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Excellent course but if you desire a good score, you MUST take into account wind, mostly head wind. Rough is a little strong. A good score at this course requires previous plays. The constantly nice temperature, lower than other courses in LA area by 10 degrees, is its forte. Enjoy your time!

People talk about the course based on their experience long time ago. This course is quite challenging due to the following reasons:
Firstly, greens are crown-shaped or elevated and mostly small. Once you miss the green, you SHOULD concentrate on your chipping or pitching shots cause you can hardly find grass in the greenside or your shots will be made on dirt. However, greens are well maintained along with up and downs.
Secondly, most fairways are rolling or with mounds blocking your vision of the green in front of them and grasses are not even due to poor management. Hence, your club angle changes when placing it behind a ball. Your swing plane will change, too. Accordingly, good shot-making is not easy.
Last bit not least, total yardage doesn't look to be long but this is a par 71 course.
Overall, I will go there again when I feel my condition is excellent. Go there and test your skills. It's not easy to reserve a tee-time after members and residents take tee-times.

The white, blue and black tees were all placed in the same place in the teeing ground all the way from the first hole though the end. It can happen at a few holes when teeing grounds should be protected for better course management but that was not the case. Further, white pins were placed in the front or in the back of the greens and red pins were placed in the middle or in the back of the greens several times BUT such wrong pin placements somehow didn't happen with blue pins. I could hear many people say these reflect negligence of course management or arrogance of the course manager due to the higher demand for tee-times caused by the pandemic. These mismanagements deprive golfers of the joy of golfing and a few strokes. All golfers do NOT have good eyesight. They SHOULD understand why all the golf courses have black, blue, white and red tees in lieu of just one tees and the color of a pin indicates the location of a hole. I confirmed that these misplacements of tees and pins happened to both Wilson and Harding courses.

I've played for the first time in my life but won't come here again due to the following reasons:
Firstly, the course layout is zero intriguing, i.e., no memorable holes at all.
Secondly, the course condition in the fairway and greens (except the 17th hole green) are so bumpy that there's no hope for improvement.
Thirdly, the driving range is not for warm-up and/or honing golf skills but just for hitting balls. There are just small buckets not big enough to contain medium balls.
Last but not least, holes are so close to each other that you MUST be on the full alert for errant balls coming from next holes.

All the golf courses have been good to me no matter what score I make until I play at this course. This is the first course I do NOT want to play again. No adrenaline pumping course.

I shot just 1 over par on my first play and under windy weather cause there was no blind shots. More importantly, I was in extremely good conditions, given that I made an eagle on a 460 yards par 5 hole by making a regulation on. I will visit this course again, since it requires the use of almost all clubs and test your skillsets. One flaw is many holes are a little short but good for my friends whose driving distance is rather short.

The course layout is quite interesting but problems go to that there's no yardage stakes. You may play your hunch on what club to use for your tee shots on many many holes. I like that all the clubs should be used at this course. IF they place yardage stakes, the course will be rated one of the best courses in LA area.

The course is a little short but very challenging greens compensate that. You may not expect one putt unless your ball luckily lands within a yard away from the hole. More importantly, greens are so small that you may easily miss the green, which ends up with a chip shot and 2 putts no matter how short the putting distance is. I like the course, particularly the layout. IF the course has yardage stakes in the fairway in place such as red, white and blue, I will give them almost perfect score!

I like the course, although I have to drive an hour. It's like a resort course with uphill and downhill shots. Quite a memorable course.

However,, I strongly recommend that they place color pins on greens indicating front, center and back such as red, white and blue instead of just white pins. Pin placements are deceiving unless player's eyesight is extremely good.
Further, as many people are playing golf these days, some patches and dirts are visible.

All in all, you need to play there to have the level of your skills tested. Almost all clubs are required to use. Greens are are fast and the green speed varies at holes that careless shots may easily end up with double- or triple bogeys.

Well maintained muni course easier than Wilson, Rancho and Harding but a good course for walking.

I like both courses of the Brookside. Course 1 is long enough to struggle to reach the green in regulation, while you have to struggle on greens of Course 2. In compensation for the short distance, they made greens small and faster.

However, the driving range is the worst among LA golf courses. They have two types of mats on the driving range. Both should be upgraded. One is so thick that you have to maintain strong grip in hitting balls, which is not recommended in golfing, and the rubber tee you use becomes lower due to the thick mat. Another is so worn out that you also need a little strong grip. If you want to enjoy your game at the course, avoid the use of driving range. The best solution is that they upgrade mats on the driving range. I would then give 5 stars.

The play pace and course layout are good. I'd like to play again. This course reminds me of most golf courses in San Diego country where rough is tough to get out of it. There are some dirts in the fairway. IF they place "under repair" signs for obviously unplayable areas, I am willing to rate with 5 stars.In particular, rough around greens are not normal where you should make really skillful shots to make a ball onto a green near a pin. Unusually fluffy!!! Poor scores stem from your bad shots, NOT from the course condition. A little challenging course. It is a key to a good score to make your ball land in the fairway, Thoughtful play is required.

I believe we should hit a ball as is at the golf course unless we can free-drop by the book. About four fifths of this course is covered with dirt. About a fifth of the course is covered with grass but a half of that with weeds. In a word, you can see grass both in teeing grounds and greens, including aprons. Hence, your ball will land mostly in dirt. Your iron-shot skills will be brutally tested. I really hope to see how Tiger will hit a ball onto a green when it lies on dirt behind a sand trap. I strongly recommend you not play there UNLESS you practice as a pro before participating in the Open. The course was not that terrible in terms of condition about two years ago. No problem but the course condition! If you think seeing is believing, go for it. Still, I enjoyed the game today cause the course truly tested my skills but my playmate said he would never come again.

As the name of the course indicates, this course was famous for good and fast greens. However, now the greens are extremely hard to putt your ball in a hole, as hole cups slant to the left or to the right. Unless your putting speed is perfect for putting, your ball will bounce back after going in. Three putts and four putts are easy to make. I am not a pro. Hence, I wouldn't go there again IF they do not fix the greens as they were in the past when they were fast but very straight if you could read the break.

You may feel your driving distance may have reduced after playing at this course but due to the softness of its fairway. Hence, the actual yardage is longer than what is stated on the scorecard by 20 - 30 yards at every hole. This course is one of the best in terms of course layout, staff friendliness, and its adjacent restaurant. I always feel this course is worth about 50 miles driving. My favorite course! Try, and you'll like the course.

I spent about one and a half hours to get there by driving mostly on highways. Given the driving distance and the amount you should pay, I DO NOT recommend that you play there. If it's located in urban area, the course won't be popular. I just went there again to evaluate my golfing ability since I recorded the worst score last time due to the unfamiliarity of the course. Three Par 3 holes out of four are extremely short and most par 4 and par 5 holes are short. Good thing is that you can enjoy the ambience of private courses. You are not pushed to pick up the pace of your play but may finish a round in 4 hours. I bet the course evaluation is exaggerated because of the ambience of resort courses.

Layout is not bad but you'll have no clue where to hit a ball and which club you need to pull out for the first two holes. A golf cart has a monitor but it does not show a picture with yardage about holes. They just made the greens extremely fast so as to ruin your game by taking advantage of downhill and uphill slopes. Fairways are well maintained. I DO NOT recommend you play there unless you have an opportunity to visit the nice Ojai town. The fair price is $50 at the most.

I like this course because the pace pf play is quite fast and the layout is excellent. More importantly, its restaurant staff are friendly and foods' quality is excellent. In addition, it's not damaged at all by the recent brush fire. You may enjoy the driving range across the course while its own driving range is restoring to its previous condition damaged by the recent wild fire. I always strongly recommend that people test their skills at this course.

All the staff of this course have been historically extremely friendly but today's staff. I drove down to this course from Palisades. Hence I got there about 20 minutes ahead of a tee-time. He was rude different than prior experience. When a cart of a group ahead of our group was down, we tried to reach the front desk but the staff kept telling us "Hold" without listening at all. On our fourth call we could inform them about the cart problem. Very unusual experience at this course where staff friendliness has been a trademark over the past ten years.

Not a long course but requires almost all clubs on weird lies. An excellent budget course in a densely populated area in OC.