mchee88

This is the absolute worse condition I've this, or any local golf course in for 30 years. Nothing has been mowed. can't tell the fairway from the rough, grass is over 6 inches tall in some places and everything else is dirt hard pan. Even a perfectly placed drive gets lost in the super thick patches of unmowed grass, obscured by leaves and branches or other crap. Or the ball shoots so hard off the dirt and hard pan areas, you have no way of tracking or knowing how far or where your ball went to. Ridiculous to lose a golf ball due to the course conditions, not your shot. Overall the entire course needs about $2M in greenkeeping improvements, which is never going to happen. This is a total goat track right now. Horribly unplayable unless you have absolutely no other choice and time to kill.

Courses are beat up by the parking and extracurricular activity they get from events at the Rose Bowl. Vehicles on fairways, thousands of foot traffic walkers, greens that retain footprints due to overwatering (afternoon/twilight golf is murder on putting), and fairway lies that range from decent/almost perfect, to horrific hard pan with tufts of grass like acne everywhere. I've been playing here for 30 years and have never seen the courses in such overall bad condition. Bummer.

For 9hole courses in the LA area this one is slight above average because 1) it's relatively easy to get a tee time 2) price is reasonable 3) greens are for the most part decent in speed and quality - BUT that's about it. This is a course for entitled white people mostly - and it shows. It's plagued by slow play and first/never before golfers as is almost any public course these days, so the pace can get to 3hrs. Too many knuckleheads who have no concept of etiquette or cart golf can make a weekend round miserable. I never ride this course, it's totally walkable but there is some incline to it - especially holes 4-6, but I've seen them run out of golf carts. Off fairway and rough areas are a nightmare, poorly maintained and you can absolutely count on losing a ball if you miss a fairway because leaves and heavy debris or grass, hardpan that can send the ball anywhere, numerous creature holes and an abundance of overgrown stuff. There a lots of older folk who play extremely slow on this course and they don't care about pace - so be patient.

The course layout is very short but challenging fairways to hit from the tees. Some very narrow. Greens rolling somewhere at 7 or 8. Extremely slow and shaggy. rough carpet like conditions. Worst of all was pace of play. 4 group back up by the 6th hole. No reason, just too many twosomes out and too many people with no course Marshall. Made for a miserable 5+ hour round. Pace + course conditions = no return.

This place hasn't changed in 40 years. Still fun to practice the short game, learn or teach beginners. Driving range was wide open with lots of yardage targets. Not every green is puttable but it is what it is. I play the whole course with a PW, 52 wedge and putter. Some of the funky breaking greens make it interesting but great for target practice of you 100-110yd approach shots.

I used to play this course frequently. It's layout is fun and has lots of potential when it's in shape. I played a year ago and it was lousy fairways, threadbare, hardpan and dirt patches everywhere, average greens. A year later and the fairways are like rough, 2" thick. Absolutely no roll no matter how well you drive the ball. Greens are worse than carpets, thick and slow like bedroom rug. I'd say they rolled at 5/6 Stimp at best. Never seen the grass so poorly maintained in years of playing there. Very disappointed, The course conditions absolutely punish your ability to shoot a decent score right now.

This is a muni track so you can't have high expectations. I was just happy it was easy to get a weekend tee time and the pace of play was average but moved reasonably well. Pros: Coffee shop is nice, decent menu and reasonable prices. Fees very reasonable for weekend play with cart. CONS: Greens extremely slow and shaggy, fairway and in play areas can be patchy producing poor lies, there's hard pan dirt where there should be grass in many of the fairway swails and gullies, sand traps are rarely if ever maintained or raked. If you keep it in play this course is still fun as the fairways present challenges due to their contours and hilling.