The Vineyard at Escondido

Used to be a nice course. It’s in terrible shape. The pace of play is horrendous. Bunkers have 1/2” of “sand”, fairways have major problems IMO, they seem like just cut weeds a lot of places. Greens are dotted up with divots. Carts are junk, sometimes have to push gas pedal two or three times to go. Some of the tee boxes had more dirt than the bunkers. I had an actual pine cone come out of the range ball machine. Dead fish in water on #9 floating. Typical SoCal winter conditions?!? Starter pushing groups into the group in front. There are better courses for the money.

Fairway grass was very well maintained. Staffs were very friendly.

A variety of course layout with beautiful views.

The condition of the fairways was subpar. Not much actual grass. The bunkers had very little sand and were hard packed. Also forgot my sky caddie. This had to be least marked for yardage course I have ever seen. No 100, 150 or 200 markers. There were some markers in the fairway but only saw three the whole round. Carts were older and very hard to turn.

Starter not managing tee sheet properly, people jumping ahead of their tee time and let 6 people tee off at the same tee time slot. Pace of play is not managed, no Marshall around when groups are 2 holes behind. Round of golf was almost 6 hours, ridiculous.