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I’m not from the area but have played a handful of public courses out there on various trips.
Palos Verdes has some great options. Starting with Trump but obviously that is $$$. Los Verdes is a great value and has awesome views throughout. There is a super nice Par 3 course at Terranea that’s fun and could be played after one of the other courses and make a day out of it.
Angeles National is another fun course, not crazy far from Santa Monica. When I played my buddy almost took out Reggie Bush with an errant tee shot.
The biggest challenge with LA publics is getting tee times. Generally times become available to public 7 days in advance and are fully booked almost immediately. This gets even worse as many of the cities give their residents access one day before general public (I know Long Beach and Palos Verdes do this at a minimum).
So I guess the short answer to your question is play wherever you're able to get on!
Public courses out here aren’t good unfortunately. Tee times are impossible. You are going to have to drive like an hour outside of LA to play some good ones