Old Ranch Golf Practice Center

This place is great to improve your golf game. Service is friendly and Brian is super cool. They also give Youth on the Course discounts and that really helps out.

It works, the have a space a sand trap practice area, as well as putting green, and of course a driving range. Staff is friendly and helpful. I appreciate the fact that they have let the grass die in the middle of the 2 sides due to the drought. No reason to water grass they nobody will step on.
Oh and rubber T’s are $ 1 each and the guy made sure to find me a straight one, not sure it matters that much once it is stuck though the mat, but what ever I appreciate the effort.

Excellent practice range. Balls and mats are always in good condition. Putting green, chipping area and practice bunker are what make this a complete practice area. The fact that it’s connected to a private country club just means there standards are higher, and it shows (in my opinion). The staff is very friendly and you might even get a member price deal on some Travis Matthew gear. A little food (maybe burgers & Dogs on the grill on the weekend) would make it a 5 Star experience for sure!

Great place to practice. There are 30 mats to hit from, a couple days a week it off the grass. The price for a large bucket is a 10 bucks and they fill it to the top.
It’s a practice range only. You don’t here Tee times announced. I don’t think they sell beer in the check in area. Just soft drinks and water. A few chips.
The staff is very processional and upbeat.
There is also an area for pitching chipping and putting.
It’s right next to the 405 but you really don’t get distracted by the hum of the traffic.
You’re just glad not to be on the 405.
They demo clubs here on a regular basis.
There are some nice tables with umbrellas and comfortable chairs.
It’s not a country club, you go here to practice .
Respect the people around you when you play. Quiet please.

Cons:
1. Faces the Old Ranch Country Club range, so the rich people can look at you in the public side
2. Has kids that talk really loud and hit balls all over the place.
3. range is on mats only
… that’s all I can think of…
Pros:
1. Srixon range balls, always in great condition and cleaned
2. happy hour after 5pm (or 6pm, I don’t remember), no drinks, just cheaper prices for balls
3. practice bunker, putting green and a chipping green, all free
4. clean facility
5. theres a guy that works there that makes sure he fills up the buckets (really appreciative of this)

They now offer a chance to hit from the grass: Tuesdays & Wednesdays from 7:00 am to noon.

Great facility! Quiet and everyone here is focused on improving their game. Great chipping area that is free and putting green is good too. Prices are normal for the buckets but you definitely can get some quality practice time in here.

Has gone wwwaaayyy downhill. Maintenance is mediocre at best. They close for maintenance for days at a time. When they re-​open, it appears nothing was done. The practice balls are absolutely terrible. I find much better in the weeds or water on the course. Used to have quite a bit of merchandise, not anymore. Had some great offers that included a round of golf at Old Ranch CC. Gone, dropped it. Had fitting days with manufacturers. Gone.
Last summer had an infestation of kids, barely supervised with an irritating woman «handling» a class. drove lots of people away.
Maybe the biggest plus now is fewer and fewer people go there with all of the issues.

A great place to go for driving range and Tee time. For driving ragne should go early in the morning cuz its not crowed and the have early bird special $ 8 or $ 10 for a large baskets of balls. The mean course is really nice and it’s membership only.

This place is N-​I-​C-​E. Well kept range with perfect mats and a nice view. If you go in the afternoon the sun sets behind you which makes watching your drives a breeze. Pretty quiet and the short game area is really well kept too.
My one complaint is that the attendant there was a real dickhead, extremely rude and unfriendly to say the least. The ball machine was jammed when I went and that sucked but it did give me all the balls I needed after the attendant begrudgingly fixed it. You have to buy your tees for a dollar each and the buckets are pricy and smaller in size but for how well this place is kept I would say it’s a fair price.
I don’t know if this will be my home range because of the price and size of buckets but I will stop in again.

I usually go here to practice. They stay open until 9pm, last bucket of balls sold at 8pm.
This ranch offers a putting green, chipping green, and sand bunker to practice out of free of charge. Not many practice ranges have these amenities.
One note, the range gets flooded after heavy rain so check with the shop to see if they’re open before you stop by.

A pleasant place to practice, not too crowded and well kept facility. The practice balls used are in good condition, not over used range balls from other facilities. Another plus is that they actually keep their hitting mats in good condition and they are not uneven like make cheaper ranges I have visited.
Price is a little high compared to some other ranges I have grown up with in OC, but you are paying for a well kept driving range. One of my favorite places to practice when I am in the area.

This is my facility of choice to hone my 35+ handicap. Cheaper relative to golf courses in the vicinity, $ 9 for large bucket consisting of 110 balls. Even cheaper for early bird specials. Stalls that extend as far as the eye can see. Bunker area in addition to chipping and putting green. Spotless restroom.
Only beef I have is the early close time, 8pm is last call for balls… and the occasional spring time gnats. Well lit.

I am here at least 2 days a week hitting a bucket. The early bird special of 7 dollars for more than a hundred balls is a bargain to say the least. The place is well maintained, fairly new to mostly new range balls. Wide open and even has covered stalls. Yes you have to buy your own tees but you can also put a standard golf tee right into the mat. The range is long and I have been there when someone can bomb one all the way to the members side. I have yet to find a down side to this place. Every weekend there are dads who drag their future superstars out for a family friendly place.

This could SO EASILY be 5 stars, but they blow it.
On the plus side:
1) well kept range.
2) some mats with overhanging to keep the sun off.
3) not too many dog balls.
4) reasonably priced buckets.
5) nearly always a pretty good breeze at your back. this could be a negative if you are really trying to figure out your distances, but considering the rich kids are at the other end it gives you motivation to try to make it rain driver bombs on them.
6) good quality mats
7) a sand trap at the far end
8) well maintained putting green
THE negative:
1) you have to buy a fucking tee… for a dollar. So far, I have been to this range three times and have left my tee behind twice. Sorry, I’m just not used to taking my tee with me. For the love of god people, why must we buy the tee? Why take a 5 star range and make it a 4 star for such a stupid reason?

When I’m in the Long Beach, Seal Beach area, I always, always do my practicing here at Old Ranch. It’s a clean facility with a large practice putting green and a well maintained short game area. But it’s greatest asset is its range. A long, huge range, which is used on both sides by the public (on the practice range end) and the private (on the private country club end). And if you can bomb it over 300 yards, you can hit some of those spoiled blue bloods who should be playing polo.
Anyways, there are no grass tees here and that’s okay because the synthetic grass tees here are very advanced and very soft. So if you hit one fat or skull one, you won’t really feel it in your arms for ten minutes.
As for the prices, sometimes they change. But for the most part its $ 6 for a small, $ 7 for a medium and $ 9 for a large. And these are huge buckets so you can practice for hours. The range is very wide and for the past six years that I have practicing here, I have never waited for a stall.
One very good aspect of the range is that it is close to a Roger Dunn Golf Shop, which is on Seal Beach Boulevard. So if you just bought a new Titleist Driver (I play Titleists, I think everyone should)…you can give it its first test run here.
They have a great pro on duty here his name is Bob Silver. He is an old school golf pro who can teach aspiring amateurs to newbies to the game. And he just charges $ 60 for an hour, which he always goes over. Great teacher, he is a little over enthusiastic about the game but I love that dearly.
So when in LBC or in SB, go to Old Ranch Practice Facility and buy a bucket. It’s near the ocean, so there’s always a breeze. And it’s near a Target and a Quizno’s.
It’s open from I think 7am to 9pm. And its lighted as well for night practices.