San Diego County Golf Course Reviews
Lake San Marcos Country Club Golf Course Review
San Marcos, CA
71.7 rating; 129 slope |
Lake San Marcos Country Club Overview: Located at the resort of the same name in North San Diego county, the "long" course is an older affair with many holes weaving between houses (many of which are in play). The majority of the golf holes are relatively simple, but there are a few very difficult and/or interesting holes sprinkled in here and there. The best of these are reviewed below:
Lake San Marcos Hole 4: This long dogleg left par four features a tough tee shot. Anything right of the fairway will bound towards the houses and anything left will catch a row of large trees. The approach is downhill to a green guarded by a deep bunker front left and another to the right.
Lake San Marcos Hole 4: This long dogleg left par four features a tough tee shot. Anything right of the fairway will bound towards the houses and anything left will catch a row of large trees. The approach is downhill to a green guarded by a deep bunker front left and another to the right.
Lake San Marcos Hole 7: The only par five on the front nine offers a good chance to score well for the driver who wants to challenge the small lake on the inside of the dogleg left. There is plenty of room right for a more conservative player. The green has only one defense, which is a large grass depression dead center in front of it, around the front left and front right portions of the green wrap.
Lake San Marcos Hole 12: If Lake San Marcos is a little rough around its edges, the 12th is the diamond in that rough. At over 600 yards, with houses left and right off the tee, a good drive must be hit. The second shot needs to stay right of the tree covered hillside and left of the enormous Eucalyptus tree grove to right of the fairway. The approach is then uphill to a small, undulating green.
Lake San Marcos Hole 14: I don't know this for a fact, but I have to imagine the architect routed the course around the view from this tee shot. Straight downhill to a collecting bunker and lake, the tee shot doesn't need to be hit very far, or must be hit really, really far, to avoid the water. After that, it's a straight shot to the green, which is wide open on this very straight hole.
Lake San Marcos Hole 16: This is a solid dogleg left par four with a hazard area running down the right side of the hole. Houses are to the left on the drive and large trees are left on the approach, but a big bunker guards the green to the front right, so any shot will have to contend with some form of trouble.
