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Canyon Crest recently converted from private to semi-private. If you are looking for an elevated golf course at a reasonable price, this is it. The course is in solid condition from tee to green. The greens are well maintained and slick. Get in the wrong spot and it can be a long day on the greens. Bunkers have plenty of sand and are well maintained. The course is playing long in the winter with little roll. As long as they maintain the conditions, this will be a great place for golfers to check out in the coming months..

Seven Hills is buried in the depths of Hemet and is a throw back to old style 1960's desert golf. Wide fairways, small greens and reasonable conditions match the friendly green fees to make for an enjoyable round of golf. If you find yourself deep in the Inland Empire, you could do worse than this old gem.

This is a fantastically designed golf course that has sadly been allowed to fall into mediocre condition. The course is dry, grass is spotty and rough is well, rough. The bunkers are unplayable and multiple water hazards are as dry as the sahara. Somehow, the course is still fun to play. The greens are average. The pace of play is decent at 4+ hours on a Sunday. No marshal, no beverage cart. If you set you expectations, and don’t mind rolling your ball to find grass, you can still have fun here.

This once great course was slowly drifting toward becoming a dog track. A little TLC to the greens and bunkers has made the course much more enjoyable. Hopefully they continue on this path so that this fantastic old Trent Jones Sr design can return its rightful place as one of the best courses in the valley.

Another great Inland Empire course that needs just a little TLC. I remember when the Landmark company opened the place and it was like a miniature version of La Quinta courses right in Hemet. Landmark no longer runs it, but the bones of a great course are still here. Condition is mediocre at best but the layout is sold. Water features are disgusting and should just be removed in most places except 17 & 18. Greens are in pretty good shape and are probably the courses best feature. Customer service could use a shot in the arm. Staff are gruff and could care less about the customers. If you are ok with that, the $40 green fee should get you over it. It is possible to be pleasant and offer affordable golf at the same time.

What was once a great Robert Trent Jones Senior layout is now a festering hot mess. Weeds everywhere. Not just the rough and in bunkers, but everywhere. Even the fairways are just a mishmash of mowed weeds scalped down to something resembling fairway length. Big swatches of putting green are dead. Only the bare minimum of course maintenance is happening here. Everything looks like its in disrepair. Leaking sprinklers, toppled trees. This used to be a fantastic public golf course. Whoever runs it now apparently hates golf and people who play golf.

I can’t comprehend the neglect that has gone into this course. Long gone are the glory days when the SCGA owned and managed this great layout. Today the course is a shabby shell of what is used to be. Played it recently to see if it was possible to host a tournament here. Every aspect of this once great course has been let go. Despite that, I still inquired about holding a tournament there. The person in the shop told me they didn’t know who was in charge of booking tournaments and to try the website. I did and left multiple messages and emails for the person listed in charge with no response. I tried calling again and leaving another message, but received no call back. A great layout that has been abused and mismanaged to the point i have no desire to ever return.

A year ago, this course looked like it had been abandoned. What a difference a year makes. There is grass on the course and the greens are pretty solid. Still not as good as when it first opened, but it’s a fun track that’s back on the right path.