Headed to SA to play Canyon Springs. Any recommendations or insight to the course?
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Canyon Springs Golf Club
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Last: 23 days ago by Obi Wan Ginobili
Lots, buckle up. There is lots of good and some bad, but take the negative with a grain of salt, I'm just annoyed with their customer service mostly.
The back 9 isn't "boring", but there is much less strategy. It's a lot of drivers and irons/wedges.
10th hole is a reachable par 5 with a fun tee shot, and 12 is an obnoxiously long par 4 with an even longer green. 14 has a nasty back pin placement you should hope you don't get, and 16 has the only water trouble on the course. 17 is just a long par 3. It isn't difficult. Enjoy the view on your approach into 18, assuming they have the waterfall flowing.
Canyon Springs is a really fun course if you don't play it often. The problems I have with it are the pace of place, the MASSIVE number of tournaments they insist on clogging up all the good tee times with, and the extraordinary lack of give a sheet from the marshalls. The hot dogs from the steel grill outside is decent though.
- If it has rained in the last 13 weeks, the range will be closed, even though they only use mats. You've been warned.
- If you are even mildly sufficient off the teebox, take drive and launch at the green on 1. Miss left of the green and you'll make par most of the time and birdie sometimes.
- Don't miss right off the box on 2. There is zero room. If anyone tells you that you can cut the corner, they lied. You aren't long enough. You also can't miss the green long or you will make double bogey.
- 3-4-5 are pretty straight forward
- 6 is a split fairway. Look at the pin sheet, and choose the fairway that is the same side as the pin. You CAN use the wrong fairway for any pin, but you'll put yourself in some weird spots doing that.
- Don't try to drive it over the creek on 8, and when you inevitably do try, because it's only 260 to carry, you need to go 15 yards further left than you think. Also, don't try to carry it. Are you listening?
- 9 isn't driveable, it just looks that way. Just go left of the bunkers and it's a very doable birdie.
The back 9 isn't "boring", but there is much less strategy. It's a lot of drivers and irons/wedges.
10th hole is a reachable par 5 with a fun tee shot, and 12 is an obnoxiously long par 4 with an even longer green. 14 has a nasty back pin placement you should hope you don't get, and 16 has the only water trouble on the course. 17 is just a long par 3. It isn't difficult. Enjoy the view on your approach into 18, assuming they have the waterfall flowing.
Canyon Springs is a really fun course if you don't play it often. The problems I have with it are the pace of place, the MASSIVE number of tournaments they insist on clogging up all the good tee times with, and the extraordinary lack of give a sheet from the marshalls. The hot dogs from the steel grill outside is decent though.
Nothing to add to Obi other than this course kicked my rear the one and only time I played it. Have to keep the ball in play off the tee and I did not on this particular day.
A double bogey from long of 2 would be pretty sporty
its a fun course go check it out
Thanks for great info, and you're greatly over estimating my golf game talking about birdies and pars lol. But on a Saturday at 730 am tee time I can expect a 4+ hour round?
I live 10 minutes from Canyon Springs, so I play there a lot. I've made every mistake you can on that par 5. The key to this hole, if you screw up and miss long on hole 2, is to chip back towards the front right of the green. Don't go for the flag at the point, it's a waste of time unless you are that guy. The front right of the green is flat, and if you can't keep the ball on the putting surface, it's an easy, flat chip from there.cb1919 said:
A double bogey from long of 2 would be pretty sporty
No, you'll probably get through there in 4-4:30 starting that early.aggiecody06 said:
Thanks for great info, and you're greatly over estimating my golf game talking about birdies and pars lol. But on a Saturday at 730 am tee time I can expect a 4+ hour round?
nothing useful to report other than I used to play it for $18 with a cart before there was a single house out there and the course was in incredible shape, wide open, and really cool given the lack of housing. Played it for first time in a very long time, which was still probably 6 years ago, and came away thinking I should have never played it again and just remembered how it was 20 something years ago... 
Yep. Especially long on 2.Obi Wan Ginobili said:
Lots, buckle up. There is lots of good and some bad, but take the negative with a grain of salt, I'm just annoyed with their customer service mostly.
- If it has rained in the last 13 weeks, the range will be closed, even though they only use mats. You've been warned.
- If you are even mildly sufficient off the teebox, take drive and launch at the green on 1. Miss left of the green and you'll make par most of the time and birdie sometimes.
- Don't miss right off the box on 2. There is zero room. If anyone tells you that you can cut the corner, they lied. You aren't long enough. You also can't miss the green long or you will make double bogey.
- 3-4-5 are pretty straight forward
- 6 is a split fairway. Look at the pin sheet, and choose the fairway that is the same side as the pin. You CAN use the wrong fairway for any pin, but you'll put yourself in some weird spots doing that.
- Don't try to drive it over the creek on 8, and when you inevitably do try, because it's only 260 to carry, you need to go 15 yards further left than you think. Also, don't try to carry it. Are you listening?
- 9 isn't driveable, it just looks that way. Just go left of the bunkers and it's a very doable birdie.
The back 9 isn't "boring", but there is much less strategy. It's a lot of drivers and irons/wedges.
10th hole is a reachable par 5 with a fun tee shot, and 12 is an obnoxiously long par 4 with an even longer green. 14 has a nasty back pin placement you should hope you don't get, and 16 has the only water trouble on the course. 17 is just a long par 3. It isn't difficult. Enjoy the view on your approach into 18, assuming they have the waterfall flowing.
Canyon Springs is a really fun course if you don't play it often. The problems I have with it are the pace of place, the MASSIVE number of tournaments they insist on clogging up all the good tee times with, and the extraordinary lack of give a sheet from the marshalls. The hot dogs from the steel grill outside is decent though.
And for those who struggle off the tee beware of several long forced carries off the tee...6, 9 & 12.
Their carts have GPS now, I would take advantage on the shorter holes with a forced carry off the tee like 6 and 9. Driver will get you in trouble pretty easy on those holes too.CyclingAg82 said:Yep. Especially long on 2.Obi Wan Ginobili said:
Lots, buckle up. There is lots of good and some bad, but take the negative with a grain of salt, I'm just annoyed with their customer service mostly.
- If it has rained in the last 13 weeks, the range will be closed, even though they only use mats. You've been warned.
- If you are even mildly sufficient off the teebox, take drive and launch at the green on 1. Miss left of the green and you'll make par most of the time and birdie sometimes.
- Don't miss right off the box on 2. There is zero room. If anyone tells you that you can cut the corner, they lied. You aren't long enough. You also can't miss the green long or you will make double bogey.
- 3-4-5 are pretty straight forward
- 6 is a split fairway. Look at the pin sheet, and choose the fairway that is the same side as the pin. You CAN use the wrong fairway for any pin, but you'll put yourself in some weird spots doing that.
- Don't try to drive it over the creek on 8, and when you inevitably do try, because it's only 260 to carry, you need to go 15 yards further left than you think. Also, don't try to carry it. Are you listening?
- 9 isn't driveable, it just looks that way. Just go left of the bunkers and it's a very doable birdie.
The back 9 isn't "boring", but there is much less strategy. It's a lot of drivers and irons/wedges.
10th hole is a reachable par 5 with a fun tee shot, and 12 is an obnoxiously long par 4 with an even longer green. 14 has a nasty back pin placement you should hope you don't get, and 16 has the only water trouble on the course. 17 is just a long par 3. It isn't difficult. Enjoy the view on your approach into 18, assuming they have the waterfall flowing.
Canyon Springs is a really fun course if you don't play it often. The problems I have with it are the pace of place, the MASSIVE number of tournaments they insist on clogging up all the good tee times with, and the extraordinary lack of give a sheet from the marshalls. The hot dogs from the steel grill outside is decent though.
And for those who struggle off the tee beware of several long forced carries off the tee...6, 9 & 12.
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