The Golf Club at Rancho California

Haven’t played here in years. Course in good condition but was super slow. Not worth the money paid to only be able to finish 13 holes

Good value, course in better shape compared to recent years

5&1/2 hour round and no Marshals in sight. Pace of play is a real problem here with bro dudes drinking and hacking from the tips. The turn slows down the back and we had 2 groups in front of us and guys still on the green. Water stations were low and had old coolers with broken parts making it difficult to fill bottles on a 91 degree day. No drink cart. The course is in good condition and the staff are great. Book early, first or second and take your own water or stock up at the start and it’s great.

I find it crazy that there is no cart girls at this course. A round of golf takes 4-5 hours and to do that with no food or drink is not ideal. And then the course has the nerve to have signs all over that say “no outside food or drinks. That’s ridiculous, if I ever play this course again I’ll be bringing my own food and beers for sure. This is an issue that would make me not want to play this course in the future.

Overall this is a fun course to play and the staff has been very friendly. However lately it’s not as much fun due to some silly course rules.. The course was pretty dry yet they had most of the fairways roped off forcing us to cart path only. I understand if it was actively raining but this is becoming a weekly occurrence for one reason or another. I find this practice to be a bit ridiculous.

We tried to check in and the staff had screwed that up. It was a bunch of grumpy guys. Not friendly. We teed off @12:25, at the 2nd hole . A random single was told to join us? Without warning or permission!!! It really slowed us down!! Then they kick you off the course at 4:30 pm!! They pick up the flags! Its ridiculous! A Customer Service stoked about this I mean we were on 17 we had to play with the five and because they pulled a flag we couldn’t finish the part was an old guy who was totally rude to us but never go back here

My parents and I were excited for this round since we hadn’t played the course and the reviews were pretty good. That’s why I’m writing a review. We were disappointed.

Positives: The front nine layout was great. The greens were good. Fairways and tee boxes were decent. Staff was friendly enough.

Negatives: Traffic to AND from the course (from central OC) was atrocious. Plan an extra hour from what you’d expect. No cart girl on a Saturday. The back 9 layout is significantly less interesting than the front 9. Very limited food options at the turn. For the price, this was an underwhelming course. I would only play here again for basically half the price we paid.

It’s been a very long time since I’ve played this course. 15/20 years ago, it used to be in pristine condition and very challenging but fun. The course is still in good condition but it’s obvious that it’s not what the SCGA course used to be.

Today’s experience was pretty bad though. I played with a wonderful couple and although the group in front of us was pretty slow, we finished the front 9 in about 2 1/2

hours. Our tee time was 1:25pm (on a Saturday).

Then came the back 9.

A drunk 5-some who said they were playing best ball, so not to worry about pace of play, cut in front of us on #10 and ended up being a disrespectful, slow, disgusting group of young individuals.

We had to wait on every single hole on the back 9. We even called the clubhouse (twice) and they did nothing about it. It actually got worse.

On the 12th green, I guess their group caught up with another group of friends from earlier and decided to let the group that had been in front of us, play past them so they could all hang and play together. Terrible idea.

Cut to: the 12th green and there were 8 of them on the green. We waited and waited. The marshal came around and we complained to him in the 13th fairway.

A couple holes later, they were still drinking, leaving alcohol cans and boxes on the golf course and playing extremely slow. Slower, in fact.

On the 18th fairway, just as the sun was going down, we waited 30 minutes for 2 of them to clear the green and another two to finish chipping up to the green.

I even yelled and asked them to hurry up so we could finish 18 holes and that made it worse. They didn’t budge an inch and 10 minutes later, I decided to return the cart, not finish the hole and head home.

Those 8 kids should have been kicked off the course. Even more, they should be banned from this course in particular.

Hey, we called and spoke to the clubhouse folks twice and also spoke to the marshals on the course another two times. And no change.

They were holding up the entire back 9. We should all receive a refund for that nonsense. Management grossly failed here.

I love this course. It’s a beautiful layout and quite challenging. All the holes have their own unique character and keep you on your toes with hazards placed in tricky, yet wide open areas.

Today’s round rubbed me the wrong way for this course and I won’t be playing there on the weekends. In that neighborhood, I guess that’s when the drunk kids come out to play and some other very slow golfers as well who were in front of us at first, to take the time to teach others how to play golf. Go to the range!

The management needs to do better. You can’t have 8 people on a green and drinking and holding people up who just paid $70 to enjoy 18 rounds of golf. Unacceptable.

I’ll try playing during the weekdays earlier in the morning. You don’t typically run into drunk, disrespectful folks at that time. *fingers crossed*

This was my first time playing this course. I enjoyed it , it had some fun holes. It wasn’t overly busy so the pace of play was great. Caught the sunset while we were there. It was beautiful. I would definitely come back.

Pace is an important part of the game, nothing worse than having to wait 5-10 min at every single hole. Not here, the pace was spot on, had to wait most on hole 10 but the pace picked back up. Course was in decent shape, did not interact with staff much, the guy in pro shop was nice but the starter seemed a little bothered to be there. Overall though it was a good time.

Great course to play with the reasonable green fee.

Well controlled playing pace, fairway and green are both in good shape and friendly staff. Definitely come more often.