Buenaventura GC went three years with no flood
In the early months of the year 2023, Ventura County had a storm that ended up flooding out a local golf course called Buenaventura Golf Course for exactly three years. Its reopening to the public occurred on May 2, 2025 with a limited 14-hole layout. This opening allowed local golfers to start playing at Buenaventura again, yet, it wasn’t the same as there were now limitations. Ultimately its repair caused the city of Ventura to fund 10 million dollars for the restoration of the course, like digging up three feet of mud caused by the flood. However, in the Fall of 2025 the course opened its full 18-hole layout making the course complete again after the restoration.
Now, come late Dec. of 2025 and once again Ventura County has a big rainstorm lasting almost two weeks. The golf course was flooded once more but this time the damage to the course was limited to certain holes and wasn’t as severe as the storm was in 2023. Certain holes got flooded instead of the whole course being damaged like it was in a couple years back. Specifically hole 10 had notable flooding on the fairway, causing a pond-like shape on the fairway.
Through Ventura Forward, Spencer Noren’s instagram account, he said, “It looks like old traditional flooding on the hole closest to Olivia’s Park Road which happens every major storm, but the rest of the course looks great.”…