Lodestone Golf Course, Oakland

We thoroughly enjoyed our round at Lodestone and will definitely be back! The course is challenging but fair, and offers plenty of opportunities to score well if you hit the right spots. One of the coolest, well-thought out layouts our group has ever played. The Good: -Staff is extremely flexible, friendly, and helpful -Course layout is spectacular and has lots of character -Views of the lake on a few holes are awesome -Greens are huge, undulating, and accessible, which makes the course fair given all the fairway undulation/slopes -Bunkers had plenty of sand (this might be a recent improvement - as some other recent reviews said the course lacked sand in bunkers - we didn't see a single bunker without sand) -The small diagrams on the scorecard were good enough to help overcome the many blind shots due to the course slopes; now that we've played it once we'll know exactly where to hit. -Fairways are plush, enabling players to spin the ball into greens. Potential Areas to Improve: -Some tall grass is growing on the edges of many bunkers - this might be on purpose, but if so I'd suggest telling players this to avoid bad reviews. It didn't affect our ability to play out of them. -Some greens have small (quarter-sized) brown spots, which might be signs of disease? They're still completely playable and roll true. -Consider investing in some new carts - with the incredibly steep hills on this course, the carts struggled at times. Not at all a showstopper, just something to consider. -It's clear people are willing to pay a premium to play this course. Use a little of that money and pave the driveway. By the time we left, our vehicles were doused in a healthy layer of dust.

Excellent course. Would definitely play this course again. Ample fairways and large, challenging greens. Beautiful layout, with gorgeous views.