L.A. Times Public Golf Special Section

Colorization of a historic Griffith Park clubhouse photo by Tom Naccarato (click to enlarge)The L.A. Times has published a meaty special section today on L.A. public golf. It includes my plea for a restoration of George Thomas's Griffith Park restoration and my architectural critique of 10 great values. and five overrrated layouts.

There's also Daniel Wexler's guide to historic courses and his look at desert golf.

There's also Tiger's memories of SoCal golf and Thomas Bonk looks at the renovated Torrey Pines South.

Peter Yoon covers the impact of internet-based tee time reservation systems.

Glenn Bunting talks to Dave Pelz.

And the editors make their picks for the best of SoCal golf.

Comments

[Tim Hilger]

I really enjoyed reading this. I played my first round at Alondra Park (which curiously didn't make the list) in the early 60s and have played L.A. public golf ever since.

While you mentioned some of my long-time favorites - including Santa Anita and the Griffith Park courses -it's also great to see a resurgence of public golf in L.A. with the likes of Goose Creek and Rustic Canyon, the best public golf course we've ever had.

For so long we just suffered losses - Fox Hills to development and Valencia and Seacliff to private. Did you ever see Seacliff before it went private? It was a wind-swept beauty with panoramic views of the distant ocean before they choked it with housing that cut off the winds and the views.

So, when are you going to build another course?

[noz]

Who reads the liberal LA Times anyways?