The Bridges Golf Club

Arnold Palmer designed course, beautiful scenic view hidden above the Vallejo hills that winds thrrough the Hiddenbrooke development community. Tough challenging course with lots of narrow fairways, elevation changes. Water hazards.

Good pace of play, conditions 8/10 . If you can’t drive straight bring a lot of balls!

Very tough course, a lot of blind shots, tricky greens, no room for error, very little rough and an easy place to loose a lot of balls if you spray your shots.

Course was playing as hard as it possibly can because if you're just a couple yards off line, the rough will eat your ball and you'll never find it... Once they mow it'll be a bit more reasonable!

Greens were almost fully healed from punching, but I'd say in another week they'll be able to mow everywhere and greens will be healed... Conditions are pretty lush so fairways are great right now!

Slow pace is a constant here. No marshalls on the course. It is a pretty tough course so im pretty confused why they make no effort to improve pace of play. Managed to squeeze an 83 out of the day, despite waiting on every.single.shot…….Bridges management, please make a proactive effort to manage the pace of golfers on your course. For example,

- 2-3 marshalls on the course at all times but especially weekends

- actually enforce pace of play rules (ask/warn, force slow groups to allow faster groups to play through, kick slow golfers off of the course)

- offfer refunds for rounds over 5.5 hours

Great course nestled in the San Ramon hills. First time playing here and also right after rain. Some tough holes but the club house was kind enough to let us have a two pager cheat sheet, which helped.

Overall Great experience on and off the course.

Food after the round is wonderful. Hostess who served the food was very pleasant and talkative. Philly cheese steak and a meat burger with garlic fries. Yum.

Would love to go back..

Too much to say, but let’s start with:

-the course does not drain well. It rained 4 days before our round and it was a disaster.

- cart path only - fine, but NO PUSH CARTS? What kind of idiocy is this?

- we had a single added to our group. He was on the tee 20min early and - since it was so wet - there were no groups 3 ahead of us or 3 behind, but they wouldn’t let the poor guy go early! “We have to keep the groups together” said the starter. So I get to the box 8 min ahead of tee time to hit some putts, and the starter hurries ME because the other guy had been waiting. What the????

You guys have some issues at the box and with your rules. As the only group out in an hour span, one would think you’d be a little more kind. Not today.

Plan on spending an extra hour looking for golf balls in the foot tall grass on the steep hills on the sides of every hole, if you're a 10 handicap or higher. Don't worry about falling behind the pace, because the group ahead of you will be doing the same thing. Amazing course, but they need a bigger lawn mower or a herd of goats.

Bridges is the perineal heavyweight of championship golf in the Bay Area. You will be rewarded for accuracy and penalized for errant shots. Bring a few extra balls. As of 3/8 the course was still very soft with little to no roll and quite a few balls were disappearing in the fairway. The greens were excellent as usual so I’d say in another week without rain and it’ll be in good shape.

Been wanting to play for some time. Great golf carts with GPS and infotainment. But it was cart path only. Not sure if it’s like this for all season. 2 or 3 holes were under repair and had to play like a short 3 where it was deemed allowed. Over all a difficult course and easily loss balls.

Although course had wet conditions, it was still well maintained. I plan on playing again when the course is dried out and playability is better.

Bad experience overall. Fairway felt like rough. Rough felt like deep rough. Uneven Tee Boxes for over 12 holes. 2 par 4s closed and forced to play as par 3s with the deep rough as the tee boxes.

The playing experience was fantastic. I'm surprised the condition of the course was still so good despite two consecutive days of heavy rain. It was definitely soft and the rough was very "grabby" and tough to cut out of, but this wasn't entirely a bad thing. If you don't keep the ball left on most holes, you'll end up with a lost ball down the little ravine - slicers beware! The softness prevented about 5 of my great drives from being a disaster with too much roll into the ravine.

Great variation in the challenges to tackle on each hole, truly interesting layout (really no "bad" holes,) fantastic elevation changes and a handful of real "target golf" holes; this course really is a delight and a challenge for even an experienced, low-handicap golfer (and almost certainly insanely difficult under dry summer conditions.)

The only hiccup in my experience was the service or, perhaps more accurately, the atmosphere of the experience. I realize it's in San Ramon, but - although the staff was perfectly polite - I feel like some of the rules were more at home at a private country club than a public course (one example was "no cart until 20 minutes before the round," despite having a plethora of carts available making it a pain to be follow my typical warm-up routine.) It just didn't really come off as a welcoming experience - especially when I said this was my first time here and really got no guidance on where the various practice areas were, where the first tee was, nada. I play a LOT of golf and - if I come back here again - it will be for the course and in spite of my experience.