Played today 7:15 5 ball. Played in a little over four hours this morning and had a good time. The course is in good shape except for the unfixed ball marks on the greens. I think I fixed three or fou... Continue »

Played today 7:15 5 ball. Played in a little over four hours this morning and had a good time. The course is in good shape except for the unfixed ball marks on the greens. I think I fixed three or four per hole. Come on people fix your Fix ball marks, it just doesn't take that long!

Brookside Golf Course Review
Pasadena Golf Course Reviews

played yesterday 8-25. Conditions are typical muni. Greens are in decent shape, but getting bumpy. Saw the marshall many times, but they just drive around the course, they dont speed up play. The grou... Continue »

played yesterday 8-25. Conditions are typical muni. Greens are in decent shape, but getting bumpy. Saw the marshall many times, but they just drive around the course, they dont speed up play. The group in front us(fivesome) were really slow. No one in front of this group. Also saw the cart girl numerous times which was a plus in this hot weather(90-100 degrees). Water coolers on the course, but usually runs out later in the day. Fun layout, but kinda short.

Brookside GC has always been a local favorite of mine. Especially early AM tee times on course #2, where you pay for 9-holes and play 12. Today was a little different. After handling the majority o... Continue »

Brookside GC has always been a local favorite of mine. Especially early AM tee times on course #2, where you pay for 9-holes and play 12. Today was a little different. After handling the majority of the Sunday "Honey-Do" list, a buddy wanted to try and catch a Sunday Super Twilight. We booked a tee time for 4:20 PM and headed out for Pasadena. For $25.00, we figured why not chase the sunset in a cart and play as many holes as we can? I thought we had a great chance on finishing the round.

Upon pulling into the parking lot, we noticed there were more than the usual amount of cars in the parking lot for a Sunday afternoon. We thought there must have been some sort of function in the banquet facility. After all, weren't most of the golfers at home watching the PGA Championship? Maybe not since Tiger missed the cut, eh?

Judging by the amount of people in line waiting to check-in, the amount of people on the practice green and driving range, you would have thought Brookside GC was offering free golf! O-M-G. I thought there was no way were even going to finish the complete round.

Surprisingly, we tee'd off quickly and were paired up with a few hackers ... I mean beginners. Nonetheless, we were anxious to get started, so I piped the first tee shot nearly on to the green, and so did my buddy. When the other two stopped arguing about who was going next, he chili-dips his driver and sends the tee shot ... who knows where. The last guy sends his tee shot about 200-yards in the air that lands about 120-yards right of center. I looked at my buddy and we both knew that finishing just 9-holes might be challenging.

The fairways were nice and tight. The roll out added about 20-25 yards to total distance. The rough could have used a little maintenance. The sand traps were nice and fluffy. The greens held and were rolling a little on the slower side. I think it was because it was still HOT outside. However, judging speed was not too difficult.

After checking our clock, we finished the front nine in a little over 2-hours. Not bad. After all, my buddy and I were hoping to get through Brookside's own "Amen Corner," holes 11, 12 and 13. I didn't know this, but it is a Par 5, 3, 4 and are adjoining to each other like at Augusta (I hear it's even the same hole numbers.)

No beverage cart person made it seem like a long day. When we finally reached Amen Corner, we knew this was going to be the last few holes. Oh wells, I was having fun. I ended up bogey, birdie and par for the three holes. We ended up calling it quit due to lack of light. We bid our farewells to the other two players and headed back to the clubhouse .

All in all, it was a great day to be out playing golf. Unfortunately, so did a few hundred other fellow golfers. I really can't complain, because it was only $25.00 including cart. So, the next time you are in the area, check out Brookside GC. But, be advised that trying to finish a complete round here on the weekend during twilight is most likely NOT going to happen.

Hit 'em long!

Why have Marshalls? They don't do anything. Yes we had a 1:00 t-time and we did play in just over 4 hrs., but we turned 9 holes in 1 hr. 45 min. and then we ran into the 5 ball that was TWO holes behi... Continue »

Why have Marshalls? They don't do anything. Yes we had a 1:00 t-time and we did play in just over 4 hrs., but we turned 9 holes in 1 hr. 45 min. and then we ran into the 5 ball that was TWO holes behind and they could give a sh$t . The course is in good shape except some brown spots. We had a good time except for standing aroung on the back side. People it's not that hard just, keep up with the people in front of you. Fix your ball marks and rake you sand traps.

Played this morning around 8 am. Greens are in the best conditions I've seen them in a while. Smallish, fast and slopey greens. Perfect California morning. Not very crowded today but it seems that... Continue »

Played this morning around 8 am. Greens are in the best conditions I've seen them in a while. Smallish, fast and slopey greens. Perfect California morning. Not very crowded today but it seems that there was a tourney about to begin. They tend to have a lot of those going around this time, so call ahead. Glad to see them getting this course closer to where it should be. A lot of eye candy on and around the course as well.

Played this morning around 8 am. Greens are in the best conditions I've seen them in a while. Smallish, fast and slopey greens. Perfect California morning. Not very crowded today but it seems that... Continue »

Played this morning around 8 am. Greens are in the best conditions I've seen them in a while. Smallish, fast and slopey greens. Perfect California morning. Not very crowded today but it seems that there was a tourney about to begin. They tend to have a lot of those going around this time, so call ahead. Glad to see them getting this course closer to where it should be. A lot of eye candy on and around the course as well.

Called and made a tee time, checked in 20 mins before our tee time(starter states, i'll call you later),
no call back, so went back up at our tee time, paid, then waited another 40 mins to tee off. ... Continue »

Called and made a tee time, checked in 20 mins before our tee time(starter states, i'll call you later),
no call back, so went back up at our tee time, paid, then waited another 40 mins to tee off. What the hell? Why was the starter calling people off the waiting list? Whats the point of having a tee time when it seems like the walk-ins have priority. Why is there 6 groups on the tee box? Anyways, besides the greens, course conditions is below average. Tee boxes all chewed up, fairway dry and patchy, bunkers filled with foot prints.

If you ever want a primer on how to run a golf course, just observe what goes on at the first tee boxes here - and then do the exact opposite. At times they are waiting 3 groups deep - course 1 had re... Continue »

If you ever want a primer on how to run a golf course, just observe what goes on at the first tee boxes here - and then do the exact opposite. At times they are waiting 3 groups deep - course 1 had regular tee times hitting away in between foursomes from a corporate outing who they obviously didn't block out any times for. Total chaos.

Played course 2 and gave up after 4.5 hours only doing 16 holes. Slow as molasses with walking 5-somes and do-nothing-marshalls, waiting on just about every hole - and this on a Wednesday.

Greens soft, slowish and bumpy - fairways good, rough about 2 inches so it is starting to get your attention. Tee boxes a bit scrappy but alright.

All in all, muni golf at its finest

Greens have come back well but are still on the bumpy side - good, medium fast speed, however.

Fairways have been aerated with big holes relatively recently - plugs everywhere.

Rest of the cours... Continue »

Greens have come back well but are still on the bumpy side - good, medium fast speed, however.

Fairways have been aerated with big holes relatively recently - plugs everywhere.

Rest of the course decent for a muni - sand very fluffy and good.

Slow as treacle on a weekday afternoon (typical)