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Long Beach's municipal golf scene has real depth, and Recreation Park has been part of it for decades — a public layout that generations of locals have grown up playing, learned the game on, and returned to throughout their lives. The course sits within Recreation Park, one of Long Beach's oldest and largest public green spaces, and that civic, community-rooted identity shapes everything about the experience. This is a place that belongs to the city in the most genuine sense.
The terrain is relatively flat and tree-lined in the way that classic Southern California munis often are — mature eucalyptus and other established plantings framing fairways and creating definition without dramatic elevation change. The Pacific climate keeps the turf in play year-round, which is part of why public golf in Long Beach has always drawn a dedicated, diverse crowd of regulars who treat courses like this as a weekly ritual rather than a special occasion.
A par-72 layout with 18 holes gives Recreation Park enough canvas to offer a complete round, and it functions as the kind of honest, no-pretense test that rewards course management over raw power. It's a straightforward game of golf — which, for a lot of players, is exactly the point.
| Tee | Yards | Rating | Slope | Par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue · women | 6,405 | 76.8 | 132 | 74 |
| Blue · men | 6,355 | 70 | 117 | 72 |
| White · women | 6,155 | 75.5 | 129 | 74 |
| Combo · men | 6,140 | 69 | 114 | 72 |
| White · men | 6,137 | 69.1 | 114 | 72 |
| Silver Long · women | 5,930 | 74.1 | 127 | 74 |
| Silver Short · women | 5,900 | 73.8 | 126 | 74 |
| Silver · men | 5,876 | 68 | 111 | 72 |
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