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Recreation Park 18 Golf Course
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Also known as Recreation Park American Golf Club.
| Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 72 | 6405 yards | 70.0 | 117 |
| Combo | 72 | 6184 yards | 69.0 | 114 |
| White | 72 | 6155 yards | 69.1 | 114 |
| Silver (W) | 74 | 5930 yards | 74.1 | 127 |
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue M: 70.2/119 W: 77.1/134 | 295 | 296 | 412 | 360 | 140 | 460 | 428 | 412 | 483 | 3286 | 426 | 360 | 137 | 304 | 522 | 329 | 138 | 511 | 392 | 3119 | 6405 |
| Combo M: 69.1/116 | 295 | 296 | 394 | 360 | 140 | 428 | 416 | 402 | 443 | 3174 | 399 | 348 | 137 | 304 | 508 | 329 | 138 | 468 | 379 | 3010 | 6184 |
| White M: 69.1/116 W: 75.6/130 | 288 | 288 | 394 | 346 | 133 | 454 | 416 | 402 | 443 | 3164 | 415 | 348 | 129 | 290 | 508 | 325 | 129 | 468 | 379 | 2991 | 6155 |
| Red M: 68.1/113 W: 74.2/127 | 279 | 281 | 387 | 328 | 126 | 428 | 416 | 382 | 427 | 3054 | 399 | 315 | 129 | 281 | 489 | 321 | 122 | 450 | 370 | 2876 | 5930 |
| Handicap | 15 | 13 | 5 | 9 | 17 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 10 | 16 | 14 | 4 | 12 | 18 | 6 | 8 | |||
| Par | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 36 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 36 | 72 |
| Handicap (W) | 15 | 13 | 3 | 7 | 17 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 14 | 2 | 12 | 18 | 8 | 4 |
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Good old Rec.Park-LB
Greens need a little work...but were rolling great.
Wide open @11:45.....
17th hole...Driver, 3-wood to within 6 ft. for eagle...
missed it..Tap birdie....Good luck...
Long par fours
The greens are starting to recover from aeration, but should fully recover within a week or two. For a short hitter several of the par fours are over 400 yards even from the white tees. Enjoyed the course and the weather was great.
Great Value
It's nice to see a City run course so nice. The staff are having fun and are making sure your round of golf is a good one.
Expect a slow front 9
I grew up playing golf all over Long Beach, and Big Rec unfortunately has the slowest play of all the courses in the area. If pace of play is a top priority for you, then definitely tee off as early as you can in the morning. The greens were recently punched, so a few of the more shaded greens were still really soft. Also, I don't understand how so many people choose to let somebody else fix their divots! There were a plethora of large divots that needed some love on over half of the greens. A quick message to all of the lazy golfers out there: SHOW SOME RESPECT, AND CLEAN UP YOUR DIVOTS!!
Other than the slow pace of play, and an obvious disrespect for course maintenance, I'd recommend this course for anyone looking for a place to play some golf and enjoy a nice ocean breeze. For serious and/or semi-pro (handicap-obsessed) golfers, you might want to look elsewhere.
Great Course
Nice greens fairways good condition carts have gps sand was really good
Slow play
Don't play on a holiday afternoon. Took 3.5 hours to play 12 holes...left the course after 12. Fivesomes everywhere...disappointing.
this course is too slow pace
we play about 6 hours to finsh the 18 hole
and front they had 6 people playing and they had no ploblem with catching up with front.
Same as i remember it
It's been awhile but the course is pretty much how i remember it. Good course but slow pace mainly due to the fivesomes made popular by American Golf Corp. greens were rolling good, fairways were good, tee boxes were beat up.
Course has been better, much better.
Short and sweet..
Greens were in good to very good condition. Bunkers are great after recent renovations.
Fairways are not so good as is green side "rough". Way too many tight lies from fairway.
Very nice
Very nice course to play. Few greens are difficult and
challenging.
City Course Review
The course is very nice to play and its user friendly for average players and challenging enough for advanced players. The biggest challenge for the course and its managers is to keep the pace of play moving. We played in early afternoon and it took very close to 5 hours to play. It was Sunday weekend golfers but I would like to think that the marshal could do a bit better job to keep the rounds below four and a half hours.
Real sand
They recently upgraded their traps. Nice to play from lighter sand than your average muni's clay pit.
Great greens
Really enjoyed my round. Greens are in great shape and very true.
Enjoyable game of golf
A fast, enjoyable round. Greens were running smooth and the fairways were green. Pins were in impossible locations but other than that; a great days golf
Course in great condition.
Course in great shape but greens were little bumpy. Overall very satisfying round for the price. I would play this course again on my next visit.
A long Day
I love Long Beach courses. I think they are all pretty good tracks. What I don't like is how American Golf stacks tee times so close together that you get backed up at every hole. We had a 1:30 tee time on a Thursday. It was so backed up that after the second hole I had time to walk back to the restaurant order a meal (very good prices) and take it back to the 3rd tee and still had to wait for two groups. The front nine took over 3 hours. It took 6 hours to play 18. I would say if you have time it's a great way to spend six hours if not, tee off early in the morning.
Great course, not so great management
Got a smoking deal on golf now for $25 and the course was in great shape, nice sand and tough greens, overall the course was great. However, after my friend and I decided to get food at the turn, the let the twosome behind us play through, we were confronted by the "course manager" who demanded to see our receipt to prove we payed. OK bud, we just stole a cart got food and tried to hop on the back 9? You are the reason I would never come back. His excuse was "you weren't the twosome that we have been playing behind, and I would know, I work here" Well, you should be retrained on customer service, because yours was awful.
This course is layed out nicely
Had a great time on the course. I used golfnow and felt the rate was a great deal.
SLOW
Very slow play and happens quite often. Plan on at least 5 hours to play.
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This in Tony, the course manager. Sorry about the negative interaction that you had that day at the course. We really want your experience to be more positive. Please leave me your contact info and I would like to discuss how to we can do better. Thanks!