Los Verdes Golf Course

Surprisingly the pace of play here last Sunday was good for this course. It is not unusual to take 6 plus hours to finish here. We started at 9:20 and only had to wait on the par threes to hit. Unfortunately the condition of the fairways and greens have deteriorated to an alarming degree. I'm assuming the ongoing water shortage is the reason for so many dried out and bare ground areas but I don't know why the greens were so bumpy. The practice putting greens were fine. The course fairways are starting to look like Victoria Park. The cart paths are still under repair so some minor constructions zones exist. The men's looker room bathroom stinks. The beautiful ocean views remain as this courses' main attraction.

Water shortage does not help but still in good shape. Had early tee time pace of play war very good.

A nice layout at an amazing location overlooking the Pacific. Mostly it's the location. On most days here, it's truly spectacular. The layout is good, not great, but it could be an amazing course if it is not in such poor shape. The fairways are either thin or too wet from over-watering, hard and crusty to a splat mud. The conditions of the greens vary too, from good to terrible from hole to hole, the same thing, some hard and fast and others almost rotting and too soft. It's a County muni course run by American Golf Corp and they let out 5somes so that's what kills the pace, and because it's cheap, you get all the hackers at a pretty difficult golf course with all the slopes and tricky side hill lies. And with the fairways bare and absolutely no rough, the ball will take the slope and run out under the trees. It could be such a great place, but it is what it is, for now.

Worst pace of play in Los Angeles/OC area. Teed off at 1:45pm and decided to leave after hole 15 at 7:30p. Nearly 6 hours to play 15 holes... Just awful. For those that don't want to do the math, that's 24 minutes a hole. No rangers regulating pace, no spacing between tee times, no chance at an enjoyable round. American Golf strikes again. Nothing quite like pulling up to tee 2 and your group is the THIRD waiting on the tee box. It was a joke.

Up the greens fees $10-15, space out the tee times, hire some rangers and this could easily be the best public course in the LA metro. Solid layout, cool location, great views; it has everything except good management.

The tee boxes, fairway bunkers and some greens were under repair in early November. Pace of play for a late morning tee time was decent but mostly because I walked - otherwise, it would have been frustrating. Several 5 player groups on the course. Good value, great views, but anecdotally chronically slow.