Pacific Palms Resort

I’ve played this course before and the conditions and pace of play were great, not this time. We waited about 15 minutes at every hole and we finally quit on the 15th hole. Plus the conditions were not like before, lots of rodent holes and fairways were dry at some holes. Plus the fees were the highest I’ve ever paid 95.00 bucks. Not worth it for me. I hope things get back to normal beacause I really liked this course.

Beautiful views and great course layout. Fairways were rock hard and had some rough spots. Staff was helpful and friendly.

Major issue was the greens. Every green was mult-tiered and holes were cut right on the edge of them, making for some ridiculously difficult putts. I putted off the green a few times and therefore had the most 3-putts in my entire life.

Having to constantly smash putts up a massive incline in the green was not an enjoyable experience and makes it impossible to get the pace right on these greens.

If i were to come back I would try The Babe Course, which I heard was easier.

The world’s worst driving range also has the world’s worst range balls. See pics. I mean how can they give those to people. Balls covered in sand, unwashed. You have to wipe off every ball before you hit them, especially your driver and metalwoods, otherwise you will damage them. How can anybody call this customer service, at a place that tries to sell itself as a resort???? People from around the world come here and see the state of that. If you travelled to a far away destination and saw that range, you are going to run away. Especially this week, the Holiday week!!

And then the course…… my gawd, what is it with this place?

So many tee boxes need work, most were uncut today too, almost like rough on the tee.

And who did these pins on the greens??? Some of them were completely on side slopes and horrible humps!!! No wonder it was taking for ever to play. Having teed off at first twilight tee times, you would expect to be able to finish. But no. So many people were struggling with the course layout anyway, and then they have to deal with those crazy pins!!! On a weekday! Players were pinging back up and down and around the pin all day, we were so delayed we didn’t get to finish. We did our best, but we had to call it quits on 16.

Just really sad.

Hackers are abundant here and almost seems like they need to work on their game on the range instead of sow down the day fhe real golfers. This course has a desperate feel. The staff always looks miserable and it shows.

The Babe needs a lot of work from tee to green. Once upon a time when Industry Hills was hosting the LPGA Kia tournament both the Ike and Babe was flawless. Ever since Covid, they increased greens fees and decreased course maintenance...it was once a jewel of a course but now just another place to play if all else fails. But this is becoming a norm for a lot of local courses. To get premium golf experiences, you have to pay $125 plus or drive out to Palm Springs/Phoenix/Vegas/Escondido.

Pace of play was a joke. 5 hours ten minutes.

This place is so greedy tee times are 10 minutes apart.

Amateurs playing from blues!