Links Championship at Summerly

What a change thus course looks amazing and the bar and restaurant are excellent. Glad I came back to check it out will be back

Agree with the comment below. This course has great potential! Just been there recently with my kids, it looks better each time we visit. The greens are in great shape. In spite of the driving range still being under construction, we still had fun!

This place must have new owners. Everything is dead and over grown. They are telling people its dormant. BUT its summer… The landscape is completely neglected.
Additionally, we have been coming here to watch fireworks on the 4^th for 8 yrs. They are now trying to charge a $ 10 entry fee. (Bad business, as there was a tenth of the people there to sell drinks to). I hope they get there act together. This used to be a great addition to the Elsinore area, but now its bringing it down.

I have been here 3 times now. I am new to that neighborhood and could probably ride my bike there.
The golf course grass doesn’t look great. However if you live in the surrounding neighborhood I would recommend stopping by for a drink and lunch.
Staff is friendly, food is OK and drinks are great (full bar). I have eaten lunch here 3 times now and have enjoyed sitting on their patio and just hanging out. This place has great potential.

Worst course I have ever played, no such thing as fairways here. 99% dirt, can’t even tell where to aim, horrible. Don’t waste your time or money

Was there 2−26−15 thanks to Chris for his help. Don’t know what some of the negative reviews are about but I golfed there yesterday and besides some dry patches here and there this is an awesome course.
The greens are fast but the course it’s self was a 9 out of ten. Looking forward to golfing there again. Would rather drive some extra miles than to deal with rude employees at cal oaks golfing. Keep up the good work.

Course is not in good shape. Calif drought is taking its toll. Greens are in decent shape. Fairways are quite threadbare. Staff is good.

Went there yesterday. Course is not as bad as people describe it. At one point this course must have been awesome, but lack of maintenance is very evident. Staff was friendly and food was great. There are a ton of dead spots throughout the course. The only time I’ll ever come back is if I get a deal on last min golf app.

This place has some serious issues. DO NOT play here. There is no grass. They will tell you its dormant. Don’t believe them. This place was really nice. Not any more. I heard the course is for sale. Whatever is going on its to bad.

I played this course a few days ago… and it was not a pleasant experience. We didn’t have any special discounts so the green fees (to ride) were 38 dollars. That was insanely high given what we would find out shortly after stepping onto the course. I’ve been spoiled with some nice courses in San Diego… and on their website the pictures looked amazing. Upon arrival… the course is horrendous. Dried out, dead, and dirt everywhere. There were mud pits where water was supposed to be. I’ll give them credit because it is winter and we are in a draught… but seriously people… lower these green fees and introduce some discounts. Don’t play this course unless you get a special rate and you live close by. Actually… just don’t play this course. Not as advertised.

Wow a dump! I arrived and was advised the greens were just punched several days ago and I had made my tee time online two weeks before.
At one time, this course was probably a decent challenging links style course. Unfortunately, the owners and management company has let this place go into the toilet. The fairways were dry and my tee shots felt like I was hitting on to cement. The fairways also had large on patches of dead or diseased grass on much of the course.
This was probably the worse golf course I’ve ever played! I would not recommend wasting your time or money playing here even at a discounted rate.

0 stars if I could !!! Crappy course conditions! Inside bar and food staff are friendly enough, yet no posted hours of operation, specials (I.e.- happy hour), absolutely no advertising for special events, no advertising of any sort. Place is in turmoil and no one is fixing the problem. Complete chaos! Owned by??? Government? Somebody need to save this hidden gem before it’s to late. Too bad, beautiful location and endless possibilities. FIRE all
Management and start from scratch! Hire back the people that made a difference and show them the appreciation they deserved. Until then, I will take my business elsewhere. Problem is the need for a management team that’s going to take care of their employees, and make sure they are given the guidance and monetary compensation they deserve. Until that time, they will continue to have the incredible amount of turnover that they already have experienced! Cya Links at Summerly! Good luck in the future!

Played today and do not recommend. Grass is dying, bare spots in all fairways and lakes are low. Seems they have stopped watering the grass. Fairways are so hard the ball bounces ten feet high and in every direction. You never know where the ball is going to stop. Only bright side are the greens. only 18 green spots on entire course. If you look at what the course used to look like to where it is today, it’s truly sad.

They definitely need to do something about the fairways! Its like playing on cement like a previous post said. Clubhouse has always had good food and great service. Golf shop employees were rude. Great layout but course could definitely use some water

Played this course in a one day tournament today. First time I have been here in over two years. I love this course for its Scottish links style design with no trees and berms through the course.
The course is not in good shape. Fairways are barren with hard dirt spots. Greens are good, but have been recently aerated.
The course is in receivership under the SEC. Recent owner under investigation for unethical business practices, previous owner is operating it under the SEC Supervision. Water (irrigation) like many of the courses along the I-​15 is a big issue. Unknown if the course conditions will improve as the summer approaches.
Staff is friendly and helpful. Food in the restaurant is very good and well served.

Absolutely horrible fairways !!!
It was like hitting of cement. The fairways were brown & hard, absolute shit !!
I’ll will never come back here.
It was embarrassing. Management should be embarrassed to charge the prices they do.

This review is for the food there. I went to this place for a banquet and the food was incredibly underwhelming.
The appetizers they served during the cocktail hour were actually quite tasty. it was some sort of seared tuna and then there was poke on fried wonton shells. if the dinner had been anywhere near as tasty as the appetizers, this would have been a solid 4 star review for the food. unfortunately, the dinner was horrendous.
the salad: the salad was a simple garden salad but heavily overdone on onions and incredibly sparse on the meat. the onions overpowered any sort of other flavor on the salad and left a terrible taste in my mouth.
entrée: the entrée was a fried duck filet on a bed of rice and some shrimp scampi with asparagus. while this might sound tasty, it was embarrassingly bland.
the duck was topped with an orange glaze sauce reminiscent of the kind of orange chicken you might have at panda express. not necessarily bad just odd choice of flavoring especially in the context of a banquet. the duck itself tasted a bit too gamey and lacked any sort of flavor. i suspect they served duck because it was mostly asian people but it was clear that they didn’t know how to cook it. people resorted to tobasco and ketchup to provide flavoring.
the shrimp scampi was also a pathetic showing. the dish basically looked like someone cooked a bunch of canned pasta and plopped a fried shrimp on it. the dish lacked any sort of flavoring and ive had tastier dishes straight out of a can and microwave. we actually resorted to passing around the shrimp because it was so bland.
the presentation of the dish also left something to be desired. im not one to care normally about how my food looks as im too busy shoveling it in my mouth but in a banquet context, it’s at least nice when your food looks presentable even when it tastes like nothing. these dishes look like they had been assembled with little to no care.
finally the service. the wait staff was at most guilty of incompetence. they were pleasant and clearly were trying hard but it was clear they were out of their element. the banquet was outdoors under a tent and there were about 15 – 20 tables. the way the food was brought out made it so that the time between the first table being served and the last table was about 20 – 30 minutes. by the time i had gotten my food, the first table was already finished with dinner.
dinner was so bad that i felt a strong urge to go to the in n out down the street and only didnt go because no one would go with me. the ironic thing is that there is a sign out front advertising their «award-​winning» restaurant. im not quite sure what sort of award this place could have won.
i’m hoping that serving 100+ people in a banquet setting is an anomaly for this restaurant and that their normal offerings are better than what i had.

Horrible service, the people working here are rude and dismissive. No coffee or anything available at 7am with a 7:05 tee time, and there’s nowhere to get food or drinks at the turn. Golf course itself was in good shape (why I gave 2 stars) but the service is so bad we will never spend money there again.
Bring your own snacks & drinks if you want anything while you play, otherwise you may starve.

I’m very disappointed with this course for just one reason. I had accidentally left my range finder attached to the golf cart on a Saturday late morning round. We stopped and had lunch at the restaurant and watched a baseball game there. We were there at the clubhouse easily an hour after our round completed.
The following morning I called to inquire about my range finder and the person in the pro shop completely dismissed me saying sorry but its probably gone. I asked the person in the shop to take my name and number and to call me when it turned up. The only person who could have taken it would have been a cart attendant cleaning the cart.
But of course I’ve received no call. One last call to them and the next person I spoke with had no idea who I was or that anything was reported. My disappointment comes becomes the bag was strapped to the cart. Someone would have had to remove it from the cart to remove it. It wasn’t going to just fall off the cart. Since we ended our round in the afternoon its safe that the cart was not reused that day. An employee took it and they never bothered to call me.

Their webpage has an awesome aerial shot with the lush green fairways. Unfortunately, it’s not really how the course looks as of October 2013. Fairways are a bit more brown with lots of dead sandy patches/​ground under repair. Coupled with the desert setting, the entire course just had a very monochromatic look — everything just looked like varying shades of greenish-​brown and it made it somewhat hard to follow the course as you were playing it. A couple of holes we had to spend a few extra moments just to figure out which direction to hit in.
Links style course which was challenging, with the burns mentioned in other reviews. The course yardage book was helpful for picking out the burns. The cart gps could use an upgrade, as it was a simple text only unit that gave distances to certain course features — center of the green, front and back, bunkers, etc. Occasionally it’d give a distance to a burn. The cart gps would give helpful tips such as «avoid the bunkers» as well. Thanks!
I was a bit annoyed that there was no mention anywhere on their website or online tee time system that the greens had recently been punched.
The people that worked here were all cool though — from the guys in the pro shop to the waitress at the bar to the guys making the food. Larry the starter was the most entertaining starter ever.
So overall I’d give this place a 3.5. You can tell they are trying, but if they can improve the course conditions this place would rate much higher. In all fairness it is the tail end of summer in Lake Elsinore so perhaps my expectations are too high. I’d play here again, maybe in the spring.