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El Prado Golf Courses - Butterfield Stage
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El Prado Golf Course boasts two different 18-hole courses: Butterfield Stage and Chino Creek. Early in California's statehood, stagecoaches would make the 2,700 mile trek from St. Louis to San Francisco. The property used to be a stop on this trail, which is where the Butterfield Stage Course gets its name. It's the shorter of the two courses at 6,568 yards from the back tees. The course is flatter and more forgiving than Chino Creek, but it still has a fair amount of challenges that will test your skills. The layout has generous fairways, but watch out for the strategically placed bunkers lurking along the large, gently undulating greens. Water hazards come into play on several holes as well. The wide open nature of the course can be forgiving but at the same time it will put your round at the mercy of the prevailing winds.
| Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 72 | 6568 yards | 71.3 | 124 |
| White | 72 | 6251 yards | 69.8 | 120 |
| White (W) | 72 | 6251 yards | 76.2 | 127 |
| Red (W) | 72 | 5507 yards | 72.0 | 118 |
| Red | 72 | 5507 yards | 66.4 | 110 |
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue M: 71.1/123 W: 77.4/132 | 369 | 160 | 370 | 421 | 397 | 512 | 186 | 377 | 489 | 3281 | 362 | 374 | 524 | 389 | 195 | 374 | 543 | 143 | 383 | 3287 | 6568 |
| White M: 69.5/119 W: 75.4/127 | 361 | 130 | 360 | 410 | 384 | 493 | 178 | 362 | 480 | 3158 | 346 | 359 | 509 | 370 | 149 | 364 | 501 | 128 | 367 | 3093 | 6251 |
| Red M: 66.1/111 W: 71.4/118 | 316 | 107 | 314 | 350 | 339 | 450 | 142 | 315 | 437 | 2770 | 306 | 324 | 463 | 327 | 124 | 315 | 451 | 107 | 320 | 2737 | 5507 |
| Handicap | 5 | 17 | 9 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 11 | 3 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 2 | 8 | 18 | 10 | 16 | 12 | |||
| Par | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 36 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 36 | 72 |
| Handicap (W) | 5 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 17 | 13 | 15 | 8 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 18 | 14 | 6 | 16 | 10 |
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Photo submitted by Tmartizia on 03/08/2026
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Photo submitted by u000003021243 on 06/02/2023
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Photo submitted by u314162060940 on 02/21/2023
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Photo submitted by ralphdaddy on 01/23/2023
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Photo submitted by Michael3632089 on 11/22/2022
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Putt for Eagle on Hole 16 of Butterfield Photo submitted by ggdgsg on 10/22/2022
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Photo submitted by NinjaRider on 04/12/2022
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$#!+ Photo submitted by u314161442789 on 10/04/2021
Hard to Get Saturday Tee-times
Because the Men's Club tournament every Saturday, it's hard to get a tee-time on the Chino Course; and sometimes the Butterfield Course.
Good Convenient Value
Convenient course to North OC or East LA County, great value at $44 riding. Finished 18 with a 1:39pm tee time on 2/20/23. Good mix of long and short holes, forced layups off the tee, water. Greens were in good shape and rolled very fair. Sand was excellent, powdery. The course itself is a bit rough so we played winter rules, but for $44 you can't have it all. The pro shop staff was very courteous and friendly. Good facilities. I would play here again and I would recommend it for anyone out for a good casual day of golf.
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Nice course with resonable pace
In my opinion the better one of the two courses at El Prado due to better fairway conditions. Pace was reasonable for a 4 hour 15 minutes round on Friday afternoon. Compared to another course near by where 5 hour round should always be expected. Found the tee time on teeoff.com on Thursday which is another big plus as tee times always seem to be available.
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Water!
Prior to all the excellent rain we have received this course was a definite marker for drought conditions. The tea boxes look very improved. Greens were in decent condition, not rolling true. For the first time in forever, the ponds are filled again and they are true water hazards.
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Don't Waste Your Money and Time on This Course
I can't believe the course is making money by selling "junk" services. This is exactly how I felt about the course. For the first time, I was so disappointed and left the course after playing just nine holes. Please mark my words: Don't waste your precious money and time. Please play elsewhere.
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Good course, even better price
Highly recommend to play this course when your in the area. Course is a good condition and the greens roll true. You get your monies worth and then some at this course.
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We appreciate you taking the time to review the course and rate us. Thank you for the 4 stars! We aim for a 4-star experience, so we always welcome feedback for improvement. Thank you for playing at our course.
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We appreciate you taking the time to review the course and rate us. Thank you for the 4 stars! We aim for a 4-star experience, so we always welcome feedback for improvement. Thank you for playing at our course.
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We appreciate you taking the time to review the course and rate us. Thank you for the 4 stars! We aim for a 4-star experience, so we always welcome feedback for improvement. Thank you for playing at our course.
Course closed- but still sold tee times thru golf now
Booked and drove 15 miles only to discover course was closed. Why they didn’t take down the times from golf now is befuddling. Refund took entirely too long as the course wouldn’t call back GN customer service for days. Cheap though- yet a bad enough experience I won’t be going back.
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We're sorry to hear you were less than satisfied during your round. We pride ourselves on our providing great service and the high-quality standards we maintain.
We would like to make things right. Please reach out to our management team at the pro shop.
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This course was decent
Only thing that bothered me was the rough . Having a very hard time finding my ball even though I knew the general area where it was . Lost a lot of balls that shouldn’t of been lost . Didn’t have time to keep looking because of the pace of play . Needs work
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Thank you for visiting and playing at El Prado Golf Courses - Butterfield Stage. We hope to see you again soon!
Excellent condition
For the pounding this course took during the rains, course was in great playing shape. Great job to the staff.
Don’t go to this course
This course is really bad. Poor course condition.
I will never play this course again.
I do not understand why this course has 4 stars.
It should be 1 star.
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Worst Time There !
Course was in horrible shape , it was a beautiful day to play golf at one of my favorite golf courses but due to the bad conditions of the course we all had a bad day ! I had one problem looking for my ball on the 10th hole by the green & it was so bad there that we couldn't find my ball & the rest of our time i kept having to help my group constantly look for there balls which made our experience so bad ! Usually we always find our balls real fast , but this day was a nightmare & i believe it was due to the recent storms but hopefully the next time i go there the course will be in better shape & look like the pictures you guys show on this page ! My group was disappointed more than i was , but that's not going to stop me from going back there cause like i said it's one of my favorite courses & i definitely will be back there !
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Course
I am usually a fan of this course. I think it’s a golfer friendly course. But it was not maintained well. I’ll give them that it has been raining but fairways were bad. There were points where I couldn’t find my ball even though I know i was on the fairway. The greens were the best part of the course. I believe it was over booked. We took almost six hours n not because we played bad which we typically do. But everyone was right behind each other. We could not let a two go in front of us because it didn’t matter.
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Buttterfueld and chino
The bar and restaurant terrible… to lazy to make popcorn and service a joke we go offsite to eat golf staff friendly!
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Fun Track
Butterfield course is a fun okay. Greens are excellent- smooth quick luscious. Fairways are wide
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We appreciate you taking the time to review the course and rate us. Thank you for the 4 stars! We aim for a 4-star experience, so we always welcome feedback for improvement. Thank you for playing at our course.
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We appreciate you taking the time to review the course and rate us. We are going to pass on your feedback to the teams in charge so they can work to make changes.
Your feedback helps us do better. We are looking into this issue and hope to resolve it promptly.
Thank you for visiting El Prado Golf Courses - Butterfield Stage. We hope you'll give us another try in the future.
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