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Rancho Carlsbad Golf Club
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Rancho Carlsbad Golf Course is an executive layout that is one of the area's best values. It's not a terribly formidable course but it's great for getting in some short game practice. The course is gentle enough for beginners and juniors, making it a good place for families. Opened in 1959, Rancho Carlsbad has a classic layout that is shorter and tighter than most modern golf courses. You won't come across too much trouble on this layout. There are hardly any bunkers but their absence is accommodated for with convex greens that allow the ball to run down to the other edge if you're not careful. You will also have to tee off over a stream on a few holes. Accuracy is generously rewarded but the layout isn't too punishing if you're slightly errant.
| Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Championship | 56 | 2396 yards | ||
| Middle | 56 | 2158 yards | ||
| Forward | 56 | 1955 yards |
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| White M: 50.4/73 W: 52.7/78 | 146 | 101 | 125 | 116 | 78 | 87 | 84 | 120 | 80 | 937 | 76 | 151 | 96 | 85 | 171 | 139 | 81 | 139 | 108 | 1046 | 1983 |
| Red M: 49.5/71 W: 51.6/76 | 132 | 97 | 115 | 106 | 69 | 77 | 79 | 107 | 73 | 855 | 68 | 131 | 84 | 72 | 156 | 122 | 65 | 122 | 101 | 921 | 1776 |
| Gold W: 50.0/73 | 116 | 106 | 133 | 108 | 72 | 60 | 74 | 94 | 40 | 803 | 60 | 65 | 66 | 61 | 130 | 119 | 50 | 110 | 86 | 747 | 1550 |
| Handicap | 3 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 17 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 13 | 14 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 2 | 6 | 18 | 8 | 16 | |||
| Par | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 27 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 27 | 54 |
| Handicap (W) | 1 | 15 | 3 | 9 | 17 | 7 | 11 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 14 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 18 | 12 | 16 |
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Great for beginners
This place is very friendly with lots of kids , footgolfers and seniors. This is no country club and offers a place for total beginners to play. It fills a niche needed in north county. Know what to expect and you will be fine … course is short , greens are tiny and conditions not great …. but it is filling a void. Staff are great .
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Eh
Just over played, sprinklers on several holes, Dude followed us and kept cutting the grass, poor signage.
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Over priced
I rarely will ever leave any negative review anywhere but felt the need to do so with this course. Super over priced for a par 3. Every green looks like either a little mountain or slope. I think 2 holes out of the whole course were actually a flat surface. If you enjoy kids screaming, greens and tee boxes so close to each other that you have to watch the group in front of you hit, just in case they thin one right into you while your putting. It happened twice today. HORRIBLE course layout. The pictures are definitely deceiving. If your not a complete beginner DO NOT go here, if you want to have the most frustrating round of your life an pay for it. Then have fun with every shot being 90 yards. If it wasn’t for the staff it be a complete fail. I literally almost walked off.
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Ehhh
The grounds keeping staff was weedwacking, etc during our round...on a Saturday afternoon!! Not sure why they were doing that then as opposed to like a Tuesday morning.
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Great little course
Very challenging par three course. Without Golf Now membership, prices would be too high for walking this par three course.. For an additional 5 dollars, I could ride at Emerald Isle, which is a slightly longer course and somewhat better kept. Especially the sand traps, which need work (sand), at Rancho Carlsbad.
Look elsewhere if you enjoy golf
This course is awful. I will say the staff were friendly and they have a driving range. Everything else was bad.
The round was super expensive, the tee boxes and most fairways are all dirt, and the greens are incredibly unfair, like mini golf putt putt style designs. Pitch and putts are usually great to work on your short game, but I can only see bad habits developing if one were to play here with that goal. Not sure what clientele they expect, or are getting to justify the prices.
This is an $8-10 round max. Do better.
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An unusually quiet Sunday!
As always, the staff made our visit great. The day was made even better as it was really quiet - Easter Sunday. The greens were recently aerated and really slow and bumpy, as one would expect.
All-in-all, another lovely day on the course!
Great course for beginner kids
This course serves its purpose. Short, easy, and fun. I’m writing this review because it was my first time taking my paralyzed 10YO golfing on a real course, he loves golfing and has always wanted to play but I didn’t know how I would be able to maneuver him around the course. I rented the cart for an extra $20. My problem is this, if you see a lady trying to get her paralyzed son out there and treating him like any other kid, wouldn’t waive the fee for the cart? It’s hard enough out there for him, why not try to make the course a little more accessible for him? Also, I was upset because they played the, “which COVID rules are we following today, game”. Where they won’t accept cash but they will touch my debit card with their bare hands and hand it back to me. Didn’t make sense to me.
Good for a quick round !
Only took 2 hours to play on a Tuesday . I would definitely play here again when in a time crunch . Nothing fancy , but a fun little chip and putt.
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