Mill Valley Golf Course — Local services in Mill Valley

The Mill Valley Golf Course is a great place to play a quick round of golf for a good price. The course is lodged in a small, nature-surrounded valley and features a very hilly terrain. It’s a 9-hole course and is a total of 4168 yards in length, which makes it a fairly easy play. The main factors that determine the enjoyment of a golf course include course design, condition and maintenance, availability, and cost and value. As these points are maximized, the course becomes higher quality and more valuable. The Mill Valley Golf Course has a solid design and routes the players through the course very effectively. The course also has a good variety of shorter holes and longer ones, you will definitely need to be able to dial in your short game to play this course. Accurate path shots and confident putting are important to scoring well, making the course a great test of a player's all-around golfing abilities. 4/5 Condition and Maintenance is where Mill Valley tends to fall behind compared to other courses. When playing the course, it is routine to see many dirt patches and dried-out grass in the fairway and from the tee boxes. These issues can affect the overall playing experience, the dry, patchy turf makes it difficult to hit clean shots and can detract from the course's visual appeal. 3/5 One of the great aspects of The Mill Valley Golf Course is that you can always find times throughout the day to get on the course even without a tee time. Because the course is not too busy, the pace of play tends to be pretty quick, usually 10-15 minutes per hole. This efficient pace means that a full round of golf can be enjoyed in a shorter amount of time compared to busier courses, making Mill Valley an appealing choice. 5/5 The course is not too expensive to play at $10 per round. Some of the other courses in Marin such as Peacock Gap, Mcinnis, Indian Valley, and Stonetree can range in price from $15-$100 making them a pricey choice. The price of Mill Valley makes it one of the most attractive courses for the value in Marin. 4.5/5 When adding up all the factors, the Mill Valley Golf Course receives a score of 4.1/5 making in a course I would definitely recommend. Overall, The Mill Valley Golf Course is a great place to play a quick round of golf for a reasonable price. Although there are some drawbacks such as the dirt patches and the dry fairways, Mill Valley makes up for it with the great course design and the surrounding nature, as well as the perfect temperature thanks to the location within a...

Mill Valley Golf Course has a few pros and many cons which lead me to rate 3 stars.

Pros: -The only golf course in the area -Friendly staff -Great price (18 bucks via golf now for 9) Gorgeous scenery (and im not joking the redwoods on 5 tee were spectacular see photos)

Cons: The incredible difficulty of the course shown through due to the conditions it was in. Including: -Rock hard greens -Little to no signage on where the next tee is (i got lost for 15 mins trying to find 6 tee and literally walked into a old abondoned camping ground to find the 7th tee) -Extreme changes in elevation (this is a bit of a nitpick but having to hoof this nine on foot put me to bed by 8 that night) -Rough by the greens is longer than Oakmont on a US open year -I was unable to find yardages for any hole except for par 3 teeboxes making 2nd shots really difficult -But the creme de la creme of bad is the fairways. Ever wonder how hard it would be to play a course with only rough and no short grass? Come to Mill Valley! I hit 4 out of the 5 of the par 4 fairways today and found myself unable to find my ball twice and the other two times it was half buried leaving no chance to hold those rock hard greens. -All in all i shot 45 and felt accomplished but not as much fun as i hoped for.

In summary if you come to Mill Valley do it for the sights because they were top notch. Just dont get your hopes up on...

This is tough......as I think you must consider the horrible weather we had this winter and the effect it had. But as it stands today in early April, the conditions, specifically in the middle of the fairways and just off the greens, are the worst I've ever seen. The starter said "you'll lose some balls" and said he'd warned others as well. But I didn't think he meant in the middle of the fairways! He was right, I lost at least 3 in the fairways and several other times I had to hunt for several minutes to find them (see pictures for proof).

That being said, I was so impressed with the natural beauty of the area! The redwoods, view of Mt Tam, and even a deer feeding near the 8th tee. If this course was well maintained, at least the fairways, I would feel very differently. There were a few holes that made no sense: the direction of #4 is confusing and the yardage is way off, and the tee box on #6 is ridiculous as it's so short you need an 8 or 9 iron, but the overhanging tree is so low you have to punch it to keep it low.

I've included several pictures so you can judge for yourself. In the end I would rather take a jog through this course for exercise than play golf on it, but it's only $21 so I guess you get what...