Encino at Sepulveda Golf Complex

For the price and convenience, really can't beat Encino/Balboa golf course. For an L.A. muni course, great shape, pace of play is solid, and staff is friendly. Highly recommend.

It was 106 degrees and they would not allow people to take carts out in the 10am-12pm slot.

They told us there would be stations out on the course where we could get drinks as we walked around, but their were not.

One of the members in our group almost passed out due to the heat and when we tried to call the office to see if someone could bring some waters to us the phone just rang out.

The actual course is good, but the experience was terrible.

Gold cart died on the back nine and all they had to offer was a free bucket of range balls. Service was below mediocre. Play at your own risk.

As munis go its a good one, tips make all the 3pars challenging , couple monster 4 pars on the course too, definitely worth 30 bucks, greens city course slow, And zero break., you can go low here

There’s a driving range, and most of the holes play pretty wide open with not many OB or water hazards opportunities.

Staff was nice and the food wasn’t bad either.

Love this course. It’s just good municipal golf but it’s really good good municipal golf. Great day and round.

Long and open, no water. Easy for beginners or those getting back into the game as I am. First time playing in over two years, shot a 91

So, after having come back from the Coronavirus break, the course opened for play about a week ago. The City had been maintaining the course on its regularly scheduled programme of punching holes etc. So the course is in decent shape, the greens are lush but slow.

I don’t mind any of those things - except! The PACE was terrible today. And here is the problem with that: they stretched the tee times to 12 minute intervals for social distancing. Yet we waited on every shot, on every hole, after having teed off at 12pm ish. This is a INEXCUSABLE, golfers!!! And, the course needs to tell people that there is NO EXCUSE to play slowly, or be caught up by the group behind you when you have almost half as many groups in an hour than usual!!!!!!!!! We waited on every shot on every hole, and we played in just under 5 hours!!!! This is so embarrassing. I would understand it if it was the usual 8 minute tees times on a Sunday. It used to be 6 minute tee times couple years ago until we pointed out the fact that the pace was being killed by mismanagement and misunderstanding by the City of how golf is supposed to be played.

There needs to be a sign, and also a vocal reminder by the City and all the courses across the whole state, the whole country, in these times of social distancing the times, when they are allowing you to take a cart by your individual self, there is absolutely no excuse that the group behind you catches up and has to wait on every shot. There just is no excuse for that.

No bells and whistles at Encino, but it’s a good layout. Pace of play is pretty quick, course is long, and can be challenging. Highly recommend it.