Olivas Links

Enjoyed my early morning round here. Not crowded was able to fly around in 3 hours. Fun links style course. In great shape, fairways are like carpet, good greens, rough, and tee boxes. Looking forward to next time when I am back in the area

Love the golf course, conditioning, layout etc. In fact I’m a men’s club member and play there once a week on average. The only down side at this time of year is they paint the fairways with this green crap that stains your golf ball. Stop doing this! Let the fairways go dormant and Brown. It’s winter! This green paint essentially ruins the ball because u can’t clean it off. Maybe Olivas links will buy me some new golf balls to replace these green things I leave with every time I play there.
I’ll be there Tue Dec 29^th with my regular group and would love to see brown, unpainted fairways!
Please!
Thanks, Jeff Harris

Play here once a year and it’s a great course! The staff are really nice, they have great hot dogs, and the course is in very good shape

Great course, once they add a clubhouse it will be 5 stars.

Just finished 18. Had a great time at this course, which I had not played in nine years. The new links format and layout is an absolute great improvement. A must-​play if you are in the area. Beats Sterling Hills hands-​down.

Nice course, well maintained. staff was friendly and helpful. A little pricey for the area, but much better shape and service then River Ridge.

Easily a five star course but no clubhouse is a big problem for this course. A clubhouse with a second story view would enable people to view the engire fabulous course. Weekend rounds can last 5 hrs but Monday through Thursday this place plays 4.5hrs or less

Great links style course, always in great shape. I always play during the week so rounds are normally 3 to 4 hours long. Staff is always very friendly.

The Olivas Links Golf Course is in excellent condition. It is well designed and fun to play. The downside is 5+ hours to finish a round.

Played here for the first time today. I will start by commenting on the course conditions. They are outstanding. There is no question that Olivas Links has the best conditions of any public course in Los Angeles or Ventura. There is no comparison. The fairways are like putting greens. You’d be hard pressed to find any bare spots and the ones you do find are about 1sq ft. The tee boxes are equally perfect. The greens are medium firm and don’t have many ballparks. The rough is cut to about two inches. The fairways here are pretty narrow and all the holes are lined with a native plant area so you may loose some balls. The sand traps were nice and powdery. The conditions here are as close to perfect as you can ask for.
Pace of play left something to be desired. I had an early afternoon tee time and it took us about 5 hrs to get through the round. That was disappointing.
I’ll have to preface my following statement by saying my ideal course layout involves tree lined fairways, isolation, elevation changes, and a sub four hour round. I won’t be back to often as this course does not offer that. There are plenty of trees but they are not dense and every hole runs parallel to at least one other. The lack of density means you can look around and count at least 20 other golfers at anytime. It also means some of the holes look similar to other ones. There is also a lack of information related to hole layout and yardage. The scorecards and tee boxes don’t have pictures of the hole you’re playing and although many of the sprinkler heads are labeled there is no yardage sticks as most courses have.
I give this course 5 stars because the price and the course conditions are just too good.

I’m an avd golfer and have played too many courses to count. Olivas Links is a really good course. It doesn’t have any crazy places you need to carry your drive. It’s really straight forward and fun. In true links style you will get penalized if you miss the green and end up the collection areas. I would say the only drawbacks are the fact that there was no cart person for the entire round. The pro shop is just a trailer. I’m sure one will be built.

There are a lot of things to really like about Olivas Links.
The practice facility:
Driving range is good (hit off of grass on Fri/​Sat/​Sun) with five different targets. The balls themselves are fine (few gleamers, few pretty beat up, most somewhere in between), and the mats are in good condition.
The short game area is probably my favorite thing. There’s a fairly big green (that’s actually maintained like a regular green) with four hole locations. It’s got some undulations and you can hit from any side, so you can work uphill/​downhill/​sidehill, into the wind, with the wind, etc… You can also work on shots out of fairway-​type lies as well as lies from the rough. Any short game shot you can imagine, you can practice there.
There’s also a large bunker where you can practice all kinds of sand shots.
In addition to all that, there’s a grassy area where you can practice chipping into wooden barrels. Good for working on low-​flighted short game shots.
The putting green is big and undulating with lots of hole locations. They also cut at least one «small hole» so you can work with that, if that’s your thing. The speed and roll will mirror what you’ll see on the course fairly well.
The course itself is also great:
Tee boxes (four sets of tees) and fairways are well maintained. The greens are receptive, roll pretty true and are kept at a pretty forgiving speed (read: above the hole isn’t an automatic three putt).
The layout is really nice. I wouldn’t call it «easy», but it’s also not super-​punitive either– very fair. It was obviously designed with the prevailing wind in mind. It’s flat, so makes for a pretty easy walk. There are a couple of spots where the routing gets a little weird/​tight/​confusing (2 tee/​9 tee, 12 green/​17 green/​18 tee), but that’s a super minor gripe.
Things that could be better:
Pace of play on weekends and Tuesdays. You’re looking at 5+, unless you go off at the crack of dawn. This isn’t specific to Olivas, though. I’ve found that this is the case with most public courses in SB/​Ventura/​LA counties. Olivas is far from the worst I’ve seen.
The clubhouse. This doesn’t bother me, but if you want a place where you can kick it on the patio with a coldie after your round, this isn’t really it.
All things considered, for the price, Olivas is a great option. Comparable to Soule Park, Glen Annie, SB Muni, Robles Greens, Encino/​Balboa.

I truly do love this course, played here many times, making the drive from Santa Clarita. As of late, the course has developed problems with pace if play, lack of carts, and carts in disrepair. DO NOT PLAY ON TUESDAYS. Expect a. 5.5 to 6 hour round due all day twilight and over booked tournament rounds. Hope this place gets better soon.
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One of the better public course in Ventura Co. The practice facility was nice and the driving range was on grass and not mats. The place still has no clubhouse. I don’t know if they have any plans to even make one. The course itself was great. There was a slight ocean breeze, which made the warm day feel even better. At times, the breeze became strong gusts and came into play on my game. I had a great internet deal of $ 55 and it was totally worth it.

Only reason for 4 instead of 5 stars: the clubhouse is non-​existent and the bathrooms stink to high hell. I’m hoping they’ll build a real clubhouse soon instead of using the ghetto portables.
Maintenance: better than a lot of other courses in socal. For example, I played Rancho San Marco in Santa Barbara for a $ 69 twilight tee time, and the fairways were just dirt. No grass. Here at Olivas, the tee boxes, fairways, rough, bunkers, and greens were beautifully kept. I also like that you can practice chipping on the practice putting green.
Random: a guy that hit toward us from another hole had two shih tzus and said that dogs are allowed on this course. Not sure how legit that is, but if it’s true, then cool!

I took the Get Golf Ready class at Olivas Links. Ernie is a great teacher and an excellent golfer. I had a great time and learned a lot about the game. The course has an excellent putting green (lots of slope), a chipping and pitching green and a driving range. It’s a great place to work on your game. I’m playing in a golf tournament today for those who have completed the Get Golf Ready course. Can’t wait. should be fun.

Great course for being open to the public. Olivas Links was maintained terrifically from the perfect fairways, manicured bunkers, level tee boxes and true rolling greens.
I teed off at 10:30 am on a Saturday and the pace of play was good. The weather was a perfect 70 degrees and no breeze. Finished the round in about 4 hours which is good for weekend play.
The only con at Olivas Links is that they still don’t have a clubhouse, only a temporary
structure. Hopefully they’ll resolve this eventually.

I still really enjoy the course, but my most recent experience again tested my patience. We played the front nine in about 2:10, and I was playing really well, so all was good with the world. That changed very quickly. After our tee shots on ten, we waited… and we continued to wait… and we waited on every shot on the back nine… at one point we were three group deep on the tee. The back nine took 3:15 to play.
But they take pace of play issues very seriously. Whatever that means.
The course itself was not in great shape. The greens were super slow, and the collars were not mown… very scruffy. Broken tees everywhere, worn out teeing areas. Empty ball washers. Overflowing trash. Bird crap all over the signature chairs. All this on a Saturday. You’d think they would put their best foot forward on a busy weekend day, but I guess it just doesn’t matter if you know you’re going to pump out the rounds anyway. Disappointing.
Downgraded from four to three stars.

My husband and I went golfing here on Monday. We wanted to avoid the heat of Los Angeles and so we decided to venture out a golf course near the coast. We came across Olivas Links online and signed up for a tee time.
This was was not what we expected when we arrived. The website made it seem like it was a real golf club with a nice club house and a beautiful course with trees… or at least that is what I was expected. When we pulled into the parking lot the first thing we noticed was that instead of a clubhouse, there were trailers. The second thing that I noticed was that the course was very bare and open, with not very many trees.
We were there to golf so in all reality the clubhouse didn’t really matter. It really wasn’t a big deal, we were just surprised.
The golf course itself was not that bad. It was a very open course. I found it difficult to separate one hole from another. Good thing we had some local players with us to help us out. It’s definitely a challenging course in that wind seems to always be in play. It’s got some good characteristics, greens are fast.
We paid $ 27 per person plus $ 15 for a cart. Our tee time was at 1:06pm. We paid the twilight price. I think this place is definitely over priced for what it is. Don’t think we will ever go back to play this course. We will probably try the other courses in the area.

What a fun challenging course to play. Mostly straight forward layout, but with great landscaping/​tree and bunker placement/​elevation changes to make it interesting. Links style, but a healthy dose of Serengeti views
We were in for the weekend, and the course was in fantastic shape. Yeah, the «clubhouse» is a couple of trailers, but I’m told that’s because they were in the process of building a new clubhouse when the California municipal economy went in the tank. Didn’t matter to me. I go to a golf course to play golf, not hang in the clubhouse
Rounds online were $ 57 a piece, but were basically free with the Stay And Play package we booked at the Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach. Nice deal
I highly recommend it, and will be happy to play it again the next time I’m in town