Golf Courses - California

'For years I have been contending that in our generation no other golf course could possibly compete with the strategic problems, the thrills, the excitement, variety and lasting and increasing int...

A short drive from Cypress Point, Pebble Beach is situated at the southern end of California’s Monterey Peninsula and was developed by business entrepreneur Samuel F.B. Morse. Morse first saw the s...

One of the most exclusive clubs in America, the San Francisco Golf Club was formed toward the end of the 19th century, however golfing did not begin on its present A.W. Tillinghast layout until 191...

The Pasatiempo Golf Club was founded by Marion Hollins, one of the finest athletes of the 1920s and a woman who had driven the development of the Cypress Point Club before making a fortune investin...

Owner of the most valuable golf real estate in America, the Los Angeles Country Club is located in the heart of Beverly Hills and significant in golfing circles for its North Course, which was rede...

Founded by members of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, the Riviera Country Club was designed by Golden Age icon George Thomas and built within a deep canyon north of Santa Monica. Thomas was initiall...

One of the state's most prestigious golfing institutions, the California Golf Club was founded on leased land close to San Francisco in 1918 and moved to a permanent home south of the city in 1926....

Situated within California’s arid Coachella Valley, the Quarry at La Quinta is a luxurious private club nestled into a rocky cove at the base of the Santa Rosa Mountains. The course was opened in 1...

Squeezed between the Pacific Ocean and the Santa Ynez Mountains, the Valley Club of Montecito was opened for play in 1929 and is located on the outskirts of the well-heeled Montecito community, eas...

Considered the nation's oldest athletic organization, San Francisco’s Olympic Club was founded in 1860 and moved into golf following World War I, with the purchase of a struggling country club in n...