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Buchanan Fields Golf Course
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28 reviews for Buchanan Fields Golf Course
28 reviews in English
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Review from Benzee B.
Redwood City, CA
12/17/2011
Great nine hole golf course with an adjoining driving range. 2 Holes are pretty close to the freeway and the lake is drained but other then that I have no complaints. For 9 holes this is a great course and the staff is very friendly. Whenever I'm in the East Bay I would definitely stop by here to play a quick 9 holes.
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Review from Sean M.
4/23/2012
This is directed to the women's groups that infect this course on the weekday mornings. Hey "ladies" just because you schedule your women's group twice a week doesn't mean its okay for you to play a 3 hour round on this short, flat course! Should take you an hour and half max. So, when I ask you to keep up with the four women in front of you, you don't have the right to curse me out and lecture me about manners. I don't expect you to keep up with men, but when you let the 4 women in front of you get 2 holes ahead, THAT MEANS YOU'RE PLAYING TOO SLOW!!!
As far as the course, the fairways are ok, the greens have more craters than a 14 year old boy's face. Putting is an adventure here. -
Review from Jeremy K.
Martinez, CA
5/21/2012 1 Check-in Here
Golfed a quick round on the weekend, I thought it would take at elast 2.5 hours with all the great weather and weekend but we managed the round in just over an hour and a half. Course was lacking water but overall was in the shape I expected.
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Review from Jon W.
5/28/2011 2 Check-ins Here
Cool little municipal course... if its in your locality.
$11 a 9 hole.
Theres a bar.
2 long holes to use your driver.
Fairly easy course
Fairways and greens are nicely kept, although it has rained a lot.
Tons of groundhogs to steal your balls.
Driving range mats are the worst ever to hit off of.
An hour drive from San Leandro after work.
Its by the airport and freeway entrance. Tons of passing traffic on 2 holes - hecklers always yelling something stupid right when youre about to hit.
Theyve drained the water from the lakes to conserve. But it leaves a baron desert in its place. If you shank em there, your clubs get covered with sewage thick mud once it digs thru the top layer.
So why play here? Cuz its golf dammit! And its the only place halfway between your house and your friends in BFE. -
Review from Eric B.
5/28/2011
Every time the subject about me and golf comes up, I remember the joke about the Jewish golfer who often missed with his putz. I have the clubs, I have the friends who love the game, but I still don't get it.
On the other hand, I'll come here to the Buchanan Fields Golf Course for the driving range. There's nothing like whacking at buckets of balls after a stressful day. Better to beat the crap out of few golf balls than the dog. And if a few of them go straight, so much the better. -
Review from Turk M.
San Ramon, CA
1/24/2012
Great course if you want a casual day of golf with friends! The older cat who works the Saturday and Sunday morning shift not so friendly, but all the others are great.
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Review from Tom L.
3/2/2011
Buchanan Fields is a great place to practice at the range, but you are good to need a couple of cold ones to enjoy a round of golf here.
There aren't many driving ranges in the area so Buchanan Fields tends to be crowded. The range has a lot of stalls but there can still be a wait, especially on the weekends. A majority of the stalls require you to hit off of artificial turf, which I hate. The rates are reasonable and most of the players seem to be less experienced than you would find at that the average range.
The course is definitely for beginners. There are only 9 holes, a majority of which are par 3's. The holes are all built extremely close together which means you are going to end up dodging stray shots from nearby players. The course is normally in pretty bad condition, especially in the hot summer months.
The best thing about Buchanan Fields is that it is an excellent place to learn the game. The speed of play is always extremely slow so you don't have to worry about your 75 yard drives angering the group behind you.
Even if you have never picked up a set of clubs in your life you will feel comfortable playing a round of golf here.Listed in: Golf
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Review from Chris P.
Martinez, CA
6/8/2011
My friends love this place and go 3 time per weekend sometimes. Probably because a monkey can shoot a 38 there, so they feel like they are good golfers.
For me this place is ok. Im not a huge golf fan, really like to go to just spend time with my friends and have a few beers and be in the sun. In fact I suck at golf and still shoot in the 40's there, with a good buzz.
When I do play golf I only want to for 2-2.5 hours so buchanan is perfect. My friends like it because its cheap and fast and you can get a golf cart, at least if your over 30. They took the carts away for a while and only rented them to seniors and I guess they saw a huge drop in there business, so they brought them back for the 30++rs.
For anyone who cares, City of Concord does not own this course or run it. They lease the land to the woman who's family owns the business. Some morons I have talked to seem to think the city of concord has something to do with this course.
Spend some extra money and play Franklin Canyon out on highway 4. That place is a lot nicer and only a few bucks more. -
Review from Jennifer P.
Oakland, CA
7/26/2009
I find this place to be a charming little course with pretty decent practice facilities. $11 for 9 holes is not a bad price, especially since the course is kept in fairly decent shape.
COURSE DESIGN - The whole thing, as someone mentioned, is a huge fairway. There are few bunkers, no water in play, and a couple of short par 4's thrown in here and there.
DRIVING RANGE - No real grass here, but considering this is the Bay Area you'd have to basically go to a country club for that. I like that there are plenty of stalls and that your ball lands on real grass. This means you can actually realistically gauge the distance you can hit each of your clubs. I also appreciate that you can hit onto flat ground and not a downslope. Again, good for gauging exactly how far you can hit.
PUTTING AND CHIPPING GREEN - You pass by it on the way to the first tee. I haven't seen a little par 3 course with amenities like this, so that was kind of cool.
CUSTOMER SERVICE - The guys in the shop are friendly and chill. Be nice to them.
I probably wouldn't drive all the way out here (from Oakland) to play unless I had something to do nearby, but it's a great place to get some golf in whenever I have to head out to the Walnut Creek / Pleasant Hill area. Give it a try if you're in the neighborhood. -
Review from Steve S.
San Francisco, CA
1/4/2009
Poorly designed driving range. The covered area really sucks and limits your ability to pop high chip shots. I ended up hitting the roof more than a few times. The distance between stalls with the concrete really makes for a closed in feeling. Then you can deal with the airplanes that are flying in low to and from the adjacent airport.
People in the semi-pro-shop were friendly enough. Parking needs redesign as well. I wont be back. There are better ranges within a few minutes drive. -
Review from D L.
San Ramon, CA
9/23/2010
I do not much care for the jeans and t-shirt crowd. One guy played a joke on a fellow player and took and hid his ball. WTF was that? The guy was not even amused...
Course is always on the full side, so single players tend to get paired up. This short 9-hole should take under 90 mins, but the foursomes are moving way slow and so it takes closer to 2'20''. I recorded my 1st birdie here in 2007 so that's why they get an extra star. -
Review from Sean O.
3/11/2009 6 Check-ins Here
I have a tendency to dig my balls deep into sand traps. Thankfully this course has very few.
I'll start with the driving range - Steve doesn't like it because he can't loft chips at an 89 degree angle. Well, Stevie, you actually can. Just move down a bit to the area where the range ISN'T covered with a roof. Sounds to me like you are trying to cover up your rotten driving skills. Driving range has plenty of room to practice all the swings. Go short or go long. Sure the range isn't grass, but you schmohawks understand you only paid 7 bucks for a bucket, right? People like Steve would dig trenches in real grass.
The chipping range is great, too. Not many courses I have been to actually have a chippin range, either. Maybe I am not going to the right ones or maybe this is really unique!
Putting range is very nice. Well kept green with a wide variety of angles, lies and lines to practice.
The course itself is perfect for a Saturday or Sunday morning or late afternoon. It's only 9 holes, so you can spin through in 2 and a half hours if you need to. Price is great, too, so all things considered, you almost cant go wrong here.
As any good golf course should, it also has a great clubhouse with freezing cold beer! A MUST for any golf outing! -
Review from Pablo O.
Pleasanton, CA
8/5/2009
The course isn't anything to write home about, but it's cheaper to play 9 holes here than it is to buy a new pack of golfballs, so it's A-Ok with me!
Decent variety in the lengths of the holes, nice scenery (small planes flying overhead) and good people (working and golfing) makes this course well worth playing. If you're going pro anytime soon, you might want to challenge yourself somewhere else, but if you're just a casual golfer and want to save a bit of money, Buchanan Fields fits the bill.
Oh, and the fairways here are very user friendly :) If you can't keep your ball playable here, you might want to kick down for some range balls to work on your swing (7 bucks), play the easily walkable course again (11-12 bucks), then take the money you saved by playing here, place it in a jar and save up for some golf lessons. Word.Listed in: Golf Courses
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Review from Shirley N.
San Francisco, CA
6/1/2010
Came here yesterday for the first time in over 5 years. Now that I think I'm a more experienced golfer, I found the course very easy.
The fairways are very narrow. This can be a little unnerving if the person in the other fairway doesn't hit it straight, and the ball shoots over to your fairway, and no one yells out "fore".
Ditto what's been said. Good place to come to work on your game. -
Review from Kris L.
12/27/2008
A friend took me here yesterday to teach a little about how to play golf since it was a beautiful sunny day, although a bit windy. He borrowed a couple clubs for me to use since I'm a woman and his clubs are a bit too big for me. We just got a bucket of balls and went to the driving range. First off, let me say that if I had known we were going to go to the golfing range, I would've dressed more appropriately. Worn sneakers maybe. Yes, I blame the fact that I wasn't wearing proper shoes on my performance yesterday. That's the reason.
I actually liked the fact that there were airplanes flying overhead every so often. I thought that was kind of cool. It's close by to my friend's apartment and it's cheap. Golf is not for me though. The extremely uncomfortable golfing position just to hit a teeny tiny ball into an equally teeny tiny hole? No thank you. -
Review from Marlon O.
Benicia, CA
5/18/2008
One of the best 9 hole courses in the Bay. Kids have to be at least 12 but my 7 year old has actually played here once. My son can keep pace w/ a 14 year old when hes "on".
Well maintained range balls, greens, tee box's, karts,
My favorite hole is 5. Only because it was my first birdie shot ever. Its just a short 110-130 par 3. I nearly aced it w/ my PW and landed within 1' of the pin. -
Review from Sam A.
Alamo, CA
2/22/2011 1 Check-in Here
Not the nicest course, but a perfect spot for hitting a cheap bucket of balls or golfing a quick 9. I am sure some people are annoyed by the placement next to the airport, but I enjoy watching the planes and helicopters flying in and out. For a non golfer, this is just my type of course - cheap
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Review from Ramon C.
Concord, CA
1/22/2012
By far the one of the worst places in the area. Not because of the coarse but rather the staff. My friends and I used to go there frequently but the staff was so rude we decided we'd rather play at Pine Meadows for a quick 9. Yes...we'd rather play in Martinez than to deal with the staff at Buchanan.. On my last occasion where I decided that we had enough, a few friends and I walked in to pay our green fees. The young man working behind the counter tells us that all players need to have clubs. I told him that we all did and that we are aware of basic golf etiquette. He then asked, "Well then where are they". I replied that they were on the cart that my partner had already paid for. After walking to our cart 2 staff members came out to the carts to validate that in fact all four players had clubs. Upon returning to the club house to return the cart key I asked if they had reason to believe why we didnt all have clubs they replied,"no reason, we just wanted to make sure you did".
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Review from Becky U.
7/18/2011 1 Check-in Here
love this spot on a sunny day.. come here with family and friends for the morning to just hit some balls and enjoy each others company.
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Review from Ivan P.
San Ramon, CA
First timer here. Staff is friendly and helpful. Course is great for beginners. Nice 19th hole restaurant at the end of your day to take down a few brewskies.
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Review from Zain K.
8/3/2009
For under $20 you can hit 80 balls at the range and then play a quick and easy nine holes, all in under 90 minutes (and you won't need anything longer than a 3-wood, if that). Neither the driving range nor the course is anything special, but it makes for a great way to pass a long lunch hour on a stressful workday.
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Review from Ronald N.
Hercules, CA
7/21/2010
Buchanan Field Golf Course is not far from the hotel, Starbucks, and Sam's Club. Outside of the parking lot they displace jet planes from the war a few years ago. As far as golfing goes it is not bad. I have not golf there but I see a lot of people using the driving range.
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Review from Andrew Y.
10/19/2008
Went to the driving range here. It really sucked. It's nice to hit golf balls towards the small airport, but really the mats are terrible. The large bucket is $7, pretty average. Anyway, putting green is not lit, but the driving range is. I will come back to try the 9 holes that they have though. This review does have a chance of being upgraded.
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Review from Jason S.
Martinez, CA
9/7/2010
I can't speak to the golf course, but all I know is when I want to work out some frustrations in my daily life or maybe get my mind off of things for a bit, I can come here and get a big bucket of balls for $7 and hit the crap out of them. I am not an avid golfer or even a sometimes golfer, this is just about it for me and I thoroughly enjoy myself. Not only that, I have brought my kids along a couple of times and they seem to like it as well. The guys here aren't stuck up wannabe pros either, they know the deal.
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Review from kyoko m.
Pleasant Hill, CA
10/1/2007
perfect for beginners and women. This 9 holes short golf course is easy to play. driving range, cafe, pro shop, and golf lessons are available.
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Review from MM H.
East Bay, CA
1/18/2010
Great 9-hole course for beginners - really cheap and quick course. I can't stand the driving range though - you hit off these crazy thick mats, I also don't like how each 'stall' is walled off. Anyway, you can usually get tee times pretty easily. The course is pretty well maintained. Mostly short par-3s, with a couple of par-4s.
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Review from boy boy l.
Pleasant Hill, CA
3/23/2011
Good bang for your buck as well as a fun course
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Review from Pete O.
San Francisco, CA
3/31/2009
old school, but fun.
