Bay View Golf Club

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.

Course was very muddy, especially because those areas with no grass on fairways. Course conditions were not good, and turned into bad after rain. This was a big mistake to play here right after rain.

Sometime it’s really frustrating playing on greens, however it is a awesome golf course I will highly recommend my friends to go playing.

Terrible conditions beside the greens. Amazing there able to get people to pay north of 75 dollars for this goat track. Terrible pace of play as well. Will not play again.