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4.8
340 Reviews (340)
5 Stars
121
4 Stars
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3 Stars
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2 Stars
15
1 Stars
10
Conditions
4.8
Value
4.0
Layout
4.9
Friendliness
4.9
Pace
4.0
Amenities
4.8
97.9%
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5.0
Value
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Layout
5.0
Pace
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Amenities
5.0
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About

Holes 18
Type Semi-Private
Par 72
Length 6911 yards
Slope 132
Rating 73.9

Course Details

Year Built 1960
Fairways Bent Grass
Greens Bermuda grass
Golf Season Year round

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes
Clubs Yes
Pull-carts Yes

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Golf School Academy Yes
Teaching Pro Yes
Pitching/Chipping Area Yes
Putting Green Yes

Policies

Credit Cards Accepted Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover Welcomed
Metal Spikes Allowed No
Walking Allowed Yes
Dress code No denim, collared shirt

Food & Beverage

Bar, Snacks, Restaurant

Available Facilities

Banquet Facilities

Reviews

4.8
340 Reviews (340)

What Golfers Are Saying

The 19th Hole is Great For:
Drinks 27
Watching the Game 15
Dinner 11
Course Challenges Include:
Elevation Changes 34
Undulating Greens 30
Water Hazards 26
This course/club is great for:
Wildlife/ Scenic Views 40
Advanced Golfers 32
Locals 29
This Course's Location is:
Worth the Drive 39
Convenient to the City 15
In the 'Burbs 9

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Reviews 2
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
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Auburn Valley

A classic course that is fair and challenging. Plenty of tee box options. Great views.
My only criticism is that some of the fairways are drying out with sections of hard pan.

Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 15
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 172
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
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Previously Played

Well worth driving one and one half hours, through some winding mountain road.

Well managed Covid-19 sanitation situation around the pro shop area and the carts. Well managed fairways and the greens. Tee boxes are a little bit hard. The best golf carts , equipped with good working GPS.
Well worth of driving one and 1/2 hours to get to the course. A couple of birdies helped the enjoining the round. I will return here before the daylight gets shorter in November. Thanks GolfNow.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart
Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 3
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Poor conditions

Course was brown, greens with black spots everywhere. Over watered areas.

Conditions Fair
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 3
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Course was in very good shape!

At check in they didn’t have my Teeoff reservation so I had to show them my printout. The tee time was double booked so we were late getting started. Not sure why there was problems with the online reservation.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 4
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

booking snafu

course said golf now bookings seem to be made without checking tee sheet, luckily. weonly had a short delay

Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Amenities Average
Difficulty Fairly Easy
Played On
Reviews 29
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Issue with GolfNow communication

The course itself was great and the staff was quite helpful. But, there were multiple groups, including mine, that had booked through GolfNow but didn’t show up in the Auburn Valley GC reservation system. So the starter had to plug us in wherever he could. Our 7:30am start time ended up being 8:10am. For us, it was fine, but another twosome that also booked through GolfNow and played with us had to leave early since the later start time caused them to be behind schedule. Hopefully Auburn Valley GC and GolfNow can get things figured out in the future.

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
4.0
First Time Playing
Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Played On
Reviews 8
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 49
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Perfect weather
Used cart

Nice Course

Had a 6:40am tee time. Pro Shop sent me off on #10 solo to beat a tournament onto the course. Pace was quick. Course was in very good shape, although a bit wet. Course was being watered through the first nine. Very fun, playable course. Will definitely play here again.

Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 6
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Customer service needs help

We arrived with plenty of time to hit balls and putt before we teed off. The real issue is that they people that work at Auburn Valley were already teed off. We all got an earful from them about how we shouldn’t use GolfNow anymore to book tee times as they will not honor those times going forward and that we were double booked for the 8:40 time slot. How would we know that they shouldn’t be on GolfNow anymore?! The starter kept a close eye on us when we were on the range since he was “doing us a favor” by squeezing us in. Not my favorite thing to be rushed off the practice range when we had plenty of time only to be sandwiched in between 2 groups and had to tee off on number 10! And they raised the green fee significantly as well. For a course that won’t take tee times from GolfNow and they want to charge $69 / round they really need to do quite a bit to get their course to this level. Speaking of level, there was only 2-3 level tee boxes at this course, and one of the guys wanted to buy an extra sleeve of balls and could only get one kind. I couldn’t believe how they had little to no merchandise in the pro shop but had brand new golf carts!! Something is definitely a miss at Auburn, this is a far cry from the great customer service I have received in the past. I will not be making the effort to go back anytime soon.

Conditions Average
Value Fair
Layout Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 3
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Great course when they have hot deals

We play this course quite a bit and never have to wait much on the tee boxes. The staff state that they are unaware of when golf now tee times are made so there tends to be some confusion but usually never a problem. One Saturday there was a tournament so our tee time from golf now as mixed in with the tournament and was forced to walk after paying for a cart as part of the tee time.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 5
Handicap Don't know
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
3.0
First Time Playing
Hot weather
Used cart

might be a bit before I come back

Staff at the course were very nice. I walked in and had said I made a reservation on golf now and another reservation on their website and realized both don't talk to each other because they're not synchronized. She indicated they'd been having issues with GolfNow, so as of 8/23/2020, it hasn't been fixed.
Some member yelled at me because I bought a bucket of balls and was heading to hit a few practice shots, but apparently I missed a tiny sign on the ground that said members only. Anyhow, I didn't have an issue moving to the "public" driving range (same thing, just 10 feet to the left), I just had issues with this punk yelling at me. Either way, not reflective of the staff of the course.
Regarding the course layout and the carts, I had lots of issues. The carts are geofenced and there are major major issues around hole 6 and 7. Spent like 10 minutes pushing the cart back into geofenced area, because the cart essentially became disabled. Also, we had massive confusion about the course and the directions to get to the next hole because apparently we completely missed 2 holes. Makes no sense to us how that happened, but oh well.

It'll be a bit before I come back. I feel like this course too far of a drive from Sacramento for my personal taste.

Conditions Fair
Value Good
Layout Fair
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Fairly Easy
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Hot weather
Used cart
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once every three months
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Great layout and difficult fairways

Amazing course with some lengthy par 5 and fun par 3s

Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 9
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Played On
Reviews 3
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Nice little mountain gem

Pretty course in the Auburn foothills. Fun layout with new upgraded carts with GPS course screens ubs plug-ins too. Nice outdoor grill area for 19th hole drinks & food.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
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