Emerald Isle Golf Course & Practice Range

This is the best, least expensive, most challenging Par 56 Golf Course in Oceanside. The prices are great! Twilight and Super Twilight 12 and 2 under $ 20. Best Steakburgers from the grill and plenty of IPA’s and local brewery beers. Greens are suberb, good Range prices and staff is friendly too!

Played here with my daughter this afternoon and loved it. Yes, it is a short course but it is really fun. Greens and bunkers are in good shape. The owners and staff are super friendly. They even hand-​carried my daughters hamburger to her while we were on the range! Now that is great customer service.
The are seeding the tees for the winter so they are kinda banged up, but you get to put it on a wooden tee so who cares? Greens rolled true and held very well.
This is a great family venue and is good for all skill levels. My daughter is a beginner and I’m a 2 handicap and we equally had fun.
You can’t beat the value here. Great people, great food, and great prices.
If more courses were like this one, I think golf would be more popular.

I have to say, I have not played here in a couple years and I was very pleasantly surprised by how nice this executive course was. The greens were exceptional and I could tell they have done a lot of work on the course since I brought my son here a year and a half ago. Under the new ownership, this course has gotten much better and if you want to try out an executive course in North County, Emerald Isle should be first on your list. I have been to all of them and this is without a doubt one of the better ones.

Absolutly love love coming here! Staff is amazing, so friendly and helpful! Course is perfect everytime. Great greens. We come here every time we drive down to San Diego :)

Definitely not a bad course. For an executive course. Played here on a Thursday morning and had the whole course to myself for the first hour. The tee boxes are pretty average, the fairways kind of suck but the greens are pretty amazing. Worth the money, I’ll be back.

Really enjoyed this little 3 Par course. Very affordable and the staff and owners were all really friendly. The greens are immaculate but can be treacherous too! Good pace of play. Really nice big practice putting green too. Will be back soon!
Update – golfed here 2 more times and every experience was great. A real gem!

What a great experience! Very economical, not busy, great grounds, cheerful staff and great situation all around. I’ve only played about 50 courses around the world so I don’t know what the super duper nice ones are like — but I really thought this one was really fun and exactly what I’m looking for in a nice course. Can’t wait to go back! Already have another tee time!

Place is short but its super affordable and great to work on your short game. I often go by myself and get a cart for 18 holes and a large bucket of range balls for under $ 30. Im done with my round in 2 hours.

This is a well kept executive course with a practice range and they always have coupons. I’ve played here a handful of times now and have always had fun.

The service wonderful! I wish I had gotten the guys name but he was helpful, kind & patient. It was a good day at Emerald Isle because of it.
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P.S the course may not be the prettiest but for beginners its a good course to practice & learn from–

Played here twice last week while vacationing in Oceanside. It’s a great course for working on your short game. All par 3’s except for 2 short Par 4’s. The greens are in very good shape & very receptive. It’s mostly dry everywhere other than the greens & it costs $ 27.00 to ride which seemed a bit pricey to me. I would definitely play here again.

1^st time at this course when I redeemed a free birthday round. Staff member was very nice to offer my wife a discounted round as well. On this weekday afternoon, the course was fairly empty with only a few regular seniors, a congenial crowd.
The Par-​3 course is surprisingly challenging for its length. 165-​yard holes look like 190s with huge hazards in between. Then there are those narrow 90-​yard teasers. All in all, not an outing to be sneezed at.
3-​stars cos in tournament condition it isn’t. But worth a birthday treat it is.

This course is very laid back executive course.
I can start with practice at the driving range.
For myself it is perfect because I can walk and I am beginner. It has been great to learn on but the holes are narrow and there are at least 3 holes with water.
Not too expensive, so I can go more often. It can get a little crowded because there are a lot of people without tee times. Not all holes are clearly labeled and it can be confusing for new comers.

I’m going to give this course, 4 stars based on what it is, an executive… A pitch and putt. What I really like about Emerald is that it’s well kept and it has terrain — water hills, etc… Watch out for the ocean wind when you hit it high, there’s a jet stream up there! This is a short course, there’s really no reason to get a cart unless you are in a big, big hurry. I love playing skins here. $ 10 to walk for twilight is a good deal…
The #2 hole is a par 4 which should really be a long par 3. I’ve putted for eagle plenty. There’s another narrow (OB on right/​water left) par 4 on the front 9. If you can rip it straight, you can drive the green in one.

This was my first time golfing, and I’m glad this course was laid back, in terms of its attire. There were 3 of us total, 2 carts, and 1 bag. I only hit the golf ball a couple of times, since the guys didn’t know if I would like golf, and I didn’t want to hold up people behind us. We started out fine. But then, around about the 8^th whole, some 2 guys caught up to us, and started hitting their golf balls while we were still playing! This really p-​d us off. They continued to breathe down our necks for the rest of the time. Around the 12^th or so hole, the field marshall is telling us that we should have had another golf bag and shouldn’t have been let out, and that I can’t play (b/​c I guess the guys didn’t pay for me???). I stopped hitting, I wouldn’t even call it playing, around the 4^th hole? So I told him I wasn’t playing (and really, all I could do was put anyway). Then he says we’re holding up the line (I think it’s because of those speedy guys). But we weren’t slow! There was a group of 4 – 5 guys playing before us, and they were taking their time.
All in all, we weren’t big fans of the marshall, but all I can say is he is doing his job well.
The course itself has a mix — water, sand, up and downhill — but I don’t know what golfers are typically looking for. Parking is spacious. Again, I like the fact that it allows casual attire (read: leggings, t shirt, and sneakers).

I bet I have a bigger nine iron than you. Golf is like a really hot Italian super model, super great to look at, but once you get hands on you get slapped in the face because you dont know what «Can I touch your tushy?» in Italian means and you just go for it without asking permission first.
Definitely the most affordable place to golf around the North County area. If you’re that guy who thinks you are just as cool as Burt Reynolds or somebody just as hairy, fight the urge to bring your flask filled with alcohol with you and buy yourself a beer from the clubhouse, no outside booze, resident booze only.
Hole 4 is definitely the fat kid with snow cone sticking his tongue out at you, just annoying as Hell. If you’re good at golf this place shouldnt be too difficult for you, but for the select few that don’t get «golfgasms» over how many strokes they receive (pun intended) then you may have a fun challenge ahead of you.
The front desk folks are really nice and do quite a lot to be accomidating but give the guys a break if you arent the first in the tee box because since the prices are as cheap as a Spiderman figurine at the Mexico/​California border, you can wait.

Good course for beginners.
Beware the narrow courses. Better to shoot short and straight than long and wayward. Also, beware the lakes that you have to hit over on a few of the holes. They’ve claimed more than a few of my balls. No one likes to lose their balls… moving on.
$ 25 for 18 holes and a cart. Not bad.

Played this for the first time today (Sunday) at 10am with a 4 some. There is a lot to like about Emerald Isle:
Low prices
Well maintained
Friendly non-​intrusive staff
Not crowded
Feels like a tight squeeze to get this 18 holes sandwiched within the surrounding homes but that’s part of the charm. You can clearly see every flag from every tee box and that’s kind of nice. I did it with a cart but a push cart or walk might do just as well on this short course. Not as much as a ball-​eater as my usual course — Tecolote Canyon. I’ll be back.

This golf course is really close to my house and have been wanting to try it for some time now. Played here on Friday solo. The price was great, $ 17 with cart. You don’t need a cart, but I got one anyways.
The course is in pretty good shape for an executive course. Their greens are really tough and can be fast! They are in great shape.
I would play here again, especially since walking twilight rate is $ 10

Given that two of three previous reviews were written by disc golfers, an update is needed. First of all, disc golf is no longer offered.
This course is modest but is indeed challenging, with five water holes and some narrow fairways with cliffs on one side. Bring extra balls. I have been playing there for six years and management is always improving fairways and greens. Don’t judge the course by the driving range.
OK, its an older crowd, but we are nice people too as is the staff. The price is right and you seldom even need a tee time.