Woodley Lakes Golf Course

From Europe, visiting LA whilst on holiday I was looking for a round of golf locally. Unfortunately, contrary to Europe, their are few commercial courses in the LA region as all seem either private country clubs where you can't play without being invited, or alternatively, fairly basic municipal courses. This course is in the latter category and to be fair, it was easy to reserve a tee time and was not very expensive. The course was in good condition, with decent greens and grassy fairways, despite the very hot weather. The driving range was quite good too. The course itself is quite busy in the morning and the pace of play rather slow. I didn't find the location particularly attractive and don't think there was a nice clubhouse, serving lunch, but maybe I'm mistaken on this last point.

1) Wanna Say I’m Not No Tiger Woods .. and I Know My Shot Abilities

2) I Didn't Care That There Were No Marshals on the Course to Speed Up These Losers In Front Of Us (2 Groups That Were Ahead …. They Kept Taking Mulligans because they Couldn’t Hit … here’s a clue (Take a Lesson or Go Practice on the Driving Range 1st)

3) The Group Ahead of Us Was Kinda the Same Way yet at the Turn (10th Hole) let us go ahead of them … only to catch up to the Kings OF Slow Play (One’s that kept taking Mulligans) When We Told them to keep up pace with the Group ahead their claim was they can hit them (250-300 yds ahead of them) They Couldn’t Hit the Broadside of a Barn… The furthest drive I saw out of them was like (140-165 yds) when they actually connected most of the time was below 100 yds..…

4) So, In Conclusion Woodley Lakes should only take you 3 1/2 hours to play.. not 4 1/2 -5 hours

No one at this course should be in the service industry. Slow and have zero common sense. Made me go back to end of line because my tee time was 10 min after guy in front of me. Also just very slow.

Course is very unkempt. No fairways. Just rough and higher rough. Course got better for a minute in the middle of summer and Joe’s it’s back to uncaring ways.

This is one of my favorite courses to play at because of its forgiveness. It has very wide fairways, generous greens and it hardly has any bunkers or hazards. If you’re a newbie like me and need all the help you can get this is going to be a great course to play at.

They also have a range that tees off grass so it’ll help you get a better warm up than just hitting off mats before your tee time.

Good service was extremely slow for a golf course. Course conditions were below average, carts were run down

I hadn't played at Woodley Lakes for about a decade and I was surprised when my son picked it for his birthday golf game. He explained he was trying out new clubs and wanted a course that was very forgiving. Woodley Lakes is exactly that - wide fairways, no deep bunkers and few water hazards. It made for a fun three hours. We had a 4.30pm tee time and easily got round all 18 before dusk. The greens were in good condition but the rest of the course was patchy at best. We paid $68 for the round, which wasn't too bad - but this was with discounts. I would not have paid $20 more as it simply isn't worth it. There are much better public courses in the area, but this is a good course for hackers and those trying out new gear.

If you’ve played here before you know it’s a bit of a goat track, that was expected as I’ve been playing here since 1990..

It seems now that they are only maintaining the greens, they were actually in pretty good shape.

The bunkers are completely overgrown, even green-side.

My biggest complaint was with the starter/desk pro.

I was the ONLY one in the place and he absolutely ignored me, I said “how you doin?”

He turned around and went to the computer in the other room… eventually returned and ignored me again.. mind you my tee time was in 15 minutes.

I repeated my question “how you doing?”

He says “whoa whoa wow!!

You’re acting kinda weird! Whoa”

So I say “by asking you how you are doing?”

He says “yeah man!” “ just take it easy”

..,

Maybe a bad day for him?

But it wasn’t busy or out of any kind of ordinary as far as I could tell,

Then the cart /beverage person( who was very nice) sold me a cider in a can for $11.94!

After my round (I shot 76)

I was starving so I went not the “sports bar “

Also no one but me and one other gal who’d been there for a while 🍸🍸🍸

After waiting for 20 minutes I asked the gal if anyone was working. 10 minutes later a girl finally came over to the bar but she only served the 3dome who had just entered!

Then she turned back around and ignored me some more in spite of me waving and saying “excuse me!”

The burger was good.

No napkins, silverware or anything, she was gone again as soon as she dropped it off..,

I never saw her again.

I left $20 on the bar and walked out.

Sad that this great old golf course is so poorly managed.

Tee boxes need work. Greens were in great condition. Fairways need a lot of work

Tried out this course for the first time. Easy and fun and I was paired up with another single and a lovely couple. Everything was great until my cart #29 literally broke almost on top of my head while arriving to the 16th green. I was lucky to have caught it when it cracked apart. The shield broke off and the metal poll that keeps the front of the cart steady also broke off. They came and got me a new cart. I asked to speak to the manager for maybe ya know a free round as I’m not a complainer whatsoever, he was on the driving range. I emailed him now twice and still no response. So I’ll see before I call and go from there. Other then that the rest of the staff were excellent and I had a nice round