Santa Anita Golf Course

Went home after 12 holes. I think I caught the flu. Couldn't play anymore. I felt so bad, I started thinking about quitting golf if it was going to feel like this, because my first thought was about all my age-related problems.
After joining up with a nice pair, we headed out for what was a nice front 9.
We started the turn ok with enough daylight to finish the back nine, but then I felt something begin to change. and by 12 I felt I better quit and go home.
p.s. I'm still sick but getting better and have another t-time for next Wednesday. I hope I can make it!

Had a tee time good for 18, but , even though I was riding, my legs and back started hurting so much, I had to quit after 13.
better luck next time.
ps: had to keep waiting our turn for tee boxes for 3-4 groups queued up. Oh well, Sometimes other golfers want to play too.

Had a great time playing this course for the first time. It was a Wednesday so pace of play was great never waited to tee off. Course was in great condition also, would play again.

with daylight hours winter-short I called pro shot and spoke to Joshua about finding me a earlier time from my reservation. He was able to move my teetime back 1 hr. which allowed me to get in 18. Thanks, Santa Anita.

Called the pro shop cause pace of play was so slow and they told me that their rounds are 5.5 hours. Absolute horrible course and horrible players. Save your money.

1. The guy asked me to show him my booking email confirmation, I bet he already had all my booking information in the system, all he needs to do is just asking my name and my tee time. I don’t understand why he made check-in process so complicated. 2. My booking tee time was 12:57pm, the actual tee time I played was at 1:10pm, and he broadcasted my name criticizing me confusing people because I was there waiting and ahead of late players. How can people be confused if you manage to keep players being punctual? We can just tell each other our booked tee times to know who is ahead, who should wait. By the way, I am an Asian as well, i don’t understand why three players with tee time at 2:30pm were pushed ahead of me. After all, why my tee time was postponed without any notice because some other players didn’t show up on time? This was my second time playing here on a Friday afternoon and I noticed the same check-in guy was not friendly the first time.

Currently on the 8th tee box. Waiting for the 2nd group ahead of us to tee off. Going to be at least 10 minutes until we get to hit another shot. It’s a holiday Monday so I understand it’s busy but we had a 10:16am tee time and didn’t get to tee off until 10:40am. Now we’re 2 hours into the round through 7 holes.

Biggest bummer is that the course actually has some fun green designs and elevation. For what you’re paying the conditions are pretty solid. But I haven’t seen one Marshall, not one attempt by the course to keep this from being a 5:30 hr round! Unacceptable. My group is discussing leaving after 9 holes.

This was my first time playing Santa Anita, and only my 2nd time playing on Christmas day. I was actually surprised to (1) find a course open and (2) find I wasn't the only one looking to play. Unfortunately, we had a threesome in front of us that simply didn't know what they were doing. They would wait on the tee box for the group in front of them to get off the green before teeing off. Then they'd hit it, at maximum, 100 yards either right or left of target. It was painfully slow. Fortunately, they left after 9, so we had 3 holes that were pretty wide open. Still took us 5 1/2 hours to finish our round. Ouch.
The course and the weather was beautiful. If it wasn't for traffic, I would play there more often. Very nice course.