The Vineyard at Escondido

This was my fourth round here in the last 6-7 weeks. It had been years before that. Really fun track and a great value. Front and back nines are like two different courses. Front is flat, lots of water. Back is up, down, blind shots, more risk/reward decisions, etc. Fun challenge.

I will say that it’s pretty tough to get a bad lie right now. A lot of rough is cut down to near fairway length. Keep that in mind on errant shots though- nothing will slow them, especially near the water. .

Awesome range with trackman included on like 75% of their bays. Absolutely keeping this place in the rotation for awhile.

Thanks Jonathan for your great friendly customer service! This course is well maintained & always a challenge for us. We will be back!!

The course has challenges for the above average golfer. The course a few muddy spots that needs attention .

They need to do the heavy equipment work at night. Set up a spotlight. Tough to play with background noise the whole time.

Poor value for the money. Unimpressive course. Greens in good shape, but not fairways. Be prepared for mosquitos. Good driving range and good frequency of contact with refreshment carts. No bathrooms except at pro shop.

The greens were aerated October 1st and 2nd, two weeks later, they were still healing. There was major maintenance of a few holes, but the rest of the course was decent, except for the lack of sand in the bunkers. I've played here dozens of times and the course is decent. They have added launch monitors on several of the driving range mat stalls, that's a plus.

My first experience with The Vineyard was great. The front and back nines are completely different in degree of difficulty with the front being the hardest. Everything was great making the whole experience enjoyable.

The greens were punched a week earlier, so they were bumpy.

There's water on the first 9 and your ball will inexplicably roll into the water because many of the fairways are less than flat.

If you lose a ball, you'll probably bring, too. Sometimes the water hazards are clear enough to find lots of balls. Sometimes they are danker than a foggy Halloween night.

We were lucky to be paired with someone who had played the course so had a little inside knowledge. Course was fun to play, the only nit to pick was that the driving range is not protected from the course with nets on either side, so two holes had lots of range balls on the edge of the fairways, which made finding balls on that side of those fairways quite difficult. Otherwise a very enjoyable round and would happily return.

I expected the punching and sanding, but the greens were horrible. Also, there was a ridiculously slow foursome who had 5 groups backed up. No one from the course was monitoring