The Reserve at Spanos Park

Although the Monday morning crowd moves at the pace you’d expect, and the winds were blistering today.. the greens are firm and fast... just like my high school girlfriend. Course is playing amazingly for $48 bucks! The Ambassador could have ushered the 3 groups of seasoned golfers along a bit in front of us, but it wasn’t unbearable. All in all, great track!

Great afternoon round. Teed off at about 3:pm and finished at about 5:45. Conditions were.great, the track was firm, rough challenging but not punishing, the greens although recently sanded were in great shape and deceptively fast.

Have played this course many times and NEVER was this slow. Two foursomes of UOP college people were playing in front of us. First 4 holes we good, but then we came to a full STOP. You would think these guy's were qualifying for the U.S. Open. Anywhere from 5 t0 11 minutes we had to wait on each hole. To me, this was unacceptable. Our round was 5hrs. 35 minutes. Really, it ruined the round.

This course is in great shape anytime of year. It is challenging yet not to difficult for your weekend golfer. Wonderful course.

This is really a great course for the money. It was very foggy at 9:40, we didn't expect to tee off until it lifted. They sent us out anyway (we couldn't see more than 75 yards, so it was more of a challenge as we hadn't played there before and didn't know the course. Fog didn't lift until almost 1pm, but once it did, we really had a fantastic round. I would definitely play again.

The Spanos course is a lot of fun. It feels like a true links style course and has a few blind shots that really keep you on your toes. The pace of play was horrible for the front nine, but from the 10th hole on it was pretty good. I was a little surprised that most golfers weren’t fixing ball marks on the greens but the greens were fair for the most part. I love the water holes, and the wide open fairways that allow you to get pars if you stay out of trouble. It was a great day at Spanos and met two transplants from the east coast that enjoyed the course as well. Check out the nice track in Stockton.

The good: Course in excellent condition. Only course around that has green fluffly grass fairways.

The bad: Slow pace of play on back nine made it a 6 hour round and didn't finish with several holes left.

Won't play again until 110 degree summer heat scares the walkers back to the morning.

Be prepared to hit stingers in the afternoon because the wind can be brutal.

Great course. Best in the valley. Green's are always in great shape. Fairways are beautiful. Love this course.

Wish I could blame the course for my poor results/score but not! The course was in very good condition for winter play. Weather was very cold and foggy causing loss of distance and this “old” body of mine

less rotation. Overall a fun day!

5 hrs to play round is to slow, 2 5somens ahead of us.

First time playing this course and we had a great time. Beautiful wide fairways, awesome quick greens but with plenty of bunkers, tall rough sections, and water hazards to keep you on your toes.

Staff was very friendly, we had three in our group with two carts so they set up a single guy to join our group. Doug was a great guy who fit in well wit us so all had a great time. course marshal was firm but very polite in suggestion we let the faster group behind play through. Strong recommendation for this course.

This was my first time at this course. I was very excited as I drove almost an hour to be there. Two things I noticed that were very frustrated. One was pace of the game was very slow and there were not enough gap between teams of 4. We had to wait 10 to 10 minutes after every short which really kill the momentum and we lost the charm of playing at this course. I even called the office to send Marshall so that he could ask the people to keep reasonable pace of play but unfortunately no one showed up. We finished 18 holes in more than 5 hours. Usually with a regular pace it is around 3.5 to 4 hrs. I think the office loaded too many player with very little gap. On par 3 holes some time 3 groups of people were waiting to tee off like 12 people. I am sorry to say that me and my friend were very diappointed.

Arrived at the course 30 minutes early, went to check in and had prepaid for the 4 of us with carts. The Club house attendant asked for my name, provided, he found my name, then asked if we were walking or riding? I paid for riding and asked why he was asking to which we began a very unfriendly discussion driven by the employee. Decided to just walk away, but annoyed enough to write about the poor customer service to start and worse the attitude of the person. Not a good impression.

Teed off on time, but the group ahead had just tee off and the next group was called while we were on the tee. Golfers were stacked, play was slow, resulting in a round that took more than 5 hours!

The course was good, weather was fantastic, just could have done without the attitude to start and maybe a marshal to help keep pace of play going or a bit more spacing on the tee times.

If you book a team time for just one person these guys always stick you with another golfer in a SHARED cart and it’s not very convenient having to spend four hours making small talk with someone u just met.. that sucks! I don’t think it needs much explaining.. they have plenty of carts.. they want a extra 28 bucks to ride ON A WEEKDAY alone which was more than the entire green fee .. I showed up in a tee shirt and they tried to make me buy a collard shirt @60$ so I just left ..they DO NOT ACCOMMODATE! We’re still in Stockton!! And the girl at the front counter assumed I had never played there before as she pointed out the dressing room..nothing in my reservation said anything about it being simi private with a dress code so I lost my 27 bucks because they would not push my tee time back so I could run home and get one.. the funny part is I’m actually a teaching golf pro and I have an associates degree in golf course management.. it’s not that she was rude per say it’s that she just wasn’t very kind and wasn’t at all willing to compromise... this corse is fun and can be tough in the wind for all skill levels but it’s always been overpriced over managed and lacking customer kindness ... they have some retirees and some cart kids that work there that are super cool but they need to have a staff meeting on listening to the customers needs before you tell them there options like it’s equation for money.. there were no good sales in the shop , hardly any choices in merchandise or styles or sizes so don’t go there looking for a deal on anything..Stockton has very few options for golf unless your willing to shell out 70 bucks or more unless u book through golf now... elk horn is over priced Swenson is beat up Spanos is way way over priced Mickey grove is 18 of the same holes.. that’s it for clubs anyone can go play daily ... the best deal is to reserve a week early on hot deals and go out of town to play .. Manteca muni is ok, dry creek is cool to but if your willing to drive a lil over a hour u have a lot more options for a memorable experience. Golf is not about how many holes u play in life it’s about how much fun u had chasing a birdie

I always enjoy playing here, it’s a nice course and it’s well taken care of. The greens were recovering from aeration a few weeks ago but that’s ok. Unfortunately the last 3 times I’ve played here I along with other groups were stuck behind a slow playing group of 5!! Major traffic jam atleast 12- 15 people!!!Very frustrating, the facility needs to limit groups to 4 and regulate slow playing groups and advise them to step aside. Fortunately We finished although it was very dark. I was only able to finish because 2 of the groups in-front of us decided to play the front 9 again and 1 group quit after the 15th hole, the groups behind us all quit and left.