The Bethel Island Golf Club, Bethel Island, CA

Bethel Island Golf course is where you go when you have no money but you absolutely have to get a round in. The fairways are usually half green half brown and the course layout has no imagination whatsoever. The rough can be as high as 5 or 6 inches some days. But where else can you walk 18 holes for under 10 bucks. If you know of any other place close to east county please let me know.

don't understand how it stays in business lack of play and maintnence is poor no fertilizer or grass seed in years

OK, I learned my lesson today: double-check my memory and the course directories before I go play somewhere. I was apparently thinking of the Mare Island course when I booked a tee-time on-line at Bethel Island. This is another one of the courses that you play when you absolutely have to get a round in and can't go anywhere else. The fairway conditions varied from perfectly acceptable to ratty. The course is very flat so it's easily walked, but that also results in very little variety to the holes; the length and their layout relative to the prevailing wind is about all the distinguishes them from one another. There are trees, but they rarely come into play. The pro shop staff was quite friendly, and even comped me a bucket of balls for the range since I was walking and not taking a cart. The greens were actually in quite good shape, and if the rest of the course was in the same condition as the greens this course would be well worth the drive from the peninsula, where I live (SSF).