I think Los Verdes is one of the nicest golf courses the county offers. They just finished a major irrigation upgrade. I was told by the superintendent that the county will be upgrading one course a y... Continue »

I think Los Verdes is one of the nicest golf courses the county offers. They just finished a major irrigation upgrade. I was told by the superintendent that the county will be upgrading one course a year. Los Verdes was the first with the new sprinkler system along with a pricey computer (controls watering levels) that goes with it. The course and it's players a reaped the benefits. It's lush and green and the old dry spots are going away. The fairways that used to be thin, have grass on them now. The greens are doing great as well. The greenskeeper there has done a fantastic job. I've played this course the last 15 years and it truly has never looked better. The sand is tough there. I play in the morning during the week and sometimes they haven't been raked when we are out there. Some are soft and some are hard. They plan to grind the over-grown tree roots and fix the tee-boxes in the next phase. Over-all, they have done a fantastic job.
Now playing the course. First, let's just start by saying DO NOT play on the weekends there. It is loaded and extremely slow. If you can, play during the week. Come out early and put your name on the waiting list. I'd suggest 5:30-5:45 a.m. You'll be out in less then an hour. Make a tee-time for the following week then. There is some course knowledge needed. The greens are tricky. Sometimes you think you're putting uphill and it ends up you're downhill...and vice versa. The greens usually break towards the water...keep that in mind when reading the break. When the greens are at their normal speed...they run between an 8 and a 9. Spend sometime on the practice green. This will help immensely. Good luck and enjoy one of California's best public golf courses with oceans views.

Played Los Verdes in a Saturday tournament held by my college fraternity alumni group (LA and OC alumni chapters of Sigma Chi) Well-planned tournament and great to see all of the guys.

The "good":... Continue »

Played Los Verdes in a Saturday tournament held by my college fraternity alumni group (LA and OC alumni chapters of Sigma Chi) Well-planned tournament and great to see all of the guys.

The "good": Course is in remarkably good shape compared to the last time I played here. Fairways were great, greens rolled true and were consistent. And consistently GOOD! Great views. Well designed. Lots of elevation changes and a true test of golf.

The "bad": Our first group off the tee was 15-minutes late, I should have known what was coming up.

The "ugly": There are fivesomes of walkers all over in front of us. After the full half-hour wait at the second tee, we just laughed and joined-up with the foursome in front of us and (yes!) made an "eight-some". We STILL had to wait on just about every shot for the almost FOUR HOUR FRONT SIDE.

The "marshall" said to us: "Hey...you can't play as an "8-some"!!

Our answer: "Why not?? Are we falling behind??"

The answer was clear and he said: "Well...you have a point there!"

If I'm lyin', I'm dyin'! We played as an eight-some until the 10th hole where we decided to start drinking heavily.

Total time to play 18-holes? Six-hours and twenty-minutes.

You have been warned. This is the slowest golf course I have ever played in my LIFE.

Thank God the company was good and all eight of us fraternity brothers got along so well.

N.B. to Los Verdes management....seriously, dudes....that was ridiculous. Do something!

Gotta say LV is coming back due to the irrigation system improvements. All contruction is done ... the range is next, whenever that might happen, who knows. The fairways are improving and look bette... Continue »

Gotta say LV is coming back due to the irrigation system improvements. All contruction is done ... the range is next, whenever that might happen, who knows. The fairways are improving and look better than ever. Greens have always been great but now they're cutting them a little shorter and they can be quick, at least for LV.

Still the slowest playing course in SoCal, so stay away if you like fast rounds. I might start playing here again more often.

PLAYED ON 6-11, 23 DOLLARS TO WALK AND PLAY NEAR THE OCEAN, WHAT A DEAL! . ROUND TOOK OVER 5 HOURS AND 15 MINS, BUT WHO CARES WHEN YOU HAVE GREAT VIEWS TO LOOK AT. GREENS ARE IMMACULATE RIGHT NOW. THE... Continue »

PLAYED ON 6-11, 23 DOLLARS TO WALK AND PLAY NEAR THE OCEAN, WHAT A DEAL! . ROUND TOOK OVER 5 HOURS AND 15 MINS, BUT WHO CARES WHEN YOU HAVE GREAT VIEWS TO LOOK AT. GREENS ARE IMMACULATE RIGHT NOW. THEY PLAY REALLY FAST AND SMOOTH. BEWARE OF THE OCEAN BREAK!

Expect more than 6 (yes, Six) hours of playing time on weekends. Bring enough patient to play at this course. No Marshalls at all to control the speed of players without any knowledge of golf course m... Continue »

Expect more than 6 (yes, Six) hours of playing time on weekends. Bring enough patient to play at this course. No Marshalls at all to control the speed of players without any knowledge of golf course manner. Many players don't know how to wave the next group to play at Par 3 holes. It was too bad that course condition was so good!

teed off at 6am today. course is exactly the way i remembered it 3 years ago - everything breaks towards the ocean.

it's a typical muni where the teeboxes are slightly unlevel and have divot hol... Continue »

teed off at 6am today. course is exactly the way i remembered it 3 years ago - everything breaks towards the ocean.

it's a typical muni where the teeboxes are slightly unlevel and have divot holes around them. The greens roll pretty well but people aren't fixing their ball marks! the fairways are hit or miss; i'd have to say they're slightly on the thin side.

the view was awesome but the course wasn't very challenging; pretty simple setup of just hit straight.

Just moved out here and played Los Verdes on 5/16. There are many ways to look at this course. If you are looking to play serious golf and like a steady pace of play then this might not be your place.... Continue »

Just moved out here and played Los Verdes on 5/16. There are many ways to look at this course. If you are looking to play serious golf and like a steady pace of play then this might not be your place. Backups and 5somes made pace very slow. If you are looking for golf at a bargain rate coupled with the most gorgeous surroundings ever no matter how slow play is this is your place. The course was in very nice shape and greens were fast and breaks difficult to read. The mixture of holes is nice and the course while not long is quite challenging.The carts have GPS in them and the pro shop is nice. For me, this is great since its 5 min away from where I live and I can be happy just looking at the ocean and hitting an occasional shot. The back nine views are truly out of this world and coming from the east coast as I did, you just never see anything like this and for 29 bucks how the heck can you get mad for a little delay here and there.

Greens are perfect right now!! Best they have ever been! The new greenskeeper is doing a terrific job. There are still some areas that have not recovered fully from the new sprinkler system but who... Continue »

Greens are perfect right now!! Best they have ever been! The new greenskeeper is doing a terrific job. There are still some areas that have not recovered fully from the new sprinkler system but who cares when the greens are this good!!

Played Friday 5/9 in a Scramble. Greens were excellent, and course overall was in good shape. Not happy carts were not ready for our tournament in a timely fashion.

Played Friday 5/9 in a Scramble. Greens were excellent, and course overall was in good shape. Not happy carts were not ready for our tournament in a timely fashion.