Hit Knollwood up for a 830 tee time.

WOW!! What a waste!!!

The course was fine and the greens were good.

The round took so long. Over 3 1/2 hours for the front 9. We left after 9 holes and when we were coming in they had run out of carts and the people on the first tee flocked to us when we were rolling up to the cart barn.

60 bucks to play 9 holes, what gip.

Played here for the first time recently. The course punched their greens 3 weeks ago and are almost healed. Credit to the course for giving this info at check in and giving a discount!!!!

Tee boxes were shaggy and need to be mowed. Some divot damage, bust mostly level and easy to hit from. Fairways were a mixed bag. Played in the morning so still pretty damp. Some divot damage and some areas were getting new sod. Rough was mowed down and not much an issue. Bunkers were not great. Wet sand and they have not been raked in a while. Greens looked good but need a mow. Slow speed and a little bumpy.

I really enjoyed the course, front nine is pretty straight forward and not to hard, back nine is much more challenging with a few forced carries. This is not a walking course. The drive from 9-10 took forever! If you can find a deal I would highly suggest this course.

Played Sunday, October 5, around 7:00 am. Started late after they put a gap group in front of us and they were a hole behind after one hole. About the 5th hole though, they took off and started playing at a good pace. It was like a tag team and a group that had an interest in pace substituted in. Ended up being a 4 hour pace. Snack shack was open when I we went by after the 2nd hole, nice to see as it was not open early the last couple of times I played here. I made sure to buy something when we made the turn to give positive reinforcement for the good behavior.

I knew from Greenskeeper that they had punched the greens on Monday and Tuesday. It was a heavy punch. Interestingly, the greens were still pretty firm. Lots of hops and change of direction to the putts. I thought they were faster than the practice green. The fairways were pretty tight, almost winter like condition with some bare spots (looking at you #16). There is quite a bit of lush rough but also some areas with bare spots. I had a couple of nasty lies, on dirt between clumps of grass. The bunkers were also a mixed bag including several that had insufficient sand. I was in one fairway bunker (#13) where a heavy rake job left me with a teed up lie. I lost no yardage on the shot, ending up in the back bunker that had less sand than the fairway one. At least this time here I did not end up near one of the crazy steep edges they bunkers have (last time here I had to play a bunker shot on my knees outside the bunker, lunging down at the ball). The tees were lush and level.

Overall, not as good tee to green as I have seen it and the aerated greens are what you would expect from the large punch. I enjoy Lakewood but I may delay my return until the greens heal.

Played Harding yesterday with a 3 randos.

Nice early round, cool and overcast and finished pretty warm out.

Course was in ok condition. Not too many gopher holes or anything, just lots of cut grass.

Tee boxes were fine, sand was good I guess, I wasn't in it. Greens were micropunched a week or so ago, They rolled ok so not too much to complain about.

POP was was ok, busy groups in front of our 855 tee time.

Typical Griffith Day at Harding.

Mountain course currently closed for overseeding, so all recent rounds have been on Canyon. Course continues to be in nice condition even with over seeding within a few weeks. Milder temps and uncrowded conditions make this my favorite time of year to play here. I am sometimes practically the only person on an entire 9 on weekday afternoons. Tees and fairways lush and well maintained. Sand near immaculate. Rough mostly clumpy Bermuda mowed low. Lies can vary from looking like it was teed up to sitting down so much advancing it with a longer club is unlikely within a small area. Bermuda greens slower than usual. Firm and medium speed, not as smooth as in high season. Almost no ball marks, putts still roll very true. Easier to putt than when they are quicker, it's amazing how many more putts I can hole when the greens are even 10% slower. Restaurant good for a golf course. Customer service excellent both inside/outside the club. Practice facilities and the GPS on the carts both excellent. Men's lounge nice place to have a meal or get a drink with numerous big screen TV's in a friendly atmosphere. Newly renovated gym is a nice addition as well. Highly recommended.

Got done with work early yesterday, Monday, Oct 6 and went out to Balboa and put my name on the wait list at 1:30 as a single. Proshop got me out in about 20 mins, tee off at 1:50. POP was quite nice at 4hrs 15mins. Only one group waiting on number 6, which is a miracle. We waited a little bit on about half the other tees, but things moved pretty well. $36 to walk as a resident is well worth it.

The course is still recovering from quite a bit of work. The greens were very bumpy from recent aeration and late in the day footprints, but they held shot well and were on the faster side. These greens should be good to great in a few more weeks, especially if they can keep the speed up.

The tees were fairly level for the most part and had good to great coverage, no complaints.

Fairways are like the greens. Definitely a work in progress with some bare spots, wet spots, and some GUR. In a few weeks, though, these fairways should be really good. They showed a lot of moments of brilliance and promise.

Rough wasn't too penal except for the areas around the greens. Seems like the Bermuda grass isn't going dormant (maybe because the weather has been so nice and warm) and it's still very healthy. Balls around the greens will nestle down in the Bermuda rough making chipping a little more challenging.

I found one greenside bunker and it was great. Nice new fluffy sand.

No frills customer service, no bev. cart. Everyone in the proshop was just great. Thanks for working me in. Looking forward to getting back out here in a few more weeks when it should be in great shape.

Out for my monthly round at Spanish Bay with Bob. We tee’d off at our normal 9ish time in another beautiful day. No fog all day and about a 1 club wind on the last 6-8 holes. Course remains in great shape tee to green with the greens being maybe a touch better than last month.

We were paired with a 10 year old (soon to be 11) phenom!! Her name is Teagan Tudla and she is the real deal. She’s won several titles in the under 10 category and next week will be her first tournament in the big girl class (11-13). Teagan and her parents were absolutely wonderful people to be around. My game stunk to high Heaven but it was so awesome watching Teagan tear up the course. She came within a few inches of a hole in one on #8. I can’t wait to tee it up with Teagan again. But next time she’s giving me 5 strokes a side! And if we ever do another GK Cup team event, well sorry Peter, but I know who my new partner will be!!

As far as the course goes, each month there’s more and more talk about what the new design will be like. Unfortunately, I don’t have any information. At least not from a reliable source. If Jeff (head pro) does know, he’s not telling us.

played sun 10/5, 8:30 tee time, 4:30 round. course in decent muni shape. greens a little bumpy and pretty slow, about a fast 9 on the stimp. fairways decent, rough cut down in most places, but there were vast areas of uncut rough over 3 in that made it difficult to find balls. I always like playing here... pretty wide open, a few tough tee shots, but not a stressful round of golf difficulty wise. Had a good time.

Played this Sunday in the Rancho Park Men's Club tournament of champions which is held yearly at the fabulous Ojai Valley Inn. When I played last year, my game was much sharper so I played the blue tees, but the game's been pretty poor this year so I was in the flight playing from the white tees this time around. Not a problem - should be fun!

I always love this course for its unique and fun layout with some very target-oriented and memorable short holes to start, followed by some parkland style on the back nine and then a big finish with some truly memorable holes. Conditions always seem pretty prime here and this time around was no exception.

My group had a 10:00am tee time and you could not have asked for a more perfect early autumn afternoon. We rode in the very nice carts with a solid GPS system and hit the ground running. Speaking of running, the greens were running really nicely - and quite fast. They were in pretty great shape and I enjoyed them very much to the tune of a 29-putt afternoon. The tee boxes on some holes were a bit uneven, but for the most part they were fine. Fairways were in nice shape with the occasional thin spot but optically they looked quite nice all around. The rough was mostly playable and the bunkers varied a bit from hole to hole but none of them were unplayable. I wouldn't call them fluffy though, either.

One disappointment? On a very busy and warm Sunday afternoon there was never one hint of cart service for the entire day, and there's really no convenient snack shop at the turn. Apparently there is a market en route to the 10th tee box but you are also fighting for a quick in and out with every other guest at the resort - not ideal.

But despite that little annoyance, still had a wonderful day out at OVI and will always happily return for this event every year ... if I qualify!

I haven't seen a review for MC for awhile, so here it is.
Played on Friday afternoon with great weather for a round. I played as a single with two younger great guys. The deer were out and unfortunately so were a couple of drunken fools in front of us. After a 3 hour front nine, I started wondering why on earth would the cart girl keep feeding these idiots more shots. Anyway, the fairways were decent, the rough was uncut and kind of inconsistent. The greens were the best part of the course, however, they are punching today. The sand and tee boxes really need some work, accept for #18 where the bunkers looked great. Not sure why. Overall, it was a frustrating round, not because of the course, but because of the idiots in front of us who were constantly being obnoxious and confrontational when we asked them to keep up. So, after a 6 hour round, I watched all of those drunk guys get in their cars and drive off the property. The staff here always great, but the cart girl needs to recognize when to cut people off. They ruined what was supposed to be a nice round of golf. The highlight of my day was when one guy actually yelled at us, "I'm a millionaire and I can do what I want", to which we replied, "that's great, you can afford to get some golf lessons". lol Sorry for the rant!

Played here last Friday, first time since June. Last year enjoyed this course and thought the conditions were pretty good for a muni. This year conditions have degraded, to the point where now the course is starting to feel really hacked up and poorly maintained. The greens were just aerated, so I didn't expect them to be very good, but they put a lot of sand on them - felt like you were putting on a beach at times, but aeration aside - a number of the greens had gouges in them, clearly they are doing a very poor job looking after them. The bunkers are not maintained - hard packed and many of them don't drain properly so had large puddles in them from light rain the prior day. The tee boxes are a joke, not flat at all, grass too long, hard to find a flat stance.

They've put a bunch of time and money into the driving range, with TopTracer radar tracking etc, but the course itself is going to pasture.

Will be taking this course off the rotation.

Finished so fast at Rhodes, I didn't know what to do with myself before a 9PM flight home. I've played most of the short courses. (Angel Park nine was closed, Palms was full, and they wanted $82 to play Eagle Crest Executive.) So, I trucked it across town to Chimera. I called and the woman in the proshop said it wasn't crowded that most folks were on the back nine. She said it was cart path only and $25 at 4:30, sold!

Course was wall to wall people I didn't even think I would get in nine holes. I bounced around and got in 16 holes, I skipped 2 and 3 and never got back to them before dark. 3 looked like one of the more interesting holes with a nice water feature short of the green.

Course was in solid shape all around a little extra plush from the overseed made things a touch longer and slower but nothing too bad. Two solid holes finish both nines and there was a good mix of pedestrian holes and interesting holes. I liked the back nine better.

Golf in Vegas is obscenely expensive for non-locals. I did a little research after I played; Chimera website offers the $25 rate after 2 during the week, it looks like they charge $140 before that, ouch. I also saw a $13 tee-time listed on golf now.
So, while not a top tier golf course it's still a fun layout in decent shape that is a steal at those discounted prices, I assume they will disappear when it is no longer CPO.