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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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2019 Worth the Green Fee for Orange County — Black Gold Golf Club

WTGF-Black Gold Golf Club - Worth Green Fee - 2019

Worth the Green Fee Award 2019 by GreensKeeper.org

This year GreensKeeper.org awards Black Gold Golf Club Worth the Green Fee 2019 for Orange County.

Not to be confused with “Best Playing Conditions,” “Worth the Green Fee” is awarded to golf courses open to the public listed on Greenskeeper.org that stand out above the rest with our site users at providing a consistent, quality golf experience at an outstanding price.

Let’s face it, golf can be expensive.  It doesn’t have to be.  All you have to know is where to play to get your best value and that’s something Greenskeeper.org excels.  In addition to helping golfers decide where to play their next round of golf based on reviews, ratings, and maintenance alerts, we’ve recently introduced our GK Coupons service to extend their deals directly to our golfers.

How Awards Winners Are Determined

Golf Course reviews and ratings submitted by our 78,000+ Greenskeeper.org community are tabulated over 12 months. Winners are determined for each area.

We divide awards into 11 sections —  Inland Empire, Los Angeles County, Orange County, Palm Springs Area, San Diego County, Santa Barbara County, Ventura County, Southern California, Central California, Northern California and Southern Nevada.

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Greenskeeper.Org Awarded For the Good of the Game Award 2017 by the CGCOA
Greenskeeper.Org Awarded For the Good of the Game Award 2017 by the CGCOA

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Recent #GolfCourseReview

kborning   
Posted: 01/06/20 5:20p
Member Since: Nov 4, 2002
From: Anaheim Hills

Playing Conditions 7.15 GREAT
Playing Conditions 7.15 GREAT

This course is looking and playing amazing right now.

The greens were incredible, but I don’t understand why people don’t fix their divots!!! Tons of ball divots on the greens (inconsiderate)!

Bunkers were great.

Rough was dry and thin.

Fairways were nice. Great Pace of Play (PoP.)

GreensKeeper.org Worth the Green Fee Awards 2019
GreensKeeper.org Worth the Green Fee Awards 2019
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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

Congratulations to Black Gold Golf Club winning Worth the Green Fee 2018 Award for Orange County.

Worth the Green Fee,” unlike the Best Playing Conditions Award, is awarded to golf courses open to the public listed on Greenskeeper.org that stand out above the rest with our site users at providing a consistent, quality golf experience at an outstanding price.

Golf is expensive.  It doesn’t have to be.  All you have to know is where to play to get your best value and that’s something Greenskeeper.org excels.  In addition to helping golfers decide where to play their next round of golf based on reviews, ratings, and maintenance alerts, we’ve recently introduced our GK Coupons service to extend golf course deals directly to our golfing community.

How Awards Winners Are Determined

Golf Course reviews and ratings submitted by our 72,000+ Greenskeeper.org community are tabulated over 12 months. Winners are determined for each area.

We divide awards into 11 sections —  Inland Empire, Los Angeles County, Orange County, Palm Springs Area, San Diego County, Santa Barbara County, Ventura County, Southern California, Central California, Northern California and Southern Nevada.

Greenskeeper.Org For the Good of the Game Award 2017 by the CGCOA
Greenskeeper.Org For the Good of the Game Award 2017 by the CGCOA

Editor’s Note:  Johnny GK and Greenskeeper.Org has been recognized by the California Golf Course Owners Association as Good for the Game of Golf in 2017.  Shows you that both golfers and golf course operators understand the benefit of working with Greenskeeper.Org.  We are the RESOURCE where avid and casual golfers come to make their decision where to play their next round.  “Know Before You Go”® with Greenskeeper.Org.  You’ll be glad you did.

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.

Editor’s Note:  Home of previous GK Match Plays.  Be sure to check out the Black Gold Golf Club GK Coupon HERE at Blog.Greenskeeper.Org.  It’s FREE to Download and start $aving!

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Black Gold Golf Club Yorba Linda California GK Coupon Tee Time Special
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Black Gold Golf Club Yorba Linda California GK Guru Visit -Holes-10 & 18
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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.

Black Gold Golf Club Yorba Linda California GK Coupon Tee Time Special
Black Gold Golf Club Yorba Linda California GK Coupon Tee Time Special

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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.

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GK Guru Visit Black Gold Golf Club Yorba Linda California

Black Gold Golf Club Yorba Linda California GK Guru Visit-Hole-10 & Clubhouse

Black Gold Golf Club

Golf Course Review Black Gold Golf Club Yorba Linda California

Reviewed by: JohnnyGK, Thousand Oaks

Golf Playing Conditions 7.11 GREAT
Golf Playing Conditions 7.11 GREAT

Good times out at Black Gold Golf Club Sunday with GK’ers Mattias, roarksown1 and kassper7.

Sunday was a great testament of how much I like this layout even when I was looking for my tee shot on the majority of holes. My driver was as bad as I can remember as far as accuracy and let me tell you this course will eat you up on a day like that. However, take a drop, or two (lol) and play out the holes, enjoy the great views. I still had fun with the approach shots, be it many different angles than I am used to. The challenging green complexes and putting greens.

The Review

As for the conditions, very nice for October. Like roarksown1 I was expecting the golf course to be a little on the brown side but rather it was green. Good lies when I found the fairway. The rough was hit and miss as far as lush long or thin in areas. We played after the big rain on Saturday so it was still damp in places. Damp + Kikuyu grass is a tough combo! Noticed many green-side bunkers with new sand. Played a couple shots from them. Very nice. Tee boxes in good shape. Some were closed for what appeared to be nothing more than just giving them a break to grow in more. Last but not least the greens. They were in very good shape BUT very soft for Black Gold standards and consequently a bit bumpy and slower than I’ve experience in the past. I’m sure it has to do with the fact the greens were softer due to aeration 4 weeks ago combined with heavy rain the night before. Add to that we played in the afternoon on full tee sheet of players before us. You put all that together and still get very good greens, you know these greens are going to be rolling fast and smooth again likely by the time you read this review.

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Black Gold Golf Club Yorba Linda California GK Guru Visit -Holes-10 & 18
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Final Thought

Service was excellent all day. Check-in, starter and on-course beverage service. After our round there was a wedding taking the whole clubhouse but normally I always enjoy their food/drink on the patio. I might try to get back out here again this fall/winter. Need to redeem myself for my poor play but more so just love this place.

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Recent Golf Course Review Black Gold Golf Club Yorba Linda California

Black Gold Golf Club Yorba Linda California GK Guru Visit -Holes-10 & 18

Black Gold Golf Club

Yorba Linda, CA

Reviewed by: JohnnyGK, Thousand Oaks

Playing Conditions 7.03 GREAT
Playing Conditions 7.03 GREAT

Ran the GK Cup Final last Sunday at Black Gold Golf Club. Teed it up in the final group with lotrgolfer48 and I watching the excitement unfold between AndrewZ28 and Itslikeimsayin. Was great match going extra holes with AndrewZ28 coming out on top. Congrats Andrew!

Current Host of the last 3 GK Cups

Black Gold Golf Club is the only course to have now hosted 3 GK Cup Finals and all of them have been a great experience. It’s a tough yet fair track. You can be a player with a great short game and do very well or a player with good ball striking and very do well. All players need to be accurate off the tee yet not overly dead on or long. All players need to putt well. The layout is very interesting where bombers benefit on the Par 5’s with eagle chances yet be punished significantly on the back nine when off line. It has one of the best finishing holes in Southern California. Demanding par 5 with a water guarded green complex making it an exceptional risk/reward hole. Was a blast seeing the clubhouse patio balcony cheering on the finals group at the end. Super course for competitive golf.

The Review

It’s also a golf course consistently in great shape. Sunday was no exception. Being a Sunday afternoon round on weekend with heavy play the greens were not as smooth and fast as my previous Black Gold rounds but they looked very healthy, were medium/fast and held shots. The fairways were mostly lush kikuyu as was the rough. The rough was hit and miss as far as having a difficult escape or not. I had a couple greenside pitch shots just buried in the kikuyu I had to chop a lob wedge out. Puts a premium on your approach shots for sure. Tee boxes in good shape. Bunkers all containing quality sand and well cared for. Some dry thin areas out there in the fairways and rough but not bad enough to impact play. Again overall great shape.

Thank you Black Gold for hosting our GK Cup 11 championship and everyone that came out for the fun!