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4.4
686 Reviews (686)
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1 Stars
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Conditions
4.3
Value
4.2
Layout
4.3
Friendliness
4.4
Pace
4.3
Amenities
3.9
89.9%
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641 out of 686 reviews
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4.4
11 Reviews (11)
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4.3
Value
4.2
Layout
4.4
Pace
4.5
Amenities
3.7
StaffFriendliness
4.4
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4.4
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4.2
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Pace
4.3
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StaffFriendliness
4.5
88.2%
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15 out of 17 reviews
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Course Highlights
Immaculate fairways, smooth fast greens, and a challenging layout consistently impress golfers visiting this Palm Springs gem. Friendly staff, excellent pace of play, and outstanding value make it a compelling alternative to pricier area courses.

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Holes 18
Type Semi-Private
Par 72
Length 6632 yards
Slope 126
Rating 71.5
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Mountain Vista Golf Club - San Gorgonio
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Course Details

Year Built 2000
Golf Season Closed: October 24 - November 22

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes
Clubs Yes

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Golf School/Academy Yes
Teaching Pro Yes
Putting Green Yes

Policies

Credit Cards Accepted VISA, MasterCard Welcomed
Metal Spikes Allowed No

Food & Beverage

Catering

Available Facilities

Meeting Facilities, Banquet Facilities
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Reviews

4.4
686 Reviews (686)

What Golfers Are Saying

The 19th Hole is Great For:
Drinks 11
Patio Dining 8
Dinner 6
Course Challenges Include:
Bunkers 33
Water Hazards 32
Undulating Greens 23
This course/club is great for:
Seniors 28
Locals 27
Advanced Golfers 21
This Course's Location is:
Convenient to the City 23
Worth the Drive 16
In the 'Burbs 11

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Played On
Reviews 47
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Cart path only

I really don’t understand why it was cart path, there was only one hole with water. The rest of the course was great. Not a single shot that I hit was wet. When I said that to the guy at clerk, he said that the decision was made by the best groundskeeper of the valley and he ran away. What a disgusting way to treat a customer. I said that the groundskeeper were the ones who were buying 100 of rolls of bathroom tissue.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Poor
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 17
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 15
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Perfect weather
Used cart

Great golf course

Nice golf course. Good variety of holes, challenging greens.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Hidden Gem

Thoroughly enjoyed our round. Course is so lush and well maintained not a bad lie anywhere. The white sand bunkers were some of the best I’ve ever seen. As others have mentioned greens were a little ugly in spots but rolled true. I highly recommend this course and for the price $95 Golfnow a steal for prime season in the desert.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 1
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Great course Poor Service

Showed up and was directed to wrong course . When there Don at the Ckubhkuse was rude and not very helpful

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Fair
Pace Good
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 15
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Desert Gem

A very challenging course, that will test even the most seasoned golfer... with numerous par 3s on the front ,changes to mostly par 4s on the back, with lots of water challenges throughout! Supper in the Boulevards restaurant was very good afterward as well!

Conditions Good
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Average
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Vanner say

Course layout is ok. Excellent white sand trap give good sight lines.

Greens are tough with lots of undulation. Make sure you use practice putting green as it represents what you see.

Fairways are shot and run fast. Many greens lack a good root system so are patchy but they do roll ok. They hold a shot and many were soft. We played Gold Tees at 6200 and 123 slope. Front 9 need to score as is under 2800 yards and par 35- back is 3500 + and par 37. Enjoyable but greens need work. Fairway and rough very good.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Fair
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 17
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Average
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 33
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

The Real Deal

Surprisingly quiet and easy to play (3.75 hrs.) considering how many homes (5000) surround these two challenging but beautiful courses. Lots of water features, plenty of white sand bunkers, elevated and interesting greens, generous but undulating fairways, doglegs - it’s all here to test any golfer. Will be back soon to check out the sister course Santa Rosa.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 9
Handicap 0-4
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Very playable off the tee. Easy driving course. just enough challenge coming into the greens to make it interesting. Four and half stars

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 47
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Nice course

Nice course, good layout, big difference (700 yards), between front and back. We didn’t see any staff except one person at the end of our round to wash our clubs and ask for tip, very ordinary.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Fair
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 12
Handicap 10-14
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Good
Value Average
Layout Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 36
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Great course... greens not up to par

Love this course.... both the San Gorgonio and Santa Rosa courses are always in such great shape. Unfortunately this course is not up to standards based on the greens. I gave the overall rating 4 stars but the greens are only 3 star. They have not come out of overseeding well and are very sparse. The greens crew have done a good job of making them roll true, but they are not full and lush like has been the standard in the past. Hopefully they will improve. I'll be back.

Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 17
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 1001
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
Incentivized Review
5.0
Top 1 Contributor
California Advisor
Previously Played
Cold weather
Used cart

San Gorgonio

Rode the Blacks (6669/71.9/128) with Mneilson and his wife Doris in 3.5H early morning using Underpar. The weather was clear, calm and was around 45 when we teed off and was close to 60 when we finished.

The course came out of over seeding in EXCELLENT condition.

The over seeded tees were lush and very nicely maintained.

The over seeded fairways are lush and nice to play from.

The over seeded rough is mostly lush and thick but not overly high.

The sand traps were well maintained with thick, excellent quality white marble sand.

The large over seeded greens were very nice. They are smooth, firm and putted medium fast with few ball marks.

No GPS or ports for electronics on the basic carts. The customer service was excellent from everyone encountered, especially Jose with the carts. Drink cart around several times. A negative is that San Gorgonio does not have a driving range. You have to go 1/2 mile down the street where the sister Santa Rosa course has an all grass driving range. Definitely recommended.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Great but. ....

The course was reseeded a week and a half ago. The greens were really slow but nice layout

Fairways were beautiful!! Great condition!

Conditions Average
Value Average
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Fair
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 3
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

The course was ready to be reseeded so everything was brown and dead. Not the best playing conditions.

Conditions Poor
Value Average
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Fair
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 1001
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Top 1 Contributor
California Advisor
Previously Played
Hot weather
Used cart

San Gorgonio

Rode the Blacks (6669/71.9/128) using Forelinx right before it is closing for over seeding. Matched up with 3 nice Canadians, we played in 4H, 20M. The weather was nice, sunny, calm and in the 90's.

The Bermuda tees are brown and mowed low.

The Bermuda fairways are mostly brown but still nice to play from.

The Bermuda rough is mostly brown and mowed low.

The sand traps have excellent quality white sand and were well maintained.

The large Bermuda greens putted medium fast speed and are very firm.

The customer service was good as usual here. No drink cart today but they have adequate water stations on the course. No GPS on the basic carts or ports for electronics. No driving range, you have to go 1/2 mile down the street where the sister Santa Rosa course has a nice, all grass driving range. Recommended after fall over seeding is completed.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Fair
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 1
1.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Disappointing conditions

We booked this course expecting it to be in excellent condition. Upon arriving we saw that the course was scalped, brown/dry grass everywhere. The golf course should have made people aware on the website that these were the conditions as there is no way we would have booked. The course stated we didn’t have to play, (in a rather abrupt manner,) however since we had driven 45 minutes to get there and didn’t have another option to golf, we decided to give it a try. The fairways were extremely hard and after 9 holes we decided to quit. Very disappointing! Not coming back to Mountain Vista or golf now as we feel this was a money grab.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Average
Friendliness Poor
Pace Poor
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Commented on 10/26/2019

First, if you were the group who teed off around noon and quit after 9 holes, ALL the groups behind you are glad you quit after 9 holes. Because if you were that group, perhaps taking pictures like you posted from hole #7 are why the front nine took us 2H, 35M to finish? Why we were waiting nearly every shot, and not just a little wait either. After the noon group left after nine, we played the back nine in 1H, 45M? 50M quicker to play a back nine that is longer and considerably more difficult than the front? Second, go onto Greenskeeper dot org and check on golf course conditions before you book. Best site I know to accurately get that information.

Played On
Reviews 95
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Top 500 Contributor
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Wide Open Fairways, challenging greens

Course still recovering from the summer so some bare spots in fairways and around the greens. New, white, soft sand in the traps, beautiful to look at, need a shovel to get out of.

Greens were hard and running fast, but putting true.

Overall a good value and a decent design.

Biggest complaint is there is no clubhouse or facility at the turn.

Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Difficulty Moderate
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