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Few municipal tracks in Southern California carry the weight of expectation that Skylinks does. Sitting inside the Long Beach city limits, it draws a broad cross-section of players — weekend warriors, scratch regulars, and everyone in between — and with a course rating of 72.7 and a slope of 127, it has the teeth to keep any of them honest.
At 6,891 yards from the tips, this is a full-length test of par-72 golf, not a layout that flatters with short yardages or forgiving geometry. The numbers suggest something genuinely demanding: longer hitters will still need to think, and mid-handicappers who stray from fairways will feel it on the card.
Long Beach sits in the coastal plain of Los Angeles County, where the marine layer rolls in off the Pacific and keeps temperatures mild enough to play year-round. That moderate climate means turf conditions can be maintained through a long season, and the flat coastal topography that defines this stretch of Southern California shapes the character of the routing — strategic rather than dramatic, where positioning off the tee tends to matter more than sheer elevation change.
For a public course, the rating-slope combination signals genuine substance. This isn't a place you simply walk through; you earn a good score here.
| Tee | Yards | Rating | Slope | Par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black · men | 6,891 | 72.7 | 127 | 72 |
| Blue · men | 6,348 | 70.3 | 121 | 72 |
| Blue · women | 6,348 | 76.4 | 130 | 72 |
| White · men | 6,051 | 68.8 | 118 | 72 |
| White · women | 6,051 | 74.8 | 128 | 72 |
| Red · men | 5,563 | 66.4 | 113 | 72 |
| Red · women | 5,563 | 72.6 | 124 | 72 |
| Gold · men | 5,333 | 65.1 | 110 | 72 |
| Gold · women | 5,333 | 71.2 | 121 | 72 |
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