Black Gold Golf Club

I was desperate to play. It’s close to my house. Course is uninspiring. Uninteresting layout. Weird tricked up greens, spotty fairways. Typical overpriced OC track.

Greens are in great condition. Pace of play was a tad slow primarily due to the foursome in front of us, not anything course related. It’s a fun, challenging course and great change of pace from other courses in OC. Bunkers were above average,, but a few hard patches. Definitely will play here again.

The greens were in very good shape, but for a high end course it needed a lot of work. The fairways were in very poor condition and the layout was very average except for a few holes. I played it about 3 years ago and at least it was in very good shape.

Although I don’t live in the area, when I have an opportunity to play this course, I will. I decided to treat a friend here who had never played here before. Much to our dismay, we were unaware the greens were just aerated which didn’t allow us to experience Black Gold as we expected. The course itself is still beautiful and challenging but the first experience for my friend wasn’t what it should have been. This course is still one of my favorites and I’ll return. I just hope next time I travel the distance to play here and find the greens have been aerated.

I enjoyed playing this course, unfortunately the greens had just been sanded and we couldn’t putt. I didn’t see that on the golf now app. Had fish tacos after and they were great, staff was nice.I will be back!

We are not aware of that greens can have almost more sand than bunkers. We should be alerted before the reservation was made.

Best course in OC, I can understand why the normal cost is so high, just a beautiful course, but the only way I can afford it is to golf during the week for a reasonable cost.

Good course layout, nice condition, but not worth high green fee. Don't understand why the green fee is so expensive.

Black Gold Golf Club is an exceptional GC but, it’s the pace of play here that is getting worse over the years. People tee off from the tips and only hit it 180yrds OB half the time. Don’t get me wrong, I love the course and I sometimes play bad but, I at least respect the people behind me and pick my ball up and move on.

Furthermore, I’ve got nothing bad to say about this course except the pace.

Great golf course

Very challenging

Friendly staffing

Clean facility

2 weeks ago pro shop confirmed they found my lost item. Then, in just a couple of weeks they managed to lose it. Also a 5.5hr round on a weekday. Food is poor and beer selection limited.

Fun Arthur Hills design in Cali which is rare. Good views and nice use of the land.... beautiful homes line the course. Greens rolled nice and true in the dead of winter cant wait to visit come summer!

Amazing views. Great thinking man's/woman's course. Use strategy to score. Loved the bang for the buck, pace of play, and course layout.

This course was rated highly on Golf Advisor and was a top 25, therefore I expected a lot. I am giving them a pass for the dried out fairways and dead rough because we all know CA has had literally NO winter at all (1/18). However, this does not excuse my being issued a used/dirty cart, teeboxes littered with cigarette butts and broken tees - and a Monday pace of play that drove us away after 11 long painful holes. This is not a walkers course and on the 3rd I needed to skip the hole and jump two walking youngers who were probably 10 or 12 years of age slowly hacking away at the fairway.

My wife had heard several groups of non english speaking folks in the parking lot and when the starter told us that we were paired up, my wife was quick to ask whether or not the gents were english speaking to which he replied a hearty “Yes!”, well, they spoke little english at all and with their limited vocabulary waved us forward to play ahead of them, only compounding the course’s POP problems.

The marshal did visit us once during our round only to point out a fire that had broken out in the distance down in the Anaheim area. I myself was burning up! We exited the course at the 12th and as we drove along the cart path EVERY teebox was the same: stacked with people waiting to play that hole, all the way to the 18th green.

I can be happy that I did not pay full price. I had taken advantage of a Black Friday deal. I do not recommend this course as it’s days of being a top 25 course in 2016 are long gone at this point.

The greens were recently sanded and no one in the proshop, nor the starter nor signage indicated this. I really just see it as another one of golf challenges but it's nice to know this going in. A simple note on the pro shop counter would have easily sufficed.

I’m saddened because I enjoy sharing positive reviews of my golf course experiences and this was not one of them.

You win some, you lose some - but I’m still ahead!