Pleasanton Golf Center

Hardly anyone here at 8pm. Great, quiet diving range to whack off a few balls after dinner. I highly recommend to purchase a ball card if you’re a regular. It saves a lot of money… aaaand they have happy hour balls!
I love to say balls. Balls balls balls.
The chipping and putting area are very well kept, and offer a little more of a pace change. Excellent practice area!

The Pleasanton golf center is awesome! The people that work there are always so nice and the manager is fantastic!

Can’t beat it for the price. Small but well kept. Staff is incredibly friendly and will direct you to a hole to head out on to avoid a back up so you can start playing right away.

I like the place. It’s noisy but okay for the price I had to pay. I will shoot some balls again in this green…

Nice great place to practice on your swing game. Has nice green grass hit off. Has a nice chip and putting center too. Very nice place to relax and hit some balls!

Good family casual quick golf course inside a horse racing track. Older club house but good for a beer.

Been coming here since the late 90s. Took
Lessons from Larry Oleary which changed my HDCP tremendously. I am not around a 8 HDCP. Range is nice but wished it had more mounds in 25yrd intervals. Balls aren’t beat up like some ranges I have been too and it is a quiet place to generally practice. The putting area is awesome. You actually have to read it versus just hitting it straight. It is my primary practice facility.

This dog track is awesome for the price. No commentary on the driving range. Greens are in good condition, and if you can’t par this place, look to your game instead of the course. A dubbers go-​to.

I started going to this golf course after my in-​laws gave my brother-​in-​law and I a gift card for the driving range. One can get over a hundred balls for ten bucks, so we’ve been getting a lot of practice in on the excellent driving range and the well maintained (though sometimes overwatered) putting and chipping greens.
This week, my brother-​in-​law and I decided it was time to play a round, so we booked a 6 pm Friday tee-​time and headed to the course.
The course is on the other side of the Alameda County fairgrounds from where the driving range is situated, and one must go under a tunnel to get to it! That’s right — a tunnel — because this is a tiny zig-​zaggy nine-​hole course crammed on the inside oval of the horse-​racing track! And the tunnel takes you under the track to the parking lot and «club house».
This course reminded me more of a large put-​put golf course somewhere out in the boonies than a serious «grown-​up» course in the Bay Area. But that’s probably why I enjoyed playing it! Because as a beginner, it took a lot of the pressure off me.
— Hit the ball out of bounds onto the racetrack?
No problem!
Just retrieve it and take a drop, but please don’t get run over by any practicing fillies!
— Scored double digits on three consecutive holes?
No problem!
No one is behind you anyway because they’ve all played through, so you’re not holding anyone up!
— A flock of geese between you and the green?
No problem!
You’re unlikely to hit them anyway, given how much you’ve been slicing and hooking your drives!
The only downside of our evening golf adventure was that we ran out of sunlight before we ran out of holes. Still, we played 7 of the 9 holes, and I got progressively better as the evening wore on.
And we had a wonderful time. Which is what golf is all about, isn’t it?

I play here quite often. Its one of the easier courses I’ve played on. Mostly par 3s, a few par 4s. Its a good course for beginners and intermediates who are trying to really learn the game without loosing a million balls in the process. I feel the greens are decently well kept, and they keep moving around flags. For 17 $ on the weekends, its a decent bargain. For 9 $ twilight during the week its a steal. I was playing a few days ago and finished the round in an hour fifteen, including a small delay on 2 holes. Its great for getting a quick session in! Also the course has a «iron» range. They ask that you don’t hit woods. Its all grass, which certainly helps perfect your swinging.
First Tee is also at the course all the time.

This is the best driving range I have found in the area. A couple of things that I really like are the lights for night time practice, the range length is great (you can still see where the ball lands even if you can hit it 300+ yards), it has both grass and synthetic mats, a covered practice area with synthetic mats if you want to stay out of the sun/​rain and the staff are really nice. The only reason for 4 stars is that some of the balls are not that great, but for the price its totally worth it.

Very convenient and well managed practice center and fun, short course in the middle of the Alameda County fairgrounds race track. Perfect for kids and families.

I had a good experience at the driving range. Great thing about this place is that they have lights at the range so you can hit later into the evening. Overall, fun times.

4 stars for the driving range, 2 stars for the golf course
Driving Range:
This is my favorite driving range in the east bay. I love being able to hit range balls off of a natural grass surface and this is one of the only places around that lets you do it. If you prefer mats they also have you covered with plenty of stalls with artificial surfaces. Most of the area is covered so you can even come here when it’s raining and get some practice in. They also have a large number of stalls under lights so you can even practice at night. The buckets are reasonably priced and the pro shop has a decent selection of gear.
The putting green is pretty big and is always in above average condition. It normally isn’t too crowded so you can get a solid amount of practice in. The chipping area is also pretty large and rarely used.
Golf Course:
The golf course is built inside of the Pleasanton Fairgrounds Racetrack. It’s a 9 hole course with 3 par-​fours and 6 par-​threes. I’ve never been an exceptional golfer so I don’t mind playing on smaller courses, but this course is pushing it. The course is completely flat so you will never get a challenging lie. The greens are all very small and none of them make for difficult puts.
The only reason to play this course is if you are a beginner who is worried about hacking it up. Bring a bag full of cold ones if you decide to play here, you are going to need them.

The driving range is great. You can either hit off of grass or mats (though the better players usually hit off grass and the hackers the mats). The chipping area is pretty cool too, unless there are people chipping who have no idea what they are doing. I’ve seen several people send a few balls into the parking lot.
The 9-​hole course in the track is just OK, but if you go there thinking you’re about to play pebble beach you’re missing the purpose of the course. If you want to work on your short game and do so quickly, this is a pretty good place to go in the area. When the course is empty you can easily finish in under an hour.

I don’t know what the deal was, but I got a very luke warm greeting by the person behind the counter…
but after that. it got better.
Welp kept, clean, not expensive. a bit further from home than I would have liked, but I suppose I’m on control of that portion ;)
My new local driving range… and with grass!!!

My golf instructor is Dana, and she is awesome to say the least.
I haven’t taken any type of private lessons since my days of playing piano, and I hated all my piano teachers. So I was nervous about having a one-​on-​one teacher again. I’m glad that I was introduced to Dana!
She teaches extremely well, and she has a lot of patience and really good energy that totally affects how I feel about playing golf. She really pays attention to everything you do and shows you how to perfect your swing, your stance, etc. And the way the explains everything is really easy to understand, and I never feel like I’m being criticized.
I’ve only had three lessons so far, but I’m excited to go to my next lesson!
Sometimes after my lesson I’ll hit some balls at the range. Their buckets range from 5 – 170 balls (I think) and the price range is between $ 6-​$ 12 (I think). I’ll have to get back to you on that.

This is for the par 3 golf course.
The course: The course is in the infield of the horse track and it is a poorly kept course. Horrible greens with divots and bald spots all over the place.
But why the 4 star rating?
The course is cheap — $ 14 bucks for a round during the weekday (CASH ONLY). Not a lot of people come to play so its a good place to practice on a golf course without feeling guilty you’re holding people up. I come here during the weekdays and have yet to be put into a group. I play anywhere from 1 – 3 balls a hole so I get plenty of practice. Bad course but great place to practice.
If I was purely rating the course, I’d rate it with 1 star. But its a 4 star place to practice.

I am fairly new to the game of golf, so the driving range at the Pleasanton Fairgrounds has been very helpful in giving me some much needed practice time. They are open until 9pm and you can get a bucket of balls for anywhere from $ 6-​$ 12. I am not positive on how many bays they have, but they easily accommodate about 20 wannabe golfers under a cover and easily another 20 uncovered.
I have played their 9 hole course once and it was a great beginner/​intermediate course. It was $ 17 for a round on the weekend and I think a few bucks cheaper during the week. You won’t find many places cheaper than that.
A very decent playground for the golf newbie or even the experienced player.

Funky little 9 hole executive in the middle of the horse race track at the Alameda County Fairgrounds.
They have a «warm-​up» range, small pro shop, pull carts, and a fun casual atmosphere. Great for dusting off the cobwebs or taking the kids out for a round. They even have lessons there.
If you time it right, you can play while they are training the horses. Another time I was there during the Scottish games.
For the price, you can’t go wrong. On weekends it’s $ 17 for 9 holes and $ 28 for 18. Less for juniors and on weekdays.
Note: you enter the fairgrounds at the main gate on Pleasanton Avenue. Do not confuse this with the practice range off of Valley