Lake Chabot Golf Course - The 18 Hole Course

Played a practice round to get ready for the Oakland Open championship. The course was in great shape but played very tough. The rough is punishing and you definitely need to keep the ball in fairway and greens if you want to score.

If you miss the greens , you can walk away easily with over par. I can’t wait to play the Oakland Open in 2 weeks.

The course is super wet. I wouldn't recommend playing there for about a month. It is so wet a cart is stuck down to the axles on the mud. Course is fun but it is so wet with all the rain in California. I would recommend a better draining course right now

I've played at this course quite a bit but the latest visit was disappointing. We've had an unusually wet winter and the course was in terrible playing condition. This is an old course and it doesn't drain very well. The fairways and rough were very soft and sloppy. Apparently they hadn't mowed in a while because the fairway's grass was about 3-4 inches tall and the rough was 6-8 inches tall. Even balls hit in the fariway were easily lost because of the ball plugging and being concealed by the tall grass. We ultimately quite after playing 2 holes. We won't be going back here until summer arrives.

Not at all worth it. You can certainly find better deals on golf now or even just paying full price at any course. There is absolutely no maintenance that goes on at this course. All of the cups were full of water, none of the rough or fairways were mowed or trimmed or even planted with playable grasses. Seriously even balls hit in the fairway would disappear. Let alone balls that were hit in the rough but not out of bounds. In other words, balls that should be playable completely disappeared. Few tees had ball washers. And the path didn’t even have signs to show you how to get to the next hole on most holes. This is the first time I’ve played here and it will be the last. I don’t recommend this course at all. I’ve never given a no for a recommendation before. Obviously it’s hard to make a nice golf course. But you should at least mowed the grass. You should at least have signs that show you where to go. You should at least make sure that the course is not so flooded and poorly drained that almost every single hole had water in the cup and swamps along the way. At least the water in the cup was one way to wash your balls because there weren’t any ball washers !

I’ve never given a one star review or not recommended a course. I fully understand how difficult it is to satisfy every golfer. But a paying golfer should at least expect some semblance of course maintenance. There is absolutely none on this course. I have never see a track that is so over grown, poorly drained, lacks signage to tell you where to go, and several other extremely basic aspects that are overlooked by management here. This is an absolutely awful course. Even shots hit in fairways disappear due to over growth. Cut the grass!!!!!! Forget about it if it’s in the rough but still in bounds. This course is simply unplayable. What a waste of money.

Right now, if you hit your ball anywhere off the fairway, good luck finding it. 3 stars comes from staff friendliness, greens, and price point. But I wouldn’t recommend playing your gamers until they get the lawnmower out. Lost 3-4 balls today and NONE were hit so errant that they shouldn’t have been found.

Course needs to dry out. Lost balls right down middle of fairway due to plugging. Poppies need to be mowed when it can be done. Difficult to locate ball quickly. Pace was excellent, weather was great. After all rain, was nice to get out in Sun.

Course was in decent shape considering recent weather. Pace was excellent. Finished 18 in less than 3 hours.

The weather was a big factor, cold and windy but clear!

greens fast but fair... some fairways brown... but around greens just fine.... windy early, calmed down on back 9.

Course in great shape. Pace was excellent. Most of the greens are excellent. #9 needs some attention. Overall great day.

The greens were punched but weren't notified by Golfnow. Can't complain too much since the price was so low. The fairways were ok but the roughs were dried. Finished under 3.5 hours, fantastic! Staff is always friendly.

Great layout, it’s a lot of fun when u think of the holes u played. Course greens are very slow except for the really slanted greens. Course is not in good condition, patches of dirt everywhere and discolored fairways, but layout is fun. Don’t know if there was a 20 min wait on every shot due to over booking or just Saturday golf, left early because I couldn’t handle the wait, food with great though, hot dogs and burgers are amazing after hole 10 or 11.. all in all.. if I didn’t wait such a long time, I would play again because I feel like I can score well there, but I don’t see myself coming back

This course was in great shape, very fun course, this course was a little “hilly” but overall amazing and in good condition