Rancho San Joaquin Golf Course

While this course might be your usual muni, the staff was first rate,

Punching fairways and heavy watering, Mosquitos are prevalent as a result. Greens are excellent and T boxes are a work in progress. Overall good value, played in 4 hrs.

Have been playing here for 7 years. Fairways are as bad as I have ever seen them. Greens are very good. At $55 during week fair price for this place

Pace of play kind of spoiled the round. Foursome in front incredibly slow despite not being bad golfers.

First time playing here and I paid $40 to start at 5:42 and ended up starting at 6:05 just to play 7 holes because there were no marshals or starters pushing the pace of play. (played +4 through 7)
Guy managing the pro shop is just sitting in the back not paying attention to anyone coming in.

Of the 7 holes,Tee boxes were in good condition. Fairways are pretty wide and have a variety of grass conditions (really good, decent, dirt) I'd say most of it was a bit better than decent. Rough isn't very wide so if you miss you'll be in either a dirt path or hitting into another fairway.

Design of the course is decent. A majority of the course is flat and is pretty easy.

Would only recommend this course if you are either a beginner or are looking for a cheap course and don't mind a 5-6 hour round.

Course conditions were terrible. Hard dry ground or mud with unkept grass off the fairways

This course shouldn’t be priced anywhere near $100 per round. Absolutely obscene pricing for conditions and layout. For a mini course that is supposed to be friendly play, should be priced between $42-60 per runs as it was previously. Nothing new about it. Please change the pricing.

Besides few holes fairway fixing has been done. With hot weather not why we had ponds and oceans on 10th hole.
Since we had semi beginner on our group, sorry for slower pace....

I used to play this course a lot back in the late 1990s and early 2000s. I actually like the layout. The only bad thing back then was the pace of play. I guess that will never change. Now it’s not only the pace of play but the course conditions. Golf should never take 5.5 to 6 hours to finish a round. You should never hit from dirt or a hole or a pond (from over watering) from the middle of the fairway.

I see these 4 star ratings from these “mystery” usernames. Do not trust those! You’ve been warned!!!

This course will eat your balls even down the fairway, puddles uneven grass, uncut down the middle. Cart died on 16th hole, golf elsewhere

Though this course is not so good, course management get better and better recently .

Although I have lived in Irvine for several years now this is my first experience playing Rancho. In the past I’ve only used their driving range facility. Since my daughter plays golf for Uni High School she’s played this course. I couldn’t refuse when she asked me to join her. Overall the layout of the course is good. Condition of the course was up to par and the pace of play was fine. I’d probably play this course again