Morro Bay Golf Course

Friendly staff, challenging course, and $ 122 for 2 players for 18 and a cart in a midday Friday in June.
The guys in the Pro Shop, as well as the Marshall, the Starter, and the young man working the cart return were A+ in friendliness and hospitality. Carts were well maintained, and a cart from «the line» will do 36 holes, no problem.
The course is beautiful! Lots of slopes, so the cart recommendation by fellow Unilocalers is spot on. Greens were in wonderful shape, as were the tee boxes. As for those greens – UGGH! Everything rolls towards the ocean! Remember that, and, well, good luck! Seriously, the greens were the toughest I’ve ever played. .. yet, still, they were fun!
This course is definitely worth the visit, and I am told the views on non-​June Gloom days are fantastic (smile).
Cheers!
RS

I like this course more and more every time I play it. Great views and on a clear day, you can see way down the coast. I came here on November 23^rd and to my surprise I didn’t need a tee time. It’s a challenging course «for me», but really fun to play. Get a cart, a couple of beers and have a blast.

This course is beautiful with typically mild weather! It is in much better condition than Dairy Creek! Remember the greens typically run towards the water, but all around great, challenging course! My local favorite!

Wow! Great place to golf. View is spectacular. The junior rate unbeatable. Marshall nice enough to check in with us and offer advice on how to putt the sloped greens. Be satisfied with a three putt. They don’t sell cigars but local gave me two of his. Probably out of their control but wish my 17 year old (who drives a car) could drive the carts, it slows down play.

only had a chance to play here once… great course, truly is the poor mans pebble beach. great experience for someone looking to play by the ocean and not pay an arm and a leg.

Friendly, helpful, kid friendly. Choose was nice and I alleviate that you have the option to play 9 holes. Worked great for my «just trying to golf» kids.

This golf course has the best views of any golf course I’ve ever played on almost every hole. it’s not that hard of a course even if your a high handicap but the greens will make you pay. the price is reasonable I mean I’m talking like 50 bucks or less you.

Great fun course to play. Great views of the bay wildlife on course. The greens are the great defender of the course takes a few time to get them down. Just go out and have a great time

Scenic golf course surrounded by trees and Morro Bay and the Pacific Ocean views. Not a difficult course for low handicap players as the course is fairly wide and short. Putting was probably the most difficult part of the course. Fairly fast greens with grass orientation seeming to play more of a role in the ball path than we were used to. Midday rates are a bargain if you don’t need to play first thing in the am. Would definitely recommend a round here if you’re staying in the area!

If you’re looking for a championship length golf course, this place isn’t for you. If you’re looking for a fun round of golf on a course with great greens, lush fairways, and impeccable views: THIS PLACE IS FOR YOU!
I play here every Thanksgiving morning and couldn’t think of something I would rather be doing. This is course is great! The front nine has some remarkable views of the bay. The entire course is surrounded by well established Eucalyptus trees. Watch out for the ice plant on a few holes! That stuff will eat your ball alive. (Definitely think that they should remove it as it is non-​native and just a pain to deal with when playing golf).
They’re not set up as a practice facility, however. Small driving range… just big enough to warm up before playing golf, though.
If you’re in the Morro Bay/​Los Osos/​San Luis Obispo area and want to get out for a beautiful round of golf with some great views, this place is for you!

A really nice course with fantastic views. The ruff can cause serious difficulty and there are some fairways that slope and you have to play the slope, the fast greens that will require a few rounds before you understand and buy into the breaks. They will always break towards the nine sisters (the MB rocks) Putting towards the nine sisters will be extremely fast. Bottom line. …whenever putting towards water it’ll be fast!!!
My only complaint is the staff at the restaurant; good food but the staff at the counter could use a lesson in customer service

Played a round with three others Memorial weekend. The course was in excellent shape! The pro shop was understaffed and the overall appearance looked like they were going out of business (which they are not). Golf carts were unavailable and we were not notified of this until we arrived (the pro shop staff new about the event several days in advance). Not all of us had bags we could carry, yet they didn’t have complimentary pull carts or for that matter, to rent. After I bought a new pull cart (30% off MSRP), we finally made it to the first tee. Even though none of us planned to walk the course, we had a great time golfing. Plenty of great shots made and a lot of strokes lost! Morro Bay Golf Course… you gotta love it!

We were staying at the Inn at Morro Bay across the street for my brother’s wedding and decided to stop here for a beer or two (we greatly surpassed that). From what I saw, the golf course looked beautiful and would have been fun to golf on (I’m an amateur and felt comfortable enough to want to try golfing, but alas we didn’t have time). We did, however, stop by the bar for some libations. What started as a pitcher of 805 and of the other one (I can’t remember) turned into three pitchers of each and several rounds of Yukon Jack shots. It was a nice family bonding experience before the wedding, especially as we stumbled back to the hotel (cars safely stowed at the golf course). I would love to stop by again for a game and for a more accurate rating. Three stars because the bar wasn’t bad and the view was great, I just didn’t explore enough.

Surprised this is only a ‘three-​star’ course. It is a very fun course with tricky greens and memorable holes along with ocean views at a good price. What do the haters want? There are not many bunkers (three?) but plenty of tough holes. If the wind is blowing, look out. Number 2 is a very tough hole. Also number 9, 17, 18, 13 among others. Even the ‘easy’ holes are tough if you mess up your tee shot (holes like 11, 12, 3 and others). Very fun course and a California classic. I suggest you play it.

Good solid course a great view. Carts are on the older side and we had to call the pro shop to send out a new one after our first cart ran out of energy but the new cart came in a few mins and we were back on the course without having to let anyone play through. If you’re looking for some great views, you can’t beat Morrow Bay GC. It’s no Pebble Beach but you can’t complain much when you can see the ocean while you play. $ 17 per cart rider is pretty pricey though.

Just golfed this course today, thought I’d give a little review for the heck of it.
This was my first time going to the Morro Bay course and my first golf outing in the SLO county area. My expectations were high after playing in multiple courses out of state that were some of the better courses I’ve played at. I go to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, so while I usually try to have alot of fun playing, I still get very serious on the links.
For starters, the student rate with a cart on Saturday at 10:30 is a very good deal. The pro shop people were pretty nice, while the starter on the other hand was pretty pissy that my buddy and I got to the tee right at our tee time (checked in like 30 minutes before) even though she didn’t even call us.
On to the course. I really am not a fan of the course layout here. It plays pretty easy in all honesty with very few challenges and while the rough can get pretty thick, the fairways had alot of roll on it today. There was maybe one dogleg hole and I didn’t really feel challenged on any hole. On top of this, I counted probably 3 – 4 bunkers on the entire course total. While this may be nice to some, for me, I prefer a slight challenge from time to time instead of the same type of hole over an over again. The greens, like what many say, are very tough to read. Today the greens ran really fast, so putting was pretty difficult. The course is very nicely maintained, something I expected from the «Poor Man’s Pebble», not too many freeway divots and while some greens were filled with leaves from the trees, the greens were nice as well. The scenery of the course (the trees, not the ocean) was very nice though. I enjoyed the woodland feel of a couple of the holes and the trees provided a very nice backdrop for some of the holes. Course Rating: ³⁄₅
Now regarding the clientele. My friend and I are 19 years old and we haven’t golfed for awhile, so we wanted to go out just to have a good time, however, this is not the kind of place to goof around that much. The other twosome we were set up with were elderly gentlemen who were quite unfriendly and after a few holes we just let them go ahead because they really were a terrible twosome to play with. They made alot of snotty remarks throughout the front 9 when we were behind them. I could understand this coming from a couple of very good golfers, but these guys shot alot worse than we did on the back 9 and when we both started playing really good golf, we ended up going much faster than them. The people behind us also were elderly gentlemen and were also unfriendly, even though we had no part in the course being backed up. The Marshall was continually on our ass for the front 9 which was pretty annoying, but as we talked to her she was very nice and kind of understood that we wanted to golf and have a good time at the same time. She left us alone after we landed a couple of very difficult shots on the front 9. The course was backed up and we had a 5 hour round, but this is something to expect from a public course on the weekends. I’d honestly only come back here on the weekdays to avoid the crowds of inconsiderate golfers. Clientele Rating: ¹⁄₅
I didn’t eat here, so the food rating is N/​A.
The saving grace for this course, however, is the amazing views. Morro Bay is usually foggy or cloudy, but today it was roughly 90 degrees and not a single inch of fog or clouds in the sky. The views of the waterfront are spectacular and really that is the single best part about this course. I wouldn’t call these views the best I’ve ever seen on a golf course, but definitely they are up there. Can’t really go wrong when you are looking out at the waterfront. Scenery Rating: ⁵⁄₅.
Overall, I give this course a ³⁄₅. For the price on a weekend it’s a pretty solid price, although the cart fee ($ 17 per rider) is pretty outrageous, though courses around the area follow the same sort of standard. I would most likely return to this course hopefully looking for some friendlier foursomes, especially when it’s backed up, but the view is fantastic and while the course offers no real challenges, I had a good time and the course is pretty well maintained for a public course and I would return sometime in the future most likely.

Terrible golf experience! Our cart ran out of juice on the 5^th hole, so I called the pro shop… the guy told me to leave the cart and walk! The attitude of the two kids working the pro shop was terrible. There were no ‘adults’ working! We had to demand a refund and finally got it and left. Turns out there were many carts dying on the course… very poor management. Also, they booked six people for the same tee time! The course, what we saw of it, was beautiful but what a joke!!!

We had the worst encounter with the starter on hole # 1. Not only did he call us Kawasaki, when our name is Takahashi. He was pissed because we didn’t check in to him before our tee time. We weren’t told to check in after paying our green fees. He kept yelling at us in front of appproximately 12 people, what a jerk. Will never play here again despite the beautiful panoramic views. Golf course is very short, greens are in great shape and very hard to read. Everything breaks towards the ocean.

So beautiful here! Great views and well kept greens. My husband and I played the front 9 after having breakfast in Morro Bay. It started off overcast then soon warmed up. We walked the course too which was a nice way to burn off some calories.
They have carts, a restaurant, shop and small driving range. Note: When you get to I believe it is hole 5 or 6 the driving range is close by so be on the lookout for balls! (Or bring a helmet)
This course also has sister courses at Dairy Creek (SLO) and Chalk Mountain (Atascadero). We got a discount card which allows us to play any of the 3 with discount rates. I would suggest making reservations especially on weekends or holidays.
If you are looking for an unpretentious yet beautiful course then look no further!

We vowed we’d come back when we picked up the game, and after a year and a half of playing and 2 years after first discovering this course, we made our return to Morro Bay GC aka «The Poor Man’s Pebble.»
GAWD, this course ranks waaaay up there for a county course! It’s well maintained, managed and definitely affordable considering. The KILLA views alone is worth the price of admission. I may have not have played my best but that didn’t phase me… just being out there was calming.
The holes had variety; elevation changes, sloping fairways, and doglegs. The greens were tough for us to read… they looked simple enough but there were extremely subtle breaks. There’s no other way I would’ve wanted to spend the 24^th of last month… and it was an excellent finale to a birthday present that seemed to never end. =)