Encino at Sepulveda Golf Complex

Love this course definitely will play again here soon .

Well, that was NOT in the forecast!!! Definitely no mention of thunder possibility!!! But it was loud, we got rained on heavily for an hour around 1:30pm, and then it went away, luckily. The rest of the day was fine.

Greens need another week. A good week of growth and a cut and roll would make them very nice. Cooler weather helps.

It is centrally licated in the Valley and gets lots of play. You would think that it would be better taken care of.

How can they over-water one green area making it soft and spongy with muddy area all around and then leave the next one totally firm and dry???

Had us tearing our hair out at how unpredictable it all was.

They literally overwatered Hole 1 abd 10 greens so much that there’s muddied tire track areas near the front of the greens it was a joke.

And then there are other greens that hadn’t been watered in a few days that were hard as rock!

Incredibly the POP was on 4 hours so that was the only plus

Some 4some group who should not be on a full size full length course like this held up everybody after lunch!!! We got stuck behind a couple other groups who waited with us on every hole as we watched this beginner group who sprayed the ball every which way but straight, and then parked the carts in all the wrong places and then proceeded to try to putt everything out after hitting a dozen shots just to get to the green!!! Zero concept of golf or golf etiquette, no concept of trying to play faster, no concept of ready golf, but out there to drive the cart nilly-willy while making the rest of the course wait for them to try to move forward, all the groups behind them were stacked 3 to 4 groups on every hole after them!!! And nobody came out to help. Nobody did anything. That group didn’t even have the common decency of the concept of letting the group behind go head!!!

This is what’s become of golf!!!

It’s the saddest thing ever.

And to top it off, the course is TRASHED. It rained a whole week ago, and they haven’t touched the BUNKERS since, just letting them get hard packed and leaving them as is. So of course some are packed like concrete and the other ones that had no sand to begin with are packed dirt. It’s been a week!!! And they have not bothered to do anything to the bunkers. These are CITY EMPLOYEES getting paid to do nothing. They are taking pay checks hole for not doing anything. Not only should the employees be replaced so should the managers in greenkeeping.

The greens are all different from one to the next. Some cut some not some fast some slow.

It is atrocious what’s happening to golf in the government-run municipal courses everywhere. They are cheating everybody while stealing money from the public

Whole course was overly watered, especially around the greens, they were still extra wet and spongy. The lawnmower guys had ripped through some of the wet areas and left massive tire tracks dug deep into the mud!!! in so many places, it’s so sad how they don’t take good care of their own place.

Greens were all different from one green to the next, all diffent speeds and mow lengths, the last few holes were all so thick and spongy.

The bunkers!!! Just depressing. Not raked, most STILL have no new sand, lots of them growing grass. So many areas should just be roped off to grow back, like the whole right side of hole 3 green, the bunker left of hole 17 green, these have probably never been raked in 10 years.

They did however punch and level off many of the tee boxes. Why can they do that do the dead dirt areas?? Punch them, rope them off, grow them back. Especially around those greens.

Course was nice 2 weeks ago, and I guess because it was OK, they decided to slack off

Teeing off just before Noon, I never imagined that it would take only 90 minutes to play the front and then 2 hours for the back for a total of 3 hours and 30!! Sure it was a bit warm but it wasn’t scorching, it was kinda nice actually with a couple strong breezes that came through.

A few greens had been punched with small holes a week ago so, such as 1 and 10, which need a few more days to fully recover but weren’t too bad today. Rest of the greens were kinda soft and spongy.

Tee boxes are GREAT.

Most of the fairways were decent, except for may be 14 and 16 that need watering, they are looking brown and thin. Rest of course is in really good shape mostly with a decent amount of rough around the greens if you go to the side or back.

Bunkers were mostly raked so they were playable, albeit a bit crusty in most of them from the watering overnight that dried them out into caked mud.

At least it’s in better shape than Rancho or Griffith Park!