Carmel Highland Golf Resort and Spa

I like this course because of its central location and reasonable pricing. Then to my shock just spotted this notice on their website:
Carmel Highland Golf Club will be closed as of March 31^st, 2015.
So I golfed my last round there Sunday March 29^th. The course was in the best condition I have seen. It’s a shame that San Diego will lose another course.
We will miss you Carmel Highland.

This course was fun and it gives you the opportunity to use all the clubs you have in your bag. It looks like the maintenance of the course has dropped but I still thought it was fun to play for a mid level golf that I am. The food at the grill wasn’t bad and the var tender was really nice. In the end, I look forward to playing the course again when I am in the area. The big bummer is the lack of driving range but the hitting area was enough to warm up to.

I really like this course, it’s very open and has a variety of challenges throughout the course. The tees offer you several opportunities to pull out your driver, and the fairways are all different to challenge your approach game. The course is well maintained, and there is no shortage of bunkers and trees to keep you on your toes. The staff is polite, and the drink cart will make it to you at least four times throughout the course. I have found that the best deals for this course are offered on
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My biggest disappointment with this course is the lack of driving range. The course offers you a practice putting green, and a backstop like net to hit balls into with your woods and irons. But this doesn’t give you the same satisfaction of seeing the distance and accuracy that you’re looking for when warming up.
Price is great, pace of play is well regulated, and course is always looking sharp. I’m a returning fan to this course.

Considering it was designed by Billy Bell, I shouldn’t have been surprised that the layout was quite nice. Plenty of elevation changes and some interesting holes. Most of the par fours were either very long (430 and over) or very short (320 and under) from the blue tees. The greens were in fantastic shape. There is, however, a TON of grain in them and if you don’t factor that into your read, you can look very silly. Generally they were large and fairly flat. They were definitely receptive. Other than the greens, however, the course condition was pretty sub par (no pun intended). The fairways were in decent shape, but the rough was pathetic. Massive bare patches everywhere. Also, the «water» hazards were devoid of any water. I also had to laugh at what they considered lateral hazards. They were drainage ditches that should have been free relief, but instead they marked them as lateral. Silly. On the whole, I would say that for $ 40 or less (maybe really $ 30 or less) I would be happy to play this course once a year.

This place is stupid when it comes to enforcing pace of play. I get that marshals should keep pace of play going. However, we had a foursome playing behind a twosome. The marshal expected us to keep up with the twosome. Either he has mental problems which prevents him from understanding basic math and its relation to the practical world, or he’s a golf troll.

Course sucks, place is a shit hole and I swore, I would never waste my time and money playing it and I freaken did. My 11 year old son even commented after the 2^nd hole with the comment, Dad, you have played here before? This course is not what you normally play is it? I normally play JC resort courses that actually keep up there greens, tee boxes and fairways. This place takes your money and tries to wow you with a sports bar from the 90s. None of the holes that had water, have it anymore. The bunkers have tons of leaves in them. Parking lot sucks. Place just blows!

Played there last weekend, the course was not that great. OK for the price we paid, it is the starter that knocks this review down to only one star. Didn’t need his bad attitude and lecture on pace of play. Won’t be back here any time soon.

Hunt H must be part of the staff there. Course is in TERRIBLE shape Hilton should be ashamed of putting their name in association with this place. No wonder the fee of $ 29 group coupon. I won’t be returning to this course. Driving mats were old and useless into a broken down net. Greens slower than fairways Fairways baked dry. Bunkers never been raked this year. Play any where but Hilton’s Doubletree golf.

The course is decent, not great. It earns its 4^th star for the $ 30 18 hole and breakfast buffett special. Cant beat that.

Poor customer service, arrogance, and Rock hard un-​watered fairways still! They put out a few sprinklers but its woefully inadequate. No driving range. no level tee boxes. Watered hard bunkers and there are a lot if them. Slow greens. Many municipal courses are in way better condition. Go somewhere else

Do not waste your money. We played a few days ago and were very dissapointed. The fairways and rough are completely bone dry with several different grasses and alot of weeds. The ground is like a rock. The sand traps have dirt in them with associated rocks and are severly compacted. This gets one star because the greens, at least, were good. Go somewhere else!

When we checked in at the pro shop, the employee was helpful but was not welcoming, and seemed like we were disturbing him to be there. The course was too hilly with too many sloped fairways, and the fairways had so little grass it was like hitting off cement. The layout was tight with multiple holes next to each other. The only redeeming quality was the pretty views of the surrounding area from the elevated holes.

I read a review that referred to a bait and switch move. We too were quoted one price over the phone and another when we arrived at the desk. Could be clerk error, could be intentional. Dunno. The course was interesting to play, I liked the rolling hills and most greens were kept up ok. Way too much of the course was brown, clumpy, and just hardened dirt. I thought that surely after years of clients complaining about the bunkers that they would have responded and paid attention to them, but no, they were rock hard, and none of them have sand. They are all dirt. And after the sprinklers wet them down and the sun bakes them, forget your sand wedge; you need a jack hammer. People were friendly enough.

THIS IS FOR THE GOLF COURSE DEPARTMENT:
I use Golf Now for the deals and you get what you pay for. It is what it is. The course could use better maintenance and you figure with a management company like Troon Golf, you’d have a higher standard of quality for course maintenance.
As far as service goes, Rick T. is great behind the counter but the other two guys in the pro shop definitely need a refresher class in customer service. I hope they polish their skills as being greeted with a smile while ready to have fun out on the course goes a long way. Nobody wants a Donald Downer greeting you when you’re ready for excitement.

4 stars only because we had a group golfer email deal for only 29 bucks.
The greens today were in very good shape and rolled consistently throughout the course.
The layout is interesting and has several severely sloping fairways from right to left.
One very long par 4 hole that was 445 yards that I managed to par was a highlight!
The key to playing this course is driving it well. Missing a green it wasn’t too hard to get up and down.
Overall I enjoyed this course since I hadn’t played it in over 10 years.
Hole number 17 got me with the most severe right to left sloped fairway on the course.
Not my favorite course in San Diego but once in awhile good to change up the rotation.

Don’t be teased by the $ ²⁵⁄₁₈ hole deals on
. This place has a fantastic layout, but the conditioning leaves a ton to be desired. A few blind shots here and there, not all that bad, but seriously, water the grass or something. I feel like I’m hitting off of cement. Then again, I’m not sure if SD is under a drought or something. For what it’s worth, the greens are in good shape! Pro-​shop was nice, service was decent. Pace of play was under control.

When you find $ 25/​round on a Sunday, it’s a monster steal!
Hasn’t been too busy the past couple months, so there’s never any problems of speed of play.
Greens are top notch, meaning the greens are fast!
It’s a pretty straightforward course, not too many hazards.
Keep the prices down and we will keep coming back!

Been to a few courses around San Diego as I’m sharpening my craft.
I have to say, this couse by far has some of the most helpful, nicest staff members I’ve met so far. Had my family out to stay last month and they loved it, so I decided to give it a try. Lunch at Mulligans was great! Very pleased.

Pace of play good midweek. Course in good shape. Greens are fast. Improving tee boxes. Staff friendlier than before. Good prices if you plan ahead. Things seem to be moving in the right direction.
Hey Tyler M. freak, everyone’s entitled to their opinion. That’s the point of Unilocal.Take a chill pill before you give yourself a heart attack. Here’s an idea, why don’t you add some value by talking about the business under review rather than attacking the other posters on here tool boy.

Worst customer service I’ve ever received. I have officially banned this course from my list of courses to play. I will never go back.
I’ve been there 3 times and each time the service has gotten worse. The first time I went there with a friend of mine and my friend was new to the game. They paired us up with someone and we asked the man if we could separate since I was just teaching my buddy some shots and we weren’t going to be able to play that quickly. The pro shop yelled at us and told us to get out there anyways. Horrible round. We got yelled at constantly for playing too slow. The second time, I went with another friend of mine and his brother. They have 2 sets of clubs but only one bag. The pro shop saw this and demanded us to pay for a rental set. 30 bucks! We’re college kids and don’t have the money to just be throwing it around like that. Finally, the third and final time I would ever go there. This happened about a month ago. I went with a friend of mine and we hit some traffic on the way. We got there exactly 2 minutes late of our tee time. The pro shop said sorry, you missed your tee time. The next available opening is at noon which was an hour and a half later! We were 2 minutes late and they wanted us to wait an hour and a half?! Nothing but assholes work there. Please don’t go play there. They are awful human beings.