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Gleneagles Golf Course
Category: Active Life Golf Golf [Edit]
2100 Sunnydale Ave(at Persia Ave)
San Francisco, CA 94134
(415) 587-2425
- Hours:
Mon-Fri 6:30 am - 5 pm
Sat-Sun 6 am - 5 pm
- Good for Kids:
- No
71 reviews for Gleneagles Golf Course
71 reviews in English
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Review from Teddy C.
San Francisco, CA
9/2/2011
Gleneagles is a great value at ~$20 for 9 holes. This is the only place in the city where you can show up without a tee time and play a 4 hour round.
They have made a considerable effort to get the course in challenging condition with the installation of new greens in the last year. The people here are amazing and I've always played with true lovers of the game here. -
Review from Wayne I.
Oakland, CA
12/21/2011
If Pebble Beach is 5 stars and a Goat ranch is 0 stars, Gleneagles is a solid 1 star. This is a good place for a beginner or kids to go check out and hack up as it can only improve the condition of the course.
The Good:
- The greens are rolled and well cut. (1 star)
- There is ample beer in the bar.
- Nice layout for 9 holes.
The Bad:
- There is no such thing as fairway, it looks like animals have been grazing on this property.
- The tee boxes are horrific, so bring 5 inch tees.
- There is one person who is the starter, bartender, marshall, and cashier.
- No Food.
- I couldn't find a single water fountain on the course.
- The cart paths are dirt and unpaved.
- There are no ball washers on the holes.
- There are no yardages on the sprinkler heads.
- Expensive at $19 for 9 holes, there are much better deals on GolfNow
- The signs on the holes are falling down.
- If you miss the entrance to this place you drive right into the projects.
Useful Hint:
Everything breaks toward the projects (or water tower) so pay attention to where that is when you get there. -
Review from j.d. j.
San Francisco, CA
Updated - 1/11/2012
This course has improved incredibly. Greens are lightning fast and true. Fairways and bunkers are much better. This is now my favorite course! The bartender/ starter Alex is very helpful and a all around good guy. Definetly a keeper. I rated this course last year with 1 star. All I have to say is WOW! What an improvement. You wanna know the speed and quality of greens that the pros play? Go to Gleneagles! They have them! Ill be here!
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1/18/2011
THIS PLACE IS A DUMP! the new greens are the only reason for a star. the fairways are garbage, the… Read more »
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Review from Chris E.
San Francisco, CA
1/12/2012
Golf. Just pure, test-your-skills golf. The super-low green fees go to beautiful greens and newly seeded tee boxes. No drinking fountains or cart girls, thank you.A no-nonsense bar with great prices and straight-forward (no bs) bartenders.
No whining! -
Review from Jordan S.
San Francisco, CA
5/2/2011
I know they just re-worked the greens, but man, the upkeep here is WEAK! super weedy, hardly any of the roughs are recently taken care of, the fairways were dryer than hell and the tea boxes were hard to spot bc they were so blended in with the un-manicured course. Sand traps had more weeds and tree debris than sand.
Friendly service, decent bathrooms and fun topography gets this place a 2 star instead of 1.
Could have given it a 4 star if it were better maintained. -
Review from Kim S.
San Francisco, CA
4/3/2011 1 photo
Why is this place so cheap? Because you need the extra money to finance your balls.
Bring extra balls, and perhaps paint those balls bright pink! A few of our best drives, right down the middle and a decent amount of distance, resulted in lost balls, either because they blended in with the white flowers or got lost in the thick grass. There are all sorts of hidden ditches, dirt piles, and holes right in the middle of the fairways for balls to hide. The fairways aren't mowed down low enough (maybe because it's been too wet, but it was definitely dry today - no mud at all), and on some holes, all rough right beyond the tee box (yeah, I had some bad shots, admittedly).The fairways definitely needs to be kept up better, because hitting a decent drive but losing the ball in plain sight is way too frustrating.
Also, it was really strange that we were required to wear real golf shoes for the sake of the course's condition, when it was pretty bad before we got there, from no fault of some shoes. However, the greens were in pretty good condition, and the people working here were really nice, so I've got to give some credit for that.
The comments from other Yelpers about the ghetto aspect to this place is really undeserved and disheartening. It's not dangerous or ugly there (well, the sign needs some work...http://tinyurl.com/4ya...), and the comments about only a fence separating the course from the projects makes the residents of the neighborhood sound like zoo animals, not people. Fences typically delineate property lines, and I've seen plenty of them at golf courses, so I wouldn't be concerned. -
Review from Michael K.
San Francisco, CA
8/31/2011
The Greens are great! The people who work there are great! Unfortunately, that's all I can say. I've been playing at Gleneagles for about 20 years. It's always been a little rough around the edges. That's been part of the charm. But now it's everything from the tee boxes (mostly dirt) to the fairways and don't even get me started on the bunkers...
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Review from Colin H.
San Francisco, CA
9/7/2011
Gleneagles is a very very tough course. I love it for a few reasons. Everytime I go here its always empty. No waiting at holes or people waiting for you. its tucked away in a mountain, and also its cheap. I will tell you though, its very easy to lose balls here. every hole is unique. theres 2 par 3's, 1 par 5, and the rest par 4's. i highly recommend anybody to play this course who thinks there descent at golf and come get ruined out here. for those who love to have a few drinks after playing golf with quite a few drinks already, like me, they have a good priced bar at the clubhouse . . .
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Review from Tim H.
San Francisco, CA
7/9/2011
My buddies and I have been playing golf at Gleneagles golf course for over ten years. It is a public 9 hole course that is, frankly, downright hard. We had boasted about the course to the non-initiated many times and a few weeks ago took one of our buddies who had never played there, expecting he would be impressed.
SURPRISE: the course was absolutely a hole; tees with two foot high weeds growing on them, fairways with huge brown spots. Unbelievably bad; surprisingly, the greens were in great shape, which made no sense given the extreme state of disrepair on the rest of the course.
I will miss it, but until I hear that they have done something to assuage the deterioration, I will not go back there, it was so painful -
Review from garth s.
Daly City, CA
8/31/2011
I just got an email from GE to write up a review. They mention that """A look at the recent reviews on YELP! show that some golfers are still loyal to over watered golf courses and cannot contend with tight lies or firm and fast conditioning. """"
Now that may be true about the greens, which are fantastic and have held up nicely in their first year. But it seems as if most of the negative comments here are just about upkeep. Which I whole heartily second. This place would be a true gem if the fairways, tee boxes and bunkers were at least decent. You can really be penalized here for a good shot. It's pretty brutal. That being said, I give this place 3 stars for the price, the greens, the very nice staff and the history. I actually really enjoy playing here. You can walk on and get off in about 90 minutes. It is a great place and I would say a must play for all SF and surrounding area golfers. If they would just smooth out the fairways, get some real tee boxes [ and signs for that matter ] and fix the bunkers it would be a 5 star. -
Review from henry c.
San Francisco, CA
Updated - 7/24/2011
Wow, are those pictures a huge lie.
They practically put sticks in the ground and call this a course. There is not tee box, its just dirt.
1 star for brand new greens.1 Previous Review: Show all »
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6/27/2008
ehhh. this place has a nice layout and the greens are amazing.
everything else here pretty much… Read more »
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Review from Jason D.
San Francisco, CA
10/30/2010
Currently this course has trashy greens.
Its a great course for beginners because it is usually empty so you can take all the time you need.
Be careful because some of the holes are right next to the SunnyDale projects. Only a fence separates you.
It was a pretty fun time golfing GlenEagles. -
Review from F. P.
San Francisco, CA
9/27/2010
Arguably the worst golf course I've been on. When we got there, we noticed there were no cars. Score! Then we were informed that the greens were being resodded and that there would be temporary greens (basically carved into the fairway just before the actual greens).
Stupid of us to try it. $20.50 for the horrible conditions. Sure, we're partly to blame for trying it out when the GC wasn't in its best state ... but seriously, there was no point in putting b/c the "temporary greens" were pretty jacked up.
Other not-so-good notables:
- Still charged us the full amount for green fees. Seriously, I wonder if this would have even been worth it if they had said we could walk on for free. We didn't even finish the 9 holes ... we left after 5.
- The fairway on Hole 3 or 4 is literally a dirt path.
- Twice I hit shots perfectly down the middle of the fairway ... only to lose my ball b/c it got lost among the white flowers/overgrown crabgrass (on the fairway!)/soggy mud.
- The projects are literally right next to the GC. I don't really have an issue so much but the barbed wire separating the two really did not add to a pleasant experience.
Seriously, was this at one time considered a great public course? Hard to believe. And sad. -
Review from Brad P.
Redwood City, CA
12/29/2006
CLASSIC is the word to describe Gleneagles. No better word.
The pro shop doubles as a bar. Yes, you essentially pay your green fees to the bartender, so why not have an Irish coffee while you're at it.
The course is extreme. You have to have the right attitude about your golf there. It's really about survival, as opposed to making a good score. The course is sort of tricked up with some extreme slopes on the greens, and depending on how the greens-keeper's meds were going that week, there can be some truly evil hole locations which make for 4 putting.
Rumor has it that a famous PGA player once stormed off this course saying it was set up unfairly. Duh.
Local tip (this is serious). Everything breaks toward the Cow Palace. And, don't bet against the locals.
It's a hard place to find, if you don't know where you're going. It's hard to find even when you do know where you're going. Love Gleneagles.
Post Script: My favored Gleneagles wingman (glenfecals is his name for it) reminds me to tell you to look into the mayo-slathered ham and american cheese wonder-bread scoobie snack before you make "the turn." [The turn to play the same god-forsaken 9 holes again (albeit from a second set of tees).] -
Review from Ken M.
Kentfield, CA
3/12/2007
Alright... where do we start with Gleneagles?
First off... it is an absolutely excellent course. It's in great shape... waaaayyyyyy better than Lincoln. Probably better than Presidio's clay-ish fairways as well. And... it's hard. Plan on testing your length through shoots of trees.
Second... the bar is hilarious. OLD SCHOOL. And the $2.50 croissant sandwich is probably the best value for your money of any course in NorCal ($2-3 beers too).
Of course, the bar doubles as the pro shop. And the bartender doubles as the starter... if this is sounding ghetto, than that leads us to the other side of the Gleneagles story. The truth is... if you drive up Sunnydale to get there, you're gonna be freaked out. It's a gauntlet, no doubt.
Also... not to alarm anyone. But I was here a few weeks ago on the 5th hole (borders the projects), and significant gun-fire broke out about 200 feet from us (we could hear the dudes yelling at each other). At least 20-30 gunshots. At least 20 cop cars there within 5 minutes. Cops were all over the course and everywhere around it (apparently one guy got away). Golfers were jumping behind trees and hitting the deck.
...We finished the hole and round btw... -
Review from michael h.
San Francisco, CA
12/26/2006
Inexpensive golf in the city, almost never a wait, and playing with the old timers who love to take my money. It is classic, I hope the kids in the ajacent apartment building are lighting off fire works and those are not gunshots. I wish they would dump a little more money into to try to keep it in better condition, the layout is great, very challegeing, never a flat lie. It is one of the best places to introduce a person to the game, there is no pretense when playing Gleneagles, you play for the joy of the game!
Oh and cheap drinks at the bar. -
Review from sadao n.
San Francisco, CA
3/29/2007
This is a golf course that presents the most difficult of challenges as well as the most impressive of dynamics with a great clubhouse and bar, great management, great conditions and the coolest regulars.
I recommend it highly to beginners(NO SLOW PLAY ALLOWED) and scratch golfers alike.
I would also like to add that IZZY Taguchi, the GM, is one of the best and he intends to bring us the best golf experience in San Francisco.Listed in: The Places I Go Out
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Review from Jake W.
8/22/2008
If you can find the place, play it. I had my reservations about playing a nine-hole track twice around, but this joint will eat your lunch!
The greens can be hit and miss, but for the price Gleneagles is a steal even if you make up what you are saving in green fees in the 19th hole!
In all seriousness, this course is great even in the gale-force winds that you face late in the day and the starter/bartender has a heavy pour.Listed in: Favorite public golf courses
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Review from Joshua C.
San Francisco, CA
3/7/2011
Good golf course, but sometimes not taken care of properly. It is difficult and its a good place to run up the score. There was a time where there was affordable twelve and eighteen year old scotch in the club house, but alas no more.
The good part is that it is not often crowded and it is challenging. I would play here more frequently if I had the game and they had the scotch. -
Review from Robert M.
Redwood City, CA
10/9/2008
Try to drive in/out from the 280 side. Coming in from 101 will make you lock the car doors and hunker down in your seat in an attempt to avoid random gunfire. All this for a round of golf....
So, why 4 stars? This is a really neat little course. I'm puzzled by the comments as to how difficult the course is. There are definitely a lot of sloping fairways, but if you use your head and always aim your tee shot for the high side, you will end up in good shape. I think the other problem is that there is only one set of tees for the Front/Back 9. There is no "white" or Men's forward tee. Those not used to playing "blue" tees or from the tips will definitely struggle out here.
One neat thing is the similarity/difference to the Golden Gate Park course. There, the bartender is the course manager. At Gleneagles, the course manager is the bartender. VERY important difference for those of us who enjoy a drink or two and chatting about golf.
Did I mention the insanely cheap rates?Listed in: Golf Course Reviews for the…
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Review from Nik C.
San Francisco, CA
4/20/2011
Glen eagles is my favorite golf course, yeah you can love the Presidio or Olympic club but do they have the charm? Do they have character? Do they have Brad behind the bar? Do you even know the bartenders name and does he want to know yours? These are things that make Glen Eagles the best course on the peninsula.
Yes it is not in the best condition, the tee boxes aren't great and the sand in the traps is comparable to playing off concrete eighty percent of the time but you got to love the place. The narrow fairways lined with beautiful trees and the view of the bay, the vibe on this course of the normal person. None of the old "I belong to Harding Park, so respect me young man", kind of crap that's not what I am here for. Great holes with tough fairways to hit and even tougher greens and pin positions; this is the course where you can learn to play golf. With the Green's just having been refurbished they are back in the condition when this club earned it name. Lightning fast, breaks you just didn't or couldn't see and some good old laughs from your friends when you miss a three foot putt for double bogey. It is a nine hole course with two sets of tee boxes to make it eighteen, but hey you can't have everything. It is also a tough course to walk vey hilly and undulating, which is great because every shot will be above or below your feet (Just Kidding, makes it hard as Kevlar)
Most of the reviews I have read always mention the projects next door so I feel like I have to also, and have to say in the 5 years of playing at this course have never had any problems at all not even a whiff of trouble. We do our thing and they do theirs easy as that.
The 19th hole is a place of wonder where the bartender (Brad or Lisa are my favs), knows your name and what you drink, who you like to play with and how fast you play everything to give you a good round. The drink prices are cheap and they always have a good heavy pour. They just put in a flat screen so you can watch the game and check the scores while you buy booze at the turn. When the T.V is off they play Jazz, you could just stop for a drink here and not play the place is that cool. I always imagine it as the bar the Chevy Chase and Rodney Dangerfield would hang out in if Caddyshack had a bar scene with just the two of them.
I know quite a few people who have lived in the neighborhood their entire lives and have never even heard of Glen Eagles so to say Hidden Gem of San Francisco could be an understatement. I highly recommend you play this course, you will shoot a hundred and ten on you first round but you will have a good laugh and if you get paired with me I might even tell you the secret of the course, but i won't buy you a beer well maybe!!!! -
Review from Kool K.
Oakland, CA
8/7/2008
15 years ago.....in a galaxy far, far away....pull up to Gleneagles in the hooptie, where it was locals only, spank a few greenies, knock a couple down in the bar, hit the nine again..repeat...
Here are the Directions to the course for you Yelpers, since Geneva Towers are no longer, I can't give you a landmark...you're like....Geneva "chika what"?
Off of Bayshore Blvd, turn onto SUNNYDALE AVE, roll downs windows, crank up your stereo, with bluetooth in ear...Have a nice ROUND!;) -
Review from Roger W.
San Francisco, CA
8/23/2007
Not four stars for the condition of the course; four stars for the experience of completely unstuffy golf. I would not recommend approaching this course through the middle of the Sunnydale projects---this way, trouble lies----rather, come at the course from the other side, up on the hill through John McClaren Park--that would be a lot safer.
Buy a pre-made, plastic wrapped sandwich at the bar ($3.50), add a soda ($1.50), pay lunch time greens fees ($15 a piece if you're walking---and you should walk) and enjoy the randomness of it all.
The first hole has a ridiculously well defended green that punishes any approach shot that is even a little off. The second slopes off to the right (so does the first, actually). The third gives you a great roll if you can keep it in the fairway, but the backside of the green is treacherously contoured; the fourth is straightforward.
Hey, this is golf at its most elemental in the Bay Area. Play this course and think to yourself not that you are playing on a poorly kept, severely sloped course but rather, you now know the challenge of playing a true links course.
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Review from Mario O.
Daly City, CA
8/14/2007
Bring your "A" game if you intend on playing this course. I actually lost a lot of golf balls in the trees when I played a recent round there.
This course is a challenge for a high handicapper like myself. Reading the greens is a challenge. Keeping your tee shots on the fairway pays off handsomely here as going into the rough will cost you serious strokes to your score.
Bring extra golf balls, because if you have a high trajectory like I do they tend to get caught up in the trees. It is a well maintained course and tee times are readily available. I don't think it's the best place for the beginner rather come back after you've mastered or at least have the ability to do some good course management.Listed in: The Places I Go Out, The Golf Course List
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Review from Saquib P.
San Francisco, CA
4/13/2011
$20.50 for a fairly challenging round of 9 hole golf. The pace is good. The greens are sometimes sanded.
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Review from Rory F.
San Mateo, CA
5/16/2007
Great tough course in a pretty tough area, but it's easier to find now that the sign has returned!
Old school bar & attitude...No driving range and usually no waiting around. You need a positive can-do mind-frame to survive here since it's a very tricky course. Plenty of chances to use all your clubs and interesting shots from either set of tees.
My advice, just bring extra golf balls and keep things moving along, people who play here like it that way, so please don't spoil a good thing. The course can either be in great shape or dusty and windy...but just take it as you find it since it's a real bargain.
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Review from patrick o.
San Francisco, CA
10/15/2007
*******Gleneagles=Man Course
First things first, 9 holes took almost 3 hours. A ridiculously hard course this one is. Lots of rough patches, downhill slopes, quick and bumpy greens.
Second of all, this place is in the ghetto. Golf and ghetto are usually two things I do not equate. On the fourth hole, you get a nice view of the housing projects. I think the project folk, where also having a minibike race the entire duration of our round.
So back to the course. The course itself wasn't in particular good or bad shape. I liked the fact that there was no pretentiousness while playing. The clubhouse was super old school, with the only exception of a hd tv, this place was out of the 50's. The course was also fairly priced and there wasn't a whole of waiting.
This course a lot of "mansize holes". A few of them were over 500 yards and one was over 600 yards. This was a great place to try out a fairway driver/hybrid club.
All in all, this course was very challenging for a beginner and veteran alike. -
Review from Scotty B.
San Francisco, CA
3/27/2008
The Toughest 9 in the World
I am a hacker and a half and shoot 50-55 for 9, yeah thats right and I feel good about it because sometimes ill shoot 60+ here
Whenever I think I'm hittin en good i come here for a little humbling. I shot a 45 a couple of year ago and still talk about it
people bitch about the condition, the projects, the slope, but what they really mean is "THAT COURSE SCARES THE SHIT OUT OF ME"
the condition is like any links style course, the greens are almost always in good shape, $15/$18 for nine, hardly ever a wait, yeah sometime the Dboys in da PJs are loud but they wont bother you.
I bring all out of town golfers here and they love it (or hate it...but not really).
A SF MUST DO if you golf
Just hit it straight and long, place your approach shots right and dont three putt and you'll do just fine and remember EVERYTHING rolls toward the Cow PalaceListed in: My Neighborhood
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Review from Tamar D.
12/28/2009
This is a pretty difficult course considering it's only 9 holes and in the absolute worst neighborhood in the City. I swear every single hole is a tree-lined monstrosity, with extremely narrow fairways. To boot, the greens are super slick and you've got to be very accurate, less you end up playing military putting (left, right, left, right).
It's a good golf workout, if you will. It's what we golfers like: challenge, well laid out, and able to get some food & beer afterwards. Oh, and cheap.Listed in: Good Golf
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Review from Blake W.
San Francisco, CA
11/1/2007
Gleneagles gets a four! Why, you ask? Well, Drew S. would tell you that it is because I give everything a 4. He might be right...
However, there is more to the story. Gleneagles is just funky--mostly good funky too. I dare say I have never played a course quite like Gleneagles. As others have noted, the bar doubles as the clubhouse. I have no problem with this. It is between 15-18 dollars for 9 holes. Again, no problem with this.
The funkiness continues with the incredibly strange and challenging layout of the course--on several occassions I nailed a drive down the middle of the fairway, only to see my ball land and roll helplessly into the rough, scores of yards from where it landed.
The course is not perfectly kept--by a longshot. But it isn't too shabby either, being what it is. And yes the projects are there, but what can you do? It's the City.
Hit this place up for a unique round of golf anytime. I was there this morning and there was no wait. Sure...maybe the first 3 holes were played in a fog so thick I couldn't see my ball once it traveled 20 yards away...but that's part of the funky goodness of this place.
I will be back for sure--hopefully often.
UPDATE---UPDATE
Now having played Gleneagles many a time, I have to change my review. While I still appreciate that quirkiness of this course, and while I still love that it is a challenging layout and all that, I have to knock the place one star. Cause it just isn't a fair course. It isn't that it is hard and that I am a bad golfer--mean, both of those things are true. It is just that the course is just poorly kept up enough, and just a bit of enough of a mess that it seems to triple the difficulty of the place to a point where I'm not even sure it is fun at times. So call me a pussy, go for it. I just can't give Gleneagles 4 stars. I REALLY want to, but I can't. -
Review from Brad K.
San Francisco, CA
4/29/2010
Boy... this is a tough choice between 1 or 2 stars. Since my round didn't involve gunshots, I'll give it a 2.
I finally decided to take the dive and check out the illustrious Gleaeagles Golf course. I felt like I was driving to an abandoned military installation... but once i parked and looked out onto the hill, it made more sense.
The clubhouse is all that has been said before... a dank and dusty bar. I made the mistake of going into the bar expecting to pay for a tee time and be shown to the 1st tee. After looking around dumbfounded by the missing pay counter, I heard another golfer walk up to a small cove in the side of the building and get started. I walked into the cove, paid and was told "play one ball and absolutely no practice allowed". I also noticed signs that told you where to practice swing, etc.
The course is a track of long narrow tree-lined holes with raised greens. Accuracy off the tee is a must and the trees are always there to knock down your shots. Yardage markers were not easy to find on most holes. Great place to practice those long irons, punch and flop shots. The greens are fast and some have invisible breaks. On most holes I reached the green ok, but putting killed me.
At the end of my round, I really wanted to stay and get loaded on cheap beer... but it was only 11am.
The fairways and greens deserve 3 stars, but -1 for the neighborhood & bad quirks.Listed in: Bay Area Golf
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Review from Don B.
San Carlos, CA
3/28/2009
It's a good golf course that is reasonable priced - under $30 during the weekdays and $31 during weekends, for 18 holes.
The holes themselves are varied - two long par 5s and a handful of par 3s. There are slopes, ridges and a lot of trees to keep things interesting. The greens are kept-well and the fairways are mostly clean.
Only downsides:
- there are nine holes, that they double up to make 18 with two distinct tee boxes. It works, but definitely ask about it if its your first time.
- that said, this isn't a course for beginners at all - there's no shorter tees for women or higher handicaps.
- place is a lot faster on the weekends, especially when you come around for your back nine to the same hole others are starting on their first. -
Review from Hae Young L.
SOMA, San Francisco, CA
6/3/2010
This is an excellent 9 hole course to practice on. The levels range from moderate to difficult. It was helpful that the Green Keeper mentioned the balls tend to roll towards the bay, and the greens are fast. All true things.
Also bring EXTRA BALLS. There are patches of tall grass/weeds in and along side of the fairways.
This is the kind of course, where you can practice your driver, woods and irons. You can actually play 18 holes by circling twice.
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Review from Matthew P.
El Cerrito, CA
8/1/2010
If the Greens were taken care of, this might be a 4...
But they were DEPLORABLE. Don't know if it was a fungus, or simply failure to water them.
Unlike others, I like the local feel and I felt like the fairways played nicely. Wind was howling through the Cypress trees and it felt like golf in San Francisco. Yes, I heard gunfire too in the distance...but I wasn't too nervous.
The owners need to address this pronto! A SF experience is going to be ruined forever if they don't wake up. -
Review from Brent T.
San Francisco, CA
12/24/2010
Today was my first experience at Gleneagles. Sure you have to drive through the low income housing area, but I experienced no problems there during the day. We were playing golf and the tenants there were doing their own thing. The course has been redesigned on some holes and new greens on others. I am a beginning golfer so I found the course to be challenging to say the least. What I liked the most about the course were the trees. Quite beautiful. What I liked least about the course were the out of bounds (where I hit my balls most of the time). I had to hit out of tall grass, wood chip piles, trees, etc... The fairways were ok but I wasn't expecting this course to be immaculate. The sand traps were packed so I found it easier to hit out of them than other courses. As for the greens, I found them to be slower than what I play on at Mariner's in Foster City. Finally, I would also like to comment that I play 18 holes. It is basically the same holes on the back 9 but just different starting points. Oh yea, sometimes it was difficult to find out where we were suppose to tee off because they are not really clearly marked.
Overall I had a great time and would come back again in a heartbeat. This course is about 10 minutes away from my office. -
Review from Pizz D.
San Francisco, CA
7/31/2011
The guy says that we can't play the course because we don't have golf shoes. He says that ever since that tiger attacked that guy at the zoo, the city has become really strict on safety and they don't want anyone getting injured on the course. I thought we were on Candid Camera. I don't even golf that much but I've been on golf courses better than this one and never have I been turned away for lack of golf shoes. What a joke.
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Review from Steven M.
Corte Madera, CA
9/4/2008
Sherman, set the wayback machine for 1951.
--The sound of metal spikes on concrete.
--The old gas carts that choke you to death.
--The preoccupation with single malts and cigars.
--And the unkempt pro shop dog that eats gopher guts on any given fairway.
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Review from Dave H.
Fremont, CA
Updated - 8/14/2008
2009 - Gleneagles is in its best shape in more than a decade!!!
My previous rants about fairway conditions and garbage seemed to have been heard. The fairways still have a few marginal areas but the garbage is mostly gone and increased police patrols seems to have quited down the ghetto a tad.
John Fleming would be proud.
I think the course superintendent knows the President's Cup is coming to SF in OCT 2009.
Fairway distance markers are still sparse, with usually the lone center fairway "sprinkler cover marker" present, if you can locate it. Red (100yds) and white (150yds) posts on the center/edge of the fairways would seem to be an easy fix.
If its not a drought year and the course conditions continue to be this good until the President's Cup, only golfers who want to a real challenge at a reasonable price (now $17 for 9 on a weekday) will miss out if they don't make it here by this fall.1 Previous Review: Show all »
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7/23/2008
All of the comments about this course being a brutal 9-holer are correct. I shot a great round today… Read more »
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Review from Chris F.
Millbrae, CA
12/24/2010
I didn't actually get around to playing golf. After driving through the neighborhood to get here I was thoroughly shocked by the ghetto. I read a few yelp reviews from the car to make sure I wasn't overreacting, and I left. Not worth it for a cheap round of golf. Maybe next time I'll have more courage to stop and play because some of the pictures make it seem like the course is nicely maintained.
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Review from Joel V.
11/17/2009
Wowzers! I absolutely hated the surrounding area of this golf course! I played this course with a SFPD buddy of mine and it got a little interesting. As we were finishing up the fourth hole, there was gunfire in the projects that are on the opposite side of the cyclone fence. My friend called in that shots were fired -- it was quite startling.
This little 9-hole course is actually a solid layout. It is above-average to difficult and has one super long 600-yard dogleg left par 5. You can play the course twice using separate tee boxes for a full 18 holes. Very similar to Gilroy Golf Course. The rates are dirt cheap, and the course is pretty hilly and narrow. I'm not a fan of the grass there. It is really, really thick and coarse -- and a bit overgrown. Almost like crabgrass.
Unfortunately, this course is in what is by far the worst ghetto in San Francisco. It could use a touch better TLC from the gardeners. But if it were anywhere else, it would get 3 or more stars.Listed in: Golf Ratings
