Recreation Park Golf Course (18)

Long Beach, CA

Reviewed by: evildrummerhb, Huntington Beach

Got out on time yesterday at 1:07, 3-some and a single joined us. This was my first time out at Big Rec, and I have mixed feelings about it. It very much reminded me of La Mirada but with bigger greens and shorter par 3s.

Conditions were decent. The tee boxes had good coverage but were very firm in spots; hard to get a tee down in there. The fairways were a highlight, with very nice lies down the middle and thinning out a bit towards the edges. The rough was the typical muni mixed bag of shallow, deep, lush and bare lies. No comment on the sand, I did not visit the beach this time around. Lastly, the greens lacked consistency. Some still showed signs of aeration, some were smooth, some bumpy, some fast, some slow…you see where I’m going here. I’d rate the course much higher if the greens were uniform (or at least closer to it).

All in all it was a fun day and I enjoyed the layout. Probably won’t go back for a while, but if someone called me up to play it I wouldn’t say no.