Pros:
All of the reviews below mine are great and I think accurately reflect what is going on here and if you want to just skip mine and read theirs it would be fair, but I will give my own reflections here just for hecks sake.
When I arrived I at Oyster Bay , the parking lot was closed and I had to park on Neptune Drive along with every other park user. Cars were strung down the road on both sides for quite awhile. This added quite a bit to the walk in making it maybe a mile to hole 1 or more. It's not a difficult walk but an extra mile is an extra mile.
I have to admit my first time seeing the course did not wow me in a good way. I came over the hill to see a ton of people just playing out in the wide open. There are literally 36 baskets and 36 teepads strung out in about a 30 acre area of just wide open nothingness. There are some natural shrubs and their are a ton of tree plantings as others have mentioned. But I use the word tree carefully because these are more twigs in the ground, most of them only 2 feet tall with only a handful over 3 feet and the salt air and wind are stunting their growth. There is some slight elevation changes at play as the ground slopes toward the bay.
There are 36 Innova Discatcher color coated blue and gold and 36 teepads color coated blue and gold, providing 4 distinct layouts: blue to blue, gold to gold, blue to gold, and gold to blue, not to mention a hybrid of all. This will definitely keep your game fresh but can greatly add to the confusion of the course.
But it is the wind that really creates any real obstacle here. It is almost omnipresent being on the bay and quite deceptive. It makes a round here far more challenging just trying to adapt to the wind.
Solid signage and 3D printed basket pointers on every basket to the next teepads.
I should mention that the SF Bay is visible from every spot on the course adding to the ambiance.
Cons:
The biggest con here is the land itself as it really is just wide open and rather barren of course they are trying to change that.
The plantings and shrubs are surrounded by fencing to protect them. Most of the foliage provides very little obstacle as it's easy enough to go over the top and are more annoyances at this stage rather than obstacles. The shrubbery that isn't fenced is getting destroyed by traffic. This is going to be a battle to get greenery in here.
It's a really busy course at least on the weekend. You will find your self doing alot of waiting on holes. Also as open as this course is I can't imagine how hot this course gets in the summer time I was lucky enough to play on a nice fall day.
There is no water in play despite the proximity to the bay. In fact this course feels early high desert like.
Everybody I talked to and even the reviews on her are all excited about the future of the course when all the twigs actually become trees. I don't mean to be a Debbie Downer but trees don't grow here naturally and it will be interesting to see if with the wind and the salt air if these trees make it at all. If the trees do come in this could be a great course.
Other Thoughts:
I would normally lean very heavily to not giving a course with no trees like this more than a 3 but I am giving the nudge up just for the amount and volume of work done here.
I also have to say I don't like multiple baskets on fairways I like my courses a little cleaner. It does become a distraction as to where you are aiming. But when everybody cheers when you ace a basket you don't have to tell them you were aiming for the other one.
Overall this course wasn't really my cup of tea, it might get there in 10 years, and don't get me wrong you can still have alot of fun here and really work on your wind game but for me I'll take my woods golf. This course kind of has a desolate desert feel, but here's hope for the future.