Mercer Oaks Golf Course - East Course

It’s early in the year, and we’re dealing with Covid restrictions and such, but this course is still immaculately kept. Last year I played over 10 different courses and none of them had ball washers, towels, or divot repair bottles on tees or in carts. Mercer Oaks had all of them! Also the bunkers are already filled with new sand, you’re not hitting out of the muddy crap that was under the snow for two months like most courses around here. I was very happy with how the east course is laid out too, traditional links style with crazy bunkers and a good amount of water, few trees.

Course is recovering from maintenance like many other courses but at least they charge a fair price. Fun layout and in a month when the greens and tee boxes recover from aeration it’ll be a gem. Will be back

75 degrees the day before, 50 and blowing 15-20 day I play! No one out there. Course pretty fin for overnight rain. Wide open place….prob not the best idea to play when it’s windy!

It has been 5 years since I last played Mercer Oaks East. The setting and layout of the course is sensational . You feel like you are far away from civilization in a beautiful place with nature abundant. The course was a bit mushy, the fairways didn't provide much roll and the greens were quite slow on this day. The traps are huge and were like cement with hard packed sand.

We had a great day and the weather was perfect. The facility as a whole is very nice. I know that the course conditions will be better on a future visit but it certainly did not impact a great day!

Greens a little beat up

Some Sand bunkers like cement

All in all not to bad for $50

I would come back

This course has held up a lot better than some of the other courses I've played this summer. There is some evidence of wear and tear from the rain then heat but nothing too bad. Special thanks to the Marshal for speeding up the group in front of us who had a 2 hole gap. We are getting into aeration season so I will try to get back in a couple of weeks.

The course was aerated the day before and the day of my play, there was no warning online however it was posted on the proshop door once I arrive but it was too late to cancel.

I arrived on time, checked in and got to the tee box 1 minute late for my 1:20. The courses appeared wide open at the time, the first 3 holes was a breeze, but from hole 4 to 18 I waited after every shot, I was joined by another single who was also walking at the 5th tee. We saw the Ranger drive by then several times and never asked them to pick up the pace or let us through.

I finally had enough and stopped the Ranger on 15 to have a discussion, his excuse was that they were playing on pace and he couldn’t do anything. This foursome had three carts, they allowed the threesome ahead of us to play through in the fairway on 7 and those guys were gone.

I was told by the starter the foursome had a 1:40 tee time but was sent out early at 1, I had a 1:20 and the clueless, spineless Ranger that refused to do his job should have known this and had a conversation with them about their place of play.

I don’t know if this is how it is at this course, but my experience was horrible.

I’m sure the other amenities could have been better, but I wasn’t going to stick around and take any chances.

Very disappointed. I play this course every year and its historically been great. They expect you to play a 4 hour round. We were 6 minutes behind (on a weekday afternoon) and the ranger came out to us twice to say the people behind us called the pro shop because we're playing slow. 6 minutes behind is not worth the ranger coming out and getting into an argument with, but it happened. All the while the bunkers had weeds and rocks, and the fairways had brown spots and random holes with water. Course was in terrible shape and all the ranger cared about was us playing 6 minutes slow.

For this time of the year the course was in pretty good shape. A couple of tee boxes were pushed up and 1 fairway go killed by the rain/heat combination. They are aerating on 8/18 so keep that in my. A special thanks to the marshal for speaking to the group in front of us as they had a 2 hole opening in front of them. It helped a little.

Conditions were absolutely horrendous… played here many times in the past ….never seen it like this!!!!

Hard fairways, fast greens, tee boxes ok. Super hot day, but some cloud cover made this round bearable. Wide open fairways , sand bunkers just rocky, need more sand. Heat starting to take its toll.