Rancho Park Golf Course

2 hours to play 6 holes. I walked off. Enough said

The course is in good condition. Very good greens, fairways are nice and the ruff is very rough. Traps have decent sand and the course is generally a lot of fun to play, at least the first few holes. When we got to the fourth hole it backed up three groups. While standing in the fairway on the third hole the group behind me hit up and someone on the next fairway drove a ball right by me. No on calling "FORE". All that was okay because it was a beautiful day.
The problem is the starter was allowing doubles and even singles to play by themselves. That's great if the course is empty but we were waiting four groups deep by the sixth hole. At the turn two groups in front of us quit and the tenth hole was fine but by the eleventh hole is was three deep again. That took all the fun out of it and we abandoned ship and called it a day.

Rancho Park is conveniently located, course condition fair, greens a bit slow and bumpy. It is awfully slow, 3-4 times packed with 3 groups on one tee box, not even par 3s. No staff is even trying to get it in order. Maybe it is holiday spirit, yet I am not playing with that pace, again.

The place needs to be re-named as GUR GC. Dirt patches with no grass covers about half the fairways and rough. What rough? None. No grass. And, the only thick grassy area of the whole course is around the 18th tee boxes. Why that is, I have no idea. Why not put less water there and spread it other areas that need it? Seriously, you could pretty much paint the whole course with white lines and you would be dropping the ball on every shot. So sad. But this is so typical of L.A. Nothing ever gets fixed.

The course could be a gem but with the water shortage and the beat up cart paths this place has mud spots and dry spots everywhere. Greens look pretty good but are slower than what I'm used to. Beers are pretty expensive.

this course is in very very poor conditions, and I'm very disappointed. greens are very slow and fairways and chipping area is damaged and horrible.

I have played here many times but today the greens and fairways were bing aerated, with no mention on the golfnow.com website while booking. The course was in horrible condition. The only nice thing was a four hour round instead of the usual 5-6 hour round expected. Still not worth the money.

Sunday 1:24 tee time. First 9 took 3:15. Left at the turn. Would not have finished in daylight anyway.

No Marshall on the course to speed up play.

Get an early tee time and pack a lunch, maybe 2.

Otherwise was ok for a muni, wide fairways are forgiving, greens were in remarkably good condition for this much play.

Very slow play. Course in average condition, could of been better.

Rancho Park has hosted the LA OPEN 18 times! This course was on my bucket list to play!

I've read about the pace of play and now I've experienced it it is absolutely terrible know martial waiting on every hole never again

Teed off at 1:00 pm Monday and was done by 4:15. Lots of twosomes. Got lucky I guess.
The fairways were pretty tough but the greens were good. Misplaced a few balls in the overgrowth between the trees. It was an overall good round of golf.

The course layout is great. You can see how it hosted tournaments back in the day. And on 18 there's a plaque commemorating Arnold Palmer taking an 11 or 12 on the hole. BTW isn't it Arnold who stars in the "While we're young" commercials to discourage slow play? The last two time I played this course, it has taken at least 5 hours to play. People behave as if they're at a country club. It's worth a round to check the layout and to play in the middle of LA but the pace may keep you away afterwards.

I have been playing Rancho for many years. The greens are in very nice condition and it is a course that makes you use almost every club in your bag. Close to home, great layout, lots of variety, consistently nice weather.

Downside is pace of play- 5 hours and other golfers. The traps are unrated and ball marks on many greens. Can't blame that on Rancho, they do a great job with the amount of play they get.

Had walked this course back in the early 1980's the last time the L.A. Open was held here, but had never played it. Played the blues (6419/70.7/124) through GolfNow for $38.49 including a cart on a beautiful afternoon in the low 70's. POP was an issue even for a weekday, 4H, 45M, waiting on nearly every shot from the 3rd hole on.

Loved the traditional, tree lined layout even though it is a par 71. Constantly up/down rolling hills. The only holes that curved were basically 4,5,10 & 18, the rest were straight. There are numerous holes where you tee off over the top of a hill to a blind fairway, which because they were straight, I did not see as an issue. Only three par 5's, and an oddity is that two of them are #17 & #18, both of which are very scoreable.

The greens putted nice, relatively smooth for poa annua, medium speed. No real severe putts, but playing 6" to 12" of break was not uncommon. They consistently had some of the tightest pins I have seen for a non tournament round set-up, there were 5-6 that were barely on the green. Only downside for the greens were the sheer amount of ball marks on some greens, which is a golfer more than a course issue.

Both the fairways and the rough were winter thin, with both occasional lush and hardpan thrown in.

The tees were a mixed bag. On the holes that were in the sunlight, they were good. Luckily this covers 80% of the holes. On a few tees that were in the shade, they were basically dirt with some occasional grass, very poor condition.

The sand traps had a decent amount of good sand. However, typical city course conditions, you could tell they were not regularly maintained by the course and far too many golfers were not raking their footprints.

Customer Service was excellent, they matched me up and got me right out on the 1st tee on time. Snack stand and numerous water stations on the course. Fun course, not as tight as I remembered/expected, I would play here often if I lived closer in spite of just OK conditions.

The track is pretty good (especially for a municipal course) but you must be ok with the fact that the pace of play is notoriously very, very slow here. The 18 hole round took nearly six hours with a near half hour delay at the snack bar on the par three hole 12. Seems the works get so gummed up on that hole that every group hits the snack bar to keep up their morale.

As long as pace of play is not a factor regulating your enjoyment then you should thoroughly enjoy this course. If slow play takes away from the fun for you I feel it only fair that you have been warned in advance. Playing through will only cause you to miss holes and still be packed in tight anyway.

The pace here is always slow, but it is the nicest public course in the city.

Great challenge, but pace of play is often times terrible here

Teed of with the first light of dawn. Thought it was going to be crowded but there was actually few golfers on this Holiday. Finished in less than 4 hours. Very good for this course.

Wait, waiting....every single hole wait 5-10min...
My tee time12:20 we play just 12 hole.....wow.