With a slope rating of 140 from the tips, Eagle Vines Vineyards & Golf Club will push the limits of all golfers. Yet it remains playable for all skill levels with four sets of tee boxes from which to choose. Designer Johnny Miller took advantage of the natural beauty of Napa Valley by featuring rolling hills, majestic oak trees, ambling creeks and working vineyards in the course.
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Measuring almost 7,000 yards, famed Harding Park municipal golf course has built a strong history since opening in 1925. Today, it's one of America's most beloved public courses. And it hasn't rested on its laurels, having undergone a massive renovation in 2003.
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The New Links at Bodega Harbour recently completed a $1.2 million golf course renovation project that included widening the fairways, converting the greens from poa annua to bent grass, repositioning bunkers and improving the drainage system. The course offers views of the Pacific Ocean, rolling fairways, new undulating bent grass greens and native coastal rough.
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Sea Ranch Golf Links is a Robert Muir Graves design that's way up Highway One in Sonoma County. It's not an easy drive to get to Sea Ranch. It is one of the most picturesque, cliff-hugging, Pacific Ocean-overlooking drives in the world. When you do arrive, you'll find an 18-hole golf course with some views of the ocean and plenty of Pacific breezes.
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Unbeknownst to many Los Angeles golfers, one of the best public golf courses in Southern California lies just minutes from downtown: the Dwight D. Eisenhower Course at Pacific Palms Conference Resort's Industry Hills Golf Club in City of Industry. This gem opened in 1979, and was recently re-opened after an extensive, multi-million dollar renovation.
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A $12 million renovation has completely changed the look of Palm Desert Country Club. It's gone from a golf course that barely had grass in the fairways to one that's all lush green. This is still very much a reasonable Palm Springs-area course, with greens fees topping off at $75 in high season.
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What strikes the newcomer about the 7,088-yard Barona Creek Golf Club is that it looks almost too perfect. If you were a film director and wanted to shoot a Western-golf movie, this golf course would be the perfect set. It's almost as if every rock, every stick and every scrub sage was placed meticulously in exactly the right spot. Just imagine the pristine conditions of the actual playing surfaces.
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The Palm Springs-area Desert Willow Golf Club offers two municipal courses with anything but municipal conditions. Its Mountain View course is often thought of as the easier track.
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Robinson Ranch encompasses two 18-hole layouts, the 6,508-yard Mountain course and the 6,903-yard Valley. Both Ted Robinson Jr. designs share some features - a mix of tight and wide-open tee shots, big, dramatically undulating greens - but the difference suggested by their names is genuine.
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Three nine-hole golf courses - Creek, Oaks and Stonehouse - are the centerpiece of the Temecula Creek Inn golf resort in Southern California. Scenery and playability are the draws here, with Stonehouse the jewel in the resort's crown.
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