Mesa Linda at Costa Mesa Golf & Country Club

Teed off on Lagos at 12:30. By 2:30 we had two holes completed. No less than 6 groups stacked up on #2. Instead of finding the slow groups and speeding them up, Marshals instead drive and pick up trash. After 4 1/2 hrs I had to quit in 12 when there were still 4 groups stacked up. Absolutely ridiculous. I will never play an afternoon round there again. Not worth the 6 1/2 hours of my time.

The guy who works the check-in window on Thursday mornings is one of the rudest/unfriendliest people that I and my other 3 companions have encountered at any golf course. He won't check you in until everyone in your group is standing at the window. So, if you arrive early (30 minutes) and want to practice on the driving range before your round, you have to go into the clubhouse, pay for the balls, go practice, and then come back later to check in. Instead of being able to check in, pay for your round and the bucket of balls and not have to come back. That's bad enough, but his demeanor and tone are rude. He obviously didn't pay attention in the "Best practices for customer service" class. This Club has 2 courses and is almost always busy, so maybe they don't really care. The good news is that everyone else there is very friendly and helpful. Too bad that one bad apple can spoil your day, before it even gets started.

Starter guy is not nice,pace of play is very slow there's 3 flights stack at the tee mound.

Pace of play was really slow; course needs to have Marshalls watch and speed up the slow groups that hold up the pace of play.

Course in good condition. Greens vary nice. Pace of play was miserable 5 1/2 hours.

I play here a lot because of the 2 different courses allow for different playing experiences. It is simply over booked. Most of the staff is friendly. I have had a few starters and Marshall’s I absolutely love and others who don’t represent the course well. The same statement goes towards the pro shop. I have had 6.5 hour rounds out here. I have left early multiple times due to bad pace of play. Nobody should go here expecting to have good pace of play. It’s 10 minutes per tee box MOST days and has been worse. If they could figure out pace of play it would be the best bargain in Southern California. Fairways aren’t elite but good enough and the greens are better than almost any other public course around.

I love this course, it is one of my favorites. However, on this day, the marshall let a group of 5 men go ahead of our two-some. He told us not to worry that they would play fast. Famous, last, words. They were very slow, bad shots and insisted from playing from the back tees. 5 hours later and we still were not able to finish as it had become dark. How does the course management let this happen and then complain about pace of play??? That's 5 hours and $120 I'll never get back.

Greens good

Tees fair to good

Fairways very good

Completed 18 3.5 hrs!!!

From check-in, the marshal was not friendly saying that 30 minutes delayed. When starting tee-shots, he unreasonably added a player to make fivesome into one-group foursome. When we complained, he spoke very aggressively and shook his finger provokingly. After we spoke with a starter at the clubhouse, it turn out the marshal miscommunicated with the starter. Even though it was his faulty miscommunication, he did not say sorry at all and kept saying rudely. Our golf rounding was totally ruined by such a buzz kill.

$30 on GolfNow and another $34 to ride in a cart when you arrive? Staff is unfriendly and they overbook so waited on 15 of the 18 holes. Couple holes waited 30 min