The Crosby at Rancho Santa Fe

The Crosby at Rancho Santa Fe was the most beautiful venue to have a wedding. My now-​husband and I were extremely satisfied with the planning, recommendations, the VIEW, and the service provided the day of the wedding. All our guests could not stop complimenting the venue and kept asking how much we spent on the place: P. No glasses were empty as the waiters were on top of the game, the food was delicious, and to this day, I still get asked about what type of food was served or how much the venue cost by parents wanting their children to get married here.
The only reason I’m withholding a star is that, after going through two event managers who were awesome (Rhonda and Brooke!), a new event manager was assigned to me because the previous one was on maternity leave. The issue came up after the wedding. We were charged a certain amount of money that we asked not to be charged on the card we gave them. We asked to have the bill sent to us so that we could pay the next day with cash, but they went ahead and charged the card. Also, there was an issue with the refunds/​receipts that really did not make any sense at all. I never received an invoice until two months later, even after emailing her a couple times and her telling me she would the day after our wedding, and the only reason I even got a response was because I CC’d the general manager of The Crosby. The event manager kept giving me different amounts/​numbers each time regarding the balance and refunds, and, honestly, it was a mess that I just gave up on trying to understand where she got her numbers from. It wasn’t worth getting a refund. That’s how bad this got.
The only advice I have to give to anyone considering this venue is to make sure you request invoices immediately or someone else is taking care of the finances. Otherwise, the venue and all other services were perfect.

My husband and I had our wedding here in June and it was BEYOND gorgeous. The grounds are so beautiful and the staff made essentially every part of the club available to us. It’s also extremely private — we felt like our wedding was in a private resort. There was so many beautiful landscapes for photos, including their bridge, lake and front of the club.
The one advice I’d offer would be to hire a coordinator. They have so many events going on and the staff is in and out of the office so frequently that it’s helpful to have another event planner helping you sort all of the details. Other than that, they were extremely flexible and catered to all of our requests!

I played here for an event. Beautiful, scenic holes. Well-​maintained greens and fairways. Lots of rolling hills on the fairways and the greens. Wonderful service. Food was also very tasty.

When we moved to California a couple of years ago we looked around to find a good club to join. We toured the facility and really liked it. I played a complementary round of golf and fell in love with the course.
The course has a wide variety of play from several sets of tees. There’s also a combined rating playing and alternation of white and blue tees. The grounds team keeps the course in great shape. The snack shack on the course serves very good food and service. It’s nice that it’s after the 5^th hole and circles back after the 7^th. This way you can please a quick order for some food to be prepared and it’s ready when you come back around. Great for a quick moving game. But there are tables and chars if you want to sit and eat and let others play through while you eat.
I really like the club house staff. The staff that work the bag drop & carts are extremely helpful, professional and friendly. The pro shop staff is great. The the staff in the bar /​grill are a joy. The restaurant staff really make you feel welcome.
The food is also very good. I prefer their chicken Cesar salad. I have friend that are social, sports and golf members. Everyone that I have talked to feel welcome and well treated.

Wonderful venue for any event! I went last night to the ‘To dine for’ event organized by Riviera magazine where local chefs were paired to local and not so local artists of different areas and I found this place to be absolutely amazing! It says located in Rancho Santa Fe, but I would say this corresponds more to Del Sur area (therefore does not seem that ‘far away’ and took me only 9 minutes to go there directly from my work in RB).
That said, you get transported to some Mediterranean resort in this place, tiles on the floor with blues and terracottas, fireplaces, coziness, olive trees giving that south of Spain or Greek island feel. Very lovely place with different scenarios and areas. The main patio is big enough without feeling overwhelmingly huge, perfect for the type of event I went to.
Funny thing is that to get to the venue, you have to pass 2 gates: the main one is mostly for the (lucky) residents of the (looks like) recently build houses, and then you keep driving and will encounter a second gate that conduce you to The Crosby. Classy décor but not old fashioned at all. Loved it.

So this is how the other half lives huh? Ok, perhaps that number is inflated a bit through my exaggeration since the actual number is probably closer to 5%. Regardless, spending an afternoon at Crosby National created a little envy against the «others» and I have to say, «LET ME BE ONE OF YOU!!!»
Nope, I’m not going to beg because I do have a certain amount of pride. However if I were ever to consider begging for a membership somewhere, I would have to this place would be right up there. Of course Augusta comes to mind although I’m trying to stay somewhat realistic here. Besides, Augusta doesn’t want to hear that you want to be a member and it is invite only and I don’t believe that I am on Billy Payne’s speed dial… sorry Condi.
Anyway, if you ever get a chance to play here, don’t consider it, don’t think about it… act on it and take advantage of it. This Fred Couples designed course is plenty long (6800 from the tips and no, I didn’t play from there), good tee shots are a must and there is a carry on practically each hole so accuracy is a must. If you are fortunate enough to hit the fairway, the fun doesn’t stop there. The approach shots are to pretty generous sized greens for the most part with the 11^th hole being our exception. The thing is surrounded by canyon front and back and the safe haven is a bunker behind which will have you hitting out to the forward canyon. Fortunately for us, there was a bailout area short right. Once on the greens, there is plenty of trick reads and undulations that will have you pulling your hair out. A two put on any of these greens IMO is a good score but then again, I suck at golf.
Each hole is as picturesque as the previous and offers plenty of elevation change from tee to green on each hole.
You definitely want to bring your «A» game for this course (I didn’t) and you for sure you want to have a few extra sleeves of balls (yes, I said sleeves).
This course ate me up but I was with a great group and I haven’t laughed that much in ages. Even though this was my second time playing, I don’t expect to become a regular anytime soon. Oh, but I wish was…

If you can get onto this private course, do so by any means necessary! Just kidding, but not really. I’ve played here several times with different vendors holding events here. I’m very fortunate to have the chance to play here.
The course is absolutely amazing and very well-​kept. The groundskeeper has done an amazing job of keeping this course immaculate with lush greens, soft bunkers, and well placed hazards. This is one of the best kept course I’ve ever played at.

A simple offer to fill in for a partner at a tournament would lead me to one of the better golf experiences I have had to date.
I tend to default to yes to any participatory golf events through work. This was one of those times. Not really knowing much about the course location nor anything about it in general. This was a nice surprise.
As I get directions from the guard station, I drive through the pearly gates toward the clubhouse. Everything looks fantastic! I felt like I just won the lotto. Event staff checked me in and away I go to the range. Not my typical muni range, this was beautiful… I could have just stayed on the range all day.
We started around the 13^th hole and away we went. Up hills! Down hills, beautiful elevated par threes, narrow fairways. It was a beautiful course!
I would jump at the chance to play here again. If I had the coin to dish out to become a member, and lived near by… I would want to play The Crosby.

My friend had her wedding here at the clubhouse. BEAUTIFUL. Everything went really well, except by the end of the night, the ladies bathroom flooded and my camera was stolen, hence the 3 stars.

My fiancé, his parents, and I were looking at venues for our rehearsal dinner. The men at the gate were very friendly and said it should be no problem for us to see the venue and speak with the concierge. We looked around and then spoke with the female concierge for ten minutes, and even though we liked the facilities very much, it was a bit outside our budget (my parents are hosting a very nice reception at a resort, but our rehearsal dinner budget was limited to what his parents could afford), and I communicated this to the concierge. Not a minute later, she abruptly told us they had a strict no-​jeans policy and we would have to leave immediately. We were like deer-​in-​the-​headlights, dumbstruck at the Jekyll/​Hyde-​like transformation, as one minute she was interested in helping us, but when money was discussed, she suddenly didn’t have time to waste with us. She tracked down my fiancé’s father, who was looking around the next room, and told him that he must leave right away. We complied and went outside, but felt that her behavior towards us was unacceptable from a customer service point-​of-​view. She told my fiancé’s mother, who was in the bathroom, that «your people are waiting outside.» My fiancé, who was justifiably angry, had a word with her manager, and he apologized, which was very professional of him. No one at the gate had informed us of the dress code rule. We would have been understanding of the dress code policy if the concierge had handled the matter with more tact. Instead, we were made to feel like riffraff and unceremoniously booted out, even though there were very few people on the premises. We might have used their facilities for another event in the future, but not after this kind of treatment.