Long Beach Golf Guide

Golf is a wonderful/horrible game, equally exhilarating and maddening, that nonetheless keeps us always coming back for more. And Long Beach offers you so many more ways to play it, whether it’s with friends, clients, potential clients or by yourself as the city is home to courses of all sizes, layouts and difficulties, including ones you play indoors. Let’s tee it up!

BIXBY VILLAGE GOLF COURSE

RECREATION PARK GOLF COURSE 18

Recreation Park Golf Course 18–known locally as “Big Rec”–is one of the oldest and most popular courses in Southern California. Designed in 1910, its beautiful, 6,405-yard layout, though not long by today’s standards, features rolling terrain, tree-lined Kikuyu fairways and challenging bunkers defending fast, undulating greens, offering golfers a true test of their skills. The course’s clubhouse has been designated a historical landmark.

EL DORADO PARK GOLF COURSE

TOP GOLF SWING SUITE

Topgolf, the wildly popular virtual driving ranges/lounges have widened their concept into the Swing Suite (500 E. First St.) at the Courtyard by Marriott. Located in Downtown Long Beach, its twin simulators not only allow you to hit golf balls but play other games as well. Baseball, football, hockey, carnival games like Zombie Dodgeball. As you play, you can enjoy fantastic food and beverage services in the comfy lounge setting.

SKYLINKS

RECREATION PARK 9

Recreation Park 9 (5000 E Seventh St) –known to pretty much everyone as “Little Rec”–is a 9-hole, 1,865-yard executive course that opened nearly 100 years ago. Located across the street from “Big Rec” it provides an entertaining layout featuring four, par-4 holes, a signature seventh hole that plays over Colorado Lagoon and a par 3 third hole known for its hole-in-one potential. Recent improvements have seen the enlarging of the first green and the addition of more than 100 trees.

HEARTWELL GOLF COURSE

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