We played here on Monday 2/10/18 at 8am finishing in just over 4 hours. I notice that this course hadn't been rated in a while so thought it was time to go back. My group always enjoys our rounds here... Continue »

We played here on Monday 2/10/18 at 8am finishing in just over 4 hours. I notice that this course hadn't been rated in a while so thought it was time to go back. My group always enjoys our rounds here. We love the layout, conditions, customer service, views, and location of Angeles National. Recent reviews were not too favorable but we thought the course was in great shape overall. The greens, bunkers, and tee boxes were all excellent! If you are not a fan of tight lies then you won't like the fairways and rough. They are very tight and do run out however we found them soft enough underneath to take a divot and hit off of. Chipping around the greens is a real challenge with these lies especially if you miss it above the hole.
A couple things to point out to everyone about ANGC for GK'ers.......the recent fires got really close to the course and now more then ever you can tell you are in a desert. The nearby mountains look nice but the areas surrounding the course are rather bare now. The rates here are a little steep at $65 for a senior but if you book online they are charging $55 with a booking fee so about $57 pp which is much better. If you call them and make a tee time they charge you the higher rate ($65) so beware....we will always return here.

Aside from tees and greens, the course is dormant, dry and rock-hard. Rough is non-existent and that's problematic on a design like this, especially with the run-out you get on these billiard table-li... Continue »

Aside from tees and greens, the course is dormant, dry and rock-hard. Rough is non-existent and that's problematic on a design like this, especially with the run-out you get on these billiard table-like fairways.

Those fairways are thin as a rake and hard - it's like hitting off plywood. Remember how the barest, oldest mat at the driving range of your local muni feels like to hit off? These are worse.

Greens are the best part, but they have loads of grain in them making them very difficult to judge (not inconsistent pace-wise, but the nap of them will affect the ball severely at times). Also, moron golfer alert - the nastiest, deep gashed ball marks were pretty prevalent and unrepaired.

Sand full but heavy around the greens and thinner with a fair amount of chunky pebbles in the fairway ones.

Recent fires have burnt out most of the native areas while appearing to have leap-frogged each fairway. So it adds an eerie, other-worldly feel to the framing of the course. And, as you're not supposed to enter these areas, now if you do you'll end up with charcoal shins for your trouble and that marks you pretty clearly as a guilty trespasser. Revealed through the fires, you can now see tons of charred golf balls in them, in a sign of how many shots end up in the junk here. (Don't go trying to retrieve them - see 'shins' above, and most of them are melted anyway)

Played on an ultra special of 46 bucks and wouldn't want to pay a penny more.

Tee boxes over seeded but very playable. 5 hrs for a Friday at 12:26. I really like this place because it doesn't seem like a typical Los Track. Conditions are are above average tee to green.

Tee boxes over seeded but very playable. 5 hrs for a Friday at 12:26. I really like this place because it doesn't seem like a typical Los Track. Conditions are are above average tee to green.

Played here Sunday 10/29/17, 10:00am tee time, kind of a cool breezy day, at $130. (At the end of the day, my opinion is that course is a bit overpriced, but if deal can be found, would be palatable).... Continue »

Played here Sunday 10/29/17, 10:00am tee time, kind of a cool breezy day, at $130. (At the end of the day, my opinion is that course is a bit overpriced, but if deal can be found, would be palatable).

Conditions overall were very good.

Good grass driving range with large chipping area adjacent, which was representative of what was on course.

Friendly check-in and staff.

Nice touch having a large cooler filled with ice on first tee, but when I discovered on board cooler was empty, just kind of felt like I was being asked to pick up a piece of the staff's work, albeit a very small piece.

Anyway, on to conditions:

Tee Boxes were good, a few a had large punches throughout, but did not affect play. Level and well covered.

Fairways are mostly dormant Bermuda, so very tight, thin, fast and firm. If you can pick the ball with irons, you'll be fine. As a bit of a digger, these were tough fairways for me.

Bunkers has plenty of sand, but as I have noticed on other courses in the area, fairway bunkers have too much sand. I found a couple and was impossible to advance very far with heavy brown sand. Greenside were very good.

Bentgrass Greens were very well covered, and again, quite firm and fast. My entire group has difficulty reading, less break on most putts that what appeared. Holding shots quite well.
Consistent, medium fast. Some tiered greens, most were quite large.

Layout is fairly straightforward and mostly flat, with only slight elevation changes. A handful of tee shots require study of the on-board GPS as water, not visible from tee came into play. Seemed with routing, you'd be into wind and then had wind at back, every other hole. Prevailing wind made the those into, very tough, but shortened a couple of par 5's

No beverage cart on course, but otherwise, good service.

Played Angles National today. Very light day early so the starter got us out almost 45 minutes early which was great because it was a 36 hole day being capped off at Brentwood C.C.
Angles was in th... Continue »

Played Angles National today. Very light day early so the starter got us out almost 45 minutes early which was great because it was a 36 hole day being capped off at Brentwood C.C.
Angles was in the best shape that I have ever seen. Fairways were green and and provided great lies. It has been recently aerated but no logs in the fairways and it posed no problems. Rough was generally 2-3 inches and played at a fair clip. The trick here is keeping it in the fairways. Bunkers, in the fairways they were good maybe 2-3 inches of sand. Green side bunkers were a fair but challenging test. Good sand coverage 3-4 inches and several present steep and high faces. Greens were well maintained and showed little wear or unattended repair issues ball marks. They did however roll slower than I like maybe medium to slow.
The course is a bit of a drive from the O.C. but I would certainly recommend playing here and I will be back.

Played here again for $65 pp in perfect weather. I still always love playing here but have trouble paying rack rates very often. I really love everything about this course. I still think they need to ... Continue »

Played here again for $65 pp in perfect weather. I still always love playing here but have trouble paying rack rates very often. I really love everything about this course. I still think they need to get creative on offering golf deals here and there bottom line just might improve! Conditions are better than average as usual and we always enjoy getting back to play there.

Played here today with three others. I really want to give this place the higher rating every time play here but I never can. The tee boxes are always good and the bunkers are too. Usually the greens... Continue »

Played here today with three others. I really want to give this place the higher rating every time play here but I never can. The tee boxes are always good and the bunkers are too. Usually the greens are excellent however today they were a little too slow which is not normal. He fairways are pretty good but are always tight and I have a harder time I'm tight lies. Maybe that is why I have trouble rating it higher. I love the layout and the overall feeling of being in LA but worlds away from anyone. I think this is a $60 golf course all day long and maybe the $80 rate keeps people away during the week but I will always return because it just feels good here!

Played a twilight round at Angeles National this week with a buddy taking advantage of his free birthday round. I was excited to get back to ANGC and test my skills for just the second time, but came ... Continue »

Played a twilight round at Angeles National this week with a buddy taking advantage of his free birthday round. I was excited to get back to ANGC and test my skills for just the second time, but came away even worse off than the first time on this very difficult and challenging track.

This Nicklaus design is simply tough. The carries on the par 3s can be daunting, the tee shots on the long par 4s unnerving, and the bunkering all across the board makes for requiring some pretty accurate bombs from the start. On top of that, some of the green complexes are brutal and highly unforgiving. Bring A game here or forget about leaving with a good feeling. There are maybe three 'easy' holes on this course so beginners should go elsewhere if you want to have any fun.

I am always surprised at a high-end golf club to see the greens and bunkers left so scarred, but that's exactly what we found this week. Unraked bunkers (some with a few rocks in them), and ball marks on almost all of the greens. This isn't a knock on the staff there, but the players who are paying a premium price and not treating the golf course accordingly.

But when the ball marks were fixed, the greens were in good condition - medium fast and slightly bumpy but totally fine. Again, tough to judge the breaks here more than the speed. The fairways were mostly tight but generally had good coverage. This course sits in the middle of a hot valley in a hot part of town so keeping it green must be tough. Lush I would not call it, but fairways are good. Tee boxes are fine, but bunkers are a little thin for what you would expect here. Rough is nice and lush but many areas with wood chips to avoid and the general mayhem of the natural areas surrounding many of the holes. Bring a lot of balls!

Disappointing on a hot afternoon not to see any cart service either, but maybe that's because we started later in the day. And there was also a nearby fire so helicopters kept on buzzing the lake on hole 18 to collect water. That was interesting.

Played in a charity scramble at Angeles National this past Saturday 6/24 with a shotgun start at 12pm. I haven't been to ANGC in a while, and was happy to see conditions are quite good right now. They... Continue »

Played in a charity scramble at Angeles National this past Saturday 6/24 with a shotgun start at 12pm. I haven't been to ANGC in a while, and was happy to see conditions are quite good right now. They have put up fences around the green on 18 to handle the major coot issues they were having. No coots to be found this time.

Tee boxes are nice and lush and level, with no major divot damage. The fairways have nice coverage, but the lies are tight and firm. The rough around the greens was nice and lush, about 2" long and very playable. Sand traps were in very nice shape, and were a pleasure to play from. The greens still haven't completely healed from their punch about a month ago, and are still a bit bumpy and slow. They are nice and lush, and very accepting to well struck shots. I'd say they need another week or two, and they'll be in great shape.

I would definitely recommend Angeles right now, especially if you can find a good deal online...I still feel like the full rack rate is a bit steep.