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Greens are in outstanding condition and would give them 5 stars. Rest of the course is in typical late December condition. First time to play here and the starter almost ruined my experience. Allowed a 5’some on a Friday of a holiday weekend! Checked in with the starter 20 minutes before my 10:46 time. Went to the restroom and returned 15 minutes ahead of our scheduled time and were told we missed our tee time and we would have to be worked in. I pointed out we were 15 minutes ahead of our time, so we hadn’t missed it. He replied, “I’m in charge here! I’ll work you in when I can.” Ended up teeing off with the other 2’some with the 10:46 time, but totally unnecessary and he was a horse’s butt about it.
Course layout is good except for holes 10 & 16; both par 5’s that you best not hit driver off the tee. Bunkers could use some maintenance as they have lots of rocks in them and didn’t appear to have been raked in some time. Will probably play again given the chance, but will wait until late spring. Hope they have another starter by then.

Got in 5 holes here two weeks ago (Friday before Memorial Day) before the lightning and heavy rains sent us packing, and the greens showed signs of having previously being aeriated so I was expecting them to be much more playable for this round. Not the case at all on the Links course. As one in our foursome said, “This is like putting on corduroy!”. It was as if they had aeriated and sanded the greens again. It was anyone’s guess as to how the ball was going to roll. The fairways were thin as well. Squaw Valley is one of my favorite places to play and this was probably the worst conditions I’ve experienced here ever. It was disappointing too because this was the first introduction to SV for one in our foursome. It would be nice if they would let you know beforehand (maybe under the “News” section of their website) that they’ve recently aeriated.

Overall good experience. Course is in good shape and pace of play was fine. Greens rolled true, just wish people would repair their ball marks! Only complaint, got a small bucket of balls ($4.00) to warm up and only got 13 balls from the automatic ball dispenser which was about half full on the small bucket.

Course always in great shape. New carts are nice as well. If you want to play a fun track, make the trip to Squaw Valley. You’ll be glad you did!

Benefited from a missed forecast for rain by the weather gurus that probably scared a lot of people away in addition to the C19 restrictions. We had the course to ourselves and it seemed like our twosome was the only golfers on the course for the entire 18 for a 2:30ish tee time as we never saw another group the entire time. The course is just starting to come alive again so the fairways are still a little thin. The greens were rolling good but were a little firm. Already trying to figure out a day to get back here.