Played here this Sunday and must say when you come here, you feel as though you should score well. Thing is, it has wide open fairways, not much OB and not a pond/lake in sight. Which makes it seem so... Continue »

Played here this Sunday and must say when you come here, you feel as though you should score well. Thing is, it has wide open fairways, not much OB and not a pond/lake in sight. Which makes it seem so easy. Then your approach shots to very small greens happen. If your short game is on point, you will be scoring very low here. Also Putting on the greens, really isn't much to it because nothing breaks drastically. Good to know if you ever have a round here. Would definitely come here to tune up your driver and sharpen your short game skills. Deceptively long track, when playing from the back. The long ball is rewarded on this course.

I also played Saturday 10/18 like the previous reviewer but played the River/Pine routing.

This might be the perfect example of muni golf in Southern California.
Tee boxes and fairways were mostl... Continue »

I also played Saturday 10/18 like the previous reviewer but played the River/Pine routing.

This might be the perfect example of muni golf in Southern California.
Tee boxes and fairways were mostly goodish but a bit rough around the edges. I never had a bad lie but some were a bit thin. Rough was mostly absent or scruffy around the fairways. Around the greens it was mostly squishy kikuyu which will likely have some people running in the other direction. Greens were solid and healed from aeration a couple weeks ago but a few had some questionable burnouts (front of #7 comes to mind). Bunkers weren't good. 1/4 inch of silty dirt and hardpan underneath.

POP was abysmal (5 hours 40 mins) and we were teeing off 40 minutes late (Hello weekend muni!!!). Did see the cart girl a couple of times and the price walking ($36.50) is about as good as you're going to find on a weekend.

What you see is what you get and what you get is probably what you should expect.

Played on Saturday, 10-18-14, in the am. 18 holes were made up of the Pine and Mountain 9-holes; did not play the River. The course design is hardly memorable and at first glance, the course seemed ... Continue »

Played on Saturday, 10-18-14, in the am. 18 holes were made up of the Pine and Mountain 9-holes; did not play the River. The course design is hardly memorable and at first glance, the course seemed to be in good condition. I have no complaints about the greens but the bunkers were pretty hard pan; difficult for me. What proved much more difficult and annoying to me were the spotty and thin fairways (making approach shots that much more difficult for the mid-handicapper) and the fluffy lies around the greens, where I ended up a lot. Personally, I have a real hard time where there is very little dirt/ground beneath the ball while sitting on grass (is this crabgrass?), making it very easy to get under the ball and that much harder to hit decent pitches and chips. It becomes a guessing game compounded by inconsistent contact. For this reason alone, I doubt that I will be playing here anytime soon.

Played 6/1 in am. Paired up with three other cool guys, got out about 20 min late. Average LA muni conditions - compares to Woodley Lakes ... wide, flat, maybe a little bit more difficult ... greens ... Continue »

Played 6/1 in am. Paired up with three other cool guys, got out about 20 min late. Average LA muni conditions - compares to Woodley Lakes ... wide, flat, maybe a little bit more difficult ... greens ok, some fairways kind of patchy, but acceptable ... for $20 with cart (Teeoff.com "deal time" plus 25% off email code) I can't complain too much. 5 hour round. Waited on most shots, lots of people playing. Great snack bar in clubhouse, no cart girl. Driving range gives you a good size bucket for $5. Recommend.

Played on Friday 6-6 afternoon. Expected a long round (5hours) but played in about 3 1/2 hrs. Played with a foursome on the front 9 and played as a twosome the back nine. The twosome seem to play the ... Continue »

Played on Friday 6-6 afternoon. Expected a long round (5hours) but played in about 3 1/2 hrs. Played with a foursome on the front 9 and played as a twosome the back nine. The twosome seem to play the back nine first. Saw many singles and twosomes out on the course. Was wondering where was all the golfers? Good thing for us I guess. Course conditions is typical city courses with slow greens, patchy fairways and chewed up tee boxes. Always can find a good cheap tee time for this place.

I played here several times during April and the course is in terrible shape. The grass in the tee box is dead with mostly dry hard pan dirt. Lots of deep spots in the box with no level area to tee ... Continue »

I played here several times during April and the course is in terrible shape. The grass in the tee box is dead with mostly dry hard pan dirt. Lots of deep spots in the box with no level area to tee off. The greens are very slow with putts jumping around toward the cup. Greens were aerated at end of March and should have been in better condition by now. Rumor had it that American Golf was to take over management of Whittier Narrows at end of 2013. As of now that hasn't happened. Maybe this explains why the bad condition. Current management doesn't want to incur expense if American Golf is going to get the contract and American Golf. Whittier Narrows needs to put irrigation in the tee box area before trying to improve the tee box. Amazing how water helps grass grow.

Played this course early morning. Greens were in good shape. Fairways were thin with some bare spots. Big issue I had was with the unraked bunkers. There were way too many footprints on a bunch of... Continue »

Played this course early morning. Greens were in good shape. Fairways were thin with some bare spots. Big issue I had was with the unraked bunkers. There were way too many footprints on a bunch of holes too early in the morning, which tells me this was a maintenance crew problem. RAKE THE BUNKERS!!!

Greens were great for this course. True & consistent on every green. Fairways, rough & bunkers were ok to good. Tee boxes are always bad here. Close to home so I will always be back.

Greens were great for this course. True & consistent on every green. Fairways, rough & bunkers were ok to good. Tee boxes are always bad here. Close to home so I will always be back.

Played here this afternoon. Found a good deal on ezlinks for $23 and figured I'd give it a shot. It wasn't too busy when I got there ahead of my 12:45 time, so I headed out a few minutes early by myse... Continue »

Played here this afternoon. Found a good deal on ezlinks for $23 and figured I'd give it a shot. It wasn't too busy when I got there ahead of my 12:45 time, so I headed out a few minutes early by myself starting on the River nine. It was great for the first 6 holes and then caught up to all the groups. Joined up with the single ahead of me and it was very slow going after that. Front nine about 1:45 and back nine over 2:30 with 5 groups waiting to tee off on the 10th (Pine #1). Not as bad as it seemed. Since I was there and could see it wasn't crowded on the Mountain nine, I went ahead and played it as a replay for only $8.25 (cart still included) and zipped through that one pretty quickly. The course was actually in pretty good shape, much better than I would have expected. Pretty lush, thick kikuyu throughout fairways and rough. Bad, ugly patches here and there, but mostly green and nice. Tee boxes were pretty lumpy and not too level, but grass was pretty good on them for the most part. The greens were in great shape. Some unrepaired ball marks, but not as bad as some county courses get with so much play. The bunkers were pretty thin and could definitely use some more sand, but playable. I enjoyed the course more than expected. It's nothing too exciting or special and I won't be in any rush to come back, but not quite as boring as others have made it sound. Very wide open fairways. Flat terrain, but a lot of little humps and bumps, so not as many flat easy lies as you think. River nine greens pretty easy to get at, but Pine greens are a little more interesting and protected by some bigger bunkers. Mountain greens are tiny. The River/Pine combo plays quite long at over 6800 yards from the blue tees and the fluffy/sticky kikuyu means not a lot of roll out on drives, so it plays even longer than the scorecard suggests. In addition to red tees for the ladies, there are two sets of forward tees for men (white and gold). However, on EVERY tee box, the blues, whites and gold are really close to one another. There seems to be no significant advantage to playing up as I normally would.