Destroyer at Seal Beach Navy GC: #12
A view of hole #12 from Destroyer at Seal Beach Navy Golf Course.
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4.4
1292 Reviews (1292)
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536
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3 Stars
94
2 Stars
73
1 Stars
37
Conditions
4.4
Value
4.4
Layout
4.5
Friendliness
4.5
Pace
4.1
Amenities
4.3
93.6%
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4.6
29 Reviews (29)
5 Stars
21
4 Stars
6
3 Stars
1
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0
1 Stars
1
Conditions
4.6
Value
4.6
Layout
4.8
Pace
3.8
Amenities
4.4
StaffFriendliness
4.6
96.6%
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28 out of 29 reviews
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4.5
112 Reviews (112)
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73
4 Stars
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3 Stars
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2 Stars
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Conditions
4.4
Value
4.4
Layout
4.6
Pace
4.1
Amenities
4.4
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4.6
94.6%
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106 out of 112 reviews
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About

Holes 18
Type Military
Par 72
Length 6780 yards
Slope 129
Rating 72.8

The Navy Golf Course Seal Beach is a 27-hole facility that includes the championship Destroyer Course and the nine-hole executive Cruiser Course. The 6,780-yard Destroyer Course presents a challenge even for low handicappers with a slew of hazards coming into play throughout. The small greens have challenging slopes ranging from subtle breaks to dramatic drop-offs. To make them even tougher, you'll find strategically placed bunkers lurking along the edges. The tricky doglegs, which are mostly par 4s, will force you to think carefully about your club selection, and to top it all off, water makes an appearance on almost every hole. It's a long golf course that feels even longer due to the rolling terrain, but it is more forgiving than it seems with long, wide fairways that won't penalize you for being slightly errant.

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Course Details

Year Built 1966
Fairways Bermudagrass/Kikuyugrass
Greens Bentgrass/Poa Annua Grass
Golf Season Year round

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes - $21
Clubs Yes

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Bunker Yes
Golf School/Academy Yes
Teaching Pro Yes
Pitching/Chipping Area Yes
Putting Green Yes

Policies

Credit Cards Accepted Mastercard, Visa
Metal Spikes Allowed No
Walking Allowed Yes
Dress code Proper golf attire.

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Restaurant

Available Facilities

Clubhouse, Banquet Facilities

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4.4
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Reviews 164
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Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
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4.0

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We started at 12 noon and finished before 5PM with Golf Now special deals. The course condition was overall very good although A few holes had many ball marks on the greens. The course layout is one of the more challenge ones in the neighborhood, with total length of 6800 yards.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
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Commented on 08/23/2019

Hijeffyin. We appreciate you taking the time to review the course and rate us. Thank you for the 4 stars! We aim for a 5-star experience, so we always welcome feedback for improvement. Thank you for playing Destroyer at Seal Beach Navy Golf Course.

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Reviews 164
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
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Previously Played
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
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Commented on 08/23/2019

Thank you for visiting us at Destroyer at Seal Beach Navy Golf Course. We appreciate your 4-star rating and review. We hope you join us for another round soon.

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Reviews 1
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Good
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Commented on 08/23/2019

Hiu279001296. We appreciate you taking the time to review the course and rate us. Thank you for the 4 stars! We aim for a 5-star experience, so we always welcome feedback for improvement. Thank you for playing Destroyer at Seal Beach Navy Golf Course.

Played On
Reviews 6
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
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Commented on 08/20/2019

Hello, jk11130822. Thank you for your 5-star rating! Please book another round with us soon at Destroyer at Seal Beach Navy Golf Course!

Played On
Reviews 10
Handicap 15-19
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Previously Played

Great course

Wonderful course to play. Can be extremely slow if busy.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Average
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Commented on 08/09/2019

Thank you for visiting us at Destroyer at Seal Beach Navy Golf Course. We appreciate your 4-star rating and review. We hope you join us for another round soon.

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Reviews 5
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
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First Time Playing

Pleasantly surprised

First time playing this course and wasn't really expecting much but was pleasantly surprised. Lots of water in play and the greens were in good condition with some tough pin placements. Pace of play could have been better but really didn't distract from the overall experience. I'll be back

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Good
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Commented on 08/08/2019

Thank you for taking the time to review us u9860013. Your feedback is valuable, and we look forward to delivering you excellent service again soon. Destroyer at Seal Beach Navy Golf Course thanks you!

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Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Average
Amenities Good
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Commented on 08/02/2019

Hello. Thank you for your 5-star rating! Please book another round with us soon at Navy Golf Course!

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Reviews 9
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
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Previously Played

Excellent Course ...

One of the best course in oc

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
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Commented on 07/26/2019

Wow, we are so happy you enjoyed your round! We look forward to seeing you again soon.

Played On
Reviews 4
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
First Time Playing
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 37
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Great fairways/greens

First time playing Destroyer course. Beautifully kept fairways and greens. Fun course. Nice challenge. Loved the breeze!

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
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Commented on 07/24/2019

Hi, we appreciate you leaving a review and rating us. We will inform the entire team, so they know their hard work is paying off. We look forward to having you back again soon at Destroyer at Seal Beach Navy Golf Course!

Played On
Reviews 11
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Very Slow Pace, Average Conditions and a Forgiving Layout

First of all the staff here in the pro shop and cafe are great. It’s a very nice place to spend a leisurely afternoon playing golf. I emphasize LEISURELY.

My tee time was at 2:30 as a single player and I was grouped up with two other golfers. We tee’d off on time but it was apparent from the start that the pace of play ahead of us was going to be very very slow. Like a lazy drive down a crowded boulevard on a Sunday.

The pace of play seemed to largely be due to groups ahead of us unfamiliar with the basic course rules (stated on many signs) and some of them seemed new to golf so they may not have any idea that the course had guidelines or even know the basics of etiquette. I did not see a Marshall, and these are situations where one could share guidelines to help everyone on the course out.

The conditions:

Tee boxes: 3/5

Fairways: 3/5

Greens: 2/5, very slow, soft, a few were in very poor condition so much that your ball would bounce even on short puts.

Course Layout: This is a very forgiving course layout for golfers with little accuracy control. The fairways are wide open, a miss will land you in the next fairway with an easy shot putting you back in your fairway. The design of the greens is the highlight here with a few tiered greens with major elevation changes, however they weren’t well kept. The bunkers and hazards are placed in a way that would be better described as scenery with only one or two holes asking the golfer to make a shot to avoid them. The tree lined sections of the course are rarely out of bounds because the trees are spaced out. An easy, but enjoyable course.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Layout Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Poor
Amenities Good
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Commented on 07/23/2019

Hello eightbitprince. Thank you for taking the time to review the course and rate us. We are going to pass along your feedback to the staff so they can work to make changes. Thanks for visiting us!

Played On
Reviews 4
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Previously Played

Nice course

Par 3 9th hole had 4 foursomes backed up on the tee box

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Average
Pace Poor
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Navy destroyer course

First time playing the destroyer course. Was pleasantly surprised with the quality of the greens. Tee boxes were nice and level. Lots of water in play on this course. We got stuck behind a 4 some that played like they were putting to win the masters... 5 hours even to finish out.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Fair
Amenities Average
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Commented on 07/17/2019

Thank you for your review. We will pass along your positive experience to our team at Navy Golf Course. We look forward to seeing you again soon.

Played On
Reviews 3
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Previously Played
Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Good
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Commented on 07/17/2019

Hello. Thank you for your 5-star rating! Please book another round with us soon.

Played On
Reviews 4
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Good
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Commented on 07/12/2019

Thank you for visiting us at Navy Golf Course. We appreciate your 4-star rating and review. We hope you join us for another round soon.

Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Pace Average
Amenities Good
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Commented on 07/09/2019

Thank you for visiting us at Navy Golf Course. We appreciate your 4-star rating and review. We hope you join us for another round soon.

Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser

PACE OF PLAY

Marshall needs to get on his horn to people to speed up. Four group back up at the 9th, and only solution was to let people hit up. NO. Get on groups about playing with some urgency and picking your ball out of the hazard if you can't play it out quickly.

Exceptional layout especially the very challenging approaches to the green. This course rewards fairway strikers and narrows down fairways beyond your 2i-3w landing zones. You can go for the bomb and be pitching in but only with danger.

Greens were way too slow and our carts found themselves on some terrible terrain (even on the paths) that needs to be smoothed out.

Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Poor
Amenities Good
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Commented on 07/08/2019

Hello. Thank you for taking the time to review the course and rate us. We are going to pass along your feedback to the staff so they can work to make changes. Thanks for visiting us!

Played On
Reviews 6
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Challenging Course

We enjoyed the course and appreciate the starter moving up our time adding 2 singles to make a 4 some. Although it was Monday, the course was busy and slow. It would be helpful to have signage pointing out the direction for several of the holes. Luckily, one of our group had played the course before. Our round took over 4 1/2 hours. The greens were well maintained and the facility is clean. A marshal on the course may have helped pace of play. We’d like to play again.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Average
Amenities Average
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Commented on 07/08/2019

Hi. We appreciate you leaving a review and rating us. We will inform the entire team, so they know their hard work is paying off. We look forward to having you back!

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