Harding at Griffith Park Golf Courses

All of the City courses are very wet and mushy and soft right now. There’s LOTS of grass, which is good, the heavy rains we had over the summer really helped to bring the grass back to how it’s supposed to be everywhere, and the cooler weather we’re having now is also keeping everything moist after they water them in the evenings, but because it’s not hot and dry but humid and cool-ish, the course doesn’t dry out as much. And so it’s very mushy and soft everywhere.

The rough is thick! It hasn’t been like this thick in probably 30 years. Which is good and bad. There’s grass, but now it’s affecting the pace of play. With so many new golfers once Covid who don’t know how to play, they’re all hacking it around all over the place and taking too long searching for balls and also taking too many shots.

Got stuck behind a few groups who were like that, who also didn’t seem to fix any of the hallmarks on the greens at all!!! As soft and mushy as the greens are, they are pock-marked, but since they’re all hackers and don’t have any etiquette, they just take their time on everything except fixing the course. It’s so sad and annoying.

POP was bad at 4 hours 30 on a weekday. We waited on every shot. Golf is becoming a joke.

Teed off at 6am and finished in just under four hours. Caught the group ahead on the back nine. Had to dodge some running sprinklers on several holes. Tee boxes were shaggy but fairways were fair. My playing partner played out of a firm bunker. The issue were the inconsistent green speeds. In addition, you can still see some punching holes that date back to May.