Rams Hill Golf Club

can't say enough good things about this course...unless you live in borrego, you probably have a significant drive...treat yourself, you deserve it!,.especially if you're a low to mid handicap player...the staff makes you feel like they want you there...no "attitude" like you get at some courses...I play a lot of golf all over the country and rams hill is as nice as anything I play....highly recommend the entire experience

Mike, Director of Golf, and entire staff are extremely friendly and customer oriented. The golf course is in excellent shape.

This course is worth every penny you pay, every hour you drive. It is truly one of the best golf courses I have ever played.

The conditions are some of the best you can find anywhere. The fairways are so perfect it looks like field turf, the rough is green and cut to uniform length, the bunkers are good, and the greens are perfect, roll smooth without a bump, fast, true. There is literally only one area on the entire course that is not perfect and that's on the right hand side of 18th hole by the water where the birds have eaten the grass down to thin lies.

The layout is fun (great holes), challenging (hard fast greens, undulating, can play long depending upon your tees), fair (mostly wide, generous fairways), interesting (plenty of water, bunkers, waste areas, difficult sloping around greens) - a great track. Scenic on every hole, awesome mountain views in the backdrop.

The range is awesome - ProV1 practice balls, plenty of room to hit every club in the bag, off perfect grass.

The clubhouse is small but new, quaint, in great repair with a cool little restaurant and great outdoor lounge area overlooking the course.

It is truly a hidden gem, amazing experience, one of the best golf experiences I've ever had.

The only thing of any concern here is the wind. It can pick up and swoop down off the mountains with short notice, and suddenly be playing in 30+ mph winds. This has happened to us twice here - where around 3p the winds came up and it was impossible to play (and score) the rest of the way.

Very nice, but I have played better courses for less

I have wanted to play here for a while but the distance from home (2 hrs.one way) kept me away. Well I finally decided to make the drive. I have to say it was worth every mile of twisty 2 lane mountain roads. I played this course on the last day of my annual 8 day golf vacation and could not have asked for a better finish to my week+ of golfing some of the finest courses in Southern California. Of the 8 courses played Rams Hill was the finest with Silver Rock in La Quinta coming in a close second.

Put this one on your bucket list, if you don't have a list start one!

The course was in amazing shape and only surpassed by the quality of everyone that works there. From the moment I arrived until I left everyone there treated me like I was the most important person in the world.
The practice area was great and Pro V1's on the driving range only added to the quality of my first but not last experience at Rams Hill. The condition of the course carried on from the practice area, the fairways were well maintained and the greens rolled true.

Great layout, could not ask for better conditions....

Fazio has created a masterpiece. Normally I don't take the time to write a review, but it would be criminal if I didn't share how amazing this course is. If you are remotely close to San Diego county, it is worth every windy road in the mountain to get there. The fairways are literally carpet, greens are true and moderate/moderate fast. I will definitely be coming back.

Played the Golds (6830/73.2/137) as a 5some with Weber2323, JohnnyGK, RGM2525 & Ringworld in 4H, 45M on an absolutely beautiful day with the temperature in the mid to high 70's. Thanks much to Bill & Rams Hill for having us out.

I read the other reviews of people I know from experience to be good reviewers, saw all the 9.9's and still had to question the validity of those ratings.

I have rated several hundred courses in the 8 years I have been a GK member. Only a select few did I rate above 8.5 overall. I can count on both hands the amount of 10's I have ever rated individual components of a course. Well, add me to the list, you could not get a golf course that allows the public to come in and play in much better condition than this course is. I gave this course four 10's and one 9 on the five individual components that make up the overall GK rating.

The greens were firm, quick (sign out front said 11.8 on the stimp) and rolled about as smooth as a green could be. While they may be quicker, I have attended many PGA Tournaments over the years, and I have never seen greens that rolled any smoother.

The fairways were lush, with almost complete thick coverage everywhere with few divots.

The rough was also very lush, and it is just thick and long enough to make longer clubs a very risky play.

The sand traps were immaculate. If you do not like a course with an abundant amount of traps that are manicured precisely around the edges and filled to the brim with soft, deep, fine sand, then you should not come to this course. As with my comments on the greens, I do not see how a course that allows the general public in could have their traps in better condition.

The tees were flat out excellent, but not immaculate. I only rated them a 9, they were not up to the standards of the rest of the course. Few divots, mowed down close, well maintained.

We had dinner at the onsite restaurant. Their happy hour prices were very reasonable. The food was very good, as was the selection.

I liked the setup of the all grass driving range with the complementary balls. Most of the range is sand, with numerous grass greens set up as targets in 25-30 yard increments so you could hit almost any club and feel like you were hitting into a green.

The customer service was excellent. We were greeted with a cart as we were getting out of our car to put our clubs on. That level of service continued all the way to the same person dropping us off at the car and cleaning our clubs after the round. Pro Shop and restaurant staff were also excellent.

I especially liked the course layout. Tom Fazio design, I can see the high slope rating. Many holes are visually intimidating with 97 well placed traps and a decent amount of water. Four different sets of tees for men, all varied by 400-500 yards. The course was fair, not overly tight and an excellent test of golf. Very enjoyable round and worth the slightly over 400 mile round trip.

Played the Golds (6830/73.2/137) as a 3some with Kviser & Sr129 in 4H on a very windy Monday morning with the temperature around 55. It was 34 degrees and snowing when I was 30 miles from the course @ 7 a.m., so the weather conditions were better than expected even with a wind advisory. It seemed like the wind was hurting on about 80% of the shots, constantly changing direction and gusting. We all used the Rams Hill voucher, allowing us to play for the $20 cart fee.

Side note: We had a 7:40 a.m. tee time, just ahead of the men's club. 1st group of the men's club was a 3some, playing the whites, all in their own carts. We were asked to jump 2 holes ahead and come back and play 7-8 later, which we did. However, we only spent 4 hours total actually playing golf, the rest of the time was riding to/from the other side of the course to accommodate 3 guys who wanted to be home for 10:30 coffee and who thought they were entitled to play a 2 1/2 hour round no matter what. 4 hours on this course in 15-25 mph winds was NOT a slow round of golf.

The greens were firm, quick and rolled well. However, while still excellent, they are beginning to show ball mark damage and were not in as good of condition as when I played here in early Jan.

The fairways were very lush, with almost complete thick coverage everywhere with few divots.

The rough was also very lush. Thick and long enough to make longer clubs a very risky play.

The sand traps were immaculate. I don't see how a public course could maintain traps any better than these, and there are close to 100 of them total on the course.

The tees were also immaculate. Few divots, mowed down close, very well maintained.

The customer service was excellent. We were greeted in the parking lot on arrival and offered a ride to our car after the round. The pro shop staff was also excellent.

I liked the setup of the all grass driving range with the complementary balls. Most of the range is sand, with numerous grass greens set up as targets in 25-30 yard increments so you could hit almost any club and feel like you were hitting into a green.

I liked the course layout, I can see the high slope rating. Many holes are visually intimidating with 97 well placed traps and a decent amount of water. Four different sets of tees for men, all varied by 400-500 yards. The course was fair, not overly tight and an excellent test of golf.

We managed to snag a $69 rate while in Borrego Springs. Weather was cooler than usual so was high 80s for our round and was very nice. Wind was manageable too. Loved the course and it was in top notch condition. We will be back.

I played Ram's Hill in the early 1980's when it opened. It was great then and I am happy to say I missed all the problems in between then and now. The course was fabulous. The tees and fairways were immaculate and the greens rolled better than most even with remnants of aeration holes. I used every club in the bag. The clubhouse looked special but due to being summer nothing was available. I will certainly recommend and return.

Rams Hill is simply a miracle in the desert. It's hard to believe that the Tom Fazio course sat closed for four years from 2010-14, the result of a failed developer. It's currently in immaculate shape, with greens and fairways running firm and fast. It almost plays like a links. Shots that land short of the green end up in better shape than approaches that fly to the hole. Rams Hill is making the most of its second life since its grand re-opening in November, 2014. Fazio completely transformed an old 27-hole routing by Ted Robinson dating to the 1980s. His new holes that debuted in 2007 are so interesting and playable. They rarely bring the desert into play. Every feature seems super-sized; The lakes, bunkers, greens and fairways. The beautiful remote setting with mountains in all directions casts a bewitching spell, especially at dawn and dusk. It's a demanding drive on winding canyon roads to get to Rams Hill, but the experience is so worth the effort.

I've played many courses throughout the world and a good few high end but this place blew me away. Greens like Augusta and a cracking course design. Best of all, it's so far from anything that we felt we were on our own private golf course. Overall conditions were superb and a credit to the greenkeepers. I will definitely make a point of playing again next time I'm in the vicinity. If you are considering, don't - just get out there and give it a try, you won't regret it.

Wow, want to play on tour? Amazing experience! Course was beautiful, tour quality, and yes, I have played on tour.

Amazing course. Wonderful people. A hiden gem, but not for long

Been hearing alot of great things about Rams Hill and finally played on 4/25/15 and WOW it held up to the HYPE! This course is absolutely a must play and awesome! I definitely recommend it and would say a top 5 course in Southern CA! Fairways are carpet, greens running 12, maybe even 13 this day due to the ridiculous windy conditions that dried it out. We had 30-50 mph winds from the storm but no rain. Bunkers are real sand not packed dirt. Water features are beautiful. The wind made the course extremely difficult especially playing from the very back black tees. #15 was by far the hardest hole, 508 from the blacks par 4 into 35+mph winds. Had 3 birdies but shot way over my handicap at 82. I'll be back in better conditions, and with friends!

Aside from the hard greens (new) we had a grand time playing this newly reopened course. The greens will soften over time but even though you could not fly a ball to a pin location we all enjoyed playing here

Don't play this course unless you are willing to play the best course in Southern Cal. Greens rolling at 11.8 and perfect in every way. Wall to wall perfection. No more needs to be said.

having heard hat the course was back open and great to play, we had to try it. We were not disappointed.
Course was in great shape, greens were lightning fast.
Don't be above the hole!
We had a great time and will return.

Course fairways, tee boxes & greens are 5-star. The course has challenging holes as well as some holes which are fairly wide open. This provides both challenges & relief holes which makes it an extremely enjoyable round of golf. Would not hesitate to recommend to anyone.