James C. Haggerty North Kern Golf Course

The few groups in front of me graciously let me play through due to my fast play and playing single. Everyone I encountered was very nice. The course demonstrated that it's fairly easy but still difficult enough to keep me honest.

Upon reading other reviews I thought the course might be in better condition. Roughs in between Fairways covered in mulch so they don't have to maintain it. Soaking wet greens. Golf cart broke down on the back nine. With an early tee time not sure why batteries dying after 10 holes. Cheap fees. But I'd rather play in town for a little bit more money.

I have been playing this Course for over 15 years. It needs some work right now. The greens are in good shape but the fairways are somewhat rough. Playing from the white or the back tees the course is a driving course. Meaning a good drive is necessary to score well on this course.

I have always liked the layout.

Booking thru app (golfnow) was a breeze.

Convienance Fee(s) are due up front thru app...green fees are due once you arrive @ Course, which in my opinion is awesome not having to pay for the entire party and playing the "collection game" from the other people in your party.

Course was in good condition.

Overall good experience and great value.

In fact, just booked another round today, from having played just yesterday !

Looks like the maintenance team is changing the layout a bit looks pretty good when done

Everything was nice and well worth the price only thing I was disappointed in due to playing at twilight i believe I had to switch out my cart at 9 because it was dead. Other than that it was great!

This course is getting much better now! Another muni course took over management and is making upgrades to the course and snack bar. They are still bringing in and spreading wood chips to beautify and more easily define the OOB's and fairways. It's looking really good.

Course is a great value and fun round. Greens are real straight despite if you think you see a break or not.

This is a great course to "grip it & rip it". Can be tough in the later hours as the headwinds really shorten your drives. Have to hit low burners. This course has been on life support for a few years due to the drought. The rains have been helping to keep it alive. It is in much better condition than had been. Before summer I would recommend as a value to play. When summer begins only a good water source can maintain this opinion. Hope it works out!

Today's round was very good, there were others on the course but we were not slowed. The greens were fast which made it challenging the wind was blowing which made it even more fun. The course is in very good shape the best shape it's been in a while. However they do have a little more to work on at this course. Everything is going in the right direction. Yes I do recommend this horse to my.

Used to play this course 4 or 5 times a month for many years. A couple years ago the conditions deteriorated and it was in bad shape. They blamed the drought but the other area courses seemed to cope with it and theses guys didn't seem to try.

If you went to the other local courses you would see workers trying to maintain the courses but you never saw any body working on this course. New management has taken over and is giving good prices to play the course while hopefully they can get it back on its feet. You now see maintenance workers on the course and with all the rain it is greening up some.

This course to me is the hardest of the local public courses when it is properly maintained, some very long par 4's and no little chip shot par 3's. 3 of the par 5's are reachable in 2 for a decent golfer.

I believe the guys who run Buena Vista have taken over and hopefully they can bring it back to the decent muni course that it was. Have been playing BV and Riverlakes a lot because this place fell apart so much. Still having to "bump" the ball in the fairways a lot to get a good lie and hate doing that but will still play on occasion to help them fund the improvements that I hope they can do.

Hopefully new management can undo the damage and deterioration that was allowed to take place under the old management.

It's a pretty flat course, wide fairways, not bad place to play. Proximity to town isn't bad. Would consider this my "home" course.