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River View Golf Course
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Situated within the Santa Ana Riverbed, River View Golf Course is conveniently located just minutes from Disneyland, Anaheim, and Long Beach. The course's design intertwines with the river, providing challenging hazards on several holes. The narrow layout also features elevated greens that rarely offer a flat lie and are fiercely guarded by sand. Accuracy is a necessity throughout this golf course. Although it offers a fair amount of challenges, there is also ample room off the tees that makes the course more accessible for beginners. River View G.C. is also popular for its practice facilities, which include a driving range with targets and the county's largest putting course. While the other facilities may be modest, River View offers an affordable game that is one of Orange County's best values.
| Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 70 | 6190 yards | 68.4 | 120 |
| White | 70 | 5776 yards | 66.9 | 118 |
| Red | 70 | 5350 yards | 67.8 | 114 |
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue M: 68.4/120 W: 73.2/129 | 325 | 178 | 199 | 392 | 545 | 195 | 375 | 525 | 110 | 2844 | 198 | 340 | 470 | 548 | 160 | 480 | 418 | 538 | 194 | 3346 | 6190 |
| White M: 65.6/115 W: 71.5/125 | 305 | 164 | 185 | 363 | 528 | 181 | 355 | 477 | 96 | 2654 | 184 | 328 | 447 | 486 | 148 | 461 | 374 | 513 | 181 | 3122 | 5776 |
| Red W: 67.9/120 | 289 | 157 | 165 | 350 | 457 | 156 | 317 | 464 | 91 | 2446 | 172 | 313 | 436 | 454 | 140 | 434 | 357 | 429 | 169 | 2904 | 5350 |
| Handicap | 15 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 17 | 8 | 10 | 2 | 16 | 12 | 18 | 4 | 6 | 14 | |||
| Par | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 34 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 36 | 70 |
| Handicap (W) | 9 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 15 | 11 | 1 | 17 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 16 | 12 | 2 | 18 |
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Photo submitted by kylejhunt on 06/17/2025
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Photo submitted by Justinschb on 06/25/2024
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Tricky short shot.. carry cart path, sand, fringe to small green. Photo submitted by FishNinJay on 06/12/2024
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Photo submitted by aldana90805 on 02/01/2024
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Photo submitted by motherguz on 12/18/2022
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Front nine. Photo submitted by u743036129 on 04/08/2022
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Back nine. Photo submitted by u743036129 on 04/08/2022
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Photo submitted by u000002589493 on 03/01/2022
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Photo submitted by Mashupgod on 06/07/2021
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Photo submitted by Melissa2013541 on 05/17/2021
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Photo submitted by u8519073 on 10/08/2020
One of the par 5 was made a temp par 3 no mention of this when you check in
First time player
Although the river is no longer there,I enjoyed my round of golf, Challenging course indeed,will return
Cart didn’t work properly for this course
Quite literally moving the cart to the first tee, the parking brake in the golf cart didn’t work. Proceeded to not work again until tee box #8, and even then seemed a little unstable. With playing a course with hills, seems like a functional parking brake would be a priority. That, coupled with the holes around the bottom of the ravine sort of decaying slowly and not being fixed, this isn’t a course worth paying $40 per person to play. If they can fix some of these issues, I still think it could get back to that point again, but right now it isn’t worth the money.
Great value
Greens excellent.
Best value in O.C.
Challenging target golf.
Fairways are a little rough but not bad.
Updated GPS very good.
Small little Cafe but the ladies that work it have been there for ever and make good food.
No bar but sell beer.
Great staff.
You did get a lot of beginners at the place because if the price and can slow the pace a little but usually moves good and 4.5 hours for a round.
The riverbed is to be treated as ground under repair and as such free drops out. DON'T DRIVE IN RIVERBEDS YOU'LL GET STUCK.
Been playing this course for over 35 years. Love it.
Worst pace of play management I’ve encountered
Played here for first time yesterday (I play 2x per week), thought I’d give it a shot even after hearing negative things about it.
1st, booked my tee time for 342p and was advised I’d be paired up with a 3some, that didn’t happen so I shot solo for the first 3 holes then the guys in front of me and I paired ourselves
2nd and most importantly — they allowed a group of 7 to play ahead of us and not one person in management did anything about it — the pace took so long that my group couldn’t finish our round and ended up leaving @ hole # 17 since we had to return carts by 730p
I’m cart was stuck on sand so one of the course employees was kind enough to assist; that’s the only positive experience I had @ riverview
Thoroughly disappointed at this course — and the course itself for the price is kinda silly.
In 9 is open
The greens are in good conditions here.
Though the rain caused the hole to hole travel
a lot more challenging, the course is fun to play.
The fairways need some care, which I hope will be addressed to by the course management.
Close to the major cities.
Fun course
This course was fun and challenging and was not boring flat compared to other courses. I highly recommend this course.
RIVERVIEW VIEW
I play this course a lot; it has eight elevated greens, and favors left-handed slicers. Right-handed players do well if they can draw their tee shots. Unfortunately for this course, it suffered at the hands of the Southern California 22/23 winter. However, the course management has a good history of returning fairways to acceptable surfaces. By July the course should be in great condition!
Painfully slow round; no marshals to help
A useful course, but painfully slow going around, with no marshals (to help speed things up) seen in over 5 hours on the course. The river overflow recently damaged some of the fairways.
Wacky course loved it
I just started playing golf and experienced several courses. I would say river view is a unique course and has its challenges. Would definitely come back.
Ultra slow play, and no marshall to help sort that.
5 hours of ultra-slow play behind 4 duffers. No marshall in sight during those 5 hours to help sort the problem. I need to find another course asap.
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