Back to Los Amigos for a Sunday round (back tees) with a $38 GolfNow deal w/cart at just before noon. Hot day but no cart girl all day long for any refreshments.

The slow slide at Los Amigos conti... Continue »

Back to Los Amigos for a Sunday round (back tees) with a $38 GolfNow deal w/cart at just before noon. Hot day but no cart girl all day long for any refreshments.

The slow slide at Los Amigos continues. A year or so ago this place had really been turned around, and while it's still miles better than 3 years ago, the drought and paying less attention to detail is showing a bit.

Fairways are as dried out as I've sen them in a long time. So many burned out areas. And the rough is far from consistent and quite shaggy. The sand is good but the worst of it is the tee boxes. Brown here, sandy there, uneven everywhere. It seems like the good conditions of before brought many new players but they stopped keeping up with the demands of the traffic.

The greens were okay - better on the front 9 than the back. Coverage is okay but many ball marks and bumps. However they did seem to hold shots well and weren't rolling poorly on the good areas. Many different sizes and shapes to the Los Amigos greens so adjust accordingly to stay beneath the cup.

In summary, Los Amigos is still not bad - it remains a good, inexpensive option on a somewhat shorter course to snatch a low score (which I did not do today), but the days of it rivaling Rio Hondo down the street in terms of good condition are currently suspended. I don't doubt that it will improve again in the coming year.

Played today in a nice POP of 4 hours. Customer service excellent. Course conditions were very poor. Fairways were over watered, muddy and provided no roll. Tee boxes were inconsistent and chewed up. ... Continue »

Played today in a nice POP of 4 hours. Customer service excellent. Course conditions were very poor. Fairways were over watered, muddy and provided no roll. Tee boxes were inconsistent and chewed up. Sand traps were OK. Very little rough to speak of but that was wet. Greens were an absolute mess (if they aerated it did not work). Divots (old/new) on every green. Not mowed. Bumpy and some looked like they had a fungus? I won't be going back until I read a better review and higher rating than I will be giving today. I like playing here but not under these conditions.

No friends at Los Amigos! Not the starter, who although the back was empty made me wait for 5 groups to tee off, including walking seniors with umbrellas and giant visors. Not the greenskeeper, slow,... Continue »

No friends at Los Amigos! Not the starter, who although the back was empty made me wait for 5 groups to tee off, including walking seniors with umbrellas and giant visors. Not the greenskeeper, slow, bumpy and soft, would have been better off putting on silly putty. Not the non-existent cart girl, or the lack of drinking water on the course. This place came back for a while, now sinking back to what it was.....

Played today in a nice pace of 3 hours. Had to leave the 3 some I was paired with as one of them thought he was a Pro. Could hit it a mile but could do nothing else and blamed everyone in the group o... Continue »

Played today in a nice pace of 3 hours. Had to leave the 3 some I was paired with as one of them thought he was a Pro. Could hit it a mile but could do nothing else and blamed everyone in the group on his lack of ability. After 9 holes I moved on w/o them. Glad the course was open or I would have just left. As stated previous, course is in decent shape. Fairways clean and providing good lies. Sand traps good. Tee boxes were OK vs previously mentioned. Yes greens looked bad (many many old ball marks and they did effect putting) and putted slow, even on downhill putts (I bet they are punching soon). Customer service excellent. Good course to play early to be done early and easy to walk.

Los Amigos on Labor Day for a $43 online fee with a 10:56 tee time. Paired with a very nice couple (who knew and enjoyed Greenskeeper.org ) from MdR. Course remains in good condition but the greens ... Continue »

Los Amigos on Labor Day for a $43 online fee with a 10:56 tee time. Paired with a very nice couple (who knew and enjoyed Greenskeeper.org ) from MdR. Course remains in good condition but the greens are certainly getting more beat up than they have been since they've fixed up Los Amigos so much. Wear and tear either showing or they're preparing to reseed or something and not paying as much attention. Plenty of lazy golfers too not fixing ball marks. Fairways still in nice shape but you will find some dry patches, but mostly where you won't find your ball much anyway. Tee boxes on many holes were pretty played out, and a few were tough to get the tee in easily. Rough was a mixed bag of variations. The sand traps were once again in very nice, fluffy condition. POP was pretty slow behind a fivesome in no particular hurry, with a long wait on the par 3 17th. We finished in just over five hours on a very hot day. No frills on the carts, no cart girls, and select water fountains but no stations with proper ice water. As for the layout, more fun on back 9, very flat and not particularly long, but there is some tree trouble to get into before the water hazards on the back 9. As for my game, a bizarre reenactment of my Sat round at Alondra - great front 9 (5 over) followed by a comically and utterly indecipherable 15 over on the back for a 91. On Sat 6 over on front, 13 over on back for a 91, too. I need help. Or the Eye of the Tiger or something ...

played here 7/31/15. course was in awesome shape..... greens immaculate..... tee boxes level and full

played here 7/31/15. course was in awesome shape..... greens immaculate..... tee boxes level and full

You may know Los Amigos as that scruffy stray dog of a golf course from years back. Well a couple of years ago it was adopted, given all of it's shots, sent to the groomer and took some obedience cla... Continue »

You may know Los Amigos as that scruffy stray dog of a golf course from years back. Well a couple of years ago it was adopted, given all of it's shots, sent to the groomer and took some obedience classes. It was made better, prettier, and friendlier.

Honestly, I couldn't say much bad about the course except that the parking lots shares itself with the next door Juvenal Court, hole number 2 is too close to the houses on the left. And holes 4,5,6 feel like basically the same hole repeated.

Even though it has become everything it could be - it's not a destination. It's still just a lovable mutt. Great for walkers - even the on-line tee times are in walking rates - something I appreciate.

On our 7/8 visit, the greens were scored (bumpy) and three tee boxes were being completely redone. My friend and I looked at each other and said "What was wrong with those tee boxes?". Is there real reason for this or are they just putting a sweater and nail polish on our mutt?

Having slaughtered this golf course a few years back I not must give credit where it is due. Played here a few weeks ago and the golf course is in great shape Greens roll true, SAND in the bunkers Fai... Continue »

Having slaughtered this golf course a few years back I not must give credit where it is due. Played here a few weeks ago and the golf course is in great shape Greens roll true, SAND in the bunkers Fairways were good. I played badly but look forward to a trip back to redeem myself

Trying to find a 'new' nearby course for Friday play, I gave Los Amigos a go this morning, 6am tee time (booked as a single, $29 walking rate, thx LA Co.) with a PoP right at 4 hrs. Recent reviews he... Continue »

Trying to find a 'new' nearby course for Friday play, I gave Los Amigos a go this morning, 6am tee time (booked as a single, $29 walking rate, thx LA Co.) with a PoP right at 4 hrs. Recent reviews here on GK are favorable but my experience was kinda sub-par and I doubt I'll return anytime soon. Condition-wise, the course is LA Co. run so it is what it is: Kikuyu fairways and Poa greens. No mowers on the greens today so the speed was inconsistent and some were downright uneven/bumpy. Unconditioned bunkers, too, so they were unraked, lumpy, and damp. Both greens and bunkers looked like they had the potential to be very nice, maybe I just picked a bad day to play here. Course very flat and walkable, no rough to speak of, the only defense (besides a couple of H2O hazards) are the mature trees that line the parallel running fairways. Many blue tee perm markers are like 20 feet away from someone's back yard or a boundary fence which I'm not used to and didn't like much. Low course/slope rating so it's not a difficult course by any means, pretty much benign [except the par 3, 17th plays all of 220 yds w/water left and trees right, albeit no bunkers.] All in all, probably a one-and-done for me, sorry ... at least as a single.