Emerald Lakes Golf Course

Had some time to kill while visiting family, so I decided to check out Emerald Lakes Golf Course in Elk Grove. It's a nice, open space with a full golf course and a driving range on one side, which is great if you want a bit of both.I bought a medium bucket of balls, but unfortunately, they didn't dispense. I went to the front office, and the sales rep was super helpful, coming right out to fix the machine for us. As a bonus, they ended up giving us a basket for free, which was a nice touch!There's also free parking, which is always a plus. Overall, it was a pleasant experience, and I'd recommend stopping by if you're in the area and want to hit some balls.

I love this golf course. Lots of challenges for me. Happy to see they are upgrading the driving range.

Driving range does the job! Simple, lots of space, and decent price. It was around $16 for #150 balls so I was abe to get a good hit in.I do say some improvements for the driving range is to have more areas to sit in the shade. More maintenance on the mat would be great just to make the hitting experience fluid and consistent. I would love if there was just more seats to sit down on.Overall, its a great range for the price. Coming here on my weekends to practice (even though I'm no where near good haha) has been a fun experience!

Great place for a quick few swing of golf any day of the week. Easy 9 hole with beautiful well kept greens. Definitely recommend making reservations.

Simply one of the nicest golf courses I've ever played and I'm talking about the staff as well. The guy in the pro shop was extremely polite and each time I go, they're the same. Really appreciate how they let us play a few more after we played our 9 holes but wanted a bit more. Not a lot of course are cool like that. This is only my 3rd time playing there but I love the course. Keep up the great job here guys! I can see why it's always busy. Have yet to practice on the range cause I practice back in Stockton but I will be sure to smash a few range balls the next time.

The range was good. A little more pricy than other courses but me and my kids went there and had a great time. The kids were on the putting green and made a friend. Trying to teach them golf

I would like them to stay open on the hours posted. I assume if they have practice areas they need to stay open and let people hit chip and putt til the end. But they push everyone off to clean the range with 2 guys. Doesn't make sense on the work force

they are never open on the hours they say they are. I went to go hit the range and chip and putt but gates are closed a lot of the times.

Great and challenging course. Good staff. Lots of water - makes it more challenging. Good fairway maintenance.

A normal and enjoyable course gone sideways... This course has been a go-to for my friends & family for the last 3 years. It's a great course and it's maintained very well... My last visit, today, was one of the worst.It wasn't the course conditions, the heat, or pace of play. Instead, it was the Marshal named Joe. I took out 3 people to tee off at noon today. All was going well, enjoying my day and having a good time when Joe came around. At this point, it was not of any concern when he stopped to talk to us, although it was on hole 1 so somewhat strange to stop and ask us to pick up the pace of play. Sure, we can pick it up but we were waiting for the group in front of us...Joe wandered off to the next group, we thought he was going to remind them to pick up pace, perfect for us as we were waiting for them most of the 1st hole into the 2nd. He came around again a few holes later and I told him again that we were waiting on the group in front of us...It wasn't until home 3 that everything took a steep decline. We sat on hole 3's tee box for about 5 minutes waiting for the group in front to hit off the fairway a safe distance in order for us to tee off. Joe was behind us watching us, yet again, as we all teed off. On my second hit, laying on great drive around 250 yards out, Joe comes up to us and tells us AGAIN to pick up pace of play... At this point, I reminded him for the 3rd time that we were waiting for the group in front of us... He began to argue with us because he didn't believe me. I told him to look forward at the group in front of us who was on the green to point out that we're right behind them. He said there's no way that we're waiting for them. I explained how I could not tee off till they made farther progression. Thank goodness I did because where I landed, I would have hit them... He then made a disrespectful, snarky comment saying "You can't hit that far, there's no way" when we were only 250ish yards from the tee box... Who says this? Customer retention, who? What kind of Marshal says that let alone judging another players game when they are on the clock... I told him to leave me alone and that he was ruining my Sunday and he continued to talk to me. I had my wife just drive away so he would stop harassing us... We got to hole 4, lo and behold... here comes a Marshal... but it was not Joe! This marshal did not stop to say anything as I assumed he would've considering Joe and I just got into a dispute. He did not stop for us and went directly to the next group, who we were waiting for AGAIN, and i'm assuming told them to pick up pace of play... Anyways, this was a very distasteful experience. Our total play time for 9 holes was around 2:03-2:10. This is a decent time and, to me, does not warrant being harassed 3 times by a Marshal. Hopefully this is a new Marshal who will improve his understanding of the running of a course because if he's doing this to other players, he's going to push away customers. I enjoy this local course too much to discontinue playing but Joe needs to have a serious self-reflection moment.