Course 3 again on a beautiful, pleasant day. Time change has pushed everyone to start earlier, and the Club Championship was finishing up so many fivesomes packed across courses 1 and 2.

Conditions are similar to previous reviews. However, several greens on course 3 had scattered bare spots. Greens are pretty firm and quick despite the recent aerification in late Septe... » More

Course 3 again on a beautiful, pleasant day. Time change has pushed everyone to start earlier, and the Club Championship was finishing up so many fivesomes packed across courses 1 and 2.

Conditions are similar to previous reviews. However, several greens on course 3 had scattered bare spots. Greens are pretty firm and quick despite the recent aerification in late September – beware the downhill putt or the extended rollout. Tees look like they’ve recently been thatched or whatever – many areas of ruffled grasses. The short par-3 4th had a hitting mat set up to one side for all tees as the main teebox was being worked on. Fairways and rough are pretty short and tight – both have many/scattered thin/bare spots that make for tight/difficult lies. Traps continue to be very firm with only a very shallow surface layer.

Generally, always a good pace and amenable to a relaxed play.
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Played in my first GK outing 7-10-25 here at Western Hills Country Club. Course was in great shape from tee to green. Greens were a little fuzzy/bumpy but a well struck putt would drop. Tough course to score well on and hole number 1 is definitely not a hole that other courses should mimic especially with that diabolical pin placement , but I digress. Friendly staff and well ru... » More

Played in my first GK outing 7-10-25 here at Western Hills Country Club. Course was in great shape from tee to green. Greens were a little fuzzy/bumpy but a well struck putt would drop. Tough course to score well on and hole number 1 is definitely not a hole that other courses should mimic especially with that diabolical pin placement , but I digress. Friendly staff and well run outing for sure. The Arabian Prince from NWA was in our group today. d%mn , that guy is a stick and was really fun to share a round of golf with.
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Played today in the Golf Moose/Vivid/GK outing at Western Hills Country Club. Nice facility in the Chino Hills area of Carbon Canyon. Had a breakfast burrito in the bar before the round and it was very good. Friendly staff and well run event. The pace of play was okay at 4:45 considering how long shot gun starts usually take. My group played the white tees, listed at 6400 yards... » More

Played today in the Golf Moose/Vivid/GK outing at Western Hills Country Club. Nice facility in the Chino Hills area of Carbon Canyon. Had a breakfast burrito in the bar before the round and it was very good. Friendly staff and well run event. The pace of play was okay at 4:45 considering how long shot gun starts usually take. My group played the white tees, listed at 6400 yards and a 128 slope.

The course has quite a few elevation changes. Interesting layout and tricky figuring out the right club on a first visit. The 13th hole is being redone and was closed. They converted the par 5 15th into a short (255 years today) par four 15A and a long par three (200 yards) 15B. Interesting that what I can only assume is a temporary par 4 green for 15A was a nice green that rolled identical to the other greens on the course. Very nice!

The course was in great condition. Beautiful fairways, lush rough and nice tees. Really lush conditions throughout. The greens looked like they were recovering from aeration sometime in the past but they rolled well at a fast speed. There were some wobbles but overall the ball, for good or ill, went where you sent it. It would take a couple of rounds to figure out the greens; there were some difficult reads. Both 1 and 10 had front pin positions which were border line unfair but otherwise they were tough but fair.

I liked the course a lot. It exceeded my expectations in terms of concourse conditions and there were no issues with regard to services or facilities. It is definitely a course I would like to play again.
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played yesterday, Sunday, 6:50am teetime. POP was excellent at just under 4hrs, no waiting and nobody pushing us.

The course is in pretty rough shape right now. Can't endorse, especially at $116 to walk!! Pretty ridiculous.

Tees were deplorable!! green painted dirt with seed mixed in. Complete joke.

Fairways continue to be a mess!!! We playe... » More

played yesterday, Sunday, 6:50am teetime. POP was excellent at just under 4hrs, no waiting and nobody pushing us.

The course is in pretty rough shape right now. Can't endorse, especially at $116 to walk!! Pretty ridiculous.

Tees were deplorable!! green painted dirt with seed mixed in. Complete joke.

Fairways continue to be a mess!!! We played it down, but highly recommend lift clean and place. You will for sure have some poor lies right in the middle of the fairways.

Rough was slightly higher than the fairways and had spotty coverage. Not a big deal.

Bunkers were ok. Most had nice fluffy new sand and others had some wet compacted sand. Probably the best part of the course, which is sad.

Greens were not that bad. They held shots well, but were pretty bumpy with medium to fast speed.

Customer service was ok, no frills. No beverage cart but not a big deal I bring my own.

Not recommended at this time. It's a questionable layout to begin with and with these current conditions it's not worthy. I will stay away for the foreseeable future.
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Played a Friday round at Rec Park this past week after getting an 11:20 tee time for myself and two friends with a $75 rate (cart included). Two of us didn't walk but they could not adjust the pricing so that was a bummer, but I was hoping the rest of the course would justify the midweek cost.

And while the course actually held up to scrutiny and was playing a lot bet... » More

Played a Friday round at Rec Park this past week after getting an 11:20 tee time for myself and two friends with a $75 rate (cart included). Two of us didn't walk but they could not adjust the pricing so that was a bummer, but I was hoping the rest of the course would justify the midweek cost.

And while the course actually held up to scrutiny and was playing a lot better than I expected it to, the POP was a total disaster at just under six hours and we had to rely on the maintenance gal in a cart to push the very slow group in front of us (who at times were well over a hole behind) because no marshal was anywhere to be found. And of course no cart service either (at least not that ever showed up with our group).

But as previously stated, course conditions are actually not bad at all. The greens were in pretty darn good shape all things considered, while the fairways had mostly good coverage and the bunkers had enough sand in them to look quite playable. The rough was manageable and while there were a fair share of dry or 'problem' areas, overall playability was not near as poor as I was anticipating.

I'm sure I'm not in the minority here thinking that Rec Park is and will remain the least desirable of the four main Long Beach courses, but it held its own this particular week in terms of course playability, however the other factors will certainly put a big knock on its rating and overall value.
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