Chardonnay Golf Club

Golf should not take 5+ hours. No Marshall, no starter, groups playing wrong tees

Now the good. Fair challenging course. Great shape. Neat lay out with 6 par 3,4,5’s. Scenic with no houses.

Greens coming back nice, look like they were punched a few weeks ago. Nice contours, a few tough pins. If lived closer would play every week. Hopefully they can address slow play.

Started off great for a Monday, fierce wind form the west, blowing funky garbage dump fragrance, then backed up on the back nine, inexplicably. Sandy greens, but warned in advance.

Love the course but they should be upfront about punched screens. It’s an absolutely beautiful course, great layout and in good condition but I was never told that the greens were punched. Just not fair to not have the option to wait and play another day when the greens are healed

Usually when a course is doing work like Aerification they alert Golf Now & the price reflects it. Not the case with this visit to Chardonnay. Nor was it mentioned at the Pro Shop on check in.

Oh, and apparently they close their range every Tuesday. So not too great of customer service there Chardonnay!

This time we played the greens were punched and sanded. On GolfNow, they didn't mention that the course was going to be in sub-standard condition.

I took my good friend Carlos out here for his birthday. We drove 1 hour to get here. When I booked the tee time I was not notified that they were sanding and punching the greens. There was so much sand on the greens it was ridiculous. I understand that this must be done twice a year, but next time golfnow should let me know!! Fairways were in great shape. The round was about 5 hours. This was on a Monday.

Great course terrible sand … use a five hydrid in fairway bunkers… not sure what to use consistently in green bunkers.

Overall a good challenging course. Staff was excellent. Pace of play was good. 18 holes in just over 4 hours. The tee boxes at least from the purple tees were poor condition. Bring a range finder and someone whose played there before. Greens are very tricky.

We always have a great time at Chardonnay. Played here 3-4 times over the past year and everything always in great shape. Fun layout that’s interesting but playable for us high handicappers. We booked first out at 6:45am but let a twosome go out ahead of our foursome - tees off just before 7am and finished before 11am. It was a pretty frosty morning so we were moving a bit slow while it was cart path only for the first four holes. Course conditions were excellent everywhere except the tee boxes. Many of the double mag tee boxes were mostly sand with very little turf but not a big deal since you’re teed up anyways. We’ll definitely be back soon (actually, I think we’re already booked for the following weekend).

One of the finest courses in the area. Great views of the vin yards and landscape. Definitely refer all my friends to play.

My 2 suggestions after playing here a handful of times are:

Get some real sand in the traps, the bunkers leave a lot to be desired

Have a Marshall, groups stack up and people join up sometimes resulting in 5 players together…

Otherwise I love playing this track and will keep coming back.

I went out as a single and got paired up with a twosome. They where awesome to play with gave me some tips on shot placements. And it was a great round . Weather warmed up , sun was out and pace of play was fantastic.

This was my first time playing this course I had heard so much about it from friends and family and was beyond excited.

The course was beautiful (what I got to play, only 13 holes), but the pace of play was horrific. The worst I have seen in the past few years.

Every shot required waiting, the tee shot, the second shot from the tee, any shots onto the green.

There was no marshal anywhere to move the pace along (at least in front of us, was a two-some that was at least 2 holes behind by the 9th hole).

There was a cart issue also, the cart seemed like it was out of power, but when I talked to the person collecting the carts at the end of my day - at dark when we had to quit) he mentioned that some repair was required but they are waiting for "chips" - a pandemic casualty?!? Forgivable, unlike the pace of play.

My brothsr and I enjoyed the course layout and diverse greens.

Chardonnay is a beautiful course in a great setting. My last round on Friday took 5 hours 45 minutes. There is no way to attain and sustain rhythm with the 10-15 minute delays on each tee box. More marshalling would be a blessing.

Sierra foothill golf team ahead of me. They were taking 10 to 12 minutes to putt out on every hole. If they are college caliber, then I'm a professional.