After far too many days off from my game, got back out this past Sunday to La Mirada with a 10am tee time and played from the blue tees riding. Unfortunately my two friends who were scheduled to play ... Continue »

After far too many days off from my game, got back out this past Sunday to La Mirada with a 10am tee time and played from the blue tees riding. Unfortunately my two friends who were scheduled to play backed out but I was paired with two singles to help with pace - sort of.

POP was pretty bad all afternoon if we're honest, but it didn't bother me as much as usual as I was just so happy to be out playing again. We waited one or two groups at least on every hole on the front nine and the same on all the par 3s on the back. Overall we finished in over five hours so not ideal. There was also no cart service on a busy Sunday so we were limited to the nice little snack/hot dog setup near the starter on the turn.

Conditions were also not ideal with pretty beat-up tee boxes, a lot of thin areas in the fairways, very inconsistent rough, pretty thin bunkers and of course recently punched greens that were still very bumpy, had no real pace to them and were always an adventure. I am having trouble seeing how they will get better from this in the coming weeks, but I'm not a greenskeeper, so I can't opine very realistically. But yeah, things all around could be much better.

And yet I still had a very good time because I really enjoy the fun layout at La Mirada even though I didn't score particularly well. I'm hoping in a few weeks the course will be in much better shape and I don't have to wait another three years or so before getting back out there again.