El Monte Golf Course

El Monte is a well designed and well kept 9 hole course. Staff are friendly and the pace of play is great. It is a rather hilly course so you will probably want a cart. Roughly half of the pins can't be seen from the tee box. Which was fine for me since I can't hit over 150 anyways. The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars was because of our experience at the 9th hole. On approach to the 9th hole we had a guy on a cart come up to us and begin screaming at us calling us hooligans and saying that we were are nuisance to the course. We were rather perplexed by this as we had been relatively quiet and kept up a good pace of play and had not interacted with any other golfers while we were there. He then proceeded to explain our entire round in detail to include a point where we almost drove into a pond (I had hit my ball into the weeds and didn't realize those weeds were a pond. When I did I quickly turned the golf cart away to avoid it). To be clear while we had a good time golfing we did not break any course rules. His recap of our round told us that he had stalked us throughout the entire course. We had seen him driving around randomly through the course and found it rather strange. After he finished berating us he said he would take down our Tee time and names and numbers and report us to the super intendant. Half my group picked up and didn't even finish the 9th hole because of this. When we parked our carts we waited for about 20 minutes for someone to come out and talk to us. Turns out this guy didn't even work there. He is just a Karen that drives around, stalks golfers and yells at people. I know the course cannot control every action of its patrons but it is ridiculous that the staff allow Karens to rent carts for hours just to drive around and harass people. This was my first and likely last time playing this course.

We've been playing El Monte Golf Course for years, so this place has some family history for us. It's also where my wife played golf for the first time, which makes me smile because I remember how seriously she was taking those first few swings. El Monte is a nine-hole course at the mouth of Ogden Canyon, with mature trees, gentle elevation changes, and those two huge Fremont cottonwoods sitting right in the middle of the first fairway. They're hard to miss. The course opened in 1931, and you can feel some of that age in a good way. I like the pace and personality of the place. It isn't trying to be some giant resort course. You hear the creek and wind through the trees, and the canyon walls are right there beyond the fairways. The old stone clubhouse sits above the course, and there's a little history in just walking up there. It was built during the Depression from stone quarried near the Ogden River and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Some of the tee boxes and cart paths have definitely seen better days, and I've donated my share of golf balls to the rough over the years. That's part of the deal. I still remember my wife standing over that first ball, trying to figure out what she was supposed to do with a golf club. She hit it. That was the beginning.

Grew up in Davis county and never got out to this course. It's really beautiful! We did go in the morning and got those canyon winds but it actually made it pretty exciting! I wish there was 18 holes here but the 9 that are here are pretty fun! One thing I would do is make sure the people are off the first green, like go up and walk/drive over to where you can see if because we saw some people on a tee box, assuming it was the people in front of us but it wasn't so we hit but hit into the kids in front of us. Learned my lesson on that hole! Also if you go before 9 because of the crazy winds it's only $20 for 9 plus a cart. And I would recommend a cart for those less fit because some of the holes are pretty hilly!

I might be partial because I just shot the best round of my life... A 99 with 2 dropped balls. But I loved this course. Yes it is only 9 holes, I played 2 laps... My friend wasn't joking about the morning wind... It's brutal for a 7am tee time ... The first hole is challenging with a tree right in the middle of the fairway and a 40mph head wind... Then from there the flag is hidden. Hole 2 you come back to the flag up above you for another blind chip. 3. Visually beautiful hole. With the wind keeping you back if you get it too high it has a 90° dog leg right. Where you come out of the trees and the wind will pull the ball to the right. Aim left of the pin. 4. Now facing north 4 was an awesome par 3. wide open but the rough was fairly deep if you couldn't land it on the green. Aim right. 5. This was my worst hole. Got too much under it and the wind took it hard right and my normal 225 became 180. If you can get it 250+ it should put you in a perfect 60yrd area right of the green. This was my first drop... And my second... A beautiful hole but it was unforgiving for me. 6. another little 180 par 3. A lot of the greens bowl so if you don't land it in the center you're rolling off. Trees straight along the left side. 7. Awesome if you can cut the little marsh pond and lay up for a 70yrd chip, but play it safe and get yourself a 100-120yrds out. Another domed green where I rolled right off the back. The wind pushes you back right a bit. 8. The tail wind helped me get my longest shot ever with my 3 hybrid... My 220 became 280... I felt like a Greek demigod! Now if only I could hit my driver... 9. A great hole to finish on. Nice dip down into a wide fairway that tightens up and you have to drop it right on the green. The back slopes upp and makes chipping back tough. Watched 3 guys roll it right off the front. Just as epic the 2nd lap around. I'm definitely going to play this course again.

Staff was very nice & the course was fun. There were only 9 holes so to play 18 you just do a re-round. Lot's of rough to donate golf balls to.