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As you don't have much news on the course, thought I'd chime in. Played it twice recently - one weekday (excellent), once weekend (ridiculously slow). Course in good shape in this time of maintenance. Greens running true, about 9-10. Fairways: balls sits up really nicely: Bunkers: inconsistent and different levels of sand. Still a great challenge and a great value in this times. Just no marshals on my Weekend round which was excruciating. It was as if everyone was putting out for 25c! But thumbs up for this La Habra diamond in the rough.
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On the strength of the previous review I ventured out to Westridge early on a Wednesday morning hoping to find that the course was 'back'. It was.

Got a nice $34 deal online at 7am, drove into a vacant car lot, waltzed into a pro shop with just a pro - and what a nice guy he was. He said the course is still down for being sold/closed next September (that's 10 more months of good golf, lads) IF everything goes perfectly - which in life and in LA tends to not be the case. So maybe another 18-24 months...who knows. Most importantly, they are taking the course seriously now and it showed.

Greens: showing traces of sand, give it a week and they will be perfect. Rolled well. Nice shapes.
Fairways: Good. Patchy but good.
Sand: Very good. fluffy brown sand, easy to glide the club through
Teeboxes: meh....but you can find flat lies and if tee boxes are your course killer then.....ok!

Went around in 3 hours, Could have gone for a $25 replay too, but decided against this time.

But, chaps, Westridge is back in the rota. And what a fine place it is on a sunny, crisp California morning. Great views, peaceful and a very fair challenge. Welcome back.
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First time I've played this course. I just never knew it was public. Doh! Stupid me...it's a wonderful track. Reminds me a bit of Skylinks and Rio but it's better. Walkable which is nice. Greens are superb, true, well kept, just one or two more on the stimp and they would be top notch. Good open holes and a few tight ones, so you can go through every club in the bag if you're playing it wisely. Quite a bit of water to navigate and the final run of holes are really excellent. Great chili at $3 a pop at the turn, lovely guys in the pro shop. Not much to criticize really. I'm sold. Can't wait to go back.
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It's hard to beat Hidden Valley on a crisp weekday morning. When you turn that corner from Hole 1 to 2 and the sun is rising over the Valley and beaming on the golden hills, you feel like you are on top of the world and everything is great....apart from your nagging tendency to over-cut the ball...! It's glorious up there. The views are stunning. And at $35 before &am this course is an absolute steal. A First class challenge and it's in great shape right now. The greens are almost perfect, they just need one more notch on the stimp and they will get there soon. Played the round in 3 and 1/4 hours too, which leaves the rest of day open. Jordan is a good pro and cares about the place too. I look forward to many more trips to this gem.
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I went to Victoria with my son for the first time everrrrrr today.
First, it's a bit ragged - patchy fairways BUT......they have the best greens I've played on in Southern California for AGES. They are firm, true, fast and tricky. They are superb. Greens you would expect on a $100+ course. If you can get over the muni like rest of it, you have a treat in store. Quite amazed. Also, it's quite windy there so there's a good challenge getting to the greens. Go give it a shot. You will be surprised.
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I played this course for the first time last week. It was fabulous. I played as a single at 6.45am and walked the course - and it's quite a walk. It was a crisp, sunny morning so all was good in the world and the South course was the cherry on top. It's long - about 7000 yards - but somehow it doesn't feel like that when you're playing - walking yes, playing no. Everything was in great shape - greens were running around 9 - very true - confidently keeping its lines. Fairways in great shape, tee boxes the same. Rough was a little punishing but nothing a hybrid couldn't handle. And when you walk up to the 7th tee and look up - bang! - right in front of you are the snow capped mountains....wow...I had to lean on my club for a minute just to take in their majesty in the still and quiet and calm. It was breathtaking. Just like the walk up top the tee.

And at $22 to walk with my birdie card, you can't beat the value. 10/10. Can't wait to go back.
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Went up to Rustic for my Quarterly Arse kicking from one of my favorite courses. It never fails me. Virtually no one there at 7am and the place is in perrrrfect condition right now and such a great challenge.

The fairways are tight and solid. The bunkers are fluffy...and it's January! But it's the approach shots and the greens that make this course such a character.

The greens are pure right now: running at about 10 I'd say and you have to be so careful and so delicate how you putt. More importantly, where you try to put your approach shot - because two feet left and right can mean a chance of a birdie or hanging on for a par. This course has amazing green design. They look benign and easy at times, but the devil is in the detail and they are running true right now. Many a lip biter out there. You really have to remain calm, have your wits about you, grind away and play conservatively around the greens.

Always remember the local knowledge - everything slopes to the southeast corner of the course (the gate) - that putts up the canyon are more up than you think - that flat is really a little up hill and that coming back down is usually going to roll 3 feet more than you think.

Finished my round with the putt of my life. Hit my second into 18 over the green and onto the little practice putting area at the back. Pin was upfront on 18 so I was left with about 100 feet, with the pin in the middle swale. Hammered it up the right and it just caught the slope perfectly - at past the cup mind you - and curled like a beauty straight left and down and into the middle for a birdie and a round of 81. Well chuffed after a 44 out. Happy times at RC. Long may you make me tingle with golfing anticipation and delight.

Get out there. Best value in So.Cal if you're passionate about playing golf.
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First time I've ever been to Los Serranos. I've always been slightly wary of maintenance from the various rumors and reports over the years. But the wife got me a free round for Xmas last year so i thought I might as well give it a crack. What a fool I've been. I was really pleasantly surprised by my whole experience.

The place is old school - which can be good and bad. Bad because it seems a bit run down and you feel very young at 49! Good because it has a very welcoming and sweet feel to it. All the staff I met were great.

I came wanting to play the South course but ended up playing the North after talking to the lady pro who was very helpful and 'on it' in dealing with the frost delay. She suggested I play the North given what I told her about my game and desire from a round. It was a great bit of advice.

The day was cold at first but soon the sun did it's job and it was truly glorious out there.
What I loved was the greens. They were fantastic - true, well maintained and running at about 10-11. Just great fun and great challenge - you really had to feel the putter in your fingers on some of the putts.

The course meanders up a few hills and has some really clever holes. I loved the fact that you could walk the course and really get a sense of it's design as you approached your ball.
No complaints about any aspect of the course - tees great, fairways nice and tight, rough just right and those greens. Just an excellent course. I played the tips at a slope of 134 and around 6700 and it was a really solid test.

I spoke to the starter for a while who was a lovely old chap and he said you can walk the North for $34, then replay on the South for $19. That is a good day out - expecting the South course to be great too - it looked super from what I saw when the holes were adjacent.

I can't wait to try the South course now. Maybe 36...!
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I've avoided Skylinks for a couple of years, partly because I wasn't impressed by the maintenance and the lack of care of the punters when it came to ballmarks etc. At $40 it was losing it's appeal. So i decided to try ti again and I was really pleasantly surprised.

The greens are really really good right now. Hats off to the greenskeeper. They ran at around 10-11 today and were true as love should be. It was a real pleasure and I got really excited just being on the greens. The rest of the course is in good shape - fairways are packed pretty tight, tee boxes are level if fluffy, but the bunkers need attention next. Quite wet, quite firm, very muni.

Sadly, at 6am in the morning it's still a madhouse. When I arrived at 5.50am there were about 15 people milling around the first tee - no one sure who's next or who's with who. I'm not sure why it's so hard to organize. sadly they still let 5's out early doors too. But by 6.30 the rush hour had cleared and I slotted in fine.

Lastly, it's lovely to get a course you can walk so you get a bit of exercise.
Hats off to the greenkeeper, just need a firmer foot on the early starters.
Worth the $43 right now, chaps.
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It's always a real treat coming out to Oak Valley. I drive 91 miles to the course, try to play 36 and beat the traffic back to Hermosa and the pro's are always willing to work with me to let me go off first so I can get teh first 18 in quick. Great guys. Great attitude.
This fine morning it was pretty foggy, so the first 9 holes were done by sonar (thud! yep! that sounded like the green......woosh! nope, that's the rough....etc) memory and the little guide book.
Course was in great shape as ever. Greens slower than I imagined (around 9?) but true as they can be. The course is a magnificent, thinking golfers design. Room to hit, but you have to be careful. Wonderful, graceful elevation changes (not cliffs) and some wicked pin placements.

Finished my 36 by 12.45 and off I went...home by 2pm. Great day out.
You've gotta go.
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My oh my how things change. Westridge was known as the place where, unbelievably, you could turn up at 6.10am to find that people had 6.10, 6.12, 6.15 and 6.17 tee times. Most unable to explain why. That's all gone. Some good management decisions have created a totally different kind of tension at the course - just that of the interesting 18 holes they have.

I turned up this Wednesday at 6.15am...all quiet it was....only a four ball and a couple other hanging around...calm and disciplined in the pro shop was new pro Adam Harrison, and so I was able to get straight out. Fantastic.

The course was as tricky and tempting as ever. The first nine on a sideways slope, the second nine on more of a up to down slope. A really great challenge that allows you to open the shoulders but punishes you for not thinking about your approaches.

One thing I was really pleased with was the sand. For winter conditions, it's fluffy, easy, bounceable and well maintained. The green are true, there was a bit of top sand on them, but in a few days they'll be fab.

The new $45 rate seems spot on to me and the whole place just feels more amenable and professionally run. Well done to Adam and the management on this great transition.
Can't wait to go back next week.

Westridge Golf Club Review
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My God how I love the smell of Rustic Canyon in the morning......there's nothing better than getting out here on a lovely summer's day and being the first to tee it up. It's a majestic place and wonderful to walk.
Course was in fabulous shape last week, with the greens being a nice pace - around a 9.5? Sometimes they are a little slow for my liking.
The great thing about this course is that it's a mind game...the massive greens and run off areas, the chance to putt a hybrid 30 yards from the green, the subtle undulations and character of the greens and the fact that flat putts East are uphill and flat putts West are very downhill, because of the slope of the course to the entrance gate. It just makes it a fascinating challenge.
They've re-sloped the course up to 128 from the Blues, but I still think it's a 132 or so, given all the factors you need to calculate.
I love this place. What a value with the birdie card - $24!
All they need to do is learn to greet and smile and it would be perfect.
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