DO NOT play here expecting a regular golf course. There's a reason why it's so cheap, yet you can get a tee time pretty much whenever you like. You need to have the proper expectations. If you're reading reviews, you're off to a good start. Grass has somehow become increasingly sparse on this course. As others said, the tee boxes and greens are fine. The last five holes are actually in decent shape. When I played a few weeks ago, the sand traps were bare, but I noticed that last week there was quite a bit of sand. Kudos! Why have I started playing here again? Like I said, it's cheap and there are plenty of tee times available. And because so few people actually play the course, pace of play is fantastic. Playing solo, I finished in just over 2 hours, although I did have to skip finishing a few holes in order to bypass other groups. And did I mention it's cheap? Between being a weekday, the Hot Deal on the GolfNow app, and a tee time credit from GolfPass+, I paid $15 (cart included). I'm just getting back into playing courses, so this is perfect practice for me. read more

Save your money and book somewhere else. Photo speaks for itself. This course is poorly kept almost like playing in a parking lot. read more

Victoria Golf Course - Save your money and book somewhere else. Photo speaks for itself. - Golf Near Me - Carson, California

One out of five stars and I did not recommend. I had a teatime at eight in the morning and it was by far the worst course I've ever done. I paid for 18 holes and it was a total of $83 for two people. They had the worst fairways ever. It is perfectly in seasoned to have a well maintenance fairway. Multiple holes had dirt all over the fairway with the only good patch of grass being on the greens, which did not make up for the experience. The fairways were made up of only dirt which had multiple potholes due to wildlife. So many balls were lost in random holes, and my clubs were damaged because of the dirt that was on the fairway. Also, while playing throughout the course, we would get rudely interrupted by the gardeners's machines and the workers housing down the the greens . Also, there was two dogs roaming around, and when I went to tell front desk about it, they simply said that it's normal because they live there. So I would've liked a heads up on that before getting startled by two huge dogs on the tee off. To add salt to the wound... There was no map that would properly guide us through their course considering it was our first time. I wish I could get a refund on my money because that is one of The worst courses I have ever played on for that price. I wouldn't wish that course on my worst enemy. read more

Victoria Golf Course - Golf Near Me - Carson, California

There are a lot of young thugs that hang out in the parking lot there. They're not there to play golf. They're just loitering and playing loud music and reving their motorbikes and cars. They're should call the police. Driving range is decent though. read more

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Nice people and great pace of play but the course conditions are awful. The greens are well kept but the fairways are just horrible. This was not worth the drive or the price. read more

Victoria Golf Course - Golf Near Me - Carson, California

This place is rated as the worst course in California if not the US. You dont go into a Denny's expecting a 5 star meal and then leave a bad review about it being crappy, so I dont understand all these complaints. This is probably the only place you can reliably book a tee time WHENEVER you want. lol If you get off work early unexpectedly and want to play a full size 18 holes at a relatively fair price then I dont think it gets any better. Tee times here cost 40? 50? Yes it can be better and i really wish the efforts made by the keepers come to fruition one day but it is what it is. This is by far not the best place to play but also, I've paid more to play at places that werent that much better than Victoria. 4 stars read more

Rating the range only. The staff is super friendly, and the rates make this place a go-to for regular practice. My concern is with safety. Instructors and students repeatedly stand outside the hitting bays while others are swinging, which feels like an accident waiting to happen. I've seen this occur frequently during my visits, and it makes me uneasy about liability if an errant shot were to cause an injury. Instructors should know better and should be teaching their students proper range etiquette and awareness. This issue happens often and could be easily fixed if management enforced clear boundaries and ensured instruction stayed within the designated hitting zones. Until that happens, I'm not sure the practical benefit is worth the financial risk. read more

The worst golf course I've ever played on. I actually asked for my money back after 5 holes and i was told no, they did give me a bucket of balls, which was more enjoyable than playing on this monstrosity. Save your money and play somewhere else, there are NO fairways, it's all wasteland read more

This place was dirty fair ways and great greens. The back 13-18 are the only really good holes. The rest of the course is basically dead except for around the green. We were wondering why they had so many tee times. read more

Pro shop staff and course locals were very honest about the course conditions. The greens rolled smooth but some of the fairways were in rough shape. I played in just under 4 hours, and played with 1 golf ball the whole round! read more

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Okay, let me start off by saying that this golf course is definitely not Pebble Beach and course wise, in its current condition, is far from the best. However, for what it's worth, the driving range, chipping green and putting greens are great! Now back to the course: The Pros: * Solid driving range with quality teaching pros * Solid chipping greens * Two well maintained putting greens * The majority of the tee boxes are good * The majority of the greens are extremely well maintained. * Ample parking * Tee times are readily available * The sunset on holes 14-16 is amazing! (See photos) * The ride from hole14's tee box to green is breathtaking with the current bloom! (See photos and video)! * The wild life, rabbits, lizards, several birds and what appear to be prairie dogs are abundant! * There is a decent cafe to grab a bite at the turn. * The staff is knowledgeable, professional and polite * You get a free sleeve of balls (when available) with your round of golf The Cons: * The range can be crowded from time to time * Several fairways, although they have more greenery because of all the recent rain, are still patchy in areas and can be frustrating to play * Bunkers are pretty hard and compacted * There are holes left by the wildlife, not necessarily on the fairways, but off the cart paths and in OB. * The restrooms need upgrading/updating * The pro shop could use some updating and a better selection of available items. Overall: I give it 4 stars because for obvious reasons I can't give it 5 lol . For practice purposes, it's a pretty good course to play as long as you know what you're getting yourself into and what to expect. I know there are many negative reviews circulating about Victoria, but in all honesty, go out and play a round or hit the range and see/experience it for yourself. I have a good feeling that after the planned renovations are done, it'll be difficult to book a tee time! read more

Victoria Golf Course - The 14th green! - Golf Near Me - Carson, California

I go here to use the range. They have putting and chipping greens. Range is pretty good - the dirty thin mats. The range is usually open until 8pm during weekdays. With membership, you get a large bucket of balls everyday. Used to be 2 buckets but now its 1 so its less crowded now. read more

The fairways need grass and there's an abundance of wildlife throughout the property. The County should subdivide the parcel and create a shorter course that requires less maintenance. This property is obviously too much to maintain. read more

Needs surgery on the fairways. Some of the greens were in decent shape to say a lot, but everything generally needs insane amounts of TLC.

Went a couple weekends ago. Tee time was 7:20 and basically walked right in and started, awesome. The fairways were rough to say the least but the greens were in great shape. read more

Do not go unless you don care about golf. This is only for driving range. Some instructors are make other people to pick. This course need to be renew and new management.. read more

The worst. No greens on most of the fairways and its like driving thru a desert with how awful the fairways were. Hardly any grass except for a couple of holes at the end of the 18. The staff was super friendly tho and gave a couple of 3 ball boxes, one which was super bright red and really made a huge difference because we lost so many balls because of the dried up holes and dirt. We couldn't find half of the balls and the dirt made the balls bounce like crazy. Not ideal here for golfing but great staff and boxed balls perk. I mean they tried. So A for effort. Someone needs to call up a donor to get some grass on here. Please help the Links. read more

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Great for the practice area, terrible to play at. Jeez this course is like playing on concrete with gopher holes. The practice area like the range, putting green, and chipping area are nice, but the course itself? Oh man, it really needs some work. I have a membership here since it's close to work and you get 3 buckets a day for around $50 a month, but I'm planning on cancelling. Half the time my card doesn't work at the ball dispensary and I have to go in the pro shop to get a fix. read more

I came to The Links @ Victoria Golf Course on New Year's Eve and played 18 holes. In order to set a tee time, you can either book one online or (I'm pretty sure) you can also call the pro shop to do so. If you do it online, it requires your credit/debit card as a source of accountability, like most businesses usually do. Once you get to the course before your tee time you're able to pay in cash (if you wish). The course has 2 putting greens, on the largest one you're able to practice your short game/chipping which I found to be extremely helpful. Try not to shank the ball to someone's face . Right away as you step foot on the first tee, you can notice that the course doesn't really manage their fairways. I guess it makes sense because this is one of the few courses that has a cheap fee of $30 for 18 holes (walking) for one person. Every other course is above $40. I wouldn't recommend this course to any beginners because nearly half fairways is hard dirt. I played in the morning around 8:30 AM, so maybe it's better later in the day? I think there's also 2 par 5s that are 500-600 yards as well. The bunkers have the same issue, it's mostly just hard dirt and not sand. I think the par 3s on this course were significantly better and a little more challenging. There were a couple par 3s and 4s where you had to walk a long way around to get to the green or fairway. My experience was somewhat mediocre because of the amount of large puddles that were on the fairways and bunkers. I WOULD come here again, but maybe only for the short game area as I don't think a lot of golf courses have. -Tony read more

The fairways are made of grass but due to what's underneath it has caused the grass to die off. I like the course because I'm able to finish right at the four hour markand I like to be challenged by "playing the ball as it lies". Anxious to see how it is once it's renovated. Keep your head down and hit the ball first regardless of the dirt and you'll be just fine. Teresa and Robert are doing everything they can to take care of things and get the course back to what I remember it being as a junior golfer growing up in So Cal read more

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In contrast to the plethora of negative reviews, I actually had a fairly decent experience here. Went with a few friends on a Sunday Morning and quickly got 2 lanes to share (I will say they fill up really quickly so I'd recommend arriving as soon as they open). The mats were pretty new and the field was decently green. I've never been to a golf range, but the price and the freedom you're given made it all the more worthwhile. This place is a great budget option with lots of parking and people to converse with! read more

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Course isn't even in shape to drive a cart or let alone walk on. There are tee boxes, greens, and everything else around them is mud/rocks. This is the kind of course you shut down and build housing on- a total waste of land. Best way to describe it is if WW3 happened and this was the last golf course left. My group was the first tee time of the day and our cart died during the round. What type of lazy dogshit is that? To the owner/management, why are you even open and operating?? And to charge $40 for a round? That's fucking absurd!! This place is an embarrassment and disgrace to golf and should be shut down immediately. read more

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I'll give 2 stars because the guy at the desk was super cool and helpful so shoutout to him but the course was horrible. The grass maintenance was very poor. The grass on the fairway was high or nonexistent. I can't even blame the lack of rain because other courses have nice fairways. The course looks as if they don't even try and keep it up. If they won't keep it up at least charge $5-10 for tee times. I won't go back to play I'll just use the driving range. read more

The monthly practice club is an affordable way to get range practice. It costs $54 a month for up to 3 medium (60 balls) buckets per day. There are lots of mats to play on, but Victoria constantly runs out of range balls since they are very understaffed. They tend to only have one person at the pro shop and one person collecting balls and replenishing the range ball machine. As a result, you can be waiting for anywhere from 30 min to 1 hour for balls to get refilled. Victoria is constantly running out of balls after 5:30pm. Half of the balls are so worn out and should probably be thrown away too. I haven't played on the course, but when I go to the range I hardly see anyone on the course. Maybe 1-2 groups max, even on weekends. It does look like the course is not maintained and is mainly dirt except for the greens. read more

There is no way to describe how horrible this golf course is. It's almost like playing an abandoned golf course yet they still charge you money to play. read more

Victoria Golf Course - This is what they call a fairway and it doesn't get any better than this. - Golf Near Me - Carson, California

FORE!! **SWOOSH** That's the sound of a Golfer makes when he swings and MISSES! Yes, I can make more wind energy than I can make kinetic energy. How embarrassing?! It has been, at last, seven years since I last golfed and this visit reminded me how I should've stayed away. With COVID-19, I haven't see my best buddy and fellow Yelper, Craig Y. Let's hit the greens at the Links at Victoria Golf Course in Carson. Located at the southwest corner of S. Avalon Blvd and Martin Luther King, Jr. St., you will find The Links at Victoria Golf Course. It was opened in 1966. However, the times have caught up to the Links. While I can use COVID-19 as a possible reason for the upkeep, this is beyond months of closure, but failure for many years. Even with the information provided on the website, a lot of the hours/prices are out of date. The Links at Victoria Golf Course has a large parking lot. Possibly fits over 100 cars. Craig Y. and I arrived at 9:30am to just do the driving range or the Practice Range. A gentleman in a golf cart stopped us and asked if we had a Reservation/Tee Time. We did not. He told us that the Practice Range opens at 10:30am to 12:30pm. OK....No one informed us and neither did the website. To speed forward, at 12:30pm, a group of golfers came in and on the loud speakers were told that the Practice Range was closing until 1:45pm. for golf ball collections on their carts. They were upset and I was too. We both had to wait an hour before and, for them, after. No proper signage and staff to provide information. Another defect was the entire golf center. There were lots of patches of brown and grass that never grew back. The wedge and putting area was closed. Golfers need to practice, but its off limits for no visible reason?! At the Practice Range, there are approximately 40 Practice Range Bays. Some have PGA Professional Trainers with some high tech equipment. However, the driving range mats are the beyond deteriorated. To add to the disaster, they were missing the Rubber Tees. It made it difficult and more sore for us to hit range balls from the mat. No online notification or courtesy of letting golfers know that we need one. Craig Y. and I had difficulty and, of course, we paid the price the following morning with back pain and soreness of constantly hitting the range mat. The bright side of our visit: Price and ONE PERSONNEL. For a bucket of large balls of 60: $10 a bucket. We got two buckets. Basically $0.17 cents a hit. You will pre-pay inside at the Golf Center and they will give you a code to retrieve at the vending machine. The buckets are provided to you at the vending machine. Also, empty buckets are collected throughout the day. If I can hit 100 yard away, you can too...especially when I can master hitting wind....and not in that way. The other highlight was Daniel. Daniel was very kind and supportive of a newbie at the golf center. He assisted me and let me know the pricing and where to go. While he was there for a few hours that day, he was a big fan of my Dodgers! Definitely a highlight of my visit. I spent $30 for two hours and it was worth it from a certain point of view. While there are 40 Practice Range Bays, you can't concentrate with people stalking for an empty bay. I swore when I went to get more buckets, people were already trying to get my bay. While we were there for leisure, it felt like I was in a competition that I didn't up for. I learned my lesson and know what to expect for other golf ranges/courses. At the moment, the Links at Victoria Golf Course seems to be the most underperformed location because they sacrificed quality for price. Yes, a first timer will benefit, but it also leaves a sour taste on future visits. This isn't the same Practice Range that a chain throughout the U.S. does better. Our Course is True and Steady. With every review journaled down, it inspires followers to become leaders. With every letter, it brings a start; with every word, it brings passion; with every sentence, it brings life; with every paragraph, it creates a story. Yelp Brings Us Together by Simply Sharing in Our Universe! read more

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Located off 192nd St in Carson this is an old golf course and not really maintained. Came here for the driving range. It was not bad of a price for what you get. The one annoying thing well two things about the driving range is the mats are old and roughed up secondly the the people who stand and wait behind you can get annoying as well. We didn't do any golfing on the course itself. The shop is nice. They do have a cafe as well. Overall I think I'd come here just for the driving range make sure to bring your own rubber/plastic tee cause there are none on the well used mats. Hopefully they will get new ones down the road and improve the the whole place but we shall see. read more

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Best course ever! Highly recommend to all golfers! Great views and wonderful staff, cannot Go wrong at this golf course totally worth every last penny spent! Go Findout yourself hahah ! read more

Negative star if I could everyone knows the course is straight dirt and potholes but at least the prices were reasonable now it's 45$ w/cart that is just insanity for this type of course read more

The back story to the condition of Victoria is that it was built on a landfill. Because of all the methane gas underneath, it would take an exorbitant amount of fertilizer, water, and of course money to contract the effect and have nice fairways. And of course being a county course in Carson, not going to happen... But you know what? We actually enjoy golfing here at Victoria. Not just the driving range but the actual course! As a new golfer, having tight 8-10min tee time intervals and people waiting behind me gives me anxiety. So the ability to come on a weekend morning, barely have anyone else around, and play a couple balls instead of one is quite a treat. It's a long 18 hole with some challenging terrain to say the least. The carts are not in great shape, and it's a bumpy ride on the fairways with lots of dirt and gofer holes. Come with the right expectations, be prepared to be challenged in different ways and it'll still be a good day! And hey, where else can you get a full round of golf, cart, sleeve of balls, and hot dog for $40? The practice areas has driving range, putting and chipping greens and those are actually in excellent condition. And hey, with the crazy draught and global warming, maybe this will be the new normal for golf courses in the future... read more

Not much grass in sight. Lost several balls in the middle of the fairway because they fell into holes. Wasn't worth the time to stay for all 18. Greens were surprisingly decent for how bad the rest of the course was and staff was kind. read more

Victoria Golf Course - Fairway in terrible shape - Golf Near Me - Carson, California

One star for the greens, which were surprisingly well maintained. One star for the really nice man who checked us in. No stars for literally everything else related to the course. Just look at the pictures. It was a desert. the worst maintained "course" I've ever played. read more

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This course looks like it could be used as a location for The Walking Dead. I'm so glad that I looked at Yelp prior to going out there because there were some extremely outdated photos on the App TeeTime that made the course look really nice. Pretty much every single fairway except maybe 1 or 2 was just dry clay or dirt. Trying to drive the golf cart down the fairway proved to be more challenging than actually hitting off of it because it's nothing but potholes and crabgrass. We only went here because it was the only course in the area that had wide-open times on the weekend, and when we arrived I understood why. This course should be closed down until it can be updated. read more

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Pretty horrible, all dirt and mud, balls will get lost in the middle of the fairway. Friendly staff, that's really the only upside. If they were to sod it, it could be a real gem. read more

5 stars just for Cutsy's pain One of the great west coast courses. Lush rough and bent grass green. Just doesn't get better than this. read more

Imagine being blindfolded and put in the middle of a fairway here...once the blindfold comes off you begin to look for the Apollo Lunar Moon Module or the Mars rover. There must be thousands of golf balls that players lost as they disappeared into the countless gopher holes. As a veteran, I wonder how many IED's are placed under the hard pan. There is so little grass that goats would starve. Worst "golf" (in name only) course in America read more

Have not been here in decades but the decline is more evident than ever. I never thought I would be playing golf on the moon but that's what it feels like when all the fairways are barren and I am not exaggerating. The greens are nice but that can't make up the overall condition of this course. It almost embarrassing to the county of Los Angeles. Please fix the course to its original condition. read more

How is this place still in business let alone able to call itself an actual golf course. It has a tee box and a green with dirt and gravel in between. They have the audacity to charge $41 to play it. They don't mow the random spots where they do grow grass so easily losing a few sleeves of balls here. Not sure why anyone would play here and ruin their irons in the gravel fairway. CLOSE THIS PLACE! Even Haiti has better golf courses. read more

Such a great starting out course. I felt so comfortable right away. Manager Rafael is super helpful and pops up everywhere. You g employees who are eager to work and put in the effort to make your experience that much better. Yes turf/grass is underway but overall a comfortable place to play. Great environment overall. read more

Alright so I love there driving range so that gets a 5 stars for me. However, I feel like I cant give it 5 stars due to the condition of the fairways. They're literally all dirt and riddled with gofer holes. They give you a free pack of 3 balls not because they're generous but because they expect you to lose at least 3 balls in the gofer holes. Now if the fairway conditions changed this would be a whole different course and I'd be here all the time. read more