Empire Ranch Golf Club

Set in the beginning of the foothills, the course turns and winds thru canyons and valleys. Now surrounded by homes but lots of cattail wetlands and water. Accuracy is a must. Get wide and ball is lost. Many holes turn around corners and fairway is blocked. Follow the yardage posts to be safe. Elevated tee boxes frequent, especially the 18th!! WOW! 195yds of pure terror! Lot of side hill lies but fairways and greens kept pristine.

Course is in good shape. Greens are fast, grass is mown... However, given the golf your can play in Sacramento/Roseville/Rocklin, Empire Ranch is a monumental waste of money for $60. I would never recommend someone play this over Dark Horse, the Ridge, Woodcreek, Diamond Oaks, or many other options in the area. For half the cost, those are a much better value.

Played fast with no one in front or back all afternoon on a Wednesday,,,,great Golf Now bargain price. Course in great shape.

I play this course about twice a month, more in the summer and have done so for about a year and half. While not a member or yearly subscriber, the entire staff treat me as if I am. Never had a single negative incident. The quality of the course is excellent, particularly given the number of rounds played on it. I normally play as a single and have been paired with others except for one time late in the day. And never had a problem getting a start time with an hour and a half of when when i wanted. The course equipment is well maintained, carts are clean and prepped.

Course was in good condition. Greens need at least another week to recover from recent aeration. There were not many true rolls.

Make sure you know where the hazards are. Wind can make a club or two difference on some holes. 18 plays pretty true to yardage despite the downhill green. Take at least an extra club if you have headwind or if it's getting late and the air is heavy. Greens are fast if they are in good condition.

Nice course , great conditions facility was clean pro shop was stocked with all kinds of goodies ......

The fairways were hard and rolling well. The grass was being cut while we were there. The greens were very fast but not consistant. Some greens rolled at about 11 and others were about an 8. Made it hard to get the speed down. The sand traps were not very good. Some needed sand.

Despite the recent very wet weather this course was in good condition and the greens were amazing. It was a pleasure to play it as it is so well maintained and marshaled .

Even with a little rain, the course was in good shape.
The wind was blowing, making it more challeging.
Greens were slick, great track. The Green fees are a little steep at 65.00. Not a Championship course

Had good day of golf didn't like the fact no break on price to walk the course.

Arrived at course Pros Shop Staff very friendly, courteous, and proffesional. Starter and Marshall helpful. Course condtion throughout very good. Turkey Sandwich at the turn "perfect". Course was very busy however 3hrs 49 minutes and 19 seconds not that I was timing the pace of play ??? Will return
Had a great day

Tom Del Torre

The driving range tee boxes are beat up but the balls price is highest in area

Second time playing this course. Some blind shots if you don't hit it in the right spots, lots of traps, greens were fast and pin placements were in some tough spots, but it was fun. Was surprised more people weren't out playing. The course wasn't real crowded, we were a threesome but played behind a foursome that was playing fairly quick but let us go past on hole 14. The course itself was in great shape and because of the water problems the waste areas were somewhat cleared and you could hit your ball out of them. Finished in 3-1/2 hours and had a great time. This is a very nice course and well worth playing, especially the 18th finishing hole, a par three with a nice view, check it out.

Good pace and well maintained green in spite of the fact that there is drought ravaging most of the golf course.

I have been playing Empire Ranch for the last 4 years. They have done extremely well at providing a consistent golf experience time and time again. Unlike some of the other courses in the greater Sacramento area which have struggled to maintain course conditions, Empire Ranch has done well. Tee boxes and fairways are in good condition and greens roll fairly fast and true in comparison to some of the other local public courses. I would not rate them as the fastest round times in town, and often I try to avoid Empire on the weekends because they seem to do a fairly high amount of rounds and expect to play closer to 5 hour rounds. I even had a round go almost 6 hours once. Yikes! All in all it is a great track and has a good balance of accessible and challenging holes. Although the front 9 is somewhat flat, once you make the turn to the back 9 the course really starts to become interesting with elevated tee boxes, carry over hazards, and some great views of the Folsom area. If you haven’t played the course, make sure you do!

Lot of chaff from the mower deck left on the greens, I assume that it blew onto the greens from the heavy winds earlier in the week. They need to have all their holes open to carts. Number 5 is never open to carts and it seriously slowed down play. The marshal was on the course but did not push the foursome ahead of us with a complete open hole ahead of them. There was a mixed foursome ahead of us. The two women insisted on hitting from the whites and couldn't reach the green on par 3s, creating a bottleneck. Normally I wouldn't care, but we tee'd off at noon and were burning daylight and finished after dark.

This course has rolling hills and is challenging but fair. I like the different challenges at each hole.

Unfortunately the only issue we had, think that the course should pair up groups instead of having so many twosomes, we were a twosome, but asked a single to hook up on first hole then third hole had another single which we asked to join us. Played much better but did have to wait on each hole as there were 2 sets of singles ahead and a threesome ahead of them.

Pace of play was decent given the fact that it was a holiday. Greens were true and fast especially considering the low temps.