
To quote their website, "challenging, but not punishing " sums up this wonderful, beautiful golf course. Breath taking panoramas of the Santa Ynez mountains and valley. Play through 4 lakes, streams, oak, and pine trees. 6800 plus yards offers a variety of hazards, sand traps, length, and accuracy on well maintained wide holes. Large greens, will test your putting ability. Hole 17 is my favorite. 123 yards. A picturesque par 3 that's surrounded by water, and sand, good luck to you on that one. 2 putting areas, driving range, even 2 perfect maintained bocce ball courts awaits you. Icing on the cake is the River Grill Restaurant. Open for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and brunch. Plus a happy hour from 4-7, along...
Read moreMy wife, Kimberley, and I just finished playing on the river course. Worst experience I have ever had playing. No marshal to keep play moving. I played the front nine waiting for minutes to play each shot. Even when we were waiting behind tee while the group was teeing off they never even looked at us let alone asking us if we wanted to play thru.. finally after they ignored us on the tee again we skipped the hole. They began to yell at us telling us that we couldn’t do that since they knew the groups ahead. The same thing happened again two holes later with another group so we called it a day playing only 13 holes. Went to the pro shop and only response got was were sorry. Never...
Read moreRiver Course at the Alisal rated 3-1/2 stars: The Alisal Resort is home to two championship golf courses. On the south side of the Santa Ynez River, and running along the bottom of the Alisal Valley, the more characterful Ranch course is older, slightly shorter and considerably more tree-lined than its newer and easier-going stablemate. The River course, located on the north side of the Santa Ynez, occupies a picturesque area of relatively open and gently undulating terrain. Although bordering the Danish-styled town of Solvang, the River course is played in a predominantly natural environment, where vineyards and rolling hills are much more in evidence beyond the course...
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