San Geronimo Golf Course
Teeing off on the 10th hole
Monday I took the day off work to play my home course San Geronimo. San G is located in West Marin, Forrest Knolls to be exact. It’s about 15 minutes from San Rafael.
Here is the map: San Geronimo Golf Course
In short San Geronimo is the best course and best value in the entire Bay Area. Their rates are lower than every other 18-hole course in the area and the course itself is awesome. But be warned, it’s extremely difficult. It’s long, well maintained and has firm and fast greens.
Every hole is a double bogey waiting to happen. There is constant danger off every tee and if you are above the hole once you’re on the green your screwed. There are plenty of elevation changes, lakes, bunkers and large oak and pine trees to mess with your head.
All that being said… there are opportunities for birdies. Three of the four par 5’s are birdie holes and reachable in two for longer hitters. As for the par 3’s, forget about it. There is only one manageable par 3 (the 13th) and even that one has a difficult green. Again I can’t stress enough the value of being below the hole at San G.
I was partnered with a couple of cool guys whose names escape me. But they were both good players and we played the black (back) tees. I was pretty surprised that I shot 80 and putted real well - 32 total putts to be exact. We teed off at 11:45 and the rate was $38 with a cart on GolfNow. The round took us 4 hours and 20 minutes.