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Rio Hondo Golf Club
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Located just minutes from LAX, Rio Hondo Golf Club is conveniently accessible from the South Bay and Orange County. Golf Digest has ranked the course as one of southern California's "Places to Play." The 6,370-yard layout is narrow and challenging, placing a premium on accuracy off the tee. Many locals consider it to be the toughest golf course in the area. The course features tight, tree-lined fairways and subtly contoured greens that are faster than they look. It's not a particularly long layout but the par 3s provide some good length. Golfers will face a variety of challenges throughout, but there is also plenty of scenic respite. Sparkling lakes and cascading waterfalls are scattered across the landscape, coming into play on a few holes as well. In addition to the golf course, there is also a lighted, 30-station driving range at Rio Hondo G.C.
| Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 71 | 6370 yards | 70.7 | 124 |
| White | 71 | 6030 yards | 69.1 | 120 |
| Gold (W) | 71 | 5657 yards | 72.7 | 126 |
| Gold | 71 | 5657 yards | 67.4 | 116 |
| Red (W) | 71 | 5103 yards | 69.7 | 121 |
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue M: 70.9/125 W: 76.8/136 | 418 | 403 | 492 | 535 | 403 | 342 | 165 | 232 | 416 | 3406 | 204 | 490 | 310 | 368 | 204 | 489 | 321 | 154 | 424 | 2964 | 6370 |
| Blue/White M: 70.0/123 W: 75.8/134 | 401 | 403 | 492 | 535 | 393 | 342 | 165 | 218 | 393 | 3342 | 182 | 490 | 310 | 354 | 165 | 489 | 321 | 137 | 406 | 2854 | 6196 |
| White M: 69.3/121 W: 74.9/132 | 401 | 390 | 471 | 495 | 393 | 326 | 146 | 218 | 393 | 3233 | 182 | 478 | 296 | 354 | 165 | 477 | 310 | 137 | 406 | 2805 | 6038 |
| Gold M: 67.4/117 W: 72.8/128 | 384 | 363 | 447 | 469 | 382 | 308 | 130 | 201 | 370 | 3054 | 143 | 467 | 283 | 333 | 141 | 463 | 283 | 115 | 375 | 2603 | 5657 |
| Gold/Red M: 65.6/112 W: 70.8/124 | 340 | 336 | 447 | 469 | 339 | 308 | 130 | 191 | 344 | 2904 | 131 | 413 | 283 | 333 | 124 | 412 | 243 | 115 | 346 | 2400 | 5304 |
| Red M: 64.6/109 W: 69.6/121 | 340 | 336 | 409 | 418 | 339 | 277 | 118 | 191 | 344 | 2772 | 131 | 413 | 275 | 285 | 124 | 412 | 243 | 102 | 346 | 2331 | 5103 |
| Handicap | 3 | 9 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 15 | 17 | 13 | 1 | 14 | 2 | 16 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 12 | 18 | 4 | |||
| Par | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 36 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 35 | 71 |
| Handicap (W) | 7 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 13 | 17 | 15 | 3 | 18 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 2 | 10 | 14 | 4 |
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Very nice city course
Enjoyed the round -
Winter conditions on Fairways
Greens excellent pace of play 👍
Employees friendly and professional
Course is tight so do your homework
Bring in fairways is critical if you want to score
Great course operations compared to other city courses
beautiful field
Walking it is great because there are no hills to tire you out, and the greens are very well maintained.
Rio Honda
Great course layout, management and players assistants need to get on same page, horrible pace of play after 4.holes, landscaping is well kept, solid fairways, nice greens, need to more presence after starting round, otherwise it's a great value and we'll maintained track.
Expexct 5+ hr round…
Course layout and the condition is good/fair but 9 times out of 10 times i play here, it takes avg 5 hours 30mins…
You’re gonna have to wait 5min every single shot…
Pace of play is one of the slowest in many courses around LA.
Great round of golf!
Played yesterday. Course was in good shape. Pace of play was a little slow but not bad. Always a good time. I hit my first hole in one on #14 par 3 160 yards. Best feeling I've had in a while.
Nice folks/Good conditions
My only gripe about this place is the layout is they have two PAR-5’s back to back, followed by two PAR-3’s and the pace of play backs up. Other than that, it’s a pretty nice spot.
Average Course Not Nice Pace
We got to the course 15min early, but allowed to start 15min later. We waited at each hole for at least 10 mins. We end up only playing 9 holes because the game was not enjoyable any more which such pace. Either the course has to space it out better or there has be a marshal that monitor the pace. There is no GPS on the Cart as well. Regular people pay $90 to play at a Gold Club and the Cart does not have GPS. green is not well kept inconsistency on the green makes the game less fun.
Goff time
The staff was very accommodating, we had two foursomes of seniors. The course was in great shape even though it gets played often. The pace was average, we caught up to the group in front only at the 3.pars. Over all we had a great time. We will be back again.
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