Santa Ana

In 1901, the club was founded. Santa Ana Country Club has been in operation from its current site located in Costa Mesa since 1923 after John Duncan Dunn laid out a course for members.

The clubhouse was renovated several times over in the past (by Des Muirhead, Harry and David Rainville, Ron Fream and Ted Robinson) substantial club investments in the millennium led to the overhaul of the clubhouse, as well as the complete overhaul for the layout by the former RTJII architect Jay Blasi, who was appointed in 2014 to design an masterplan of the course.

The following paragraph is a snippet of Golf Course Architecture magazine:

"While developing our masterplan for the course, we performed an assessment of the existing course, and found that there was a significant amount of money in unfinished maintenance, which includes the drainage, irrigation greens, bunkers, and bunkers," Blasi told GCA. "At the time we analyzed all possibilities to improve the course. We came up with a variety of ideas which ranged from none rerouting, through partial rerouting, and finally a total restructuring. The committee for the project was unanimous in favor of complete rerouting because it best fulfilled the objectives set out."

Blasi has identified four major advantages of rerouting the course: increased safety, natural landforms that are more favourable as well as a variety of courses, and better training facilities.

"In terms of security the boundary holes are affixed to the property, where the holes of the past cut side-by-side," Blasi explained. "The new route makes the most of fantastic bowls, slopes valleys and hillsides and it will provide more variety because of the array of holes of par three, four, and five holes on the layout."

The construction work began in the Santa Ana Country Club in January 2016 and the work was finished by the end of the year.