Ancil Hoffman Golf Course

This course is amazing. It's usually in good shape. The greens are probably the best part. For a public and park course, the greens roll fast and true. The greens keeper can make this course play crazy hard with the right placements. The bad parts are the tee boxes and fairways. They are both not very well kept as the grass is usually long and there are many dead patches. The other downside is the general public walks around. It's kind of annoying. With this being said, it's one of my favorite courses and a must play in sac.

Looks like Ancil is back. The greens are beautiful, and the pace was great. Love it.. thank you

Ok, I get it, 1 star is brutal for this hidden gem of a golf course. Out of my many years playing here and enjoying the well manicured course and challenging narrow fairways, I have to be even more brutal now, and here's why. I played on Friday, August 2, 2024, and I can honestly say I have never been more disappointed in how the course is being managed. July was arguably the hottest recorded month in US history for the area, but that does not excuse flooding the course, aerating in July, and laying sand all over the greens. 3 of the greens were downright unplayable, with mounds of dirt and sand on 1/3 of them. I don't know what's going on, but I'm pretty annoyed I payed nearly $70 for a round here, when I wouldn't pay a cent for how poorly the course is cared for. Cmon Ancil, get it together! This is just embarrassing, and downright wrong to charge the general public for your course management. Mather is in better shape, and that's saying something!UPDATE: Asa, I completely understand the need for damage control, and I get that your team may be trying as hard as they can, however, I am more concerned that you are still charging nearly $70 a round when the course is arguably at times unplayable due to the damage done. If anything, I would suggest taking 50% off rounds with the understanding that you are trying to Improve the playing surface, and prices would return to normal once the course has been corrected. I have played at Ancil for 2 decades and would love to continue to, but not when the course is this damaged.

I've always enjoyed my visits to Ancil Hoffman until recently. I was on the range with my son and the new pro started yelling and barading us from down the way. I've never been treated so rudely at any course and I've been golfing for over 20 years.

Beautiful park. Great access to dip your feet into the river at the beach area. I say that I was disappointed with the bathrooms there was no paper towels or soap in the bathroom so make sure you have hand sanitizer. There are grills here if you wanted to do that! You can also reserve a table at this park. There is a nature conservatory with a trail we didn't go because it was too hot by 3 pm but I will be back to go it's beautiful there!

A lot of goose poop and trees, but that's the charm of playing here. Greens are okay. Love the wild animals that live on the course.

Boy this course is the epidemy of how not to run and maintain a once great jewel of a golf course. A couple years back they went through a management change and it's been downhill ever since. They've neutered the course of it's teeth of limbs hanging out over tough pins, cut down trees that "made" holes unique and a little more difficult, greens are typical muni types... not anymore being the best in town. It's unusual to get a fairway lie on decent grass, tees are very average, the pro shop overpriced and not well stocked with things you might need at the last minute like a new set of spikes. All winter the workers constantly drove their heavy maintenance vehicles through the muddiest spots on the course. They've taken the signature Par 3 14th "anthill" hole and closed it all winter, replacing it with a temporary, very pedestrian Par 3 absent of any character. There's talk of getting rid of the anthill completely. With green fees $63 weekdays and $72 weekends it seems like a screw job for patrons of Sacramento golf. It probably deserves 2.5 stars but from what it was, the fact it's fallen so far it deserves no more than two.

The course is poorly maintained and expensive. Many of the fairways are devoid of turf and you are hitting off hardpan or worse, wet mud. The tee boxes have never been in worse shape. The greens are playable, but much nicer at Haggin Oaks, Mather, or even Cordova. I can't believe I am comparing what once was one of the nicest courses in the area to Cordova. That is how bad Ancil Hoffman has degraded. Customer service is spotty at best. The cart girls spend a lot of time on their phones rather than serving golfers.

It's unfortunate that I have had to write this, but managment needs to hear it. We had three tees starting at 11:00. There was a tourny in front of us between Ancil and Wildhawk consisting of multiple foursomes. Several of which were standing around and running their mouths instead of teeing off when called up. Our groups started 15 minutes late because of this. To add insult, we waited EVERY hole while the wanna be PGA pros screwed around. Our round took 5:44 to complete. There was no marshall or tourny director to get them moving. The bev cart was seen once at 13, so nothing was available. Without a doubt the worst playing conditions we have ever had there. It will be tough for our groups to return there unless people are informed of tournaments ahead of them. So hopefully someone in the food chain will read this and take heed.

This course in Carmichael is definitely not the same as what it used to be went there today with a group, all the fairways have brown patches I mean, big brown patches, and the greens are definitely not in shape at all but yet they still charge a premium rate to play along with cart what's up with that, these guys have really been sucking. I'm not sure who their maintenance people are nowadays but literally on every fairway there's huge brown patches like it's not being watered enough in the right spots. This place used to be all green everywhere. This needs a lot of help immediately and stop charging so high of premium to play there, there's a lot more course options