Olivas Links Golf Course

Great day at Olivas Links. Course always in great shape and friendly staff

Had a 3:30pm Tee Time. Came to tee with a couple teeing off in front of me and one other single that had joined. Couple decided to tee off and drive off without saying anything as me and the other person were teeing off. Told them to come back but they refused so we had to wait for them, while they were behind a 4some also. Called the clubhouse, they just told me to either play through them or have them join us. Obviously not going to play through them since there were groups of 4 on the next 5-6 holes. Told the clubhouse I'd already asked them and they refused and they said to ask again and wouldn't offer any other help.

This course is nice but it's always slammed and there's no one monitoring pace of play. They even have these cool signs that say their pace of play is slow and you should be used to it by now...Pretty weird.

One of the Best Conditions on the Central Coast. Tee-Boxes, Fairways, Fringe and Greens in great shape.

Tee time Monday 8/14 at 3:30. Was originally scheduled for my wife and I but she couldn’t make it. Went by myself. Hooked up with a golfer my age and similar golf game. He was walking and I had a cart. My wife and I just bought push carts and are going to use them this Friday at Olivas links. Saw how my playing partner enjoyed walking. Couple in front of us was taking forever each hole. Looks like female was learning and her male partner was trying to instruct her and they had a golf cart. She was constantly whiffing the ball, getting stuck in sand trap, one time over 5 minutes which she finally took ball out. After about seven holes we jumped back over to the 2nd hole where nobody was at and we moved along nicely after that. My gripe was, where was the marshal. No where in site. Would have definitely told him to speed them up. If anything they could see we were waiting for them each hole, could have told us to pass them up as a courtesy, anyway only finished 16 holes because it got dark. Normally would have finish18 with still daylight left for 3:30 starting time. Felt gipped. Anyways love Olivas links

Got a hot deal for $36 with a cart. Course is in great condition but being so close to the ocean it’s super windy. It seems about 13-14 are directly into the wind. Not knowing the course, I made some mistakes and anything off the fairway is basically a lost ball.

Fairways were nice, greens rolled true. The pro shop was a trailer and the carts sucked but I’m there to play so I don’t care about those things. For $36 I would have walked the course. I’m definitely going to play again.

They need a real building for the clubhouse. The portable building and bathroom are gross and dirty, no restaurant, just hot dogs. Also, there is no drinking water available on the course. There needs to be a fountain or a couple coolers to refill your water bottle.

Walked the Blues (71.2/122/6530) with my Gary and Matt. $30 to walk twilight. Partly cloudy, in the 60's with a 2 club wind most of the round. We waited most shots even as a 3some walking behind stacked 4somes in front of us, POP slightly less than 5H.

Tees were lush, level and in good shape with few unfixed divot zones.

Fairways mostly lush, Nicely cushioned and good to play from with a few GUR areas per fairway.

Rough just off the fairways was green, uniform and lush. Get outside the cart paths and it is thick, lost ball vegetation. Nice to see water back in the lakes here as well.

Sand traps have nice beach sand and were well maintained. Only negative is that they could use more sand IMO.

Large poa greens were receptive and rolling nicely. Soft enough that chips/pitches were making ball marks, which many do not think to fix. Many undulations to these greens and we they had some tournament pin locations today.

Very friendly staff is always a + here. Really nice practice areas and you almost always get cooler temps with an ocean breeze. Highly recommend this course, excellent, very fun to play layout.

The course was in great shape. The fairways were outstanding. The greens were rolling true. We had one issue that day and it was because they overbooked the course. It took 25 minutes each for the first three holes. So 75 minutes into our round we are walking to hole number four. The guys in the clubhouse at Olivas said golf now double booked our tee time. I don’t know, whatever the case was but fortunately the front nine ended up taking three hours and then on the back nine and sped up and only took 2 1/2. I just wish they had better golf course management. Whether they’re using GolfNow teetimes or booking their own it’s still there responsibility to control how many golfers go out.