Played on Sunday 5/20 at 7:40 a.m. Course is in excellent condition. Kudos to the superintendint and maintenance crew!!

Greens are in fantastic shape. Best Muni greens in LA County. Rolled true... Continue »

Played on Sunday 5/20 at 7:40 a.m. Course is in excellent condition. Kudos to the superintendint and maintenance crew!!

Greens are in fantastic shape. Best Muni greens in LA County. Rolled true, fast, minimal ball mark damage. It was a very damo morning, but the greens showed no signs of running slow or bumpy.

Fairways are in remarkably good shape. You would hardly notice that the course is located next to a DAM, and in a flood basin. A tad soggy in the morning, but hardly any bare areas, consistant coverage with consistant grass.

Rough was good. It could have been more challanging, but otherwise in good condition.

Traps played very true. Sand was consistant throughout the course. Drained very well.

Tee Boxes in great condition. Lush, level, even.

Truly an enjoyable round. I played well, shot 1 under my index, but I can't remember having a more enjoyable round. Fun layout, not too long, but not too short, lots of elevation changes, especially on the back 9. Staff is very friendly, from the starter, to the guy in the proshop, to the waitress and cook in the resteraunt, to the women running the snack shack.

Hansen gets overlooked because Rancho and the Griffifth park courses get more play, and its not in the greatest neighborhood. But the conditions were outstanding for a municipal course. Well worth the value at $28.50 Greens fee, and $5 for a "Bag Boy" hand cart. Very nice course to walk.

This is my home course and I can be fussy.
The tees are generally level and in good shape. The 4th tee is smallish and therefore has much divot damage as does the 15th, both par threes.
Overall, f... Continue »

This is my home course and I can be fussy.
The tees are generally level and in good shape. The 4th tee is smallish and therefore has much divot damage as does the 15th, both par threes.
Overall, fairways are good but due to a poor irrigation system (promised to be replaced for many years and finally may happen this year) there are wet spots and severly dry and barren areas. If you are accurate, though, you can work this to your advantage.
Greens have recently been punched and are in second- third week of growth. Due to overwatering they are soft and bumpy and slowly or poorly struck putts will wander.
I must give the maintainance crew and super, a high 5 for the effort they have put into the course making it playable even though they have had the worst conditions of any city course to work under (irrigation).
My hope is that the crew will continue to work hard and return the greens to the firm, fast and smooth condition they were in before the airation.
The part of the course that really gets my goat is the bunkers. The crew doesn't rake them in the morning and when they finally do they don't smooth them, they just rough up the surface (by hand rake) leaving all of the previous days unraked footprints and divots to be traversed by the next poor sap who happens to find that part of the moon.
All in all, even with the airation of the greens Hansen Dam is a fun and challanging muny at a easy price.

Fantastic conditions for city owned courses. Greens are the best in L.A. (muni).

Fantastic conditions for city owned courses. Greens are the best in L.A. (muni).

Played on 4/1/07, and course was in good shape. Smooth greens and lush fairways. Hansen Dam is a fair test of golf, especially for a City course. Good mix of short, long holes. Not terribly diffic... Continue »

Played on 4/1/07, and course was in good shape. Smooth greens and lush fairways. Hansen Dam is a fair test of golf, especially for a City course. Good mix of short, long holes. Not terribly difficult - there is enough room off the tee and the bunkers are shallow. However, when the greens are smooth as they were today, it can be tricky to read the subtle breaks and judge the effect of the nearby dam. Good value!

Played Hansen Dam for the first time as a two-some today, Wednesday, 2/14, with a 12:00 start. Wide open for the first holes until we caught up to the group in front at the 4th hole. Long back up at t... Continue »

Played Hansen Dam for the first time as a two-some today, Wednesday, 2/14, with a 12:00 start. Wide open for the first holes until we caught up to the group in front at the 4th hole. Long back up at the 5th tee and crept along through 9th. Sped up to a good even pace after that so it was a 5-hr round. Generally breezy, gusty conditions that factored into some of the shots and clubs selection. The dry fairways with decent coverage and a lot of roll are generally on the wide side, so the course has an open feel to it. Usually a reasonable shot at minimizing damage if you get off line. Most of the course is on the flat side, but there are a few holes with some altitude changes and the second shot on the par-4 10th is straight uphill. Overall, I thought the greens were in very good shape for a public course and I was generally impressed with the condition of the tee boxes as well -- mostly very level and good coverage. I definitely recommend it among the public/lower cost tracks as worth a look.

Played here on Friday, January 26. Tees and greens in great condition. Fairways and rough were dormant kikuyu and bermuda grass. I saw several areas of rough where maintenance crews were watering, ... Continue »

Played here on Friday, January 26. Tees and greens in great condition. Fairways and rough were dormant kikuyu and bermuda grass. I saw several areas of rough where maintenance crews were watering, but fairways were nice and dry allowing shots to seemingly run forever. Greens were soft, smooth and generally free of ball marks. It took the usual five hours to complete the round.

Play 11/25/06. First time playing this course. Long and wide fairways. You won't have much problems with your driver even you have slice or hock shots. Very forgiving golf course. 10th hole is sh... Continue »

Play 11/25/06. First time playing this course. Long and wide fairways. You won't have much problems with your driver even you have slice or hock shots. Very forgiving golf course. 10th hole is short 300 yds par 4 hole but green is on a up-hill. Even you hit a nice drive, your ball might roll down back to 10 yds mark. Careful how you hit it and take up an extra club to reach the green. Fairways are good and greens are above average. Pretty long course - 6717 yds. For $40.50 with carts, this is good course to visit once a while. Not much challenging holes... kind of plain course.

Played today (11/19). Greens are totally healed and probably rolled 10+ in many cases. Fariways in great shape. It's also been resloped. It's now 121 from the blues.

Played today (11/19). Greens are totally healed and probably rolled 10+ in many cases. Fariways in great shape. It's also been resloped. It's now 121 from the blues.

My favorite LA Parks course. Due to recent airation the tee boxes & greens were a bit off. Other than that it's very nice.

My favorite LA Parks course. Due to recent airation the tee boxes & greens were a bit off. Other than that it's very nice.