jim9314970

Well I haven't played Strawberry in almost a year. After the last round I didn't think we would return. Last may almost 6 hour round and the course was pretty beat up. The layout is good, challenging mostly fair..except18, it like they forgot golf was 18 holes and after 17 they remembered oh crap we still need one more! Terrible hole Mr. Designer, . Anyway, this round was a beautiful day, course was in great condition, greens were very quick, hard to read, pace of play 4:15, all in all a nice day. The manager offered me a free round BTW after the 6?hour round but I lost his name and email and never took him up on it... Lol bring plenty of pellets, certain holes are very unforgiving ill let you figure out which ones.. :)

40 minute frost delay .... they don’t tell you until after you pay and go to the starter who is an obnoxious a hole... payed for a bucket of balls, didn’t have any told if I wanted to complain then I should go back in and get my money back... my playing party has cerebral palsy, we asked for a handicap flag.. gage gave it to us and then angrily explained to us that we couldn’t get within 30 yards of the green. I said thank you but we know that this is. Not his first handicap flag. He was born this way? He was like whatever, you know I have to tell all you people! Then they had a team tournament, no that didn’t add more time on the group we waited on all day playing from the blue tees and took 2-3 shots off every tee.... then hit it 200 yards... :( thanks Talega I’ll stick to my home course MonarchBeach

I like the layout, had a good pairing. Tee areas ok, fairways poor to bad shape, greens didn’t appear to have been mowed in a couple of days or needed rolling? Very bumpy inconsistent. Not sure if management cares anymore? Course has always had issues with maintenance. Carts are old, only play once or twice a year and reminded why...
Bar was closed on Saturday afternoon?

This game s one for my OC favs... great layout, crazy slow? 5:10 to all play!!! Course is not in great shape? Seems to be most course in OC right now? No Marshall to live things along, good pairing lots of fun but come guys really.

I would never typically complain especially on a holiday weekend however the incompetence of the on course management was extremely frustrating. My friend and I had a 10:20 tee time and the starter asked us to go early as a twosome, he stated we would play a couple of holes and pass the threesome in front of us and join the twosome in front of them. In theory it sounded great.

Well we did just that and asked the twosome to join and the said it wouldn’t work for them! Very obnoxious, they weren’t very good and seemed a bit embarrassed. They stated a friend was going to join them, cheat on and they were going to be a 3 some....

Well we literally waited on every single shot all day!!! No help no Marshall no nothing, everyone getting mad finally on the 15th there were two groups waiting for us to tee off, the twosome in front of us waiting in the 16th tee, a threesome in the fairway- sort of, another group by the approach gap (another 2 some)!!!! waiting to hit on the green, a 4 some on the green and etc etc.... I couldn’t take it and left on the 16th tee.

As we drove i it was more of the same....

You pay good money to play one of my favorite courses and this is what you get? I’ve been a member at Monarch for years however I love to play other tracks. Typically Strawberry, Tijeras, Oak Creek, Arroyo, and sometimes Talega but they always seem to have the same problem and it’s in terrible shape.

I’m certainly not asking for anything, just not happy with my decision to waste my holiday weekend round with walking off the course.

I vented to the young man at the desk and he gave me your card and asked me to send an email, so thanks for letting me bend your ear.

It was typical of SJH as far as pace of play. 4:30-5 hours is par for this course. I was relatively surprised for a Sunday afternoon at the pace. We literally waited for every shot. It felt like 6 hours but was 4:38. Punched greens ... fun course

I booked my time on Golf Now which does not tell you they have a tournament or not. Then when you check in the basically scold you for not calling them directly. By the way golf now a lot of courses do this? " see if you would have called us you would have known we had a tourney going."
Well they said you can either go now, no warm up nothing and start on the back nine or leave? What a disaster, I playrd the back nine made the turn to find 3 groups still on one!!!
The course is just to hilly, hit it 250 down the middle only to get punished with a bully goat lie to a blind shot. Greens are close to impossible to read due to layout. Way too many blind shots, just not a fun track. Thanks but no thanks I'll stay at Tijeras Creek. Cost to much!!! Not even worth $50.
Gps system is way off on most holes when checked with my Bushnell?

The was my first time playing this course in many years. The starter got everything screwed up, really nice gentleman however lost control of the tee box and it was mass confusion. As far as the course goes its a fun track, not very long, in the kind of shape you would think it would be for a $29 special. Needs some help in the fairways, greens in good shape just difficult to read? Pretty quick and playing a few times with local knowledge would certainly help! Pace of play was 4:45 minutes, good thing my group was really fun and good. On conversation.

I typically play Tijeras creek, Monarch beach. Strawberry farms or Oak creek, this course is not at that level however when you want a fun cheap date his will work. :)

This is a fun course to play, you can score well here if you hit fairways and the middle of every green. I know that sounds typical but here it is very true! Don't bite off more than you need to, conservative play is rewarded. This is a nice course plays well however to many holes feel like the last one you just played? Very pricy, typical Orange County OVERPRICED!!!
I used to live in Monterey County and used to Play Spanish Bay for the same price????? You would think they would throw in a small bucket at this price, it was a very hot day and the cart girl was nowhere to be found for over 2 hours?

Crazy off beat course, tight, small greens, weird angles off the tee's, fair shape but for $19.00 your playing golf.

I like to treat myself once a year to this course, typically in great shape but it was late summer so course was a little beat up and they had just punched the greens. Staff is over the top friendly. I wish they would get real on their price, there are too many really good courses to play in Orange County for less to pay that on a regular basis. It's a fun course when it's in shape, there are a lot of birdie holes and chances to go low.