Golf has gotten expensive in the LBC. Paying $85-100 to play here is painful. Im quite familiar with this course, been playing here for 12 years, yet the place hasn't improved ever. Always just ok -- fairways are alright, rough doesn't really exist much, or is very patchy. I think basic maintenance is all that they do here. That would be fine if the cost was lower, the idea of playing here on a Saturday, taking 5.5-6 hours and paying nearly $100, frankly sucks. I'd rather pay an extra 20-50 to play a higher tier course. Mid-week, walking?, yea, I'll still do that out of nostalgia and if I need to stay close in the area (my daughter lives down there), otherwise, meh, treat yourself to someplace better.

I've played here a few times this summer -- while this place is a bit most pricey than others, I think its worth the cost. Real great layout, nice views, interesting holes that provide the right amount of challenge. The folks here are real nice as well, they aren't anti-flipflop (ok, Ive been catching up on writing all my reviews tonight, so a common theme is how no one except Rustic Canyon has cared if I played in flip-flops). I really like this course, but the $150 is right at that point where I have to treat-myself to play here -- or just work the variable pricing model and pick different days/times to play. I don't like to plan too far ahead but would do so in order to play here more often.

Played for the first time on July 19th -- just getting around to writing a review. I was very impressed by the course. The architecture of the place feels like the 80s -- if y'all recall Rancho Park before they started to renovate the clubhouse, its a lot like that. So that kinda felt "old", yet was very clean and immaculate with how they care for the place. The cost is a bit more than I'd like (~100 weekday, ~125 weekend), and the drive is far for me, so this can't be too regular of a place for me. Yet I like that I found a wonderful course that's not quite the price of Oak Quarry, doesn't require me to drive all the way to the desert, and was real chill, a lot of fun, and a great challenge. And unlike Rustic Canyon, they thought I was cool cause I can shoot under 80 wearing flip flops (see my RC review for why I'm annoyed at those folks having to control everyone). Will def be playing her more often.

After posting my negative review of Rustic, I felt I needed to come here and drop another review for SP -- also it seems its been since July someone last did. I play here often, several times a month, so I have built that bias of loving my "home course" (even though I live in West LA). Its worth the drive to come here -- it takes about an hour for me to get anywhere else any way (any LBC course, or Pacific Palms or Oak Quarry or Goose Creek), so an extra 20-30 min to get to Ojai is worth it. The course is cheap -- almost a steal -- and they put a lot of work into maintaining the course. The improvements that have been made in the last 5-6 years makes this course one of the best public courses in the Ventura/LA area. Add on to that the great food they have at the course, as well as all the nice place to enjoy in the town, this is a destination that y'all should consider to be a habit and not just an occasional treat.

Played Rustic for the first time on 10/21/25. I gotta say, I wasn't that impressed. This course is suggested to me a lot, and appeared in Golf.com's Top 100 best public courses, yet I found it very meh. For the price, its alright I suppose, better than any of the Long Beach or LA public courses (which I refuse to play now they've gotten so poor and expensive). But I do have some issues: (1) the layout is rather boring. Essentially its two holes, side by side, stretched out above and below the clubhouse. More than once I aimed my shot at the wrong green. (2) the fairways were alright, yet it was brown everywhere else, and mostly flat. (3) they've got some pretty aggressive set of "rules" as to how you should behave and such (see the website, lots of threats about being kicked off the course, or having to pay extra fess etc..) (4) the layout is boring. Parallel fairways, no real flow through the course, each tee box the question is "ok, which one's the green for this hole? I see 3". (4) they wouldn't let me play in my flip flops. I put on actual shoes and walked, which was fine, yet I thought we were past holding on to these old-school rules about attire. No one (Oak Quarry, Goose Creek, Pacific Palms) has ever cared about what I wore when I played. Honestly, I'm kinda irritated by the whole experience as I expected so much more. There's no way you can tell me this course is better than Soule Park in Ojai -- a course that gets compared to Rustic Canyon often, and frankly, shouldn't belong. Compare Rustic to one of those Oxnard or Ventura courses instead. And the Golf.com folks must've skipped playing Soule Park cause there's no way this place belongs on their top 100 list without SP being ranked higher. I wanted to find a comparable place to SP, and thought this was supposed to be it.

Played today and after 1 week very little improvement is apparent in course conditions.

Fairways are not mowed and very wet conditions on many of them prevail. They are not even drying out in many areas. The middle of # 18 is a muddy mess.

Nice new sand in almost all the traps now. Very playable. But no one still rakes the traps. Unbelievable.

Greens need mowing and rolling. They are the slowest I have ever seen them.

Tee boxes are also in need of mowing and at least you can get a tee in the ground.

For a course that is under the control of Troon I really don't understand why conditions are so lacking in improvement after all the aertion they did last month.

Pace of play is pathetic unless you are one of the first 3 to 4 groups out in the AM.

I played here November 2. The course is amazing as always. The course conditions are exceptional.

I played there November 3. I've probably played this course 40 times and it always amazes me at how green the course is. It was a little windy but that's golf

Hit up the Bar for a 711 tee time yesterday.

Course was in solid condition.

Greens were faster than they've been this year. Just super pure and rolly.

Fairways and traps were excellent and the rough was fine. Not too soggy in the morning.

POP was a little slow , it was packed out there.

Biggest bummer was that no one repairs their ball marks there. The second hole looked like a teenagers face. They even marked all the poc marks with blue paint. Its insane to have non poa greens that are that pure and then treat them like trash. People b$tch all the time at work about greens yet no one repairs them.

JohnnyGK, local SoCal Cinderella amateur, battled it out with the golf legend Lonnie “The Hawk” Hawkins at Spanish Hills Club on 10/27 in Genesis Invitational.

Great fun running another successful Vivid Golf/GK/Golf Moose event at Spanish Hills Club in Camarillo, CA. Our full showing was treated to fantastic playing conditions under beautiful weather the week of filming Will Ferrell’s upcoming golf Netflix series. The film set featured authentic looking grandstands, TV towers, Hole-In-One Car…the works :)

Spanish Hills Club did a super job adjusting our check-in/staging area with staff on hand to assure an excellent run event. We couldn’t do our pre-round Vivid Golf Skill Challenge so I gave out my extra stock of Golf Moose polos, sunglasses and sleeves of balls (pick one) to all players. It was a super time as always teeing it up with GKer rgm2525 who helps out with most events. Greens ran smooth, fairways were in exceptional bermuda turf shape with rough and bunkers in great shape as well. The only blemish on the course, which is likely gone by now, were the tee boxes that were still recovering from a recent overseed.

Thank You everyone that attends these events and our GK Plays! Hope to see many of you at any of our SIX December events – check out the GK Events :)

Check Out my November Forum Post “What’d You Shoot” for more photos of the film set!

Played Tuesday November 4 at 11:51. Got out again! I’m making a habit of this now that the heat is gone.
Tees: mostly level with decent coverage
Fairways: there are a few bare spots mostly on the edges but the overwhelming majority is very nice, a pleasure to play from
Rough: like always minimal but acts well as a buffer from the ever present canyon edges. In some places two steps off the fairway is a lost ball.
Bunkers: wasn’t in one but they looked to still be in excellent condition
Greens: running smooth and sneaky fast, well struck shots backed up nicely
Customer service: it’s a muni so just the basics, but I never count on a golf course to fill my hydration and snack needs
Recommendation: yes, just play smart, it’s target golf on a tight layout, driver isn’t always the play and the tricky little greens can baffle the inattentive.

Played here Monday morning early. 740 tee time.

Whoa! It was so foggy. Like zero visibility for 12 holes. Just teeing off into the abyss.

It didn't burn off until 1030 and we played in just over 3 hours which was cool.

Greens were good but so soggy and slow with all the top water from the fog.

Course was in decent shape with exception of the 5 pounds of grass clippings and Geese crap that gets all over the pull cart.

Still happy to get out and play golf.