Rated 8.5/10 The fairways and rough are just in fantastic shape. Fairways had perfect green lies and rough was semi-penal but still easy to hit out of. Green-side rough looked to be mowed down. I remember playing here years ago where you did not want to be in the green-side rough. Rating for fairways and rough was close to a 9/10.
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Rental Clubs | 18 HoleS: $75 | 9 Holes: $50 (Includes Sleeve of golf balls and glove.) Not inclusive of greens fee or cart.
The 18-hole golf course and the greens were considerably toughened in 1988 by famous course designer Jay Morrish.
owner Burt SperberCourse owner Burt Sperber insisted that the only way to save it was for Goleta to annex and rezone the land to residential status from agriculture, allow him to build as many as 185 houses, and shrink the field of play to an executive course.
The legendary Ojai resort debuted 305 guest rooms and suites, a new lobby and entrance, new golf shop, new restaurants, and new ballrooms and meeting spaces, while preserving its original charming architecture and unique sense of place.
In the same Pacific Golf and Motor article quoted on the rock by the 1st tee, George Thomas praised the land on which he and William P. (“Billy”) Bell laid out Ojai Country Club in 1923:
To varying degrees, nearly every hole at the Ojai Valley Inn has been lost. At least two are completely gone. After the premiere of the “Lost Holes,” the resort eliminated No. 6 and built hotel rooms on the land. The same flurry of construction also precluded the restoration of Thomas and Bell’s 1st hole, which played from what it now the 10th tee to the 14th green.
18 holes. Tree-lined & open parkland. Undulating terrain - several slopes to climb.
In 1923, Edward Drummond Libbey (1854-19125), a wealthy Ohio glass manufacturer and philanthropist, commissioned California architect Wallace Neff to build the Ojai Country Club in the Spanish Colonial architectural style. From its earliest days, guests felt the Inn was an escape, a sophisticated getaway that gave them the sense of being on their own private country estate.
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