Black Oak Golf Course

Great 9 hole, course could use a little tending too with some patches of long grass in the rough. Booking via golfnow was a bit different in terms of pricing.

Arrived early for warm-up, heard one announcements on the next three groups to start. Waited on the fist tee for another announcement, nothing. Went inside for a score card (not on cart) and to ask if they were going to announce who was next! The two starters were just chatting, and groups were 10 minutes behind at this point! REALLY!

Black Oak is a hidden gem that's rare, challenging and nine holes.

Yardage markers are incorrect. Greens are bumpy and inconsistent. There was a random party of people who weren't playing causing a disturbance on the 5th tee. Overall a poor experience.

Traveling north I like to break my rides up, so nine holes on a Saturday afternoon sounded perfect. I missed my booked time but the staff was INCREDIBLE and got me paired up with three locals and we had a blast. Course was maintained well although I was unlucky to catch the greens punched and sanded still made a few putts and played well. I will use this course to break up the drive again, would recommend 10/10

The grass is very thin on the fairways and I had a lot of shots off of dirt.

Excellent course and will definitely be back again.

What a great all around experience. Could not have had a better time. Highly recommend this course.

If you haven't played this course I'd encourage you to take a step back in time where the people are friendly, the price point reasonable, wonderful scenery and nice condition, and unlike many courses today, it's walkable. Black Oak is always an enjoyable golfing experience!

Wanted to post a more current review since this track has everything in a golf course. Blind shots, doglegs, forced carries, sloping greens and design character that appeals to the eye. Since it has no straight holes except for the par 3's, you will need to play a draw if you can as most holes bend to the left. The par3 over water is well thought out, balls a bit long or left tend to roll back to the putting surface. Most of the par 4's have decent landing space and put a premium on approach shots (no 2, 3, 5, 8 and 9). The greens are always good and extremely fast downhill. Course is easily walkable for most if moderate inclines are your thing.

I used to live not far from this course and played it often. It's very difficult; from the most forward tees (mostly red, some gold), 2646 yards, the slope rating for men is 118. As long as you know what you're getting into, the course used to be fun to play because it's in a scenic location and was in very good shape. Not so any longer. Fairways were full of dirt clods from aeration. Very dried out generally; lot's of brown spots. Greens were reasonably good. Service in the pro shop was fine as usual. Water containers had no jugs; rather a sign inviting golfers to buy bottled water for a buck. The value was fine in terms of a $5 green fee but the hilly terrain mandates riding for many including me. At $9 for nine holes for the cart, functionally $28 for 18 holes, there are many better deals on GN considering the course condition. Plus if you wanted to play 18 lumping in the $5 GN fee the total cost wold be $39 with rack rates for the other nine and cart fee; not close to a value. This was once viewed as one of the best nine hole courses in Nor Cal. A shame. Maybe the "construction" which a couple of players told me was the purpose of the torn up fairways will be over soon but I won't be back to find out.