Brookside Golf Club - C.W. Koiner Course

It's been a number of years since I've played Brookside while visiting the Pasadena area, so I figured I'd go back. There are 2 courses, and I played the Nay course.

The greens were in great shape. Not too slow, not too fast, and rolled true. I really liked the greens. Well except for a par 3 on the back where, according to my playing partners, the green has been closed for a few years. The temporary green/hole is ridiculous.

The fairways are a completely different story. Now I'm sure it's difficult to maintain good fairways when they're so frequently used as freaking PARKING LOTS for the Rosebowl, but I didn't remember them being so poor. The fairways were less than ideal, to say the least. Oh, and if you start your round after about 0945, it's possible you may not get to play all the holes, because they start closing holes for freaking PARKING if there is an event upcoming at the Rosebowl. (We went off at 1000, and got to 18 just before 2:00 when they were ready to close the hole. We got to play the hole, but it was close.)

To sum it up, I probably won't play there again, as there are a ton of courses in the LA area.

During "event" season, the course is in horrible condition. Greens are cut up and have dead grass lines throughout.

There is literal TRASH bags everywhere on at least 12 holes, They are "collected" in piles on various parts of the fairways. There is BROKEN glass beer bottles on various places as well. I saw a few areas where "event" go-ers lit fires on the course, small 2 feet by 2 feet fire spots. Apparently cars park on the course... absolute garbage of course conditions

It was my first time playing here and will DEFINITELY be my LAST. DO NOT come here and be subjected to a land fill of a course.

If you do want to play here I suggest you play when its NOT "event season"

Tournament was going on the Friday I played. One of the tournament groups was soo slow we were losing 5 min per hole. Tee time was 10:40, didn’t tee off until 11:00.

We skipped 3 hole because of pace of play and as we were coming up to #17 that slow group had just finished #10. That could have been a 7 hour round! No ambassadors around to enforce pace of play.

This course is the same price as DeBell, and many other courses that are worth the price. The course here is destroyed from them using it as a parking lot for the rose bowl. I don’t think I will ever play here again unless they lower the prices.

Nearly unplayable it was in such bad shape…I’m sure a combination of the football game, festival, and rain did a number on it, but still. Worst condition I’ve seen a course in over ten years in LA.

If I could leave half a star for this shit_hole that would be too high of a score, hands down Brookside Nay is in the worst condition of any course I've ever played in Los Angeles over the past 10 years ...And they had the nerve to charge $64/rd WITHOUT warning that none of those dollars go towards upkeep.

The entire fairway for hole 1 was under repair, so you get to play out of the rough -which was clumps of mud. Honesty, save yourself the frustration and just throw $64 in the garbage instead of playing this dump

I usually love playing here but was absolutely shocked at the condition of the course. This makes scholl canyon look like a 5 star course!

Hole #1 was literally all dirt on fairway. The parts of fairways that did have some grass was patchy grass/dirt mixture to the point where the rough gave you a better lie lol. Hole #12 was also a joke lol 100 yd shot into a flag stick in the ground.

Greens were good, but not fun getting there lol

I use to enjoy playing Brookside GC, I last played here back in March of 2022 conditions then were good. To my surprise the course conditions today are terrible. I do hope things get better, Until then I’d rather play elsewhere.

Due to festival #1&#2 courses have been modified as 18hole course.

The layout was a combo layout with half the course stripped out for a concert. Its crazy to think they destroy a beautiful golf course for music events .. love the layout for both courses at brookside but I am just hoping the mgmt makes good choices for the game of golf and not make it an actual parking lot for concerts