It shares a double green with the 18th hole, and has red-staked marshland on the right hand side. The 9th hole is a mid-length par 4 at 344 from the blue tees. Olivas is a great example of how good architects fit golf courses into their natural environments, both in beauty and playability. The course has large greens with openings at the front that allow golfers to play a variety of shots to the hole depending on pin placement and wind. The course is about a mile from the ocean, and so wind is a constant.
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The result is an open, links-style course that feels ‘natural’ and fits in with its coastal plain surroundings.
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Golf has been played here since the 1960s but due to its location between the Santa Clara River and Ventura Harbor, drainage issues caused Richardson to redesign the whole course when the city hired him in 2001. For those of you riding, last years new Yamaha cart fleet were also equiped with yardage books in them.Olivas Links is a Forrest Richardson designed muni course in Ventura, CA that opened in 2008. Yardage is plentiful and it is marked on most all of the sprinkler heads (there are some humurous ones like the "You Wish" marker on 18 if you can find them). The greens are really big and pretty fast, but they roll pretty well (so PLEASE don't forget to fix your ball marks). Ask the folks who tried US OPEN qualifying a few years back). The rough is normally** very manageable with two cuts and may just save your ball from going in the water (I say normally, because if the superintendent wanted, he could make this course unbelievably hard by letting the rough get nasty). Fairways are a little narrow, but will improve your distance considerablly if you can hit them. The very long tee boxes (some up to 150yds)are cut short and for the most part are flat which reduces your options of blame. The course is well maintained for a links course. Both par5's on the back are reachable in two, and all the greens on the back are flatter allowing you to be more aggressive with your putt(s). The back nine is your opportunity to get back some of those strokes that may have gone swimming away from you on the front. The back nine however will make you feel like a golfer again, with shorter,more forgiving holes. Once you get past the first 4 however, it's smooth sailing on rest the front nine with the exception of 8, which is a long par4 with one of the biggest greens on the course and 9 which again has water lining the right side and likes to gulp up wandering shots.
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And for you low handicapers: I know how losing brand a new $4 golf ball really sucks. The first 4 can can put a put a VERY sour note on your golf outing if you are not very, very carful.įor all you high handicap players use your reserve supply of golf balls first, because the first 4 holes all have water on the right side from tee green to collect those new golf balls that are designed to go further, straigter, and stop quicker. You will want to arrive at the course early to warm up, because the most difficult part of the golf course is the first 4 holes. A low handicap golfer should move back to the tips to enhance your experience. A high handicap golfer should bring an ample reserve of golf balls to feed the many carp habitats. Boomerang will offer a challenge to golfers of all skill levels with two very different, very distinct 9's. Let me start by saying this is one of my home courses.