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ROUNDUP: GK Guru Visit Black Gold Golf Club Yorba Linda California

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Black Gold Golf Club

ROUNDUP: GK Guru Visit Black Gold Golf Club Yorba Linda California

Reviewed by: Rat-Patrol, San Diego
Out with the GK group, 6/25, on a warm day with some swirling winds coming up through the canyons. First time here and my initial impression was a good one. Seems like a nice facility, smallish range, putting green behind the clubhouse, nice clubhouse/restaurant area.

Golf Playing Conditions 7.55 GREAT
Golf Playing Conditions 7.55 GREAT

Once on the course conditions were good with the greens being the highlight. Big contoured greens that rolled smooth, on the fast side, a bit firm in spots and tricky. Loved the way the greens rolled but could not read them well enough to make anything from any distance. Bunkers were in good shape with a nice playable surface, fairways were great to play from, rough varied I did find a few thick spots, layout is fun, interesting and certainly makes you think (although IMHO the design was a bit ambitious making some areas difficult for the grounds crew to maintain and most likley in some areas a major undertaking), my cart had no GPS others did, but when everyone gets their own cart they needed to pull out the extras (mine had a logo from a Palm Springs area GC on it). Staff seemed accommodating, friendly and saw the snack cart multiple times. Upstairs snack bar was open and looked busy.

Overall a fun track with nice facilities in good condition worth a play.

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Golf Course Review Black Golf Golf Club Yorba Linda California

Black Gold Golf Club

Golf Course Review Black Golf Golf Club Yorba Linda California

Reviewed by: ggonzales, Anaheim

Golf Playing Conditions 7.41 GREAT
Golf Playing Conditions 7.41 GREAT

Played on 11/15 with a 11am tee time. Check in was smooth and first tee very organized. Course is recovering from on going maintenance around the tee boxes and the tee boxes themselves. Fairways had good coverage, rough was not too penal and could recover in most cases. Traps were very wet in the low spots. Greens had very good coverage and have never seen them this soft. Greens speed was on the medium side with a lot of breaks around the hole.

A fun layout and usually great views. Staff is always excellent and very friendly.

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Golf Course Review Black Gold Golf Club Yorba Linda California

Black Gold Golf Club

Golf Course Review Black Gold Golf Club Yorba Linda California

Reviewed by: ggonzales, Anaheim

Golf Playing Conditions 7.24 GREAT
Golf Playing Conditions 7.24 GREAT

Played Black Gold on a Friday afternoon. Check-in and first tee went with no issues.

Fairways and rough had good coverage.

Tee boxes were disappointing with heavy divot damage and lack of grass in the teeing areas that the markers were set at.

Greens were lush and held shots, very little divot damage and rolling smooth. Greens were a little on the slow side but were consistent.

Pace of Play (POP) was at 4.5 hours.

Fun course if you play the appropriate tees.

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Golf Course Review Black Gold Golf Club Yorba Linda California

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Black Gold Golf Club

Golf Course Review Black Gold Golf Club Yorba Linda California

Reviewed by: leef2020, Huntington Beach, CA

Playing Conditions 6.99 GOOD
Playing Conditions 6.99 GOOD

Played BG on Tuesday after Memorial Day. Was a slow afternoon, was sent to the tee early, and went off on my own at 2:12pm. Eventually, invited two friendly guys to join me on the 14th tee, one of whom is a GKer I played a few holes with here, ironically, near exactly a year ago…see you next year, jjrauen! POP overall was just 3.5hrs.

Fairways and greens were lush and green and the best part of the course. Never had a bad lie in the fairways and got decent roll for the most part. Greens were firm, very, very smooth putting and looked fantastic. Pace was good, just about medium speed, but not slow.

Tees were very good, plenty of coverage and mostly level, but did not appear to be cut in the morning. Visited 4 traps, each had good sand and decent lies, but each had evidence of multiple un-raked prior visits, marring their sanctity.

Course continues to be in very playable condition – highly recommend right now. Which, by the way, they have proudly displayed a GK award that says just that… in the lobby near the pro shop!

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Black Gold Golf Club Worth the Green Fee 2018 - Orange County
Black Gold Golf Club Worth the Green Fee 2018 – Orange County

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WINNER Black Gold Golf Club #WorthTheGreenFee 2018 – Orange County

Black Gold Golf Club Worth the Green Fee 2018 - Orange County

Black Gold Golf Club Awarded Worth the Green Fee 2018 for Orange County

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Black Gold Golf Club

slicer
Posted: 12/20/18 5:21p
Member Since: Feb 11, 2004
From: HB

Golf Playing Conditions 7.35 GREAT
Golf Playing Conditions 7.35 GREAT

Played today 12/20. It’s been many months since we last played here due to the high green fees. However this is one of our favorite courses and thanks to management for offering specials, which allows us to economically play this course several times a year.

The course in very nice condition from the greens to the bunkers. Greens were smooth and rolled medium to fast. Bunkers had nice fluffy sand, a little wet but easy to hit out off. Today the pins were placed in difficult sections of the greens and shot placement was a must or you rolled off the greens. Challenging but always fun. This course can get punishing if you tend to slice or pull your shots, bets to hit then straight.

Round started out slow as we followed a slow foursome, but it appears that the course marshal moved them along as we noticed their pace of play improved.

Black Gold has one of the best staff around. great customer service and personable. Always enjoy playing this course when we can.

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Golf Course Review Black Gold Golf Club Yorba Linda California

Black Gold Golf Club

Golf Course Review Black Golf Golf Club Yorba Linda California

Reviewed by: slicer, HB

Golf Playing Conditions 7.35 GREAT
Golf Playing Conditions 7.35 GREAT

Played today 12/20. It’s been many months since we last played here due to the high green fees. However this is one of our favorite courses. Thanks to management for offering specials, which allows us to economically play this course several times a year.

The course in very nice condition from the greens to the bunkers. Greens were smooth and rolled medium to fast. Bunkers had nice fluffy sand, a little wet but easy to hit out off. Today the pins were placed in difficult sections of the greens and shot placement was a must or you rolled off the greens. Challenging but always fun. This course can get punishing if you tend to slice or pull your shots, bets to hit then straight.

Round started out slow as we followed a slow foursome, but it appears that the course marshal moved them along as we noticed their pace of play sped up.

Black Gold has one of the best staff around. great customer service and personable. Always enjoy playing this course when we can.

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Golf Course Review Black Gold Golf Club Yorba Linda California

Black Gold Golf Club

Golf Course Review Black Gold Golf Club Yorba Linda California

Reviewed by: leef2020, Huntington Beach, CA

Playing Conditions 7.03 GREAT
Playing Conditions 7.03 GREAT

Played Monday, 11/5, teeing off a few minutes after noon with Larryq2001 and was paired with friendly GKer Dubwiser. We finished a bit over 4 hours, with a few short waits on a lovely day. They played the blues and I teed off from the white tees.

White tees were level and in pretty good shape for this time of year. As previously mentioned, a few tee areas are closed and in process of growing new grass. Fairways were overly watered in spots – where I landed my shots, of course – and often got no/little roll-out, which made the course that much more demanding and adding yards to 2nd shots. Was able to draw casual water in my stance 3 times, including once on a strong slope! The course was green enough – it’s November – stop with the over-watering!!!

While I was fortunate to avoid any bunkers, was in the rough too many times, and found it diabolical and grabby.

Greens looked fantastic, dark green, held shots fairly well and provided mostly smooth putting. Excepting a few pin placements located directly on slopes, they putted medium-slow, however, and found it a challenge to get long putts anywhere near the holes.

Cart lady came by a few times and saw a friendly marshal twice. Definitely recommend playing here, just wish they would let the course dry out a little bit!

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Golf Course Review Black Gold Golf Club Yorba Linda Califrnia

Black Gold Golf Club

Golf Course Review Black Gold Golf Club Yorba Linda, CA

Reviewed by: dethman, irvine

Playing Conditions 7.05 GREAT
Playing Conditions 7.05 GREAT

Played Black Gold early afternoon in 4 hours and finished just at sunset.

Course is in good condition, fairways are green and full. Important to hit the ball long and straight on this course otherwise it will be a long day. Rough is thick and grabs your clubs hard. The few bunkers I was in were soft and fluffy with good sand. There was some reseeding or growing maintenance on the tee boxes, three of the par 3s were playing 200+ from the blues as a result. Greens were a bit slower than I’m used to here at Black Gold, just a bit bumpy but were still in very good condition.

Challenging layout, undulating greens, always enjoy coming out here.