are still true and slick). The rough is full of broadleaf weeds and it was punitively deep and thick. There hasn't been significant rain for two weeks. They couldn't mow?

Frankly, at a Golf Now $51 dollar rate, for a 2:10 tee time (which we had), I would not go back....with or without the punched greens. It is a poor value compared to the courses I can and do play for less or the same amount.

Sad to see how Pebble Beach Company treats this historical track.