Bay View Golf Club

Pro shop and restaurant staff was the highlight of the day., Very friendly and helpful.

We started on time but waited on every shot after that. I understand it’s a Saturday but would think the pro shop would track gps location and address the slow play. While waiting on #8, there was no one playing #9 and saw that was the hold up. We saw the marshal and assumed he talked to them but the damage was done.

To top it off, the pro shop allowed that group to stop and order food at the turn. We pulled up to #10 and there was literally 7 carts backed up!! 2 different groups stopped for lunch. The group ahead of us got lucky and played thru the slow groups but we weren’t so lucky. we saw the marshal and mentioned that they were already a hole behind on #11 but he didn’t do anything. He acknowledged the issue but drove off in the opposite direction!! Smh

Pace of play was so bad . I didn't see one marshal pushing the groups .

Greens in great shape. Pace of play was ok. Couple of gimmicky holes but fun. Would play again

The course overbooked a tournament and delayed all tee times by 40 minutes. I booked a twilight time at 2:36p and did not tee off until 3:15p. They offered a free small bucket of range balls but all mats were taken, and offered a discount at the restaurant which was not provided. When we eventually teed off the course was so backed up that we had to wait 15-20 minutes on every hole and took nearly 3 hours to play nine holes. At that point I decided to call it a day and after 20 years of patronage I will not be returning based on this experience.

This was my second time at this course. The layout and groundskeeping is really good.

If I could list a critique, the greens needed some work. Some holes were not level or bulging, many puts were deterred from going in because of this defect. Otherwise, the carts, amenities, pace, etc. all were great and I will be coming back to golf more.

Thank you!

The course was great, cool design but the player experience was poor. The carts locked out on both of our groups. The pace of play was also egregious, pacing at 5.5 hour round with no enforcement or help

They put a kids tournament in front of us on a Saturday morning. The round took 5 1/2 hours.

There are 3 fairways that don’t exist because the slope makes the ball run through it no matter where you land it. There are 3 greens that are ridiculously unfair. No one fixes ball marks here.

It was very overgrown in areas outside the fairways.

Very challenging to play if you don’t hit fairways a little left or right and there’s no such thing as first cut! 90% chance of losing your golf ball in heavy vegetation! I feel they should be trimming these outgrown areas a bit. It would also speed up place of play so people aren’t spending 5 minutes looking for a ball just bc it was a slight fade or hook. The greens were punched and sandy

Played first tee time of the day. Would have shot 10 strokes worse midday with dry greens. Greens were fast and pins in hard spots. Great layout. Will play again.

The downfall I see to this course is if you go slightly right or slightly left it’s 99% guaranteed a lost ball. I don’t mind hitting out of the rough every now and then, but it gets aggravating when you can’t find your ball and that’s the case if you’re not in the fairway. Now, if we were pros and people were at every hole with little white flags to show you where your ball is, I wouldn’t be so hard on it! Yet I still enjoy playing here because of the challenge!

This is a fun course and I have played it a few times. We took a cart (which has GPS and geolocation) but were never told that it was cart path only, which was a bit of a bummer. The course is well maintained but playing in the winter leaves a lot more areas to lose balls (probably a skill problem more than a course problem though). Main issue was the pin placement. The greens on this course are severely sloped and the pins today were set on side slopes that made it feel like you were putting up a skee ball ramp. Balls would travel up to the hole, stop and then roll back down to your feet. If you were above the hole and didn't get the line just perfect you were going to end up 10 feet below the hole. Seemed borderline unfair.

Do not recommend playing here, especially if they’re hosting a youth tournament in the morning. My tee time was 12:57pm, which I thought should give me enough time for 18 holes before the 5:45pm sunset. We teed off at least 20 minutes late, and were waiting about 15 minutes on each tee after that. Took 3.5 hours to get through 9 holes and I had to call it a day after hole 12.

Was obnoxiously windy on the day I played the course but it is an interesting layout and the course conditions very above average. If it is windy I recommend skipping this course because it has crazy wind influence as all tees are high up and have no obstruction to stop heavy winds. Not exaggerating but when winds are heavy here - your ball would not stay on tee, you will be pushed forward or back in your stance and for putting just hit a putt and look to God. Generally this course is nice and great value in bay area golf.

Been here before years back, under new management since. This is a challenging course with challenging greens; the #4 entire fairway is sloped at an aggressively steep angle making tee shots roll almost always left off the fairway. Small majority of greens were so sloped that decent approach shots with even a bit of backspin would roll down entirely off the green. Very scenic. I played early on a Thurs morning, polite & friendly staff, range uses mats & integrates top tracer tech which is cool. Tee time was delayed by about 20min due to foresome before us showing up late. Had to call pro shop halfway through front 9 as said foursome had a slow pace of play; never saw a Marshall. By 18, our group was playing about 40min behind pace. Overall, scenic course with very challenging holes; desperately needs to do better at keeping pace of play.