Foxtail Golf Club - North Course

Foxtail North was my "go-to" golf course in 2015 & 2016. As far as 2017 goes, they won't be seeing a single cent from me. Reasons why...

1) Even though we've recently received quite a bit of rain in Northern California, the course conditions were terrible. The greens were extremely furry and bumpy, and bunkers are completely unplayable. For as much play the course gets and for as much money people are paying for their rounds, you definitely expect more. I'm a walker so I'll always pay a bit less than those that ride, but still.

2) The staff aren't friendly and the marshals have no knowledge of the conditions. When we discussed the conditions of the bunkers with course management, their response was "It's not worth putting the time and money into them". When we checked in with the starter we had basic questions like "How is it out there?", and "Have the greens been mowed?", and the starters response was "It's wet, and I'm not sure if they've mowed". It's obvious this guy was merely collecting a paycheck, and didn't care to be informed.

3)There was a 4 day window of decent weather prior to the day we played and it was absolutely apparent that the course had not been worked on by the crew. I completely get it that the course is wet and mowing fairways ISN'T an option, but the least that could happen is bunker maintenance (pumping out water, rebuilding the faces, raking) and mowing of the greens.

It's sad to see such a great course going down the path that it's going. Until I hear that they're putting in some serious work to this course, I won't be stepping foot on it.

Pace of play was extremely poor. The threesome ahead of me were pretty slow and were hitting off tees they probably shouldn't have been hitting off of (but most guys are going to do that because they have their egos). When they were putting, they took way more time than they needed to. There's still a lot of standing water both in the rough areas as well as the middle of the fairways (hopefully this will improve once the rain stops and we get some decent weather).

The course was in great conditions. It rained the night before so the course had some wet spots. Overall the course conditions were great. Enjoyed my round and will be back again

Staff was welcoming and kind. The range was busy but really nice. Once I got on the course though it was a pretty bad experience. I’ll preface this by saying I’m a 20 handicap so if you’re better at finding the fairway than I am, you shouldn’t have a problem! With that being said though, I’d say about half of my drives didn’t find the fairway and when they didn’t my ball was gone, and my misses probably averaged about 10-20 ft off the fairway. I wasn’t digging near the houses, I was right off the fairway unable to find my ball. I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt that it was due to winter but the tee boxes were also pretty bad.

Fun course to play. I was a single and was let thru by 3 groups in first 6 holes and flew thru thr rest of the course. 3 hour round. Although very wet, the course played really well.

Poring rain didnt stop us from getting in almost a full 18(14) conditions were terrible, flooded fairways soggy puddled greens, water hazards with every shot, but the course is beautuful and on a sunny day woould be very nice to relax and take in the awsome layout of this club.