Woods Valley Golf Club

Love the layout of this course. The front and back nines have very different character to them. The front being more wide open with the back crowding in on you with trees. Great views on a lot of holes. The course is usually in good condition with smooth greens that run probably a 10 on the stimp. The tee boxes can get fluffy grass but if you tee it up that shouldn’t matter. You can get a great deal on 18 holes and it is more than worth it.

The course is fine with the exception of the back holes. Around the 17^th tee there is a lot of dog poop and torn up turf. Looks like it’s being used as a dog park after hours. I even saw people fishing at a pond and kids on bikes. Not what I’m looking for in a quality course. Seems like security is lacking.

A group of 10 of us decided to try a new course for our annual tournament and we are so glad we found this course. Annelise was super helpful and patient with us and made the process very simple. The course was in great condition, the fairways in greens were in perfect shape. We are already looking forward to coming back next year!

Very fun track to play. It’s in very nice shape and the greens are great. I enjoy playing there!!!
Please fix your ball marks!!!

Played on Thur AM 4÷16÷2015 — We were met in the parking lot with a cart and the good service continued thru out our round. Everyone was super, and the starter let us slip in before a couple of foursomes. The carts are nice — coolers with ice, ball washer, and like new. The fairways are in decent condition, greens were fine, course is fun and challenging — I broke 100, which is rare. The $ 35 rate (golfnow) was a bargain — we a had a fun 3.5 hour round! I’ll definitely be back — despite the remote location (it’s worth it).

My first review ever. This was rediculous! I’ve played Woods Valley at lest 15 times and this was the worst. I received an email saying the greens were better than they’ve been in years. what a joke, they were the worst I’ve played in North County, by far!! They fired the marshalls and the course was so backed up it was embarrassing! They’re charging $ 40 on golf now and it’s not worth $ 20. Seriously, save yourself some anguish and money and go somewhere else till you hear different. There is no excuse for new ownership to have a course in this condition after this much time.
John

Just an FYI WOODS VALLEY DOESNT GIVE RAINCHECKS, even if you play a 2:45 9 holes!!! Just raising awareness to those that are gonna play Woods Valley Golf Club, PS this single digit handicap likes the design but I won’t be back because they didn’t manage the pace of play today or take care of those that played slow golf

The course is in pretty good shape for winter. Some of the greens look like a patchwork quilts due to sod patches to repair bad spots. All in all, not in bad shape. The reason for the 2 stars is based primarily on club house service. No beverage cart was on the course Saturday12/​6/​14, so after 9 holes we stopped at the clubhouse to get a cold Coke. We went to snack bar area behind the pro shop and waited at the counter. A young lady at the pro shop counter watched us walk in and looked at us while we were waiting at the snack bar counter. She looked at us several times while we waited with no acknowledgement for about 5 minutes. She was busy preparing a envelope for mailing. She walked the envelope across the pro shop to a office. Finally she came back and after doing some additional business at the front counter, decided to ask what she could do for us. We asked for beverages. She pointed to the other side of the pro and told us they were in a self serve cooler. It was obvious her envelope was more important than customer service. Pretty rude!

We just recently had a wedding reception here and they had consistent power issues. The DJ was connected to the clubhouse which should’ve had adequate power, but the power would spike causing the music and microphone system to shut down a few times! Even after they moved the power source to another outlet, we still experienced music shut downs. Luckily, our bride and groom and even the guests were understanding but nonetheless, this shouldn’t have happened from an establishment that’s offering their venue for weddings. Hopefully they rectify the power issue soon, but I would suggest looking elsewhere to have your wedding reception. It’s an unfortunate situation:(

I played here yesterday got a great deal for like the millionth time. Very quiet with no highway noise. The greens are really good on almost every hole and the staff is fantastic. This is a pretty special golf course, go play it! You won’t be disappointed. A great test for all levels of play, also wonderful scenery with beautiful oaks and lots of green grass. Amazing value. I always look forward to the back nine; number 14 is my favorite hole.

Nice course for the price. Fairways are a bit like desert summer conditions but the greens are in great shape and putt beautifully. WARNING! WE GOT ROBBED on the tenth green. The cart path runs along Woods Valley Road and you have to walk a ways down to the green. There is a hedge next to the road. We came off the green and our cart was missing. Looks back down the cart path and there it was 250 yards back. Cell phone, credit card, ID and keys there but all cash was taken. Caught up with the group in front and they had seen a couple of teenagers pacing the road there. It was obviously well planned and executed. Can’t imagine this was the first time. It was just to perfect a place to pull this off to have been a spur of the moment crime. I might go back but I will be ready at the 10^th. Try that again!

Fun course. Great value and fast pace. The only downside would be the lack of adequate staffing lately. My last two rounds there (weekends in May 2014) there was no beverage cart and no clubhouse grill operating.

What an awesome track. fantastic greens and a great layout. Shot making required. PS you better be solid with your driver or you could have some issues. Highly rec this gem.

Wow! This was a great par 71 course for a number of reasons:
First of all, normally this course is decently priced but since they were aerating the greens this week it was $ 25 with a cart for all you can golf all day and I was able to get three rounds in (could’ve squeezed in another before dark but I decided to leave and miss traffic).
Secondly, the staff here was super friendly and conversational. The guy that was working in the club house was very helpful and was very talkative in between rounds when I went back to the clubhouse.
Also, the carts are brand new and very clean-​unlike a lot of carts I’ve seen around town. Bonus points for WVGC putting tees in the cart with their logo on it.
The only down sound of the course is that the clubhouse is a small double wide trailer looking building and they don’t have a kitchen permit yet. So in regards to food you’re limited to packaged food and drinks, they did have a decent selection on bottled and canned beers for those who enjoy cracking a cold one while playing a round.
All in all this was a great course, with nice golf course and a wonderful staff. Even though it is pretty far out into the mountains east of Escondido I will be playing here again because of my experience here (breaking 100 for the first time that day didn’t hurt either).

They have brand new carts. On some holes the fairways look a little brownish.
Overall nice course. I would recommend to any golfer in the area.

Course is fun and decently long. Brings lots of balls if you hit some erratic shots. The back 9 is just awesome, feels so private and is tons of fun.
The course is well kept and staff is very friendly.
What more can you ask for?

Great golf course. Interesting and beautiful. Can get cheap rates at
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Beautiful place
Valley Center is a little piece of heaven

I’m a walker, so I played this place for $ 20 on a weekday afternoon. I think the cart fees run $ 15/​player, so you can expect $ 35 for a twilight green fee on a weekday if you prefer to ride — and at this course I would recommend it.
This place has a decent driving range and the fairways/​green are all kept in good condition. I was a bit surprised this wasn’t more of a dog track for how cheap the green fees are, but it’s also a bit off of the beaten path so I can see that they’re using rates to get people to make the trek. Although it isn’t as bad as The Vineyard, this place is certainly a bit of target golf. You can expect that around half of the holes have water in play, and the ones that don’t have relatively tight fairways for the most part. If you’re the type to spray the ball around a lot, I would recommend touching up your game a bit before coming or bring at least a dozen or so balls (as a bit of bragging, I managed to play the same ball until I made it to #15, and then I lost three into the lake). I recommend riding here, as there are a few holes on the back nine that are spread far apart and make it quite a hike — it could be a problem if you’ve got walkers in front of you and you’re trying to keep a fast pace of play.
My only real gripes with the course was the lack of water refill stations/​trash cans/​ball cleaners around the course. There isn’t any kind of cart girl, so I expected to be able to refill a water bottle while I was out. There are plenty of housings for a water cooler, but they don’t put anything in them. Also, there aren’t ball cleaners on every hole like I’ve found at every other course I’ve played, nor are there trash cans at every hole. Expected to carry your empty cans for a hole or two before being able to toss them into a recycle bin.
All said, this was a fun course. I was able to keep my score in the nineties, which is my usual — and this was my first round. I’ll likely be coming back out to play here, but I’ll be sure the bring a few extra bottles of water with me when I do.

I booked my tee time on golfnow for a reasonable rate on a Friday at 12:14 pm. I showed up around 11:30 pm hoping to hit a few balls and maybe get out a little early. The course was deserted and no one was on the range. I checked in with the pro shop and the guy had an attitude from the beginning. He told me I could not go early, before I even asked, as «for the rate I paid» I had to go with a foursome to «conserve» carts. What is this? Don’t be angry because I got a good rate on
, stop using their service if you don’t like their rates.
Anyway, I get a small bucket of very old range balls and head to the range to warm up for a while. To their credit, the range is decent and has lots of grass and then very old mats in the back of the range. I put down my bucket and start hitting some irons on the grass as they is not a sign stating mats only. A few other guys show up to the range and start doing the same thing. About 20 minutes later, pro shop guy comes out and literally yells at us to get off the grass and says it’s mats only. I ask where is the sign and he says, grass is for the weekend only. Well, I’m from San Diego and don’t often drive the 45 minutes to Valley Center to play this course, so I don’ know this «local rule.» A polite explanation would have sufficed vice the yelling.
I then get called to the pro shop and paired up with 3 other guys to «fill» our foursome. The course is still wide open, but he send off 3 foursome’s in a row one on top of another. Fast forward 5 hours, and we’re finally done. What could have and should have been a quick fun Friday round of about 3 to 4 hours, became a slow, painful slog around the course. A couple twosomes or threesomes, or some spacing between groups, would have moved things along just fine.
A couple tips for Woods Valley, you are located 45 minutes from San Diego and you are not Maderas, La Costa, Barona, Torrey, etc. Instead of cheaping out and «conserving» carts, let us go when we are ready, let us play in 4 hours and we’ll come back to your course. If you make it a painful, slow and unpleasant experience, we won’t drive 45 minutes to your course. Teach your «pro» shop guy, who was working on Friday 17 May, some manners and to treat the paying customers as customers and not an inconvenience to his internet surfing. It does not matter what rate we paid.
The only reason this is a 2 star review, vice a 1 star review, is that the layout is decent and the course is in reasonably good shape. If it was closer to San Diego or if I could play on a Friday in less than 5 hours without attitude, I would go back, but since yesterday’s unpleasant experience, I’ll spend my hard earned dollars and gas elsewhere.