Coming from the Central Valley, it was a great experience playing on the coast. The fairways were lush and the greens were challenging. The design of this course doesn’t bring you back to the clubhouse after 9 holes like most courses. They have a cart roaming around with food onboard, but if you want something she doesn’t have, the order must go through her (that’s what I was told) so just plan for that.

The course is walkable, though it's a full walk. The first five holes seem to be straight up hill at times. The greens are in great shape, traps are well-maintained. The maintenance staff was hard at work, and my wife commented that they all stopped what they were doing to let each group of golfers through. A great experience!

So pure. I played it when I was young and it's on another echelon of great, now. Must play. Cool hotel too.

Don is incredible. He made us feel at home on this course. He set us up for a wonderful day of golf. He also gave great recommendations for places to visit and eat. Del Monte is an honest course. We were able to play our whole bag. We will definitely be coming back.

Easy on fairways but tough on greens, is what I will summarize my playing at Del Monte. It's really a nice course, the fairways and greens are all well maintained, one thing is that their greens are all slopes, so you either putt incline or decline, need to be very accurate on the speed, otherwise you will easily get 3 putts.