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I grew up on this course, probably played it 200 times between 2005-2010. It was never a great course, but it was at one time a golf course. It is no longer a golf course. No watering, no maintenance, choppy greens, unusable tee boxes and bunkers, incredibly unfriendly staff. Just an absolute disaster on all fronts. Hopefully someone buys this place and either shuts it down or sinks a couple million into saving it.

I have yet to play a course that even remotely resembles this one. At times it's mountainous, at times you feel like you're deep in a valley, most holes you can see the ocean, some holes you're literally in a neighborhood. It's a must play due to the great value, good conditions, the insane 15th-18th holes, and the fact that there is really no other course like it. You'll leave dumbfounded and smiling.

Improving from its all time low in 2019 when it became a dog track. Re-brand and some decent money have improved the course, but it's nowhere near where it was 15+ years ago when it was a top course in the area. Still needs a lot of maintenance work.

Should be about 25% less expensive, but it's still a good muni course. Very walkable and not too difficult. Greens and tee boxes are really nice, they did a great job reviving this place about 5 years ago.

Simply the best cheap muni course around. Flat, minimal OB, fast pace due to it being really easy. Course moves, players love it because you can usually finish in under 4 hours and without losing a ball. If someone put together a system that could calculate quality of greens relative to cost, this would be right at the top. Best muni greens around, and you might shoot your record round here. Love Poplar.

Played here twice on a vacation, had only planned on playing once but had to return. This is just an immaculate golf course. Relatively short and not exceedingly difficult, with really nice views of the valley and nature. But these greens, fairways, bunkers, and tee boxes are just perfect. I was blown away at the quality of this course. The greenskeepers here deserve a raise and then another raise. It would be a good value at $250 if they wanted to charge that. Of the public courses I've played, only Pebble and Spyglass beat this one in terms of course maintenance.

Interesting mix of holes, often really windy so it challenges you. They take great care of this place and keep the prices fair. Big fan.

I've played here 3 times and each time I leave thinking "that was golf heaven." If you exclude the Monterey Peninsula and private courses, this is the best golf course in the Bay Area by a wide margin over TPC Harding Park and the other candidates. Every blade of grass, every bunker, every green is just exactly as you'd want it. And the views on some of the holes are just absurdly good. This is Greg Norman's best course and probably in my all-time top 10 public courses.

Has dropped off just slightly from what it was a decade ago, when it was maybe my favorite course in the Bay Area, but it's still one of the best courses in the East Bay and woefully underrated. Most people don't even know this place is here but it's a gem if you can get a good deal and the weather is nice. 13 is a top 5 par-3 in the East Bay.

Super walkable, pretty short, some nice holes and always a good spot to pitch and putt.

This place used to be really great from the mid 2000s-early 2010s as a sneaky great golf course. Tucked into the valley and has amazing views and all the potential in the world to be great, but it's slowly and steadily gone downhill over the last decade as they neglect the course. Wish someone would revitalize this former gem!

Conditions here are pretty great for a muni and the greens are good. Course can sometimes play barbarically long when the wind is coming off the bay, but parts of the course are tucked in pretty good.

Given what's happened over at Fremont Park, and the conditions at Lake Chabot, this is now the best 9-hole course in the East Bay. Solid greens and pretty well maintained.

Reminds me a lot of Poplar Creek in San Mateo. Flat, not a ton of OB, by a freeway, surprisingly nice.

The absolute perfect practice round before the big day at Pebble/Spyglass/Cypress. It's really, almost shockingly well-maintained for the price. Similar greens and tee-boxes to the world-class 831 courses. Really fun and not at all difficult.

Always in pretty good shape, walkable, fun, occasionally it looks and plays like a poor man's Pebble when the weather is absolutely perfect, though most of the time the winds are pretty gusty and the maintenance of the course is a little above average.

How on earth does anyone let an Alister MacKenzie course fall into complete ruin like this? The fairways are all clover, it's barely a golf course. You can see that it has the potential with some funds and a great greenskeeper to be an amazing course but right now it's a dogtrack.

A beautiful area, a very well maintained course. But an absolute dumpster fire design, I haven't met one golfer who has had a positive opinion of the design of this course. Excessively difficult and not rewarding of good shots. Just like Stonetree in Novato, Johnny Miller took a great area and a great group of greenskeepers and gave them nothing to work with. Really hard to have fun here, which is sad because with a better design it could have been a gem.

Always overbooked and slow, but a good place to play a casual round with friends and it's always a blast to be "putting for eagle" or double eagle on the Par-6 18th.