Cherry Island Golf Course

It has been years since I have played Cherry Island. What a shame as it is in fantastic shape. The greens were all fair and true and the course was beautiful. The second cut was pretty brutal as there were times where I had a heck of a time finding my ball. The course plays 6511 from the tips and is a good course for the intermediate golfer. The back nine is where you can do your scoring as it is shorter and you will have the rhythm of the course by then. The 7^th is a tough hole as you have water along the right side, but you have to make sure to stay close to the water as the green is across and it is a 160 yard shot a elevated green with traps covering the right front. Yikes… tough hole. Hopefully, I can make it back soon.

Cherry Island is a very nice course. The greens are in excellent shape. the course is challenging enough to keep most players interest. It is also a beautiful course with wild life and views. The greens are a bit fast so you have to adapt. The atmosphere is extremely friendly. The price is reasonable too. Its a fun course to play for different levels. They have 4 sets of Tees. Placed right. The driving range is off the grass, or least it was the day I played. It is a well kept course. Very clean. They also have a pro shop and a nice café. there is a putting and chipping are also. I will look forward to playing again here soon. Its fun to try new places. Very laid back atmosphere.

Well maintained public course with the best green fees in Sacramento. Also very challenging, the creek that cuts across every hole it seems will either make you a better ball striker or be your worst enemy!!!

Cherry Island is a great course for just about all skill level players. Just played it this morning and considering the drought situation, they have kept the course in great shape.
The staff is friendly. They have marshals on hand (rarity these days) to make sure pace of play is satisfactory.
The course itself isn’t very long or difficult. Most holes are pretty straightforward but you do have some target golf holes here and there.
Would recommend to any player

This course is pretty good for beginners. Very wide and forgiving fairways on some of the holes. You know it’s your kind of place to golf when you get through 18 holes and somehow only lost 3 balls the entire day.
The course itself is A-​OK. There aren’t any nice views, and the greens are maintained quite well. The pro shop was surprisingly very nice, as were all the staff who work there. I had a lot of fun golfing here, even though it wasn’t one of the best courses I’ve played. Overall, a good, cheap, and fun place to play 18 holes when you’re feeling down on your golf game.

Golf course itself is fun. However, play is WAY to slow and marshalls need to get off their lazy butts and do their jobs. Could never get in a rhythm and too much waiting around after EVERY shot. No refreshment cart weekdays… lame. Won’t be playing here for a very long time… too bad because I like the course.

Just played for first time. I play all over Sacramento and in short – the course was in really good shape, the layout is really fun: had a great time.
Course: This course is like a combination of Ansel Hoffman, a little narrow at times with lots of lefts and rights – in fact at least one hole with a double dogleg – and Mather, which is is a bit more forgiving but longer. Really good layout with lots of risk/​reward tee shots, and unless your index is 10 or below, I recommend the white tees which brings into play cutting the corners of some doglegs by going up and over trees. Playing from the blues will make it more position golf, where you are hitting to a layup spot and takes the driver out or your hands on some holes. In either case, if you can shape the ball a bit you have an advantage.
Greens: Really good on my round, no brown spots, well-​maintained and challenging, anything but flat or boring. We tee’d off at 1 and finished at 6, and the greens stayed in good shape, and not as fuzzy as Ansel’s and others can get late in the day
Tee boxes: many were fine, several a little rough, but consider that Chambers Bay, the site of this year’s U.S. Open purposefully provides slope in its tee boxes so you can choose one that fits your desired shot shape – work with it!
Food: I called the grill on 9 so I could get a sandwich on the turn and, fair warning, main kitchen closes at 3, so some options were off the table. Ended up ordering a ham and cheese panini on wheat, turned out to be really good crunchy wheat, and it was one of the best paninis I’ve ever had, and huge. Once I saw it, I could not talk one of my playing partners into splitting it, but a golfer who had wandered over from bar bought half of it for $ 5. Nice.
So, this is the end of March, 2015, and while this course may not have been in good shape in previous years it is now and I recommend it. In fact it’s now in my rotation.

Nice driving range and chipping area. The course is not that bad and is fun! The staff is always happy and friendly. Not to expensive. Ill be back for the range for sure.

This is a nice golf course. The staff is helpful and volunteers make the difference. I had fun on a hot Labor Day weekend.
There were no big Aha moments, but for a municipal course its got the right stuff!

I really like this course. The place has done everything they can to shake reputation of a «hack» course. The greens are in fantastic shape. The only thing they could improve upon is the t-​boxes being a bit beat up but… really no big deal. Friendly staff/​mgmt. Driving range does need help but, I’d rather them put resources and care into course rather than driving range, which they had!

Cherry Island allows fivesomes which is terrible if you are in the group behind them as I was today. Never saw a marshall and did not see beverage cart girl until hole 16. Course in good condition especially greens. Ken the starter was very friendly and informative.

Yes the conditions aren’t the best around but I always find this course to be fun to play. Nothing really scenic about it but there’s some fun holes like the (7^th?) where you have to hit over a lake. If you wanna walk during the weekday you can get a good twilight rate of like $ 15 bucks or less. I’ve played here dozens of times and the majority of the time it isn’t crowded at all if you play after 3 or 4pm.

I love this place, the ground are very well kept. The superintendent has done a great job of keeping up with the grounds maintenance. The staff is always friendly and helpful!

I bought a golf coupon book and it came with free golf here at Cherry Island. I play a few rounds a week all around Sacramento and have never been here. So I made the trip excited to play a new course.
This place looks like it would’ve been decent somewhere between the time of draft dodging and disco. The problem is, it hasn’t been updated at all since then.
The range it dated and completely worn out. The carts look like they should be in a museum.
My front yard is in better shape than the greens the tee boxes are completely domed and about the third or fourth hole the entire course is covered in goose crap. Not here and there… COVERED! After slogging through water fowl feces for three or four holes my friend and I decided to call it a day after it took THREE AND A HALF HOURS to cover seven holes with no marshal in site!
We walked out on FREE GOLF!
On the way out we stopped by the pro shop to tell the kid (who was very good) and he offered two rain checks. I declined. After leaving the nice kid in the pro shop I jumped back in the cart to take our clubs out to the car. Surprise! The cart dies!
This place isn’t even worth the time if it’s free!

COURSE CONDITIONS
Found a discounted rate online and arrived Sunday March 16 at 9:30 AM. When I arrived I was told that the reason the rates were discounted was because the greens were just air-​rated and in horrible condition. Not only were the greens in awful condition, the tee boxes were not level, meaning it was difficult to find a place to tee off where your ball is even with your feet. I would have rather paid the full rate at another course that was in good condition.
UNANNOUNCED ACTIVITIES ON THE COURSE
On the very first hole I noticed on my 2^nd shot that were two random flags placed in the middle of the fairway with a large 3 foot diameter hole for each (imagine a putting green hole but 30 times larger). We all thought they were being used for chipping practice since they weren’t actually on a green. Then we noticed that these holes and flags are all over the course! After we asked around, we were told that these were being used for «foot golf». This is a family-​friendly game in which people kick soccer balls down fairways and try to make it into the holes… just like golf. The flags placed all over the course were extremely distracting especially when you haven’t played the course before. Then we come to find out that they allow the foot golf game to be played AT THE SAME TIME AS THEY ALLOW GOLFERS ON THE COURSE! I was teeing off on the 5^th hole and along comes a family of four walking in our fairway kicking a soccer ball! I really was in disbelief that a golf course would allow this to happen and was appalled that they gentlemen in the clubhouse didn’t inform us of this activity when we paid our rate. If you continue reading reviews from other Unilocalers you’ll notice this activity is consistent with other reviews.
PACE
The course was extremely crowded. Perhaps it was because the course was over booked due to the online discount, or maybe it was because you have to wait for the foot golfers to play through. In any case it took us 3 hours, yes 3 hours to play 9-​holes. Luckily the group ahead of us didn’t make the turn but all in all we played 18-​holes in 5 ½ hours.
THE LOWDOWN
Needless to say I won’t be back to their facilities and I would encourage you to not book a tee time unless of course you’re into «foot golf». If indeed you are into foot golf, then knock yourself out. Literally.

Played this course on Saturday, what a joke! the course condition is terrible… greens have bald spots on several holes, tee boxes are not level and seems like the people who play the course don’t know proper etiquette of fixing ballmarks. Oh and let me not forget that it took 4 hours to play 9 holes. You heard me…4 to play 9. Absolutely ridiculous! Tried to report this to the head pro, but appearantly he’s never available. Save your money and hit balls in a field.

Great price and great staff!!! We had a blast and I even though I shot a TERRIBLE game, we had a blast! Will for sure be back to redeem myself!

I normally love this place. My husband and I have golfed here numerous times. My husband called to book a tee time on Friday and was told that kids play free. So we drove from Elk Grove to Elverta. When we got there, they tried to charge us for $ 15 per child to ride in the cart. My husband said that we were not disclosed that when we called. It didn’t matter. The man behind the counter didn’t even want to hear that we didn’t get the correct information. So, we ended up walking out on our tee time. So disappointing and bad customer service.

Played this course back in September last year, but haven’t gotten around to review the course till now.
Good: The course layout is straight forward but each hole has good amount of OB, but this is what makes it challenging. Some holes are deceiving in that they don’t play as long as noted at the tee box, only brought out the big stick a couple of times. The course is in decent shape, fairways could have been mowed, but the greens, for the most part, were in good condition. The course is not the best in the area, but it’s in better shape than Haggin. There are a lot of good deals for this course on
Bad: Pro shop staff was a little rude. We should up to our tee time 5 mins. late (the course is good ways off of 80), and instead moving us to another tee time and letting the groups behind us get on first, they canceled our tee time (minus 1 star). I apologized for showing up mins. late, but these guys weren’t having it. I had to fight to get another tee time. They found us another tee time but we had to pay full price, but told them that I can book the same time on Golfnow for half the price. This made them more upset, but there was nothing they can do as they had to honor the Golfnow price.
The course gets backed up (minus 1 star). We had to wait a min. of 10 – 15 mins. at each tee box (3 hours to complete front 9) Back 9 was little better.
Overall, the course is decent track and aside from the pace of play and bad experience with Pro shop staff, will play course again.

I like this course because it does provide a little challenge and if you play at the right times it is very affordable. The conditions could be improved but most courses can. It can get slow as it does attract people who are less skilled which doesn’t bother me.
The staff seems friendly and their focus is customer service.