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Cypress Point Club is set at the foothills of the Santa Lucia Mountains on the very tip of the Monterey Peninsula and the cliff top terrain is varied and thrilling.

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The location for the Los Angeles Country Club makes it possibly one of the most valuable pieces of real estate in the world. It’s therefore fitting therefore that North course does full justice to the land...

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Cypress Point is the course you can’t play at Pebble Beach, but thankfully Pebble Beach Golf Links is one you can.

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There are few courses with no weaknesses, but the Riviera Country Club can take the moniker. It’s a truly remarkable golf course routed across less than ideal terrain.

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Albert Warren Tillinghast was probably the greatest American golf course architect of his day and “Tilly” was the genius who crafted the course for San Francisco Golf Club in 1915.

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The California Golf Club of San Francisco can now boast tournament measurements. From the new back tees, which are aptly called Venturi, the course can be stretched to more than 7,200 yards.

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The Dunes course at Monterey Peninsula Country Club is a 1926 Seth Raynor layout that Robert Hunter completed with advice from Alister MacKenzie. It was remodeled by Rees Jones in 1999 and renovated by Fazio Design in 2016.

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The great Alister MacKenzie designed Pasatiempo and it opened for play in 1929 with a mixed exhibition foursome between Marion Hollins, Bobby Jones, Glenna Collett and Cyril Tolley.

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Dr Alister MacKenzie designed the Valley Club of Montecito in 1929 and by Mackenzie’s standards it is one of his more modest designs.

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Host to four US Opens, the Lake course at Olympic Club is a serious challenge. Take your stabilisers and expect few level lies on these sloping fairways.

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Bel-Air Country Club is a throwback to The Roaring Twenties and the course here is one of the finest layouts that came from the remarkable George C. Thomas design stable. Tom Doak reckons Bel-Air may well be the most spectacular routing ever conceived.

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An ultra-elite private members club in the affluent area near Coachella. Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner have built what appears to be a minimalist desert golf course in contrast with many of the artificial and housing-led desert designs in the Palm Springs area.

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The course at Lake Merced Golf Club has endured plenty of significant architectural input since Willie Lock first constructed it in 1923. Alister MacKenzie in 1929, Robert Muir Graves in the 1960s then Rees Jones in 1996.

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The magic is the way in which the Shore course blends into the topography. It's golf ‘au naturale’ and perhaps the finest architectural swan song.

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Located in Palm Desert and opened in 2002, the emerald fairways of the Tom Doak-designed golf course at the Stone Eagle Club are set out on a rugged landscape devoid of all housing...

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Laid out within a large forested site in Martis Valley, the 18-hole Tom Fazio course at Martis Camp Club is just one of the sporting amenities available at a fabulous year-round Lake Tahoe retreat.

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Spyglass Hill is possibly the hardest golf course on the Monterey Peninsula. The hilly land tumbles down towards the sea, leaving fairways lined with cypress and pines, laced with areas of brilliant white sand.

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Recently restored by Mike DeVries, the mountain meadow course at the Meadow Club is located in the hills of Marin County and its design back in 1927 was Alister MacKenzie’s first American project.

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The Rustic Canyon golf course was laid out in 2001 within a 350-acre site on the floor of a broad canyon to the north west of Los Angeles...

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With a Tuscan styled clubhouse that stands on elevated ground and a Jack Nicklaus walking-only course, Mayacama is more reminiscent of a classy Italian estate than an American golf club.

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The Quarry sits in the Coachella Valley at the foothills before the Santa Rosa Mountains and features an abandoned mine and Indian trail as part of the course.

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The Santa Lucia Preserve is an exclusive gated community where some 300 families share 20,000 acres of unspoilt California and a way of life.

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The best and toughest of the three public courses at the PGA West golf complex, Pete and Alice Dye’s 1986 creation, the TPC Stadium course, is host to the PGA Tour “Q-School” Finals every two years.

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A Tom Fazio desert design that opened in 2002, the course at Shady Canyon Golf Club is gently routed around a valley with fairways following the natural contours as they skirt ravines and creeks.

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Founded in 1919 and set in the historic Hancock Park area of Los Angeles, Wilshire Country Club was originally designed by Norman Macbeth. Kyle Phillips recently revived the Golden Age classic to critical acclaim.

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Willie Watson designed the original course at the exclusive Hillcrest Country Club, but plenty changed when Kyle Phillips was appointed in 2018 to redesign the existing layout, adding six new holes to the set-up.

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Re-opened in 2016, following a sympathetic Gil Hanse restoration, Los Angeles Country Club's South course offers a complementary playing experience to the tougher North course, with wide fairways transitioning into native grasses and no penal rough.

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Host to the 2016 US Women’s Open, won by American Brittany Lang, the course at the CordeValle Resort is a Robert Trent Jones Jnr design that can be stretched to all of 7,360 yards for competitive play.

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Located between the Oak Oasis and Lakeside County Parks, the Barona Creek Resort & Casino is set within the rolling foothills of San Diego and it’s ranked as one of the top five casino courses in the USA.

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Torrey Pines is situated on cliff tops some 20 minutes to the north of San Diego and is one of the best municipal golf facilities in the USA.

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The course at Menlo Country Club was expanded to a full 18-hole layout soon after its inauguration and it served the members for more than fifty years, until Robert Trent Jones carried out a renovation in the late 1960s.

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Situated on a hill overlooking the remote and sleepy town of Borrego Springs, Rams Hill Golf Club provides the golfer with an incredibly scenic and fun round of desert golf.

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Lahontan Golf Club is located to the north of Lake Tahoe on land that was once home to the Washoe Indians in the spectacular Martis Valley.

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Naturally, being so close to Thousand Oaks, mature, stately trees are a feature here at Sherwood Country Club coupled with babbling brooks and even waterfalls.

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Centrepiece of an impressive residential development, Arnold Palmer’s 18 holes at The Tradition Golf Club offer members a golf game of two halves; a solid front nine followed by a more exciting back nine.

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A Robert Trent Jones Jnr design that opened for play in 1999, the golf course at the Bridges at Rancho Santa Fe has been described as one where “no two holes are even remotely the same”.

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The challenging Mountain course is one of a pair of 18-hole layouts designed by Tom Fazio at the Vintage Club. The water-dominated par four 16th is one of the most photographed holes in the state.

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The Desert course at the 36-hole Vintage Club is shorter than its older Mountain sibling by some 700 yards and water comes into play at almost half the holes here.

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Some have compared Tom Fazio’s course at The Madison Club to Shadow Creek in Nevada and it’s true to say that he was given another big budget to construct this 18-hole Coachella Valley layout.

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Host to the LPGA World Championship between 2004 and 2007, the Tom Fazio-designed Canyons course at Bighorn Golf Club debuted seven years after Arthur Hills’s Mountain course opened at the same venue.

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The Mountain course at the La Quinta Resort is one of two Pete Dye designs that are available for play at a wonderful 36-hole golf complex.

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Two years after the Eldorado Country Club was formed in 1957, it hosted the 13th series of Ryder Cup matches so its course is historically important. In 2003, Tom Fazio carried out extensive alterations to the layout.

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Opened for play in 1993, the Ocean North course is one of a pair of fabulous Tom Fazio designs at the Resort at Pelican Hill where the Pacific Ocean forms a backdrop to each and every one of the 18 holes on the card.

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Regarded as the main attraction when the Olympic Club’s golf facility first opened in the 1920s, the Ocean has long since been overtaken in prominence by the Lake course.

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The Ocean South course is one of two Tom Fazio 18-hole layouts at the Resort at Pelican Hill and it debuted in 1991, two years ahead of the Ocean North layout. Several holes allow 270-degree views of the Pacific Ocean.

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Huge amounts of sand were mined to cap the new fairways at Rolling Hills Country Club, opening out the views across to downtown Los Angeles.

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Dozens of PGA Tour events have been held on the Club at La Costa’s Champions course down the years. Comprising nine holes designed by Dick Wilson in 1965 and nine from his associate Joe Lee eight years later...

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Among American collegiate golf courses, only Yale is regarded as a better layout than Stanford University. Tom Watson and Tiger Woods developed their games here whilst playing on Stanford golf teams.

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Situated in the California Foothills, the 18 holes at The Golf Club at Copper Valley (formerly Saddle Creek) offer golfers a number of elevation changes during the course of a round.

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Created by Robert Trent Jones Jnr (with input from Tom Watson and former USGA President Sandy Tatum), The Links at Spanish Bay is laid out on a sizeable area of sandy terrain that overlooks the Pacific Ocean.

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Harding Park Golf Course has a long history that dates back to 1925 when the course was laid out by William Watson and Sam Whiting.

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Laid out on a long, narrow tract of land, the 18 holes at Rancho Santa Fe Golf Club were set out by Max Behr in 1929. The routing has remained the same for over eighty years.

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Originally fashioned in 1988 by a duo of Dye’s – Pete and his son Perry – the rather exclusive course at The Farms Golf Club was softened by former U.S. Amateur Champion, John Fought, in 2000.

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With a slope rating of 146, the Nicklaus Private course at PGA West is the strongest and toughest of the club's three private courses.

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Kyle Phillips designed the course at Granite Bay Golf Club when he was the lead architect for Robert Trent Jones Jnr. Situated close to the shores of Folsom Lake, the layout is sympathetically routed around a natural landscape...

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Said to be the most expensive golf course constructed at a reputed cost of around $250m, the cliff top layout at Trump National Los Angeles was designed by Pete and Perry Dye from the remains of the Ocean Trails Golf Club…

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Winchester Country Club is a family co-design from Robert Trent Jones Snr and Jnr, one of the last projects the father was ever involved in. It’s a heavily forested mountain course set within a small residential community.

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Founded in 1901, Santa Ana Country Club has operated from its present location since 1923 after John Duncan Dunn laid out a course for the members. In the new millennium, substantial club investment resulted in the renovation of the clubhouse and the complete redesign of the course by Jay Blasi.

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Opened for play in 1924, the year after Lakeside Golf Club was formed, the course at Burbank is a Max Behr design that Dr Alister MacKenzie described as “one of the world’s greatest golf courses".

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Measuring only 5,469 yards (par 68), Claremont Country Club is a 1929 Alister MacKenzie redesign. The club hosted the inaugural 1937 Oakland Open which was the first professional event that Sam Snead won.

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Designed by former PGA Tour professional Brad Bell, the Coyote Moon Golf Course lies close to Lake Tahoe, near the small town of Truckee, where visiting golfers are guaranteed a memorable mountain golf experience.

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One of two 18-hole layouts at the Indian Wells Golf Resort, the John Fought-designed Players course is a modern track that somehow feels like a classical layout.

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William Watson is an unheralded Golden Age architect who designed numerous courses (primarily in California) and one of his best is the Hacienda Golf Club nestled among the trees and streams of La Habra Heights.

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Hideaway Golf Club started out as the Country Club of the Desert back in the late 1990s before the Discovery Land property group stepped in to rescue the development when the original owners ran into financial difficulties.

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Del Paso Country Club in Sacramento was founded in 1916 and the original John Black-designed course underwent several large-scale renovations before a major redesign by Kyle Phillips in 2006. Ten years later, the club hosted its fifth USGA championship, the 2015 U.S. Senior Open.

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Shorter than the famous South course at Torrey Pines, the North was laid out by William F. Bell in 1957. In 2016 Tom Weiskopf redesigned the track that has co-hosted the Farmers Insurance Open since 1968.

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Designed by Robert Trent Jones Senior and opened in 1960, the private course at Pauma Valley Country Club lies between the Wilderness Gardens Park and the Palomar Mountain State Park in San Diego North County.

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Set within a 300-acre site to the north west of Santa Barbara, the fairways of the La Purisima golf course are routed across a wonderful sandy-soiled property that’s devoid of any commercial or residential development.

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Gene Bates recently renovated the 18-hole Bayonet course at the Bayonet and Black Horse golf complex, which was formerly part of the Fort Ord US Army training camp.

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Designed by Kyle Phillips, debuting without fuss or fanfare in 2003, Morgan Creek Golf Club is located less than a 20-minute drive from Kyle's Granite Bay office and it became his first solo design in his home country when it opened...

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Pacific Grove is an old fashioned municipal course that won’t dent your wallet. Take a walk by the Pacific Ocean and savour golf as it was played some seventy years ago.

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Situated in the scenic Coachella Valley, within a large Marriott resort, the spectacular 18-hole layout at Shadow Ridge Golf Club was Nick Faldo’s first American course to open for play when it debuted in 2000.

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The course at San Diego Country Club dates back to 1921 and it's an old William Watson design which has hosted the US Women’s Open Championship in 1964 and the US Women’s Amateur Championship in 1993 and 2017.

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An adventurous Arthur Hills design, the Mountains course at Bighorn Golf Club sits high above Palm Desert. It was the venue for the PGA Skins Game in the 1990s when its spectacular site made for some captivating TV golf.

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Opened in 1986 and designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr., Poppy Hills is the youngest course at Pebble Beach, which co-hosted the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am from 1991 to 2009.

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Nestled in the rolling hills to the north of San Diego, the course at Maderas Golf Club is recognised as one of the best public golf facilities in the Golden State.

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The desert course at The Reserve Club – a Tom Weiskopf and Jay Morrish creation from 1998 – lies in the shadow of the Eisenhower and Indio Mountains at the southern end of Coachella Valley.

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One of six courses that operate out of PGA West, the Palmer Private course is where David Duval won the Bob Hope Desert Classic in 1999 with a closing round of 59.

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The South is the longer and tougher of the two courses at Ironwood Country Club. Laid out by Desmond Muirhead in 1974 and redesigned by Ted Robinson soon after, the South gracefully meanders its way along the foothills of the Santa Rosa Mountains in Palm Desert.

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When Saticoy Country Club, as it was then called, moved to its present location in 1964, Billy Bell Jr. was called in to design the new layout, which sits on top of a low mountain ridge.

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Laid out on a bluff above the Pacific Ocean, the Arthur Hills-designed Ocean course at Half Moon Bay made its debut in 1997, two decades after the Old course appeared at the 36-hole complex.

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Originally designed and built by William F. Bell in 1962, Soule Park Golf Course in the Ojai Valley was renovated by Gil Hanse in 2005, transforming a rather run of the mill track into one of the best municipal facilities in the Golden State.

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Situated to the east of San Francisco in scenic Livermore Valley, the course at Wente Vineyards is a late 1990s Greg Norman design that’s laid out on rolling terrain within three contrasting, yet complementary, landscapes: woodland, meadowland and mature vineyard.

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Situated in the foothills to the north of the Santa Rosa Plateau, the course at Bear Creek Golf Club is a Jack Nicklaus design that first opened for play in 1982, with many of the fairways routed around a large real estate development.

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“From a golfing point of view this is just about the Garden of Eden” was how one commentator described the Coachella Valley's Desert Willow Golf Resort.

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Nestled within the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, the course at Dark Horse Golf Club is set within a former 1,100-acre cattle ranch where natural changes in elevation were used by architect Keith Foster to route the fairways in a most engaging manner.

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Designed and constructed by George Thomas and Billy Bell in the early 1920s, the golf course at Ojai Valley Inn has changed quite a bit over the decades, most notably by a Jay Morrish major renovation in the late 1980s.

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The PGA Tour’s CareerBuilder Challenge event (once known as the Bob Hope Classic) used both the Nicklaus Tournament course (featuring two island greens) and Pete Dye’s TPC Stadium course at PGA West to co-host the tournament in 2016.

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Occupying a site once used for crude oil production, Sandpiper Golf Club lies between the Santa Barbara Mountains and the Pacific, where fairways are routed along cliff tops overlooking the ocean's deep blue waters.

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Robert Trent Jones Senior redesigned the original North course at the Silverado Resort and Spa in 1967. The North hosted the Kaiser International Open Invitational from 1968 to 1980, before first staging the PGA Tour’s Safeway Open in October 2014.