Isolated complaint: On 1/2/03 they ran out of range balls! I was told someone was "working on it" but 10 min later the ball retriever cart was still traversing the range grounds. 4 impatient golfers were waiting for some to fill the machine but I finally left after a 20 min wait.

I've always enjoyed the wide open fairways but you need an auto-dialer to get a weekend tee time. Rough is LONG!

Fairways

Greens, bunkers...restaurant is closed and a tent is in it's place

Holes are basically unremarkable in their design. Pretty flat mostly straight. Rough around the greens is too long. The greens themselves are the worst I have played spongy, bumpy and slow..not true at all. Easy to get on most of the time and rates have been lowered. Bunkers need new sand they are all hard.

Customer Service

Fine

It's always in very good condition, and they have a well stocked proshop.

It's boring, crowded, slow and way over priced. Luckily, I haven't been able to get a tee time there in two years (sometimes I get desparate).

BORING. I guarantee that a seven year old could design a better golf course. I could play this course with my eyes closed. I'd still suck, but I'd know where the holes went, because they all go dead straight with no trouble.

Customer Service

The guys in there are ok, but tee times are impossible.

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The restaurant is good and the range is big with a good practice green

Easy course to walk, friendly efficient staff, good restaurant, nice double-deck driving range, chipping, and putting greens. Improved drainage makes this course playable year around now-a-days. Good club fitting facilities and holds lots of demo days events.

Layout lacks imagination, lots of people on the course and in and around the clubhouse, so this isn't a course to play if you want to get away from the city.

I have got to believe the reviewers below that are complaining about the tee times & pace play exclusively on the weekends. I have played about 40 rounds there in the last two years and played this course off and on for fifteen. If you stay away from the weekends, you can complete a round in 4 1/2 hours, 5 hours on a bad day. I almost always go there as a walk-on and rarely have to wait more than half an hour to get on. The later in the week, the more traffic you will encounter.
Well maintained for a Muni. Flat and mostly open fairways. Not a lot of trouble except when they let the rough grow, which they have been doing more than not the last year and a half. Expect some wind. Good course for beginners or to tune-up after a layoff. Greens have some interesting undulations & greenskeepers seem to be setting up more challenging hole locations than in the past. Otherwise the course layout is pretty unremarkable.

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greens, range

a bit pricey.

Those other guys must have too much time on their hands or just be very angry. It's not all bad out there, gentlemen. For first- or second year players, San Jose Muni is a flat, fair, well-kept facility that rewards players who can keep their tee shots fairly straight. Greens are challenging.
I've played three times and never had a major back up on the course. For up-tight Silicon Valley types, like the other reviewers above, this won't do...but for a good afternoon of medium-paced golf, its alright.

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good food

It is a golf course. Also if the wind blows there is at least some challenge to it. Also, the range is good, stays open after dark and has a great demo program for clubs. Other than that, not too much.

Crowds of people, like lemmings, from sun up to sun down. I was told by the pro shop that this is the heaviest played course in the state.

This is an old muni course which is a victim of the Silicon Valley boom. It is ordinary, ordinary, ordinary, but is just completely overrun with people from the crack of dawn to the last peek of light. If you can believe it, people book tee times that have 20 minutes of playable light. It isnt cheap either. You can come out after work and try to walk on with an hour of light left, and people will still be swarming the first tee. If you do get on, you will find a flat, straight boring golf course. Do yourself and the pro shop guys a favor and stay away if at all possible. If you are a visitor to the area and have the bucks, try Cinnabar Hills, which is about a half hour south in the Santa Cruz Mountain foothills. That is a great course.

Customer Service

The pro shop staff does what it can, and does well, considering what they have to deal with.

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pro shop and restaurant

too crowded, very hard to get tee times. easy to spend 6 hours on the course.

too crowded. feels like the us amateur off the tee, there's like 40 people watching your tee shot. very easy and flat course. very nice driving range and putting green with lots of undulations. prepares you for the course. well stocked pro shop and very good food in the restaurant.

Customer Service

tee times are impossible. don't even try to play as a walk-on. best bet is to fill out an application, you might get out earlier!

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excellent range and warm-up facilities