La Contenta Golf Club

Bumpy greens due to unfixed ball marks and bald fungus spots ... wet long rough ... slow play (course marshal not speaking to groups to play faster, golfing locals not thrilled that non-Valley Springs residents are playing on “their course” ... and golfers not playing ‘ready golf’). Five hour round of which 1.5 hours was waiting for the group of two in front of us).

Advice, play twilight when all the local elders / golfers have gone home for a nap.

Golfed on a Wednesday at noon. Fairways were in good shape, rough was fair. Greens were below average due to their being bumpy because people weren’t fixing ball marks.

Play was very slow. A course ranger came through yet didn’t speak to a group of locals that were playing very very slow.

My advice would be to play twilight hours in order to avoid the elderly golfing locals living around the course that play slowly from 7:30 am to 12:30 pm. Round of 18 holes took five (5) hours, one and a half of which was spent waiting and watching two locals duff their way around the course. How did we know they were locals, they told us so when they confronted us and said, “Hey guys, we live around here. You guys need to take a breath and quit hitting until we clear the hole.”

6 hour round...Course packed with looked like beginners...Saw the Marshal drive by once and never said a word to players about pace of play!!!...Heard from other groups this is a normal round.

Interesting course, but best played in warmer conditions. Soggy fairways make it challenging.

A perfect day for a round of golf with a 15mph breeze. Some greens need to be cared more and there are some wet spots in the fairways. Yard markers are needed and some bunkers are at least half-filled with water. Need to clean and sanitize the carts more. Under the circumstances, the staff are efficient and professional. Still offers decent tee time deals thanks to the GolfNow.

Love this golf course! Right now it is a little messy due to the rain. Very muddy in a bunch of places. Otherwise great course.

Unfortunately, it rained heavy the day before so we had to keep carts on path only though it seemed as though several holes were sufficiently dried out to take carts on to fairways/rough. This made for slow play and exhausting round due to amount of hills, some with high degree of slope to have to carry several clubs to each shot and what is normally a very enjoyable course to play, very difficult. Will not play again there after rains if that is going to be their policy in future.

The staff is great really friendly since COVID-19 the pace of play is horrible the past few times you get there an no carts you are waiting at every hole a four hour round more like 5 1/2

I get that it's winter conditions but seriously, the bare spots on the tees and greens just doesn't make sense. There are areas on the greens that obviously no attempt has been made to improve or repair the damage or to overseed the tees boxes where grass is dead. Just disappointing to tee off on bumpy tee boxes and play on greens with unnecessary damage.

Picked this course only because I was driving through town. What a great surprise! Nice layout, hilly terrain, and good conditions given Dec and recent rain.
Not even close to me, but I would play again if I happen to be in the area. Only paid $20 so for that price, it was a steal!

Peaceful, challenging course amongst the beautiful foothills. We rate this as one of the top public courses to play around the Central Valley. Highly recommended.