Crystal Springs Golf Course

Greens were true and consistent. No bad lies on the fairway. Heavily watered... some muck in places.

This is a fun track with some challenging holes....alot of people who play here I find its above there ability and they spend time at every hole looking for balls without any thought to the group behind them and the others behind those groups and it can get backed up fairly fast.If they had a marshall who would enforce pace of play it would help but they don't do anything.So rounds here can be close to 6 hrs at times which becomes very frustrating waiting on every shot.But the course itself is fun and challenging......its just not for new players trying to learn or people who drink to much.

This course has beautiful views and lots of wildlife. However, the pace of play / management around tee times and groups could use some improvement. We were waiting at almost every hole, which really slowed down the game substantially. Putting greens are pretty all over the place, some extremely uneven and bumpy. The rest of the course is fine. Wanted to love it, but getting slowed down so much (and I'm about a bogey golfer) really made it a lot less enjoyable.

That's what the starter said to me..."for a Sunday". Note this is a pet peeve of mine.
This course is notorious for being a 5 hour+ round regardless of the day of week though the weekends can stretch out even further. That's why I rarely play it even though it's 15 min from my house. Bad on the golfers too who can't understand the concept of keeping up with the group ahead of you and with a price that tends to weed out those who are too new to the game to get that drilled into them - but I never saw a marshal on the course either. The course conditions were surprisingly better than I remember but the greens were very slow - but perhaps due to the above avg temps we had this weekend. The conditions sort of made up for the 5 hour round but still won't be coming to this course again any time soon. Will drive the 30 min to a course that, even on the weekends, is a 4 - 4.5 hour round.

Crystal Springs is in a beautiful spot, which was oddly much hotter than the surrounding areas. We played on a Sunday afternoon, so enjoyed a slow round of 5 hours. The couple things that stood out were, a. This is a very hilly course, so bring your A game and lots of balls (everything falls towards the reservoir to the West), b. Great food and drink options and c. Friendly and accommodating staff. For $109 w/cart I would have expected a bit more, but I understand it’s the Bay Area. Enjoy.

Been here multiple times, course lay out is scenic, especially front nine. Back nine gets repetitive and plays right along the road. Maintenance is decent. Unfortunately pace of play is slow (5:20h round). Also staff is incredibly unfriendly and rude, they seem to have high staff turnover and their folks genuinely don’t care. Facilities are old and urgently need renovation. There’s better options in the Bay Area.

Quite challenging for an average golfer but is a great course when it is not too wet.

Crystal Springs is a good course. Well maintained, challenging and fun.
The pace can be slow at times specially weekends, but this particular round was twilight and the pace was great.
It is walkable and the scenery is second to none.
I have played it several times and it is always good.

We teed off at 3:42 pm and it took three hours to play nine holes. Totally unacceptable. No marshal to push groups. I won’t play here again. At the start of the round we were hoping to finish 18 but quit after 9 holes.

Should have known better as I've played the course for years, but the latest experience proved this is not a course I will choose to play moving forward. The pace of play is by far the slowest of any course I play in the Bay Area. Grill at the turn closed (again). Course conditions were rough and in some places unplayable.