Recreation Park 18 Golf Course

Great course, the rough was quite deep, lost many balls.

5 groups backed up on hole 3; course did open up a bit after, but still very slow round. Unable to finish with 12:30pm tee time!

Played with two other guys and when we got on at 2:00 there was no one in front of us for several holes. We quickly figured out why the course was so empty. They made us ride our carts on the cartpath only because of the recent rain. If the course had narrower fairways then it may have been tolerable. But the fairways are super wide (good thing typically). But hit the ball on the opposite side of the cartpath and you have yourself one healthy workout. The GPS on the cart is rendered useless in this situation, so overall, nice course, but bad experience. We could have easily finished all 18 before sunset, but we could only do 15 because of all the walking we had to do. It would have probably been easier to walk the course with a bag cart. If it has recently rained, call the course to see if you can actually ride the cart over the course...

1230 tee time but didn't get off til 115pm. Front nine took 2 hr 40 min. Finally it loosened up. We got in 15 holes. I guess that's not too bad after a slow start.

Every time you play this course by the third hole there is a three or four foursomes waiting. Front nine took over three hours to play. Also your 1:00 pm tee time starts at 1:20pm. They always over book the course. After first four holes the course its an extremely nice course but the wait time makes it not a fun course to play.

Course was in good condition, but there needed to be a Marshall out on the course looking after the pace of play. The fivesome two groups in front of us was almost two holes behind and turned what should have. Even a reasonable four and a half hour round into a dragged out five hours and fifteen minutes.

The Good

I love the layout. Short par 4's. Long par 4's. Short par 5's. Normal par 5's. Great little par 3's! A little something for everyone, and very forgiving off the tee.

Course conditions in the fairways and rough is always good. The rough is thick, but not penal.

The Bad

It seems they are always doing some form of maintenance on the course. Greens are never really all that good. Man, if the greens were good, this course would be amazing!

The driving range leaves a lot to be desired, but at least today they had enough buckets!

The Ugly

Pace of Play. SOOOOOO slow. Today's round took 5:17. When I paid today, I saw a sign to make sure I carried my receipt with me at all times because they would have a marshall driving around to see when you started in order to make sure pace of play was what it should be. Never saw a marshall, and the pace was horrible.

A simple solution? Change tee times from every 7 minutes to every 9, and while you may lose a few bucks in the short term, you'll gain a lot more in the long term, because I won't go back, and I am sure many others feel the same way.

This course could be great. I hope one day it is.

The course was in fair condition. They had aerated the greens and they were a bit bumpy. Even with that said, scoring was good.

I should start saying that I play this course weekly, For some reason this weekend they overloaded it to the point of unplayable. 1.37pm tee time and got to 10th tee with 2 full groups on at 5.05 pm, Probably would have hit tee shots around 5.20pm.

I dont mind a 5some, I can stomach the odd slow player even but what I find to be a total disservice is to knowingly overload a course and not then marshall it at all to try and move groups along, space things in a way that it can work. Weekend rounds of 5hrs are the norm but to not have a single marshall out there trying to make this doable in under 6.5-7hrs was a Joke. Very Disappointed. The excuse of staff that it was a busy weekend was unacceptable. If this is to be the new norm Ill be giving this a miss

Terrible fairways that were rock hard in 40% and greens had a ton of sand on them.

Nice. Course layout plays for intermediate or low handicap players also good practice facility

The weather was poor but pace was great.

Weather was perfect. Greens were smooth. Had a great time!!

I haven't played this course since I was a senior in high school, and I must say that some things never change. People NEVER repair ball marks, NEVER rake traps, and all play at PGA pro speed on their way to a 5:20 round of golf. Course condition is OK at best, greens were PUNCHED on at least 25% of the surface (thanks for telling us, oh wait, they didn't... even in the pro shop), there was no marshall, and the 3somes ahead of us took almost 5 and a half hours to play in carts.

Looks like it will be a LONG time before I come back again. American Golf hasn't learned that you need to step up and marshal the course properly or even small groups (2 and 3-somes) will take over five hours to finish and I will not be back.

New to CA so I'm not as used to the slow pace of play. Short golf course but enjoyable. The greens were in good shape for as much play as it gets.

Booked tee time or 09:52, didn't tee off until 10:30, took an hour to play 3 holes. Course is decent but they need to get their act together on how many people they allow on the course, they were putting out 5 balls! I've never seen anything like it.

This course is semi long but not really. The fairways are generous off the tee and the greens were smooth. You could virtually bang the ball as hard as you wanted and it would find the fairway. The course is straight forward with no major tricks. Only drawback was that the fairways were patchy and had many dirt bone spaces. Overall a nice walk in the park not spoiled.

Disappointed a lot.. Need to wait till carts are ready at start, each team has 5 persons who need more carts and more time to play so it took almost 3 hours to finish only 9 holes and had to leave course at around 7
: 00 because of darkness.. My tee time was 2:07 and for 5 hours I could do only 16 holes.... I don't want to go there again unless remedy action would be taken.
Suggestion : put some restriction on 5 sum play which needs 50% more cart usage. (4 persons need 2 carts, 5 need 3 carts)

They over water the course at night, I understand it's blistering hot right now, but the greens (early am) are so soaked that the speed of the greens were so inconsistent. Also so many parts of the course are muddy even fairway lies can be challenging. They are working on 3 tee boxes so the temporary ones are terrible right now. In a couple of weeks/months it should be better.

Pace of play can be challenging because of the long par 4s but overall it's an OK course.