Lakehouse Hotel and Resort

I did NOT play well that day but the grounds have little or no drainage.really.

Would be nice to know the greens were just punched, I would like a redo.

Even a week after the rains, this course remains wet Wet WET! Very poor drainage conditions. Not a dry spot in site. Unfriendly check in staff if you’re a GN patron. 2some, 3somes sent out causes SLOW pace of play. Club members using their carts zig zagging across all fairways destroying the course even more. Cart paths only idiots! Stay away for a while!

Course was very soggy due to recent rains. Fairways were largely unplayable. Greens has been punched and sanded. Sand had not settled, so we were basically putting on sand. Very disappointing course shape and should have been offered at discount.

Welcome to post rainy season golf play!

I enjoyed my early morning start time on the course on 03/04/23.

It was following a month of rainy weather in Northern SD County and the course was mostly playable, but some fairways were just too saturated.

The drainage system was working great, but there was still too much standing water in some of the longer, flatter fairways.

I’ve played this course many times over the last 8 years and I will continue to in the future.

Come enjoy and be glad you did!!

As we were going to be vacationing in the Carlsbad area and wanted to play golf, we read reviews before we booked at St Marks (now called The Links) and they seemed to be good other than only a couple of bad ones. But it was awful. Not only was it cart path only which they hadn't informed us, but worse, was that the greens had recently been sanded and we weren't told about that either. Usually there is price break if the course is undergoing maintenance such as seeding but that didn't happen.

Unfortunately, the real issue was the long, long wait every time to hit. The GPS in the cart was letting us know the elapsed time and how far we were behind pace. By the third hole we were already behind. The fourth hole was 28 minutes behind and we were always right up to the guys in front as they were to the groups before them. They just had too many people booked on the course! We left at the end of hole 15 as by that time we were at 4 hour and 24 minutes with 3 more holes to go and behind pace by 55 minutes. So, we gave up as if we continued to play the full 18, it would have taken around 5 1/2 hours.

I have played Saint Marks executive a few times in the last couple months but after it had rained quite a bit lately, the golf course apparently does not drain very well. In particular the eighth hole down the hill where the green is is a real boggy mess. My footjoy shoes did not hold, and I fell flat on my back and butt and head and gave myself whiplash. I managed to complete the round, but have been pretty stiff since. I am 73 years old, and had it been much worse I might have owned the place! Ha! Anyway, I enjoy the layout normally, but when it’s wet it can be dangerous.

No notification of aerating the greens last week , course was super soggy, and yet still charged full price …..sucks cause this place is usually in great shape

We played the day following San Diego's epic 2023 winter storm and the course was VERY soggy - cart path only - and the greens were punched and heavily sanded...but the course has a great layout and we had a fun in spite of all of that. SO, .when the course gets cleaned up I'd come back and highly recommend it.

While the course was suffering from all the recent rain, it didn't look like it would be that much better in dry weather. Fairways are a mishmash of various grasses and bare ground. Sand traps hadn't been raked for a long time and were either blown out or had standing water. Greens were decent, although recently sanded so hard to tell how well they rolled. We bailed after 9 holes.

The group ahead of us were filming on the course acting like good good or something. We called it in and nothing was done. No mention of sanded greens, restaurant closure, or flooded fairways in the pro shop. The staff was nice but I’m glad I only paid $18 on a hot deal for today. Not what it used to be.

Not course fault that it rained so much but this course seems to take more of a beating than others from it.

But the slow play was a drag, people partying at each hole, playing two balls. Really slowed things down.

Enjoyable. Decently challenging. Great value. Close to house. Pace of play kind of stinks.

Expensive for condition of the course. Signature hole had sand on the majority of the tee box. Greens were in excellent condition.

I always have a good time playing St Mark's exec, challenging yet familiar and a lot of fun holes