Great course conditions Friendly staff Very interesting course layout Definitely takes a couple rounds to learn if you want to score Suggest you watch you tube Rustic canyon to familiarize yourself with some unique holes Definitely a great value and worth the 70 mile drive to play a very nice course read more

Amazing course with an amazing layout and links style golf. Price is decent for the kind of experience we are getting.

This is one of the most fun/beautiful courses around. I have no idea why it doesn't have 5 stars on here. The shop staff is extremely friendly and helpful, nice carts, awesome service all around. The course is super picturesque and stunning. Teeming with wildlife. Wide open fairways. It's basically a country club experience but a public course. The pace of play can get a little slow, but besides that it's a fantastic experience. 10/10 recommend. read more

Dear Rustic, Sadly - you too have fallen to the Greed Gods. You've never had welcoming or caring staff ANYWHERE near the facility, except the jr. cart boys hoping for a tip for putting ice in the cart. The emotional intelligence of every employee is reflective of the way the owners must treat them. With none. I have played and played this course many times over the years, always able to overlook the personel (and miserably kept mens room), but with the price shooting up to $104 AND $20 for a single on a cart AND $7 for a small bucket of balls (OLD & DEAD) to hit onto the remodeled driving range with a GRASS FIELD (?!?!?) AND the greens were still recovering from being punched 2 weeks ago... I am finished. I'm done. So done. read more

This course is a joke. Fairways look nothing like pics on their website. Fairways are as brown as can be. I will attach a pic I took from today's round to show you how bad they are. It says on their website it was voted top 5 course in California. What are they smoking? It's not even Top 5 in Ventura County. Olivas, Buena, Los Robles all in nicer condition, heck even Sterling Hills is. I played there 2 days ago, place is super green. Greens here are a joke, it's like putting on concrete. You can land your approach shot 30 yards short of the green and it can still roll over the green. Also their website says it's a great value?!? $60 to play this brown dead track is a great value?? $40 for a Senior isn't bad I guess but still should be discounted due to the conditions. I'll stick to to Olivas, this place is terrible. read more

Rustic Canyon Golf Course - Completely brown, dead fairway, they are all like this yet they still charge $60 - Golf Near Me - Moorpark, California

Yeah I got a hole in one on hole 15 which really was cool. But the entire staff and course as whole is pretty nice. Awesome times and unique Scottish greens and did I mention I got a hole in 1 on hole 15. Thanks again, Birds on parade read more

Can't call into anything. Hitting one to pro shop doesn't work. Hitting 2 to grill doesn't work. Called for 3 days between 10 am and 430 pm. Never able to reach anyone. read more

Amazing course, played here a few times, the canyon is just beautiful with all of the rain that came through lately. Pace of play was decent at 4 hours flat. Staff were professional and welcoming. Prices are still lower compared to other amazing courses. All around perfect day. read more

$79.00 with cart, 4 holes cart path only. Cafe not open on time. Our 4 some got jammed twice by staff for slow play on the front 9. I was seriously confused because we were playing well at 80 to 93 handicaps and finished front 9 in exactly 2 hours. The group in front of us was a 3 some. The group behind never caught us. We finished 18 in 3 hours 50 minutes when they requested pace at 4 hours 20 minutes. I confronted staff afterwards and said we were under by 30 minutes. They said "we are super hyper about pace." I said Ok, but we were under 4 hours, whats wrong with you? I've never been in a group jammed twice in my life, let alone twice on the front 9. The staff is straight up unprofessional, wrong, weird and deserving of all the negative comments on Yelp! read more

NEVER AGAIN! Called the day before to modify a tee time from a 2some to a single because my playing partner got sick. They tell me if they can't fill the time I would be charged for both times. I know there is a 24 hour policy, but I think they are being hardasses about it. No other course I play in the area does that crap. I could understand a little if I showed up at the time with one less player, but if you call the day before you shouldn't be penalized even with your policy. I told them to go ahead and charge me for both times and I'll just make sure I never bother to play there again. I've played there a ton never had this issue. They can go ahead and make it a private course for all I care. Plenty of other courses around to choose from and spend my money at. Scratched off the list! read more

Great time here! Not sure why the negative reviews. Fairways and greens in great shape. It's a links course, not forgiving but challenging, average duffer bring plenty of balls! 9 holes, with a cart and breakfast for $40 dollars! Worth every penny. The snack bar is called the Grill, all I can say is wow! Kyle runs the place and makes an excellent breakfast .. there's a fully stocked bar... and Kyle makes a fresh Bloody Mary! If you love golf you will wana play here. read more

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I'll reiterate what the other reviews have said. Great course. Horrible staff. Don't charge cart fees if your going to constantly lock the cart when you drive off the cart path. Don't charge people $10 for canned Budweiser if you don't want outside alcohol. read more

Respect is dead here. The two flunkies in the pro shop could care less about the customer experience. Today that was unsatisfactory. The grill room girl must be related to them because she is only looking for her hourly wage doesn't deserve any tipping (I did, I want it back). Course needs water. Greens are running at around 14 too fast. I like fast but they are unplayable. Hit all greens on front and couldn't get the ball to stop rolling. 3 putt was the day. Greenskeeper should take care of that but I doubt it. Won't spend my golf dollars on people that treat the customer that way. 11/16/2019 This place is THE WORST SERVICE Staff isn't friendly and very rude Will not be back read more

Always used.to play the.course since.it.opemed.and worked.out.of.a.trailor but seems now you can never book.a.tee.time and.its very frustrating or u get times.after 1pm Hope they change there ways read more

Too many restrictions with golf carts to remain on path. As a golfer with feet problems, you shouldn't rent out a cart, if you make golfers walk more than if they had to walk the course in the first place. read more

what happened to this place? used to be my all time favorite course, now... seems to be one of the worst. theres an older employee is just rude, and angry with 0 effort in customer service. He yelled at me for having alcohol, screamed at me for staying in the parking lot late because i locked my keys in my car o we waited for AAA. He came by twice as we waited for AAA and scremed "YOU HAVE TO LEAVE NOW! WOULDNT HAVE HAPPENED IF YOU HAD THE F****NG ALCOHOL" just incredible how awful this place is. never coming here again. read more

Played Rustic at 7am today. Love this course!! The round played about 4.5 hours but was very enjoyable. The course was in great shape, the greens were very tough but if so rewarding when you are able to get up and down. The bunkers are interesting, most are like desert floor that isn't actually a bunker with regular sand. 2 holes I was able to drive the green (playing blues), one on the front and back which is great because who doesn't like an eagle put? I highly recommend playing here! read more

I've always wondered why the vibe is so much better here than elsewhere around SoCal, and reading these reviews, it's obvious that the people who make rounds of golf annoying don't dig this place. Rustic is a guaranteed great day out. Walk this golf course, it's worth it. Hit a bunch of shots you don't hit at softer courses. Run one around the boomerang on 13. Live your life a little and chill the f*** out. This place is magic. read more

FYI I play here often and in general I don't write many reviews. But I'm tired of the treatment by anyone in a customer service position that works here. It is a great course ruined by the attitudes of just about everyone who works there... Especially in the Pro Shop. Someone should teach these guys some manners. Rude, dismissive and down right disrespectful has shafts been the experience I and the people I know that I play with and play there.. They need to stop reading their press clippings. Or maybe they are not sure what the word value means in "top rated value golf course"... And start reading a guide on customer service.. read more

One of the best. A challenge. Always in great shape. Funny to see people complaining about carts. If they knew how to behave and stay out of environmentally restricted areas or how to not park next to the green I'm glad they won't come back out. Pace of play is always good for a hard course and staff is great unless your an entitled frat boy. Please stay away if you are one of the complainers. Leave it to the golfers not the duffers read more

I always, always love trying new golf courses, and Rustic Canyon was no different. Coming here with four of my golf buddies, it was awesome how they let us play in a fivesome. The rate was $38 because we technically played at a twilight time, which is about the price I would say is fair for the course. When you read that this course is a bit of a links layout, you can mostly expect that the intermediary cut around the greens is very, very close to the actual green surface. Therefore, you can find yourself putting from super far just because you can have a better judge of the roll; an alternative shot you might find yourself playing a lot here would certainly be the bump and run. The rough is fair, and the OB is usually not in obscenely ridiculous places, but do know that finding balls in the OB areas is certainly challenging. You can expect these desert-like plants there, and if your ball isn't visible, it's likely it's in one of those and essentially not worth it to even attempt to hack it out. Additionally, a lot of forced carries at Rustic Canyon are because of the little canyon-like areas filled with coarse sand. If you are lucky enough to find your ball, you'll be hitting out of what feels like rough bunkers, and keep in mind that these run through almost every hole. Some of my playing partners--and me on some occasions--lost some strokes just by having to have tough shots just to get out. Some holes from the tips were certainly very tough; I forget exactly what hole it was, but on the back 9 there was a hole where you basically had to drive it 240+ just to clear the OB area. It was definitely a pretty low handicap hole, but it was very representative of the much hillier and much more challenging back 9. The front 9 is a lot easier due to its wide fairways and relatively flatter holes, and it showed in most of our scores. The greens were smooth but also very tough in the way they broke; no one really putted lights-out. My friend, who is a putting guru of sorts, noted that they always tend to break towards the valley, and after a round, I'm actually very inclined to agree. Walking the course was not impossible, but the back 9 was definitely a lot more strenuous due to the plentiful hills. Oh, while you're here, I might as well tell a hilarious story that happened during my round. As my friend was lining up his putt, we all suddenly heard a huge noise. GUUUUUUUUSHHHHHHHH. We looked around, and A SPRINKLER HAD BLASTED HIS BAG, AND IT WASN'T MOVING OFF OF IT! I quickly abandoned studying my line and ran over to grab his bag--carefully, since I didn't want to get residue splash all over me--and then moved it to safety. No one laughed at the time since it was kind of horrifying, and I think we were worried about the contents of his bag, but he waved it off and said that it was waterproof. Anyways, while I felt like James Bond, I was kind of rattled and missed my putt and made bogey. Great. It was a really fun round and a really tiring one, but ultimately I wasn't extremely fond of the course. Holes were pretty interesting, but some were unnecessarily difficult. That said, I really, really love golf, and I wouldn't turn down another chance to take another crack at it. read more

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Great track if you're fond of rounds just under six hours long. Every time I play here it's the same thing, but I keep coming back for more waiting around on each hole because it's a great course. I just bring a book now - I finished 22 chapters of "War and Peace" (in original Russian) today. read more

Rustic Canyon Golf Course - 78 minutes behind pace after nine holes. They don't believe in marshals out here. - Golf Near Me - Moorpark, California

When having to reserve a Tee Time, fees are added, Rustic Canyon does not advise about course maintenance. To decide to take your hard earned $$$ and time only to find shoddy greens is appalling to me. Save us all some heartache and post when you are giving us less of a value (Punched Greens & Sand). Policy makers at this course need to learn...we have choices. Sad to report. Lastly, not finding the staff to be too friendly either which should be addressed from the Pro Shop to Grill. read more

Haven't played this course in 20 years or so. I was not impressed with the course. The tee boxes and fairways were in great shape, but the greens were running super slow. Like putting on shag rug. Also didn't like the locators for each hole, there weren't any. The tee boxes are all separated by blues and black and whites and red. Could never find what hole we were on. Also had to always backtrack to get to a lot of holes. The short par threes felt like the designer just put them in wherever he could find room. Overall, this course is not worth the drive or the cost. read more

whoever rated this course top 16 in California should be fired. The greens were just like putting on a parking lot. Probably running a 14. The fairways were worse than Woodly Lakes. Slow is a kind word. It took our middle of the week time 5.5 hours to play. Do yourself a favor and play anyplace else. 'Dean S. read more

The best golf course of all time.

RCGC is arguably one of the best public courses in all of southern California. This beautiful links course is very challenging. Don't let the beautiful scenery fool you: this place will make you earn your pars. The few times that I have played, the course was in top notch condition. The greens were rolling unbelievably fast, the fairways were well maintained, and the tee boxes were nicely cut on leveled grounds. They also have the best golf course hot dogs! Ask for the hotdog grilled half way open. You'll come back for more! read more

I can't believe I reviewed Rustic Canyon and only gave it 4/5 start. What was I thinking? This is one of the best courses in LA, and I've played some of the top country club courses. Oh well ... mistake was made. 5 stars!!!! read more

Excellent golf course. One time made the Top 100 public golf courses and well deserved. True links style top shelf design If it were in LOS Angeles and not so rustic lol I'd join the club. A++++ favorite place to play other than Riviera CC read more

I'll have to knock a star off after my experience recently. Basically, we got yelled at for playing too slow. Wait, let me explain. We were waiting on pretty much the entire front nine and then it started to open up. Around the 14th hole we lost sight of the group ahead of us, but we didn't worry too much as the group behind us only ever caught us on par 3's. Then coming off the 16th tee a course marshal who looked to be in his 20's had our cart wait for the guy in our group who was walking because "I need you all to hear this." He then promptly went off on a rant about how we were playing way too slow, the round was taking 5 hours, everyone behind us was suffering because of us, and the group in front of us had already finished. Excuse me?!?! There's no way that group could have finished already without simply leaving early. Of course arguing with a course marshal never does any good, so we apologized and picked up the pace a little. After finishing, returning the carts, unloading into our cars, and ordering food, we were sitting in the restaurant when the group behind us finally approached the 18th green. I wonder if they got yelled at too. Look, I definitely think most courses need to monitor pace of play better, and that's why we didn't give this guy any smack. But a simple "You guys need to pick up the pace a bit" to one member of our group would've had the same effect. (Plus it would've been faster.) At Lost Canyons or Robinson Ranch, not only would they never speak to you like that, but they would've said something a few holes earlier. You don't have to be a d*^& to get your point across. read more

Course was in pretty good shape and the greens were quick especially when putting downhill. A walkable course but some long distance treks from green to the next tee. The only drawback was the pace of play with groups sometimes playing from the wrong tees making for a long day on the course. Nonetheless it was a great day on the course (when isn't it?). read more

Quite the challenging course because of the links style (it be more challenging if it were a "lynx course", like the cat. Could you imagine a bunch of Lynx running around? anyways...) especially if you're not used to playing this type of course. Greens are in great condition and the holes are with undulating greens are quite challenging. I highly recommend a cart because of the GPS and because some of the tee boxes are not close from the preceding greens. I've walked the course before, in the wind, and it was THE most challenging rounds of golf in my life. So pony up the extra $5 because it's worth it. I agree with the other Yelpers that Rustic Canyon is not family friendly. Heck it's not that friendly to most regular golfers. I understand and have experienced others golfer and marshals complaining about "rate of play". Tough thing about this course is you can hit your ball into the long rough, which can be just a couple yards from the fairway, and lose that ball (which you can spend valuable time looking for it). Also, Some of the holes have blind tee shots and if you have never played Rustic before then you'll be spending extra time figuring out how to play your tee shot. If you think you might be a slower group implore "ready golf" and that might help your group move quicker. Rustic Canyon is a great course to play especially if you have never experienced a links style course before. Rates are similar to other local courses in the area although it would be even better if they were listed course on Golfnow.com. Rustic gets knocked down a peg because of the "other" golfers who complain about rate of play. I've played here 5-6 times and our 4some finishes a round in 4 - 4.5 hours and we still get yelled at every time. This is unfortunate because this course is really a blast to play. read more

Links style golf. Probably one of the best values in So Cal. Looks aside this place will humble you. The aprons are shaved close so it's an optional illusion on approach shots. You also can benefit from bump and run shots inside of chipping. Even pull out a wood or putter to get close. I'm glad the greens aren't too fast because they have a lot of slope and when you're hitting in it's best to take a club less because the ball wont stop. The hardest part is once you get on the greens you respect the speed, but it's not as fast as it looks so if you're like me you come up short all day. Gotta make mental adjustment. It's weird now how most courses have taken off gps systems on the carts, but Rustic still has theirs (which you need). It's best to play this place in the morning since the wind kicks up in the afternoon and it's hard judge distance right. If you haven't played here before should. Just note that if you're off your game you will be punished. It's a good test of your shot making ability. Salute. read more

Course is very far from my home club, but after so many positive reviews and the guys from @nolayingup featuring the course on Tourist Sauce I finally made the journey to check it out. Course design A+ better than 99% of SoCal golf. Better design than Torrey, Pelican, Trump, Maderas etc Course condition A- however I definitely take the location, temperatures they deal with and lack of rain into account. Staff A - I had limited interaction but they were very friendly. Cost A+ great rates for great golf. I walk and it was very reasonable read more

Played it for the 1st time and found the course to be well kept but quite challenging. The greens were in bad shape because they had just been aerated. $20 per cart fee is very high for a weekday afternoon. Also had to start on the back 9 which is not the best way to start this course. read more

Always a tough track. Absolutely love the first few holes. Looks wide open but watch out. Plenty of deep bunkers and special areas where you cannot retrieve your ball from. All marked off. Front nine much easier then the challenging back nine. The greens can be treacherous. Fast and true. Good luck. read more

Staff Friendliness: 7.5 of 10 Course Design: 9 of 10 Views/Scenery: 9 of 10 Fairways: 8.5 of 10 TeeBoxes: 8.5 of 10 Bunkers: 6 of 10 Greens: 8 of 10 Value for Money: 9 of 10 Quite simply, my favorite golf course in SoCal. It's something completely different, a nice easy front 9 from tee to green. But tough green complexes, hard not to 3 putt. A very challenging back 9, with a couple of easier holes (13 and 14). You won't shoot a great number until you've learned the course through and through, but you will love this track. Gorgeous views and canyon/desert links style layout. Absolutely a great value at $ 51 with a cart during the week. Very nice staff, always kept in great condition. I look forward to my visits there, even though it is 50 miles away from my home. PS- check the weather! If it's a Santa Ana Wind day it is blowing like crazy there!!! read more

I have loved this golf course since it first opened. It's a wonderfully designed and challenging course. I have to say, though , that I won't be back until they replace the pin sheets or use colored flags. It's one of the most difficult courses to gauge where the pins are due to the extended collars. Although I walked today one our players used a cart. The cart GPS also wasn't set up to give yardages to the pin placements. It was a very bad idea to do away with that much needed information. Rustic Canyon,let me know when you reinstate the pin placement system.Until then you have lost my business, read more

Great course but the staff / "private owner" (which they always blame all the "rules" on) are easily the most greedy of all the courses in the Ventura / LA area. We live nearby and our Junior Son plays there all the time, plays tournaments there, takes instruction from a Pro there and attends an Academy there. This course literally charges for EVERYTHING. Are you an adult who needs to simply drive the cart for your Junior? Yep, plan on paying a full green and cart fee to these bozos just to accompany your Jr on the course! Are you a parent who wants to be a spectator at your Junior's golf tournament? Yep, ONLY at Rustic Canyon will they enjoy charging you a full green fee just to watch your kid! My son and our family are regulars at many courses from OC to Santa Barbara and this is the only course which price gouges all the families who are just trying to bring their Juniors out to grow in the game. Also, they blame it on "everyone has to pay because of insurance and liability". That's BS. Charging someone a fee or not does not relieve the business of any liability whatsoever. If the course really has a concern with "liability" then just have the parent sign a waiver. Nope, it's not liability at all and we all know that. It's greed. Every. Single. Time. We bring our Son out to this course, we literally prep ourself for a "lecture" from the Pro Shop staff on all their rules. Courses like this are exactly why it is so hard to grow the game with this next generation. Ridiculous. read more

I love to play this course when I'm in Southern California, in fact this course is the reason I even bothered to lug my clubs onto a plane. I've played this course a few times and each round has been great. Rustic prides itself on a links course feel and that the course was created with moving a minimum amount of earth to let the land create the routes. This leads to several interesting bunkers and greens that are very undulated. The tight lies and large fringes around the green make long putts and chips quite common and many bunkers are deep and penalizing. The holes have enough variation too keep things interesting and course knowledge with all the hazards is essential. I had my first multiple birdie round out here so I am a little biased towards this course. Also on Thanksgiving the course seemed to go out of it's way to put up the must difficult pin placements on many holes. While it's a challenge, it does get old after having to go after a tucked pin at the edge of a green or at the top of a ridge. read more

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