Poppy Hills Golf Course

This was the last golf day to the Monterey Peninsula, we had already played Spyglass, Spanish Bay and Pebble Beach. It was my husband's 65th Birthday and he had his best round of the weekend. We had prearranged a caddy who was fantastic and certainly helped on all of those tricky, fast greens. We would all play this course again.

Played with a couple that have played the course before and shared the knowledge, otherwise, it would have been a much more difficult round. Some holes on the approach don't require to fly the greed, so need to back off on club selection. This course requires specific locations to place the ball or your in deep you know what. Great value, and its in the Pebble Beach area, life is good!

This place is amazing. Staff is super friendly.

Greens are impeccable.

Great Robert Trent Jones track. Beautiful.

Staff was amazing. Course is in great shape. Greens were tough but fair. Overall a great day. Golf now had great rates.

This place is gorgeous. You get unlimited balls at the range before your tee time. The staff was friendly- even though we don't have the best of golf equipment(beginners golf set)- they still treated us with a lot of respect. We had two newbies in our foursome and based on how they played, make sure to take a lot of balls. The views are spectacular, beautiful greens and the club house is awesome.

The only negative to our round was it was cart path only. Not sure if NCGA is going to make Poppy (basically) walking only which is fine, or they had problems with people in carts hurting the course in the past, but we had already played a morning round, wanted to play 36, and it would've been a lot to ask our knees and backs to walk it. Great course, so nice, perfect shape, well worth the greens fee. But cart path only sucks as you all know and the fairways are super wide on most holes, probably would've walked less if we had just walked it. Great venue all in all.

Played in the late afternoon and finished in 4 1/2 hours, which is good for a public course. The price/value at Poppy is great.

Played a practice round with my daughter today. My 2 cents about Poppy Hills. All pro shop staff were a bit too arrogant for my liking. Then, range attendant was quite rude to us before our round. He was an older man who whistled at me, ensuring I checked in before hitting the range. Tee time was 3:30 because my daughter is a member of the youth on course. (Excellent program for junior golfers). This was our first time out since the remodel, so was excited to see the changes. Old hole #10 is now #1. Would have been nice to have signage or a map to figure that out. The course is mostly how I recalled it, except for the addition of new bunkers in the fairway ( typical of RTJ jr designs) and more undulating greens. Speaking of the greens, they were mostly rock hard and very dry. High iron shots hit the center of the green and roll off the back and into a bunker, ridiculous! This seemed to be the case more so on the front than on the back. Fairways are wide open on most holes, but bunkers are placed in good locations. Tee boxes/bunkers were in good condition. On the course, there were no places to clean your ball and no watering stations. Snack bar was closed at the turn. There was a place to fill up your water container however. Restaurant was closed at 6pm, another disappointment. Definitely not worth paying 200/round. Join the NCGA and play a discounted rate at this course. Even as a member, still not sure it's worth the price. IMO, the course was great the way it was. The course was challenging enough with the tree lined fairways, rough, doglegs, elevation change, and wind/weather. Sure the greens needed updating and removing the rough was a great change. But the orher "enhancements" ruined the Poppy Hills I always looked forward to playing.

This course was a challenge , fast greens and tight fairways. I didn't see any pine straw under the trees . They had a little rough on the edge of the tree line on most holes. Would play this course again .

Layout and location are special, but the greens were slow and inconsistent and very hard (very slight divots and no hold, even on high iron shots).

This is a good everyday course, but not the "bucket List" course I thought it would be.

Be prepared to hit over or around an army of course

Maintenance people filling in divots during play (should do in Morning)..

Loved the course, excellent condition and beautiful! Carved into a coastal forest! Beautiful course', every part; Fairways, Greens, Rough, Bunkers and Waste areas. As nice as any private CC in Coastal California! The staff was very friendly. 2PM T-time, so the wind picked up as the day went on. Finished in just under 5 hours. Only waited on one hole. Carts were required to stay on path, so we walked. There is a fair amount of terrain, we wish we took a cart. No water stations and no Drink Cart out on the course. Ask for a course map if you're playing for the first time.

Great track through the forest with some views of the bay. Conditions were excellent. We played Pebble Beach the day prior, this is an entirely different challenge. Firm fast greens - gotta place your approach shots. Walked at Pebble, took cart here. Glad we did as it is a hilly course. Downside is it is cart path always, all the time. Thought the snack bar prices were high, but we more than made up with GolfNow discount on greens fee. Nice guy working pro shop.

Even though we played in the rain in the fog and eventually in the sun on the back nine it was such an amazing course. It's very difficult and challenging and at the same time extremely beautiful. Because of the rain they've had for the past months, I'm sure the greens are a lot quicker than they were when we were there, but the read on the greens are hard!

The rate of play was painfully slow. We seemed to be the only group following cart path only rule. There were no rangers or beverage cart and limited water stations. The round took 5 1/2 hours.

This course has finally matured after the renovation and it is a gem. Extremely difficult greens, fast & hard. There are many false fronts, hazards and blind shots. Played on a Monday afternoon and the pace was a little slow as it was carts on paths only. You'll be well served by expecting slow play. Just count on 4 to 5 hours, probably over 5 on weekends. Use the waiting time to study your next shot, you'll need it. This course has many angles and hidden challenges but is a beautiful track. Frigging amazing! I'll walk it next time, especially if it's carts on path only.

This was a bucket list round and well worth it. Only negative was not due to course... Mother Nature was in a foul mood and it was rainy and windy so the course was not in the best shape. However, what an experience!