Recreation Park 18 Golf Course

Course is in good shape greens are fast and hard. This course kicked my butt today.

The pace of play at this course is the absolute worst. Teed off at 2:00pm on a twilight rate, walked off at 7:00pm and we hadn't even gotten to play the 13th. Every tee time is booked as a fivesome. My tee time was for me and a buddy. They then paired us up with three singles and we had to follow three other fivesomes.
Lastly, they didn't even have enough carts for all the golfers booked. We had to wait beyond our tee off time to wait for someone to come off the course so we could use their cart. Definitely play somewhere else that actually cares about a reasonable pace of play.

Great course very challenging lots of slopes and some elevations to throw off your game,I highly recommend this course we will be back for more

Played in 4 and 1/2 hours at 10:30 on a Wednesday. Pretty fast for a muni.

I love the course. I had a 12:07 starting time didn't get off till 12:40. Played 14 holes till sun went down. Hope to go back and play the whole course.

Made a Tee time on line with Golfnow and the golf course never had the reservation on record. What a inconvenience. I had a foursome ready too play !

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...

Took 5.5 hours to play. No beverage person on the course. Greens under repair.

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.

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.

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.

Nice greens fairways good condition carts have gps sand was really good

Don't play on a holiday afternoon. Took 3.5 hours to play 12 holes...left the course after 12. Fivesomes everywhere...disappointing.

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.

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.

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 course to play. Few greens are difficult and
challenging.

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.

They recently upgraded their traps. Nice to play from lighter sand than your average muni's clay pit.

Really enjoyed my round. Greens are in great shape and very true.