Springtown Golf Course

Never ran into the club pro again. And Jason is seriously the man when it comes to service. The only complaint I have about the place now has to do with the drought, and I’m actually awarding extra points to them for their decision to be responsible with such an immeasurably vital resource as our water. Seriously.

I wish that Unilocal would add a zero stars to their website. This is how angry I am at this place. Not because of the course. I know that it’s a cheap course so I wasn’t expecting a five star course. But the experience that I had with an individual that was working at this course was the last and final straw.
First time I’ve played here. I am never playing here again. I had the same experience with an older «gentleman» behind the counter, which I think is the same one that a previous Unilocaler had dealt with. Rude, condescending, and downright not helpful was this «gentleman».
Mind you, I understand that this course is not Pebble Beach, but when my friends and I show up for a round of golf, there is no one in the club house. Then this man, who we thought we saw drinking with his buddies out back, comes into the club house. Not a friendly hello, hi, nothing. Just «do you have a tee time. What is your name»? It was like he was bothered that we were there to golf.
I then give him my name and get my cell phone out to show him my reservation, and he tells me to hold on! He then can’t find my name and reservation. I then show him my cell phone, and their reservation system screwed up the day. My credit card had already been charged and he said that there was no way that he could move the reservation. I said «I made the reservation on your website, how can you not move it?» He tells me that the reservation that I made and the money that was charged does not go to the golf course. WHAT?! I was completely confused. He said that I would have to still pay to get on the course. I was still trying to wrap my head around the fact that I paid $ 43 to reserve a tee time, and then I still had to pay more money to get onto the course. MAKES NO SENSE. The «gentleman» then proceeds to ask my friends «how is he not getting this?», referring to me. That was the last straw.
Luckily I called their reservation broker and was able to get everything straightened out.
My advice to the management of this golf course it to get rid of this guy that I had to deal with. Awful customer service, downright degrading, and rude. I am a local resident and I will never EVER be golfing here ever again. Every golfer that I know I will tell them to never golf here. This dive course was supposed to be a fun an inexpensive way to spend my day with my friends, and it would have if not for this one individual.

Would give them ZERO stars if I could and it’s based solely on ONE employee. I’ve been coming to springtown for a long long time before the new owners took over when there was really no grass at all, but it’s always been a great price for a practice course and just to come out to hang with friends and swing some sticks. It sucks I have to give them 1 star because they have really done some great things to the course itself it’s the greenest I’ve seen it in a very long time, there is grass on 7 which there hasn’t been for years so bravo to the grounds keeper and the ownership! The problem is the older counter gentleman that works here he is the hardest person that I have ever met to deal with super rude (this is not pebble beach and your not the president) talks down to you, makes you feel like you did something wrong, makes everything harder then it has to be. It has now gotten to a point that none of my friends will play here with me just because they Dred checking in with this guy that’s how bad it is. Just checking in for a previously set tee time can take 10 minutes like seriously here’s my money give me a cart key and I’m ready to roll, which brings me the last straw, 3 times ago we made a reservation on golf now we come to check in and on arrival we ask for a cart immediately he responds «nope can’t do!» Not sorry guys it will be a little while before I can get you a cart or anything like that, He says he has no carts available and we shouldn’t have booked on golf now because HE makes no money and would rather give it to someone who pays full price! ARE YOU THE OWNER??? Seriously that was the convo, then says to call him to book and he will have a cart ready not to book on golf now. So 2^nd time I call to book I tell him we need a cart, again when we get there «nope I don’t have any carts» are u f**** serious this time we wait for an 1hr to get one, the last time again I called and made a tee time and again we check in and «nope can’t do it, I’m having a crisis right now» now mind you there are 10ish carts in the area where the carts are, is your crisis that your to busy watching the masters and forgot to charge the carts??? Either way this is completely unacceptable behavior for someone in the customer serious field.
Side note there is a younger guy who works here and he is AWESOME!!! Super friendly always on the ball no problems just how check in should be, I just wish he worked more but the golf nazi is almost always there which is a huge disappointment. Sorry springtown but it needed to be said I hope ownership actually looks into this because something needs to change.

There are fun dive bars. This is a fun dive golf course.
Played it for my first time last week and got a lot out of it as a practice track. Pretty good variety of holes too, a couple par 5s, a shorty par 3, many short and moderate par 4s and a couple long par 3s/​
Adjust your expectations. It’s a place to go our and work on some shots. Fairways are a bit ratty and goose poop abounds on a few holes. But, greens are in good shape and you still have to make good shots.
I highly recommend if you are in the area and just want to play a little. It’s flat and would be a good walking place.

This place is drier that a desert. I took my son here to play he is 7, and when he asks me I thought you said golf courses were supposed to be green I almost lost my drink. This place should pay people to golf here. To spend 39 $ for me and my son on 9holes of desert play they should be ashamed. This place is 1step better than a driving range. Also I hope u don’t mind the geese crap all over the greens!!! What a joke for a course.

Like the old saying goes, «you get what you pay for.» Which, in this case, really isn’t such a bad thing. The course isn’t in the best shape; potholes on the cart path that will snap your spine and the rough… is really rough.
BUT, with internet specials that can bring the total down to $ 8 for nine holes and a $ 6 cart, you can still have a great time. I am by no means a good golfer so I love the fact that there is no attitude or pressure and no waiting to get on the course. The people working there have always been super friendly and ready with a tip if you ask. A couple par 5’s with a few 4’s make it a great practice course when the mood strikes you.

Course should be about $ 8 for the conditions of the course and the way it plays! Nice staff!

This is my favorite practice course! Zach is the most friendly and helpful pro shop guy I ever met. When I called to ask about the internet special, he made it seem so appealing that I gathered up a friend and went right over. OK, so the course is rustic, but charming in its own way. It is a municipal course and the people up here are earth-​friendly there and do not water the rough except where it is necessary. The people are «green» so the golf course isn’t. I don’t have a problem with that because what I love about Springtown is that it is uncrowded. And the geese. They have the cutest flock of geese and even they are friendly. The greens are nice, too, and the bunkers are reasonable. I live in a gated community that has its own immaculate very green and very manicured course, but they they have hazards from hell, and they schedule players too close together, and well, the fact is a lot of my neighbors are kind of snooty. I loving going to Springtown to get away from all that. If I lived a little closer to Livermore, I would buy their reasonably priced unlimited play pass and practice here all the time.
This is the first course I ever played where the cart paths end just past the tees, and do not pick up again until you approach the greens. It is also the first course I ever visited with portable toilets. Obviously, I am giving it 5 stars as a practice course, not as a place for fancy tournaments. If you want pristine, go to Palm Springs. Here you get what you pay for, at least with the specials. Carts are only $ 6 holes. It is a great place to bring beginners.

The Springtown course is one of those, it is what it is courses. Every hole has a domed green with bunkers to the right and some others sparaticly placed on every hole. Starts and ends with an easy par 5. All but one of the par 4’s from the whites are 340 – 360. The blues add a little variety with #3 stretching to over 400 with a palm tree in a bunker on the right guarding you from coming in with any sort of draw. Numbers 2 and four are two ofthe toughest par 3’s in the bay area, both 200 yards and windy. Number 6 is the easy par 3 at 110 yards and a relatively easy green but a carry over a pond. 7 is a 280 yard par four straight into the wind. An easy lookin hole but a tricky green. 8 is a straightaway par 4 to yet another elevated green, with a deep bunker guarding the front. 9 doglegs to the right but if you cut corner you are left with less than 180 in to a green sloped from back to front. 1 is a straightaway par 5 475 with bunkers right where your drive lands so if your not straight you are likely laying up to start the day. Greens here are a+ fairways are hardpan and d– and rough is better to play from so you can strike the ball. Overall this place is a dump but it’s better than working and since I live over here I’ve played it a few couples hundred times.

This place is old and they flaunt it. Nothing has been done to upgrade this place, let alone maintain it. From the building that houses the pro shop and snack bar, I am sure nothing has changed since 1972. I wished I had my camera to illustrate the point.
The course is a nine hole that weaves around track homes, so be prepared for peeps doing their thang around their yards. During my round, I was able to witness a guy mowing his lawn with no shirt (not a bad thing but his gut drooped past his crotch), 3 kids wrestling (not a bad thing either, but 2 of the kids were kicking the living shit out of the other) and multiple occasions where the music blaring from ones living room traveled to the course. I once hit from the rough to Ozzie Osbourne’s «Crazy Train», tee’d off a par 3 to Fergie’s «My humps» and putted to the rhythmic beats of salsa music, where I gyrated my hips after sinking my putt on hole #3.
The grass (if I may be so bold as to actually call it that) is unlike I’ve ever seen anywhere. It’s like playing golf at a community park, where crab grass and miscellaneous weeds dominate. The actual greens however were nice and consistent and were actually quite challenging. That is the only reason they escaped a one star rating. But $ 18 for a nine hole of this quality is robbery. I was jacked 18 bucks this day, so bummed.

This a a sweet little humble Par 3 that runs through the Springtown Area of Livermore. By appearance it’s a 3.5, it’s a public golf course and noone puts a lot of money into maintaining the golf course. But it’s clean, it’s affordable, and it’s a fun course for practicing for the big game.