# Bennett Valley Golf Course, Santa Rosa: a golf course in Santa Rosa (2026 guide) Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/santa-rosa/bennett-valley-golf-course-santa-rosa-ca. Free to reuse with a link back. By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 25 sources. Updated 2026-10-17. Owner review: not yet. 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Its AI Score is 70 of 100, which is good. Every fact on this page carries one of three marks: Confirmed (from their website, Google Business Profile, review sites, licensing boards, or measured by Local AI Registry), Visitor submitted (added by a person, with a date and how they know), or AI guess (what AI engines like Gemini and ChatGPT are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page. ## Key facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Type | Golf course | | Address | 3330 Yulupa Ave, Santa Rosa, CA 95405, USA | | Hours | Nothing found | | Phone | (707) 528-3673 | | Owner | Nothing found | | Rating | 4.4 across 434 reviews on Google | | Known for | Nothing found | | Prices | Nothing found | | Quietest time | Nothing found | | Parking | Nothing found | | Last verified | October 16, 2026, 6:48 PM | ## All the details Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from. | Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Location info | Address | 3330 Yulupa Ave, Santa Rosa, CA 95405, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 25, 2026 | | Location info | Description | Bennett Valley Golf Course (BVGC) opened in 1969 & is located at the base of Bennett Peak, where Matanzas Creek meanders through the tree-lined course. Native oak, redwood & pine trees enhance the course’s beauty & create a classic, natural setting. The par 72, 6,500 yard course (from the tips) is considered one of the best maintained in the area, with a driving range & a large practice putting green. Iron & Vine Restaurant, Bar & Events is a full bar & restaurant open daily including brunch on Saturday & Sunday. See full restaurant hours on the restaurant business page. Enjoy a meal indoors, or al fresco on the outdoor patio overlooking gorgeous views of the course. With amazing event space, there are all types of options for events! | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 25, 2026 | | Location info | Name | Bennett Valley Golf Course | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 25, 2026 | | Location info | Phone | (707) 528-3673 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 25, 2026 | | Services | Service | Bennett valley annual pass | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Charity golf tournaments | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Club fittings | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Course layout | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Driving range | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Event calendar | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Event hosting | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Fitting days | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Golf coaches | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Golf course access | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Golf leagues | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Golf lessons | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Golf tournaments | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Group golf lessons | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Job opportunities | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Junior golf | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Junior golf programs | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Leagues | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Operation 36 | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Photo gallery | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Practice putting green | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Preferred vendors | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Private events | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Rates | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Restaurant dining | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Restaurant special hours | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Tinsel takeover | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Tinsel takeover invite | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Tournaments | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Weddings | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Links | Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/bennettvalleygolfcourse | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 16, 2026 | | Links | Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/bennettvalleygolfcourse | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 16, 2026 | | Links | Website | https://bennettvalleygolf.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 25, 2026 | ## Services and prices These are the 22 services Bennett Valley offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from. | Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Private events | | | | Confirmed | | Fitting days | | | | Confirmed | | Golf coaches | | | | Confirmed | | Operation 36 | | | | Confirmed | | Photo gallery | | | | Confirmed | | Club fittings | | | | Confirmed | | Course layout | | | | Confirmed | | Driving range | | | | Confirmed | | Weddings | | | | Confirmed | | Charity golf tournaments | | | | Confirmed | | Junior golf | | | | Confirmed | | Event calendar | | | | Confirmed | | Group golf lessons | | | | Confirmed | | Job opportunities | | | | Confirmed | | Preferred vendors | | | | Confirmed | | Tinsel takeover invite | | | | Confirmed | | Tournaments | | | | Confirmed | | Rates | | | | Confirmed | | Restaurant special hours | | | | Confirmed | | Tinsel takeover | | | | Confirmed | | Leagues | | | | Confirmed | | Bennett valley annual pass | | | | Confirmed | ### Known for Reviews not read yet, back on Scan Day. ## The team Nothing found ## Visiting Bennett Valley Address: 3330 Yulupa Ave, Santa Rosa, CA 95405, USA. Phone: (707) 528-3673. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked August 25, 2026 at 5:57 PM.) ### Location info from Google Business Profile Business description, written by Bennett Valley on its Google Business Profile: "Bennett Valley Golf Course (BVGC) opened in 1969 & is located at the base of Bennett Peak, where Matanzas Creek meanders through the tree-lined course. Native oak, redwood & pine trees enhance the course’s beauty & create a classic, natural setting. The par 72, 6,500 yard course (from the tips) is considered one of the best maintained in the area, with a driving range & a large practice putting green. Iron & Vine Restaurant, Bar & Events is a full bar & restaurant open daily including brunch on Saturday & Sunday. See full restaurant hours on the restaurant business page. Enjoy a meal indoors, or al fresco on the outdoor patio overlooking gorgeous views of the course. With amazing event space, there are all types of options for events!" ### When to go Busy times not read yet, back on Scan Day. ### Parking and getting in Nothing found ### Nearby | Place | Type | Distance | | --- | --- | --- | | Iron & Vine Restaurant Bar & Events | Restaurant | 1 min walk | | Galvin Community Park | Park | 4 min walk | | Galvin Dog Park | Park | 5 min walk | | Bethards Dr at Yulupa Ave | Bus stop | 10 min walk | | ZENSHI Handcrafted Sushi | Restaurant | 10 min walk | ## Reputation 4.4 average across 434 reviews: Google 25. (Confirmed, read August 25, 2026.) Bennett Valley Golf Course is known for its scenic beauty and challenging layout, but struggles with maintenance and customer service issues. (AI guess, from 434 reviews.) ### What people like - Beautiful course layout - Well-maintained greens - Great value for the price ### What people do not like - Slow pace of play - Course conditions inconsistent - Poor customer service ### Press No press story about Bennett Valley found yet. ### Awards None named yet. ### Directories Listed on 1 of the 19 directories we checked. | Directory | Listed | | --- | --- | | Alignable | Not listed | | Angi | Not listed | | Apple Maps | Not listed | | BBB | Not listed | | Birdeye | Not listed | | Brownbook | Not listed | | Chamber of Commerce | Not listed | | Cylex | Not listed | | DexKnows | Not listed | | Facebook | Listed | | Foursquare | Not listed | | Hotfrog | Not listed | | MapQuest | Not listed | | Nextdoor | Not listed | | Superpages | Not listed | | Thumbtack | Not listed | | Trustpilot | Not listed | | Tupalo | Not listed | | Yelp | Not listed | ## Recent updates from Bennett Valley Bennett Valley hasn't posted an update here yet. ## Questions people ask ### best golf course in Santa Rosa No answer yet ### Worth the hype at Bennett Valley? No answer yet ### the good stuff about Bennett Valley, what is it? No answer yet ### Booking a first visit at Bennett Valley, what happens? No answer yet ### points or member pricing at Bennett Valley, worth signing up? No answer yet ### parking at Bennett Valley, where does everyone put the car? No answer yet ### do I need to book Bennett Valley in Santa Rosa or can I just turn up? No answer yet ### Coffee near this place on Yulupa? No answer yet ### walk ins, or is it booked solid No answer yet ### how much is a first visit around here No answer yet ### reviews all look glowing, what are the real complaints? No answer yet ### Are the hours on Google right for this place? No answer yet ### last update from here was when? No answer yet ### budget options in Santa Rosa, what is decent No answer yet ### is Mayacama Golf any better No answer yet ### what is actually on the menu here? No answer yet ## What AI gets wrong about Bennett Valley We ask Gemini and ChatGPT about Bennett Valley. These are the answers that disagree with the record. ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 16, 2026. No capture has disagreed with the record yet. ## The AI Score: 70 of 100 The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Golf courses on the registry run 25 to 73. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Bennett Valley scores 70. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Bennett Valley | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Retrieval grounding | 26 | 100 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Good | | Off-property attestation | 20 | 41 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor | | AI visibility | 14 | 80 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Named in 12 of 15 answers that recommended anyone. 7 more named nobody, which is not a loss and is not scored. | | Reviews & response | 12 | 91 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good | | Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 59 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair | | Google Business Profile | 8 | 78 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good | | Speed & mobile | 7 | 44 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Poor | | Content freshness & schema | 5 | 83 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Good | Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology ## How AI decides what to tell you about a golf course When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google about a local business, the AI doesn't visit it. It reads what's already written about it: the business's website, its Google Business Profile, review sites, news stories and directories like this one. Then it repeats what those sources agree on. That's why AI gets small facts wrong. If Yelp says a place is open Mondays and the website says it isn't, the AI has to pick one. The table above shows the answers that disagree with the record today. The more sources agree, and the more specific they are, the more confidently AI recommends a business. A review that names who helped and what they did tells an AI far more than one that says "great place." ## How to choose a golf course in California, with or without AI A few checks take ten minutes and tell you more than any rating. - Check that the hours and phone number match on Google, Yelp and the business's own website. Mismatches are how people end up at a locked door. - Read reviews that name a person and what they did. Vague praise is easy to fake. - Look for recent reviews and recent posts. A page nobody has touched in a year may not match the business today. - Ask for the price before you go, and ask what it includes. - Where the work needs a license, ask whose license it is and look it up with California. ## How to read the marks on this page - Confirmed (solid circle): from a known source. The business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp, Healthgrades and RealSelf, a licensing board, or measured by Local AI Registry. - Visitor submitted (hollow circle): added or corrected by a person, with the date and how they know, like a phone call or a visit. - AI guess (hollow triangle): what AI engines are saying right now. Nobody has confirmed it. ## About the author Steve Lee is the founder and CEO of Local AI Registry and sets its editorial standards. He is a former Google executive in Search and a former Microsoft executive, with more than 20 years in digital: search, local discovery, and how people find businesses online. He is based in Irvine. - Expertise: search at Google and Microsoft, AI search, answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, local SEO, structured data and entity mapping. - Industry: medical aesthetics, injectables, med spa operations and marketing. - Disclosure: Local AI Registry sells services to business owners, including Bennett Valley if it claims this page. That does not change what this page says. Every fact carries its source. ## Entity map Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other. | Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Bennett Valley | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Bennett Valley Golf Course | LocalBusiness | #business | https://bennettvalleygolf.com/ | Subject of this page | | Santa Rosa, California | City | #city | Nothing found | City Bennett Valley is in | | Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page | | Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team | Author of this page | ## Topical map Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the golf courses in Santa Rosa, linked to the lists and towns around it. ### Lists - Best golf courses in Santa Rosa: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/santa-rosa/golf-course - Best businesses in Santa Rosa: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/santa-rosa ### Nearby - /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles - /san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco - /san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose - /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego - /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine - /fresno: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/fresno ### Every list - Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca ## Frequently asked questions ### What is AI search optimization for local business? Getting a business named when a neighbor asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation. Some call it AI SEO, some call it generative engine optimization. Traditional SEO fights for ten blue links; this fights for the one answer an assistant says out loud. The AI Score on this page measures the eight signals that drive it. ### What is Local AI Registry? The public record of how AI sees local business. We score every business we list by one published method, we keep the questions people ask about it in one place, and we never sell rank. Looking up any business here is free. ### How does this page help a business get recommended by AI? Assistants read public pages before they answer. This one states what the business does, what people ask about it, and what the Record answers, in one place a machine can read. Correcting what is wrong here changes what an assistant repeats next. ### Who writes the answers here? Registry AI writes the first answer under every question, from the Record and the public sources named beneath it. Neighbors write the rest under pseudonyms. A registered owner can reply as the business, and their reply says so. ### I own Bennett Valley Golf Course. How do I fix something or rank higher? Register the page. It is free, it takes about five minutes, and it lets you correct the Record and reply as the business. Nothing on this page is for sale, so the only thing that moves the score is the work. ## References ### Sources cited - [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJo1ZPYONIhIARC-6Z0eoYYE4 (accessed Aug 25, 2026) - [2] bennettvalleygolf.com, https://bennettvalleygolf.com/weddings/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [3] bennettvalleygolf.com, https://bennettvalleygolf.com/mec-category/charity-golf-tournaments/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [4] bennettvalleygolf.com, https://bennettvalleygolf.com/club-fittings/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [5] bennettvalleygolf.com, https://bennettvalleygolf.com/course-layout/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [6] bennettvalleygolf.com, https://bennettvalleygolf.com/driving-range/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [7] bennettvalleygolf.com, https://bennettvalleygolf.com/event-calendar/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [8] bennettvalleygolf.com, https://bennettvalleygolf.com/preferred-vendors/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [9] bennettvalleygolf.com, https://bennettvalleygolf.com/private-events/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [10] bennettvalleygolf.com, https://bennettvalleygolf.com/rates/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [11] bennettvalleygolf.com, https://bennettvalleygolf.com/mec-category/restaurant-special-hours/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [12] bennettvalleygolf.com, https://bennettvalleygolf.com/tinsel-takeover/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [13] bennettvalleygolf.com, https://bennettvalleygolf.com/tinsel-takeover-invite/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [14] bennettvalleygolf.com, https://bennettvalleygolf.com/tournaments/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [15] bennettvalleygolf.com, https://bennettvalleygolf.com/bennett-valley-annual-pass/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [16] bennettvalleygolf.com, https://bennettvalleygolf.com/mec-category/fitting-days/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [17] bennettvalleygolf.com, https://bennettvalleygolf.com/golf-coaches/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [18] bennettvalleygolf.com, https://bennettvalleygolf.com/mec-category/group-golf-lessons/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [19] bennettvalleygolf.com, https://bennettvalleygolf.com/job-opportunities/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [20] bennettvalleygolf.com, https://bennettvalleygolf.com/junior-golf/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [21] bennettvalleygolf.com, https://bennettvalleygolf.com/leagues/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [22] bennettvalleygolf.com, https://bennettvalleygolf.com/mec-category/operation-36/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [23] bennettvalleygolf.com, https://bennettvalleygolf.com/photo-gallery/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [24] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 16, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [25] bennettvalleygolf.com, https://bennettvalleygolf.com/ (accessed Oct 16, 2026)