Tilden Park Golf Course

Great value for the price. Well maintained and beautiful greens

Played here a couple of times but will not any more.
I made my reservation each time, but had to wait for more than 20 minutes after the reserved tee-up time. My last play was on Sunday, but waited also on a weekday.
The staffs seemed to take it for granted because they did not do anything about that, which made me disappointed.

It's common knowledge that Tilden Park has a reputation for slow play and with that in mind my group booked a tee time at the crack of dawn on a Sunday, hoping to play a very fast round. It was EARLY - the grill wasn't even open yet and there were only a couple of groups ahead of us on the course. The course was a little rough with the drought and all. We were really looking forward to playing.
The biggest problem was that unfortunately we were stuck behind a group that was incredibly slow. The group ahead of them was long gone. They showed no regard for golf etiquette and were so wayward with their tee shots that the whole course was held up. These guys were hitting two shots per person off the tee, often all 4 completely missed the fairway, and they had no awareness and/or no consideration for the people behind them. On the 18th fairway it was like the wild west with wayward shots from both the 13 and 14th tees flying onto our fairway. The ball owners drove right out in front of us without asking, waiting until we were done with our shots, or apologizing. I understand that people want to have fun with their buddies on the weekend and people have different skill levels, but to advertise fast play during early tee times and then have NO MARSHAL on the course during our entire round to enforce pace of play (or even basic etiquette), there's no excuse for that. It's the main reason why I am writing my first review. I'm shocked that this happened to us with a crack of dawn tee time and that there was no marshal to be seen our entire round. I'm disappointed that this is an endemic issue at Tilden. My friends have had a round where 3 holes took an hour and a half to play... that's how slow Tilden can be.
Please Tilden Park mgmt., the course is in a beautiful setting but the slow play problem needs to be fixed. You can enforce a reasonable pace of play, not send out 5-somes and not send groups out so close together. To do otherwise just ruins it for everyone.

The golf course is one of my wife and my favorites. Its just a beautiful place to play. It is also a real good challenge.

The problem is golfing here on weekends takes 5 hours or longer. We were reminded of this on Saturday when it took 5 hours and 15. As a result, we will not plat Tilden on the weekends any more. We will seek to play on the week days only.

Great specials and conditions made for an awesome round of golf even in drizzling weather.

Played Tilden Park recently for the first time in a few years having played it 100's of times prior. Always a great course when greens are good. They are great right now, and speed is fun to judge. Good Luck avoiding three putts! Really rewarding when you putt well there. Plays as difficult as any golf course at this time, if you like a challenge of good greens. Not the same old easy Tilden Park when the greens are like this. Great pro shop staff and nice bar/cafe too.

Value for my money was awesome, will definitely be back.

Weather was cold, foggy, but no wind. Just what my buddy and I were looking for as we are going to Monterey soon to play golf. Course was in great shape and the greens were true but tricky. Booked on Golf Now for$35 but when we arrived were surpised to receive a food voucher for both breakfeast and lunch with two beers. Can't beat that. Great experence and will be back.

The course was in very good condition. It's hard to get a flat lie very often, definitely a challenge. Greens were fast, but it is definitely a course to try. Great setting in the Berkeley Hills.

Tilden Park is playing great. Greens are in fantastic shape. The grass has recently been manicured, AND the course isn't saturated with water! I suggest you get a round in!

Course was in great shape.... considering
no rain this year. The greens are tricky.. very
fast downhill... hammer it uphill. Some greens have the crowns... tuff to get close. Some narrow tee shots,
the greens hold ... I like the course as you use ALL
your clubs... and you have to think where best
to hit ball for flag position.

We arrived at the ninth hole tee box approx 2 3/4 hours after starting we skippd the nineth hole for a beer and a jump start ahead of the group of four in front of us. During that entire ordeal not once did we see a martial. Several other groups jumped ahead as well , very frustrated. We completed the back nine in about 2 hrs. We stopped at the pro shop and registered our complaint and the guy behind the desk stated "well that is Tilden.". What a sales pitch.

Was not notified of end or arrated greens, still had sand and grass was long. Fairway grass was long , like playing out of short rough , . Tee box grass was very long rough conditions.
Pace of play very slow no Marshall monitoring it .

Staff is great -
Course Layout is interesting (lots of elevation changes)
The only issue I had was that the greens were punched the week we played and I always feel like there should be at least a courtesy, "Hey, we punched our greens this week", especially if you're playing on a weekend. This is my only chance to play this month and the greens were clearly still sandy, rough, and long. Pace of play was an issue too. 5hrs 10 min for a round is not necessary. Other than that, it's a nice university course and again, the staff was cool.

-Jon Wolf

new rate structure, better food, great round of golf

Played in 3-some with a 3-some in front of us, so pace was good, never had to wait for a shot. Foursome behind us fell 2 holes back so it was smooth sailing. Course was in good shape except a few of the greens were not mowed and were running slow. Its a fun course with a lot of elevation changes. This is a course that you need to be straight on or you could get punished quite a bit. Not a good course for beginners. The round came with breakfast, lunch, and two beverages. They had BBQ ribs and Baked beans outside which was a great finish to a great day of golf.

as my first time at tilden I was surprised. had heard about the course and it's history. was shocked it was such an unpleasant playing experience. very slow play, course filled with beginners and absolute duffers, and greens and tee boxes a mess. will not ever return to play

We had the first tee time and it was frozen out. Greens had a nice layer of ice on them. Balls would have a long bounce and glide across the green but once it rolls it slows pretty good as it picks up all the ice in its path. Fairways were pretty solid as they were just as frozen. But you cant complain about this deal with breakfast AND lunch AND beers with the tee time. What made for an even better day was no one getting on the back 9 as we made the turn so it didnt slow us down to our 3hr round

It looks like it's a really fun course but to bad I only got to play 4 holes !! I feel like I should get some type of refun from golf now !! because it was a hot deal for $35 dollars so der for I wasn't able to get refunded .... My Tee time was at 1:57 pm did not tee off till bout 3:30 pm ... I would love to go back and play the hole course

Except for the number of golfers on the course I love this course.