Rio Hondo Golf Club

I played Rio Hondo last year and the course conditions have dramatically declined since then. It's sad because the layout is amazing. Lots of muddy spots and banged up greens.

The course just plays really slow. When we would drive to the par 3s there were at times 2 groups waiting. They have no marshal to regulate pace of play and because of this the following happened.

Our tee time was for 4:04 but we didn’t end up teeing off til 4:20. No marshal to guide the groups.

- the group in front of us had 3 golf carts. 2 girls only paid spectator fees but were actually playing. They were delaying their group because now it added 5 people to their group. The girls didn’t play well so that’s that. A marshal would have caught this.

- the group behind us kept hitting their ball onto us. They thought we were playing slow but we weren’t the ones holding anyone up. We played ready golf, gummies so we wouldn’t waist time putting, and quickly dropped a ball if we couldn’t immediately find our ball. A marshal would have seen this and perhaps talked to the group behind us.

The course is very green, challenging, and fun. Beautiful course but I don’t know why there were a lot of water puddles not marked with the small pink flags. First time here I did expect better course management.

For a Weds at 940am round, I thought 5hr round would be achievable. Played here couple years ago and had good memories. Was warned from the get-go by a local upon waiting to teeoff that Weds are their "mens" day and they consist of 70 to 90 yr olds. He also advised only way to play here at good pace is by playing the earliest tee times. God bless them but this is a 6400+ yard course into strong winds. We managed to finish 9 holes in 3hrs25mins before going back to the proshop to give them our feedback. The manager gave us 9hole rain checks which was a great gesture, but after this experience, I won't be going back. This course is dominated by local hacks who play at 7hr round pace without a world of care. No marshals and of course balls "disappear" in middle of fairways as well. They've got to do something about this as this course has gone down hill.

Although we only played 8 holes (super twilight) we liked the course. Nice layout and a couple water holes on the front nine

I left after 13 holes. Four hours to that point.

Golf is no fun when all you do is stand around waiting for some dope who can't hit it out of his shadow while he plays from the wrong tees. Not one golfer in ten can play this course from White tees @6500 yds, much less Blue. And on the first tee, sure enough, four guys in their 70's, complete with two walkers, teed it up from White. End of round.

Starter needs to verify handicaps, or course needs to modify the tee boxes.

No Marshall's on the course for $80.00 you would think the pace of play would be under 6 hours groups in front of us had no clue what they were doing driving carts on to the tee boxes tried telling what they can or cannot do told us to mind our own business called the pro shop no help.

Staff needs to keep the flow to 4 to 4.5 hours rounds.

Great course!! Pace of play last time was ok but only because 1 slow foursome. Keep up the pace guys!!!

Putting a 230yd par3 right after a 170yd par 3 causes ridiculous back up on the front 9. They should shorten the 230yd to a 120yd par3 to speed up the pace of play.

For a public chorus it’s probably the most well-maintained, challenging, respectively priced golf course around great staff management tight fairways beautiful greens.

I know this is 100% my fault, let me be clear. I left my rangefinder on the cart. I went back the next day and it wasn’t turned in. Hopefully it’s lost in the back somewhere after the cart was cleaned and it will turn up, or someone took it off the cart before it as cleaned. I guess with everything, keep an eye on your belongings or someone else will.