Mission Trails Golf Course — Local services in San Diego

TO ALL PLAYERS CLUB MEMBERS AND PUBLIC. I decided to change my review from earlier just for the treatment the course is given to players:

To whom it is my concern.

If this is really the way you want to treat your member, I will be canceling my membership. After the date in question.

Reasons:

1.- Membership is about $53 now. And you wanna increase it with the tactics off, reducing the one a day large bucket of ball to a medium and if you want a large bucket of balls, now you have to pay an extra $15 dollars a month. Making the membership almost $70 dollars a month.

This wouldn't matter if the members we're taking care of like my next comments.

2.- The quality of your range balls is very, very, very bad. Maybe only 2 or 3 out of 10 balls that you hit are in fair conditions. The rest of the balls are so bad that they don't give you good feedback when you're swinging, as they can go straight and suddenly within a 100 yd. Turn left, right, duck down because they are all wore off.

3.- If you want to use the price increase to better the facility better. The range I will say that it's fine, but it's like you're increasing the membership price just to make more money.

4.- Your dynamic adjustment pricing feels like a scam. It doesn't matter whether the course is busy or not. You change the prices for walkings and this also affects players' club members. The price change is done by a person behind the counter, that is, their AI algorithm, and he decides if the price should be increased or not.

5.- What is the point of paying for a membership to get lower prices and benefits if the price is gonna be higher whenever I decide to play.

6.- other course in the area with better condition don't charge more than $30 walk or $45 to ride to any golfer after 2 pm whether they walk in or make a tee time head of time.

7.- Admiral Baker, Bonita BGC, and Chula Vista GC are much better choices...

This place left a bad taste in my mouth after having my rangefinder stolen out of my cart after returning it. I immediately called about 15 minutes after our round when I realized I left it in the cart, and one of the pro shop guys told me the best bet was to call back in the morning because nothing had been turned in. When I called in back the next day, the course manager and vice manager were unreachable, and I could only reach the pro shop. The pro shop operator tried to help by looking for it, but they ultimately blamed me for irresponsibly leaving it behind (fair enough!) when I asked for a free round or some form of compensation due to the fact that my very expensive rangefinder was taken by their cart handlers. It turned unprofessional very quickly—and I get it—you can’t control what all the employees do, but it reflects poorly on how your club is run when this is how internal problems are solved. When I told the guy there was no way another golfer took it because of where I left the cart, his response was that all of the cart kids had their own equipment, so it couldn’t be them. Besides being a baseless excuse, I know there’s plenty of golf course staff who swipe stuff and keep it or sell it, so that just confirmed to me that these people don’t care. If you have employees jacking stuff and the response from admin is to immediately deflect blame, then you can be sure that accountability is not one of their...

This is a difficult evaluation because it is so easy to judge this course negatively by other better kept courses. However, those courses charge double or triple or more in greens fees than Mission Trails. But let me, as an intermediate, occasional golfer try this: Positives: the price was great, $40.00 plus $15.00 for a cart (weekday price but during the week between Christmas and New Years, so not sure it holiday prices). The course layout is fun, undulating greens, some tighter fairways and some wide open, some elevated greens and some elevated tees. The course plays fairly short (from the white tees). Course pace was okay, about 4.5 hours. Negatives: seems like a lot of deferred maintenance, carts are beat up, many with torn seats, cart paths are often broken concrete or dirt, bathrooms not so great shape, fairways need work (lots of dead or no grass), no staff regulating play (and no starter) and the biggest negative: hardly any yard markers, which means guessing distance into about every green from the fairway. Even with the negatives though, the price is great and, as mentioned, the course layout is fun and sometimes challenging. For those reasons alone, I'd recommend it and...