05-20-2025, 06:31 PM
All in all, while I'm not a golfer, I don't find the Omni La Costa course as where I'd want a tournament.
Gusty, firm greens, conditions change through the day, not a great view outside of the fairways, seems a lot of traffic noise.
The changing conditions make the results almost as much luck as skill.
The match play feels a bit like playing craps.
I noted the announcers (who of course are going to compliment the course) saying how much softer the course is this year than last, and then immediately comment about how the firm green was making it hard to land a shot.
As I said, my daughter lives maybe 2 miles away; I've been to the (recreation) pool there a couple of times but not onto the courses.
I know they were redoing the course, but a couple of years ago, I looked at the north end of the north course and figured the course belonged to some club that had gone bankrupt and the course was abandoned. The 2025 imagery at Google Maps doesn't make it look much better.
Gusty, firm greens, conditions change through the day, not a great view outside of the fairways, seems a lot of traffic noise.
The changing conditions make the results almost as much luck as skill.
The match play feels a bit like playing craps.
I noted the announcers (who of course are going to compliment the course) saying how much softer the course is this year than last, and then immediately comment about how the firm green was making it hard to land a shot.
As I said, my daughter lives maybe 2 miles away; I've been to the (recreation) pool there a couple of times but not onto the courses.
I know they were redoing the course, but a couple of years ago, I looked at the north end of the north course and figured the course belonged to some club that had gone bankrupt and the course was abandoned. The 2025 imagery at Google Maps doesn't make it look much better.