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157 Reviews (157)
5 Stars
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4 Stars
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3 Stars
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2 Stars
13
1 Stars
34
Conditions
2.8
Value
3.4
Layout
3.9
Friendliness
4.1
Pace
4.2
Amenities
3.0
64.9%
Recommend this course
103 out of 157 reviews
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2.9
9 Reviews (9)
5 Stars
2
4 Stars
2
3 Stars
1
2 Stars
1
1 Stars
3
Conditions
2.7
Value
3.1
Layout
3.3
Pace
3.8
Amenities
2.5
StaffFriendliness
4.2
55.6%
Recommend this course
5 out of 9 reviews
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3.1
20 Reviews (20)
5 Stars
5
4 Stars
4
3 Stars
4
2 Stars
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6
Conditions
2.8
Value
3.4
Layout
3.9
Pace
4.0
Amenities
2.9
StaffFriendliness
4.1
65.0%
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13 out of 20 reviews
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About

Holes 9
Type Public/Municipal
Style Links
Par 72
Length 6408 yards
Slope 132
Rating 73.0
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Gleneagles Golf Course at McLaren Park
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Course Details

Year Built 1962
Fairways Rye/Kikuyu Grass
Greens Bent Grass
Golf Season Year round
Architect Jack Fleming (1962) George Waters (2010)

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes
Pull-carts Yes

Practice/Instruction

Putting Green Yes

Policies

Metal Spikes Allowed No
Walking Allowed Yes
Dress code Appropriate golf attire.

Food & Beverage

Snacks

Available Facilities

Clubhouse

Available Sports

Disc Golf

Reviews

3.1
157 Reviews (157)

What Golfers Are Saying

Course Challenges Include:
Narrow Fairways 6

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Played On
Reviews 3
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
1.0
Previously Played
Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Poor
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Poor
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 3
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

An old jewel.

A long challenging nine hole with two sets of tees to make it an 18 hole. The Staff is great.
It’s a lot like the Presidio course. I will go back.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Stuff of local legend-

that continues a quirky existence and manifold challenges...it all breaks to the Cow Palace....

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
2.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Course still recovering

Played a quick 9 before my flight home. High expectations based on write ups about the course. Would like to play it again when it recovers from drought conditions. Looks like that might be a few years.

Conditions Fair
Value Fair
Layout Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Walked

A little rough gem for the brave and adventurous

Gleneagles is an extremely challenging and strategic layout that is not for beginners nor those wanting flat and straightforward golf. There are varied slopes on virtually all holes and many narrow areas to contend with. The greens are tiny and most have heavy undulations, but are as good of condition as you will find for muni golf. The rest of the course conditions varies from solid and fair to poor to downright ugly with barren spots in fairways and tee boxes with more slope than would be normally anywhere else. This course must be approached with an open mind and should be played several times before having any expectations of scoring near one’s handicap, but you get to play all sorts of shorts off all sorts of lies for a real golfing challenge.

Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Excellent
Amenities Fair
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 1
1.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Poor
Friendliness Poor
Pace Poor
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 23
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Conditions Average
Value Average
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Average
Value Average
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap Don't know
Skill Beginner
Plays Twice a year
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Windy weather
Walked

fun 9 holes

We had a fun morning at Gleneagles. Holes were long enough to make 9 holes worthwhile. The guy in the shop was very nice. It got a bi windy but that's normal in SF.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
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Commented on 07/31/2023

Thank you for your FIVE STAR review. The wind comes up in the summer afternoons shifting the course to beast mode. Be prepared to take two more clubs on many measured distances.

Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
1.0
Previously Played

Save your money

This course is treacherous. Wildly overpriced. It’s always in bad shape, the greens are mostly sand. The wind makes the course much more difficult. A small slice turns into a lost ball every time. The fairways are patched with dirt and sand. Walking the course is really challenging because you’re walking on sandy hills. The cart you can rent for $10 doesn’t have straps so my bag fell off many times on bumpy fairways. I had to use two hands to guide it. The staff can be ok some days and others give you attitude if you aren’t familiar with all the rules. After 3 holes I was ready to quit. Stay away, give a better course your business. I wouldn’t play this course for free.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Poor
Friendliness Fair
Pace Poor
Amenities Poor
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Commented on 07/21/2023

At $29 (resident) we give the loudest bang for your buck. We had just aerated our greens two weeks before this review and there was residual sand on the greens but so necessary. We turned off the water 100 -150 yards off the tees to save water so yes, you gotta strike the ball.
There are easier courses that may suit your game but appreciate you came out to try Gleneagles.

Played On
Reviews 14
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

History & Challenge

I appreciate this Jack Fleming layout on so many levels of golf appreciation. Much more than what meets the eyes. Was truly appreciative of the tree shadows of hundreds of golf balls on the right side of the first fairway. A splendid installation!!! Lift back the historical covers on these challenges and much is both revealed and rumoured.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
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Commented on 07/21/2023

Thank you for your insight and support. While we do not have the resources of our sister municipals (we do not have city employees, equipment or resources) we hope to afford an experience like no other at Gleneagles.

Played On
Reviews 10
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
1.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Not what I was expecting

After traversing the sketchy barrack style apartments with the homies guarding the corner I was able to find the single car entrance tucked away up a hill with little to no signage. After gearing up and heading to the small but quaint bar/pro shop/front desk, I stood for five
minutes while the atttendant finished his convo with one of the two other folks in the place about furniture just to get a smug “ what do you need”. Not a hey, not a “hi, how are you doing”. Then I got to the course. Terrible is an understatement. Conditions made for a challenging 9 which was great, but can you at least make a decent path to walk and cut the grass on the green. Just tossing sand everywhere and calling it good seems like a bandaid for the bullet wound that is the lack of care and pride of ownership.

Conditions Poor
Value Fair
Layout Average
Friendliness Fair
Pace Average
Amenities Fair
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Commented on 07/21/2023

We know our conditions are antithetical to most other municipals we really hate to hear you were not treated well at the front of the shop. Rest assured we appreciate your business and hope you give us another look.

Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Joejoetops

The course paste very tough as usual but that’s why I keep coming back. I have been playing that course for 40 years.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
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Commented on 07/21/2023

Thank you for your FIVE STAR review and for loving this course as much as we do.

Played On
Reviews 24
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Fair
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Good
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Commented on 07/21/2023

Thank you for your review!

Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Beginner
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Previously Played

Go play now.

The course is nice now. With all the recent rains we have had has the course greener than its been in recent times. Some trees down but they have been cleaning up pretty fast. Challenging place with all the elevation changes and slopes.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
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Commented on 07/31/2023

Thank you for your great review. Most of the trees that fell during the Winter 2023 have been bucked up and cleared. You got it right about the elevation variation and slopes, two important characteristics that makes Gleneagles an incredible course like no other.

Played On
Reviews 1
1.0
Previously Played

Wasted potential

Played this course on a Saturday, guy working the pro shop was a younger man. Friendly and actually had a good time at the course- difficult fun track. I can overlook the poor fairway conditions to support a local course. A few weeks later, I decided to play a round on a rainy, completely empty Monday morning. Show up to check in with an older man at the bar. Tell him I’d like to grab a tee time, he rudely asks if I have a tee time. Repeat that id like to walk on.. “ yeah fine, I guess I’ll allow it.” Keep in mind, I’m the ONLY person at the golf course. Asks if I’ve played here before, told him I’ve played a few weeks ago. “You know the rules around here then?” Confused, I ask him to clarify to which he replies “we have one rule here. You are to play one ball and one ball only. If me or if any of my guys see you playing more than one ball, we’re going to ask you to leave immediately. You got that?” Sure enough, he watched me tee off, arms crossed and watched me play the entire first hole from outside the pro shop. Never have I ever been treated this way in any other course or felt more unwelcome. There’s a reason this course is rarely booked out. It’s a shame because the course has a lot of potential but it’s held back by this “look we’re cool because we have a bar instead of a pro shop” mentality. No shortage of courses here in the Bay Area and this course ranks at the bottom of that list.

Conditions Fair
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Poor
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
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Commented on 07/21/2023

You have our sincerest apologies for how you were received at the start. This is not how we train our staff to greet or serve customers. Please know it will not happen again.

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Commented on 05/06/2023

We are sorry you had an unfortunate experience with a staff member on your second visit. It sounds like your first visit went very well. We have alerted the starter about this review and appreciate you bringing it to our attention. We can assure you your next visit will be stellar.

Played On
Reviews 13
Handicap Don't know
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Walked

GOOD GC

THE GC HAS BAY VIEW. NOT TOO BUSY. YOU PLAY ON THE SLOP.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Difficulty Moderate
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Commented on 07/31/2023

Thanks for the great review. We are the only golf course in San Francisco with a Bay view because we are the only course on the Southeast side of The City. When the leaders of San Francisco built the golf course they did so because there were already three public courses on the West side, not including two private course. They wanted to spread out the golf courses to all neighborhoods. It was built around the same time as Candlestick Park in 1962. Unfortunately Candlestick is gone but Gleneagles remains because the community continues to play it.

Played On
Reviews 8
Skill Beginner
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

A great Midweek course

Gleneagles GC San Francisco, is an awesome Par 36, 9holes course at the heart of San Francisco. Fairway consist of 2 par 5’s, 5 Par 4’s, and 2 Par3’s.
You also got some challenging winds, slopes, and other elements from time to time.

Conditions Good
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
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Commented on 07/31/2023

Thank you for your review! You can use every club in your bag at this nine-holer. Many play nine and find it plenty enough. For the less than a movie ticket, you can go around from another set of tees for nine more to make it 18 holes. This 9 or 18 hole experience will no doubt leave a memory for you unlike any other golf course.

Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
2.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Hi

Don’t play this course in the morning. It’s not well kept and super muddy until noonish. Staff is lit, course is… not the best

Conditions Poor
Value Fair
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
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Commented on 02/06/2023

We have received over 19 inches of rain in the past four weeks, most in the past 100 years. There are some muddy areas for sure but the golf course as whole is very playable.

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