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I live in the Lake Arrowhead community, but you get no discount for living inside the resort. The past few years you could book a round at GolfNow for as cheap as $16 (including cart). In those days I could play on a Monday- Friday, hit 18 holes in about 2.5 hours. All these discounted tee times made it difficult for the course to afford proper maintenance. Some people thought that Lake Arrowhead was too far of a drive, so never came and played.
This year with Covid-19 golf courses became one of the only activities people could go out and do. The course began to get busy by the first of April and tee times actually sold out most days.
The course currently is in great shape for the most part. There are two or three greens that are having real issues, but the greens keepers are doing their best to fix the problems. The fairways are now filled in nicely. Tee boxes are the one thing that could be improved on dramatically. The course is extremely challenging, not a grip and rip type course. You have to be able to place your ball in the correct place on the fairway to have a next shot. Water hazards on almost every hole.
Overall I would give this course a 8.5/10 for condition and value.

PS. I now have become a member of this course as of August 1st, 2020

No rangers to keep pace going.Play regularly and never any Rangers but usually not a problem weekdays.
Course is one that makes you lose many balls, but no time to look for them during weekend play.

I booked my tee-time on Golf Now dot com for $22 on a hot deal. It had rained heavy early in the day, but sun came out off and on. Got to course early and they told me that I could go ahead and tee off. Did not see another golfer until the 10th hole and that foursome let me play through on the par 3, 12th. Course in exceptional shape after a very hot, dry summer, with the exception of the ball marks on the greens. I have been playing this course for about 7 years and ball marks on the greens has always been a BIG problem. That is not directly managements fault, but is indirectly. If the course would have marshals or rangers that watched golfer when they reached the green, they could let them know to fix their ball mark, or don't come back. I really believe that is all that it would take. Much of the course is laid out with slopes that drop off dramatically to the right, which for most amateurs with a slice, it makes it very difficult. You need to be able to hit a straight ball or play your slice left (which can't be done on some of the more narrow holes) so that you don't roll out of bounds.
Two days prior I played the same course in a foursome, and it took us over 5 hours to play 18. A threesome passed us on the turn without saying a word and teed off from the tips. Only 1 of the three hit long enough to be playing that far back. When we complained to the ranger, we were told that they were not who was holding us up. But it was because the long hitter had to wait for people to clear the green on his second shot, yet he was always way too close for any of use to tee off from the blues.
You can't beat the price to play golf on a Sunday afternoon.