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I wish I read these reviews before spending $125 to play Black Gold today. They were charging a cheaper rate for the aeration but now that the rate is back to their normal one I figured the course would be ready - and in even better condition. 100% wrong. The greens are still punched, sand everywhere, all putts are bumpy. On top of that, no one fixes their ball marks so that doesn’t help the greens. Most of the tee boxes were horrible. The tees were moved all over - not playing anywhere close to what the card says for each hole’s tees.

It truly is highway robbery that they charge $125 for what I played today. Go to Coyote Hills for $115 instead! Much better layout. Much better condition. And much better pace. Tee times there are spaced 15 mins. Here they are 8 mins.

We waited on every tee box and every fairway. EVERY single hole we played had 3-4 groups on at once. Normally one on the green, one on the fairway, us trying to tee off, and the group behind us waiting for us to hit. On every hole the group behind us was at the tee box as we were teeing off.

As the most expensive public course I’ve seen or played in LA county or Orange county, there is no chance I could ever recommend.

When you are paying $100+ for a round of golf, even on a weekend, you don’t anticipate a 5.5 hour round. When I got there at 8:30am they were ALREADY behind 30 minutes on tee times. Not sure how they can get that backed up that early in the morning. The starter didn’t really do anything - and no rangers at all. We teed off 30 mins after our scheduled tee time and waited on every shot for the rest of the day. On some par 3s there were 3 groups on the tee. Very frustrating and disappointing. Course was beautiful and in great condition but not sure I’d come back.

As the title notes, my round was 6 hours on Saturday. Sure, it was a weekend and you can't expect a 4 hour round, but 6 hours?! On one hole I called the pro shop to tell them there were 5 groups on one hole (note - tee times are 10 minutes apart so I don't know how this is possible) and they said they'd check on it and send out a marshal. I never saw marshal. Then we get to the super downhill par 4 and we are the 4th group waiting on the tee - and there was a group on the fairway and one on the green, so 6 groups on one hole. This happened on basically every other hole - we'd get to the tee box and the group in front of us would still be waiting.

On top of all of this, the greens were in really bad shape - NO ONE fixes their ball marks, so there were bumps and holes all throughout every green. On some of the greens they tried to repair these marks by filling them with some blue/green product, but the holes were still there and they were distracting and ugly visually.

I got a HOT DEAL on golfnow for a weekend, with an additional discount, and only paid $54. But I would NOT pay that to play this ever again. It was my first time playing Coyote Hills, and definitely my last.