Shorecliffs Golf Club

It has really tight fairways so you have to play this course. Smart and probably use a three wood off the deck rather than a driver. But that’s just if you’re keeping your score otherwise you can definitely have fun and just hit your driver, but be expected to lose some balls. I got the hot deals Price and that was really worth it. Sometimes the pace of play is really slow, but outside of that yesterday was good. It was a 4 1/2 hour round.

Had a great round. Nice fairways, greens almost normal after seasonal punching month or so ago.

What surprises me are the negative reviews on the course. Guess it's the mediocre players who want mike wide fairways and flat everything. I've been playing this course for 3+ decades through thick and thin. The ownership has done a terrific job redoing this course and building a fantastic clubhouse and grounds. Best course for the price in OC for sure and I'm an above average golfer. All the naysayers can go play double, triple, or more for ok conditions somewhere else. Kudos to the staff and ownership for what they've dobe!

Let's take a walk through my round...

Arrive- check in, all good

Restroom- urinals out of order, stalls dirty, no tp at all, no seat protectors, no soap, no paper towels.

Course- patchy grass, grounds under repair everywhere, bald spots, hard pan, etc. You get the gist.

Pace of play- snails move faster. Waiting at every tee box. Sometimes two OTHER groups at tee. Over 5.5 hrs.

On course entertainment: fight broke out between 2 groups in front of us. 10min of cursing, yelling about lawyers, and general chest puffing beligerance.

Bright side- the cart woman was awesome, she tried to break them up twice. Marshall should have been notified immediately and dolts kicked from course.

Best part of round was the weather, and a bad day at course with good friends beats a day at work.

I won't be going back, bit I have a great story to tell.

This course might be my least favorite in California. Extremely difficult with OB on both sides with creeks running through it and undulated fairways in poor condition. The greens are as hard as concrete. The course has a grand total of zero restrooms on the course. Also, because they re-arranged the holes, my golf app GPS did not recognize any of the holes correctly. I will never play here again.

We had a really fun time playing Shore Cliffs. We finished our round in just over 3 hours. The course was in excellent shape. The staff was very friendly. Looking firwars to playing it again.

Our great time started with the first employee we met. He was at the cart checkout. We were early because traffic wasn't as difficult as we thought it would be. We were able to tee off 40 minutes earlier than our start time. We finished our round in just under four hours.

The fairways were in great shape. It appeared that the greens had been aerated weeks ago. There was minimal sand remaining only on a few greens and it didn't affect the rolling of the ball.

We had one of the best times we've had this year plating golf.

I really enjoyed my game here. Grass was in decent shape, greens were fast and recently punched with minimal sand on them. Layout had a lot of uphill and downhill type play with a few very narrow holes at 200 + yards total length. I'm an average handicap mens golfer and played at a bogey average and had one par. The 3 people I played with were much better and more accurate than me and they mostly played at a bogey average also with 3 or 4 pars total. We all lost at least 2 to 4 balls. If you don't hit accurately when driving here you will lose the ball as the side vegetation is dense. Pace of play was normal for a Monday (2hrs for the first 9 and 1.4 hrs last 9). Golf carts were modern and new. It's a nice course and I would play it again for sure.

Pretty narrow front 9 which was fun. A few tee boxes were under repair which is good to see but not great if you were playing. Course was fun and greens were very challenging. If they could find a way to install a small driving range or an area to take practice swings that would really help [Monarch Beach has two or three swing stalls that could easily be installed here]. Bottom line is we will definitely go here again.

Club house un available because someone rented it to teach a business class ? The course is in lousy shape, too convoluted driving from home to home. The fairways were terrible ! I would not recommend this course to anyone . It’s way over priced and lots of better courses to play. Disappointed.

This course is kind of short and pretty forgiving, for these reasons it is a good fit for me and also close to home. Easy to book tee times.