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Course was dry but playable. I normally hit my driver about 220-230 yards. Hole 15 is long, fairly straight, and downhill--my drive went 290 yards. There can be an advantage to dry conditions. Finished round in 3-1/2 hours...faster than usual.

I have 5 issues with Tilden Golf Course:
1. There are 2 entrance roads. The one my gps brought me to was blocked by 4 pickup trucks with a road closed sign and not a soul in sight. It took me 20 minutes to find the other entrance.
2. The greens were just sanded.....no notification of this when i booked online.
3. The back 9 were closed...again, no notification of this when i booked online.
4. The rough is so high that often you lose your ball even though you know where it landed.
5. There is no drinking water on the course except at the club house

I've played art Rancho Solano many times. It's a nice, but difficult course. My only complaint is that they water the course too much. Some areas are downright soggy. If you hit a drive into the light rough, there's a good chance your ball will get plugged and you'll never find it.

This is one of the nicest public courses around. That said, a few things need attention:
1. Many, maybe all, of the bunkers have a considerable amount of gravel mixed in with the sand. Have someone sift the sand to remove the rocks...plz
2. Install more drinking water dispensers. There are not enough of them for a hot day.
3. Cart battery was very weak. Returned the cart and the battery of the second cart was also weak. We finished the course, but it was touch and go.
4. The cafe is one of the least nice around for a golf course and it closes too early.

This is a nice course for the money, especially for a public course. My only complaint is that there are not enough drinking water stations. There were maybe two or three for the whole course. There should be one for each 2 or 3 holes especially when it is hot. I had my own water 1 quart bottle, but still ran out before the next water station. The 'clubhouse' is dated and minimal.

It looks like the course doesn't get watered at all. There were lots of dry dirt patches, most of the grass was very dry, and the water hazards looked sickly. That said, the course layout was fairly challenging.