Mesa Linda at Costa Mesa Golf & Country Club

The cold in Southern California is unusual. But cold yesterday it was cold. Played 9 holes only.

The pace of play was very slow. Had to wait for many holes.

Love this course. The people are fantastic and enjoy the layout. But and this is a big but, forget getting your money’s worth on a full round unless you have at least 6-7 hours to spend playing. Today we found ourselves 2 hours past our tee time having only played 3 holes. Three groups were ahead of us waiting on hole 4. I suspect many people dropped out on the back 9 as it got slightly better but it was still quite bad. I understand there was a slight frost delay however this course is notoriously super slow regardless. When I went to grab a drink on the turn someone shared with me that friends are let in without proper tee times that cause the pace of play to be horrendous on weekends. No idea of the legitimacy of the statement but that would make sense. Book with caution.

I only finished nine holes in four hours. I waited for groups to finish on every hole. This is my local course and I enjoy walking it and taking my time but I think 10:30-2:30 having played only nine holes is ridiculous. I’ve complained on a couple of occasions and the staff was nice enough to comp me nine holes but it is consistently slow.

Played a Wednesday at 10:30. Was sent out thirty minutes late. Round took over 6 hours. Waited at least ten minutes on every tee box. If you play here bring a novel with you.

On a packed Saturday people are allowed 115-ball buckets on the driving range. No chance of warming up. Chipping area the size of a postage stamp with people allowed to chip 20-30 balls at a time. On putting green people turn up with eight balls. No discipline by management. When I raised the issue with the man behind the mic he told me to go play Pelican Hills. What a stupid and rude person.

Stopped after nine holes because we were 12 waiting on the tee for every hole.

We started 30 minutes behind on the first tee, but then things started to move along. It took us just under 5hrs to finish 18 holes. The course conditions were very good, with some water accumulating through out the fairways but the tree were in good shape.

It’s challenging to book tee times since the course website opens at 6:00 a.m. and sometimes has bugs that interrupt a booking long enough that you lose the time slot. Please improve the online booking process.

enjoyed playing, but it got cold about 3:30 pm and then had to abondon playing about 4:00 pm after 12-13 holes, even when I used a cart.

Started my tee time at 12:30pm and finished the round just after 5:00pm. Pace of play wasn’t too bad, but we did have a couple times where the par 3 holes were backed up by two groups. There was one marshal on hole 6 that was trying to speed up pace of play, but no one else for the rest of the course. I feel the group that was two groups ahead of us were the issue, but couldn’t see if THEY were backed up as well. Honestly I was expecting worse pace of play given the reviews, so didn’t think it was too bad. Will definitely come back to play since it was raining and caused some flooding of bunkers and fairways on the course.

3 hours for 9 holes and waited on every hole.

Teetime was 1:15 but could play

until 1:45