Gleneagles Golf Course at McLaren Park

A long challenging nine hole with two sets of tees to make it an 18 hole. The Staff is great.

It’s a lot like the Presidio course. I will go back.

that continues a quirky existence and manifold challenges...it all breaks to the Cow Palace....

It’s perhaps the worst condition golf course in USA I’ve ever played. It’s not just the divots that kills the course, the entire fairway is mud! And when it’s dry like when I played. The ball on the fairway will roll down the hill no matter how good your tee shot is. The hold designs are generally ok if it’s playable! But not okay in the current conditions. The greens are deceiving and can’t be read with even the most professional of eyes. Everything seems straight and the break turns your ball 90 degrees and sometimes kick your ball out of the green. There are even weeds on the green. Seems like the owner never took care of the course. My front yard is better than the green

Played a quick 9 before my flight home. High expectations based on write ups about the course. Would like to play it again when it recovers from drought conditions. Looks like that might be a few years.

Gleneagles is an extremely challenging and strategic layout that is not for beginners nor those wanting flat and straightforward golf. There are varied slopes on virtually all holes and many narrow areas to contend with. The greens are tiny and most have heavy undulations, but are as good of condition as you will find for muni golf. The rest of the course conditions varies from solid and fair to poor to downright ugly with barren spots in fairways and tee boxes with more slope than would be normally anywhere else. This course must be approached with an open mind and should be played several times before having any expectations of scoring near one’s handicap, but you get to play all sorts of shorts off all sorts of lies for a real golfing challenge.

Good greens and a great walk.

We had a fun morning at Gleneagles. Holes were long enough to make 9 holes worthwhile. The guy in the shop was very nice. It got a bi windy but that's normal in SF.

This course is treacherous. Wildly overpriced. It’s always in bad shape, the greens are mostly sand. The wind makes the course much more difficult. A small slice turns into a lost ball every time. The fairways are patched with dirt and sand. Walking the course is really challenging because you’re walking on sandy hills. The cart you can rent for $10 doesn’t have straps so my bag fell off many times on bumpy fairways. I had to use two hands to guide it. The staff can be ok some days and others give you attitude if you aren’t familiar with all the rules. After 3 holes I was ready to quit. Stay away, give a better course your business. I wouldn’t play this course for free.

I appreciate this Jack Fleming layout on so many levels of golf appreciation. Much more than what meets the eyes. Was truly appreciative of the tree shadows of hundreds of golf balls on the right side of the first fairway. A splendid installation!!! Lift back the historical covers on these challenges and much is both revealed and rumoured.

After traversing the sketchy barrack style apartments with the homies guarding the corner I was able to find the single car entrance tucked away up a hill with little to no signage. After gearing up and heading to the small but quaint bar/pro shop/front desk, I stood for five

minutes while the atttendant finished his convo with one of the two other folks in the place about furniture just to get a smug “ what do you need”. Not a hey, not a “hi, how are you doing”. Then I got to the course. Terrible is an understatement. Conditions made for a challenging 9 which was great, but can you at least make a decent path to walk and cut the grass on the green. Just tossing sand everywhere and calling it good seems like a bandaid for the bullet wound that is the lack of care and pride of ownership.

The course paste very tough as usual but that’s why I keep coming back. I have been playing that course for 40 years.

Played this course on a Saturday, guy working the pro shop was a younger man. Friendly and actually had a good time at the course- difficult fun track. I can overlook the poor fairway conditions to support a local course. A few weeks later, I decided to play a round on a rainy, completely empty Monday morning. Show up to check in with an older man at the bar. Tell him I’d like to grab a tee time, he rudely asks if I have a tee time. Repeat that id like to walk on.. “ yeah fine, I guess I’ll allow it.” Keep in mind, I’m the ONLY person at the golf course. Asks if I’ve played here before, told him I’ve played a few weeks ago. “You know the rules around here then?” Confused, I ask him to clarify to which he replies “we have one rule here. You are to play one ball and one ball only. If me or if any of my guys see you playing more than one ball, we’re going to ask you to leave immediately. You got that?” Sure enough, he watched me tee off, arms crossed and watched me play the entire first hole from outside the pro shop. Never have I ever been treated this way in any other course or felt more unwelcome. There’s a reason this course is rarely booked out. It’s a shame because the course has a lot of potential but it’s held back by this “look we’re cool because we have a bar instead of a pro shop” mentality. No shortage of courses here in the Bay Area and this course ranks at the bottom of that list.

The course is nice now. With all the recent rains we have had has the course greener than its been in recent times. Some trees down but they have been cleaning up pretty fast. Challenging place with all the elevation changes and slopes.

THE GC HAS BAY VIEW. NOT TOO BUSY. YOU PLAY ON THE SLOP.

Conditions of the fairways are not the best but the layout is challenging. The greens are well kept.