The Bayonet at Bayonet/Black Horse Golf Course

Loved it! Course was in great shape. We moved very well but never seemed to be pressured to pick our pace up. Will definitely be back thought it was a great value compared to some of the other courses up in the Monterey peninsula.

Well,

They decided to build homes on this once beautiful course. During the week they are building houses and it’s noisy and very distracting. There are new spots that are OB that weren’t before. Once the houses are completed it might be better, but I’m not very optimistic. The greens are in bad shape and they are not really watering everything evenly. I used to love how peaceful and beautiful this course was. But that is over as they have caved to selling the property to idiots who wish to be peppered with golf balls if they decide to drink their over priced coffee in the back yard. Good luck

I’ve been playing both courses for years and overall through the years it has been fantastic golf. Unfortunately, that is over, as they decided to completely ruin the beautiful scenery with big ugly houses in the middle of the course (Bayonet). They failed to mention at the club house the housing construction going on in the middle of course. For once was a mystique beautiful course is now riddled with the sounds of saws, hammering, backing trucks and dust. I will not play Bayonet ever again unfortunately, even after they Finnish the houses, as now a small slice off the tee on holes 3-8 will end up in some persons back yard, and be out of bounds, as prior you’d be just hitting out of hazard. Very sad day for once was a wonderful course.

Bayonet was in excellent condition, although currently there is multi-site single family construction in process all over the course which was somewhat disruptive. The home construction @ Black Horse was even more interrupting to our play, and Black Horse’s condition was surprising below expectations; several bare spots, hard-pan, and burned -out greens that never should exist even on a muni course (which these are not supposed to be). Still better than paying $350 + for a round of golf at Pebble Beach courses, however. So it’s all relative . . . just a little disappointing since I last played these courses 2 years ago on my last vacation to this area from another state.

So like any other course trying to get play activity up for revenue, they have a tendency to over rate themselves!
Prior to the housing being built the track had more appeal.
So now it seems to be a track that likes to stack people out there ! Greens are not well cared after nor are the tee boxes. The place has potential to be a great slow resort place if your into that sort of place! Needless to say, the new look is terrible

I have been playing Bayonet for many years and the course continues to have a gradual decline. First the conditions of the green are very bad. On hole 17 putted for birdie but the greens were so damaged could not roll the put. In the past the greens were alot faster then they are today. The bunkers had very little sand and the fairways no longer are being kept up. In the middle of the fiarways there would be patches of grass and in some cases weeds. If I did not get a good deal through Golf Now I really would have been more upset. It is one of my favorite layouts but it looks like they are putting more money on housing on the course then the course itself. Even the practice putting greens were a joke

The golf course is good, on the green golf ball rolled fast and there are construction around the course building houses other than that it was good.

The greens are in terrible shape!!! They made the whole golf experience terrible….

Outstanding course. Great staff. Excellent practice facilities.

Course and maintenance has gone downhill. Don’t over pay for the conditions.

A lot of funky brown patches with dead or no grass. Diseased?

I've played many Troon managed courses. This is NOT up to Troon's standard.

The course is not in good condition: period!

They are in the process of changing the grass is what we were told. Explains the bare patches I guess. Also a lot of aeration underway, which I have no issue with.

What I do have issue with is being charged top dollar for the course when it is NOT in top dollar condition.

The fairways and tee boxes are in terrible condition and the greens are super inconsistent. Some of them would be super fast and then others would be super slow. I’m not too sure what happened to their course within the past year but it’s not even fun to play anymore. It could be because of all of the homes that they are building on there course but I’m highly disappointed in paying all that money to play a course that was in such terrible condition. I definitely will not be playing this course ever again!