In Golf World's latest Readers' Choice Rankings, Stevinson Ranch Golf Club finished fifth, higher than any other course in California. Also making the list were Hiddenbrooke Golf Club in Vallejo at ninth, Trump National-Los Angeles at 15th, and the Mountain View course at Desert Willow Golf Resort in Palm Desert at 25th.
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Director of the Pebble Beach Golf Academy since 1996, Laird Small utilizes the mecca of Pebble Beach as a classroom to teach a brand of club-awareness, swing sensitivity, and shotmaking prowess often lost in more mechanical approaches. On a recent, foggy morning at Spyglass, Small sat down with GolfCalifornia.com and elaborated on his nurturing teaching philosophy and on the big-picture of amateur golf in America.
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Designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr., The New Links at Bodega Harbour just underwent an extensive renovation that has the golf course in top form, Brandon Tucker writes. Just bring your low ball: Wind is constant hazard at this coastal course some 60 miles north of San Francisco.
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Alta Vista Country Club in northern Orange County is a private golf course built over a naturally rolling terrain. It features more than 70 sand bunkers, majestic pines, and lakes that come into play on several holes.
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I just spent a few days in Southern California on business and took a day to host a client for golf. I stayed in a hotel in Long Beach and found a really interestingly designed course in Fullerton - Coyote Hills Golf Course - just a 25 minute drive away. What I really liked about this track is that the 6,510 yards from the tips felt legitimate all the way.
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