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The Pala Mesa Resort Golf Course is one of Southern California’s most challenging golf courses. This beautifully manicured 18-hole, Par 72, championship course, accented with magnificent oaks, sycamores, and elms, continues to be recognized as one of the most beautiful golf courses in the Greater San Diego area. Spectacular mountain views provide the backdrop with challenges at every turn. Here is considered one of the best golf clubs near Fallbrook, CA. In fact our unique course design has been rated by Golf Digest as one of the best 200 golf courses in the country. In addition Pala Mesa has been rated one of the top ten golf courses in San Diego County by Golf Digest and Zagat. Holes 18 / Par 72 / Length 6502 yards.

Located the beautiful wine country of the Southern California Temecula Valley, California Oaks Golf Course is a challenging, yet playable, Holes 18 / par 72 / Length 5215 yards golf course designed by renowned architect David Rainville. With majestic views of the nearby San Jacinto mountain range, California Oaks Golf Course offers golfers a friendly, affordable and quality golf experience. California Oaks provides superb turf conditions and professional service only found at some of the nation’s finest clubs. Dramatic bunkering and undulated greens make California Oaks Golf Course a challenge for all golfers while providing a fun environment for beginners, juniors and ladies. The “Oaks Grill” overlooking the 9th green, features breakfast and lunch daily, and offers views of the golf course and the beautiful Temecula Valley.

Arrowhead Country Club (ACC) is a storied California golf course. Launched in 1924 as a humble 9-hole golf course with sand greens, ACC was transformed 4 years later into a magnificent 18 hole golf course under the direction of legendary architect William P. Bell. ACC became a member owned equity club in 1944 and up until 2017 remained one of the formative private clubs in Southern California. Today, ACC is Semi-Private and the public is welcome to experience its historic grounds. Playing 6,619 yards, the routing winds through a garden of hundred year old oaks, pines, and sycamores. The greens structures are some of the best you will ever find. They watch guard over lush and sometimes treacherous bent grass greens belied by subtle rises and falls. PGA legend David Stockton learned to putt at ACC.

Designed by prominent local architect Ted Robinson Jr, the Arrowood golf course is a par-71, 6,721-yard layout imbedded in the Arrowood community. Located in Oceanside, adjacent to Camp Pendleton and only 35 miles north of San Diego, Arrowood sits on a scenic hilltop by the San Luis Rey Valley, only about 10 miles from the coastline. The greens are a blend of Poa annua and Bermuda grass, firm and fast. “We try to keep them rolling at 10 to 11 (on the stimpmeter)” indicates Head Golf Professional Nikki Prichard. “This course will offer something for everyone,” she further points out. Four sets of tees ensure that there is a golf test to suit any skill level. A potential two-club wind further adds to the variety; play early in the morning under generally calm conditions and you will find a docile course.

Santa Barbara golf courses range from greens to blues, hillsides to countrysides. It only makes sense that The American Riviera® possesses some of the most incredible golf courses in the country. Santa Barbara Golf Club is a well-manicured, impeccably maintained 18-hole regulation par-70 golf course with sweeping views of the Santa Ynez foothills and the Pacific Ocean. The course measures 6,037 yards from back tees, providing a challenging game. We offer power golf cart service, including 2 Solo Rider carts. Holes 18 / Par 70 / Length 6014 yards.

Nestled between Southern California's largest natural lake, Lake Elsinore, the Ortega Mountains and the Cleveland Natural Forest, the Links at Summerlys stunning par-72, nearly 7,000-yard (Holes 18 Par 72 Length 6741 yards) layout was designed by renowned golf course architect Cal Olson to fit seamlessly into the landscape - incorporating natural mounding, pristine rolling terrain and three miles of Scottish-style burns to provide the look and feel of traditional links-style courses of the British Isles. Kidney-shaped bunkers abound, while numerous twists and turns will challenge golfers of all skill levels to use every club in their bag in order to navigate this breathtaking masterpiece.

Challenge, beauty and drama permeate every Jack Nicklaus-designed course, and this masterful design is no exception. Around every corner you will find a new challenge, including the rare feature of two island greens. At 7,204 yards long, The Nicklaus Tournament Course has a stroke rating of 75.3 and a slope rating of 143. A true ball strikers' golf course, The Nicklaus Tournament along with The Stadium Course is the bi-annual host of the PGA TOUR’s final round of Q-School, which is attended by some of the best players in the world. Nicknamed by Members as the Nick Tourney, it is both very forgiving off the tee and extremely demanding around the greens. Without a doubt, a “must play” for not only a great test of golf, but for its magnificent desert setting.

Carved by time between some of the oldest and newest mountain ranges in North America lies PGA WEST, a geographically blessed golf destination. Symbolized by Coral Mountain which rises from the shell-laden desert floor bearing the distinct markings of an ancient ocean, the designs of nature and golf visionaries now rule this once submerged paradise. The newest course at PGA WEST and the only Greg Norman-designed golf course in the Coachella Valley is aptly described as being very "challenging but fair." Sporting only 68 acres of lush manicured turf, 102 white crushed marble bunkers and shark blue water coming into play on 9 holes, this 7,200-yard course offers a truly "Outback" experience that will entice you back time and time again. Resting in a prehistoric ocean bed 40-feet below sea level and surrounded by an immense crescent of terra cotta mountains, the course teems with purple, white and yellow wildflowers, while the mix of tall and short native grasses produce different shades of green running almost to silver. The grass covers just 60 acres of tight fairways that taper toward the greens with nine ponds blanketing 18 acres. The demands of this target-style course are a challenge for players of all levels.