golf in southern california

[tuq]

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It really doesn't get any better than Pebble, Spyglass and The Links at Spanish Bay.

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"what are the best public courses in the LA/orange county area?"

You might as well recommend Bandon Dunes while you're at it.

stinkeypete, a second vote for Pelican Hill, although a google search curiously turned up no acceptable homepage. Played it a lot on Links LS, have friends who have played it IRL, they say it is an awesome (albeit pretty expensive) course. FYI, there are brief shots of this course during the O.C. intro...not that this fact should sway you one way or the other...

EDIT: LOL, didn't realize a couple of others had pointed out the geography fubar.

[By-Tor]

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It really doesn't get any better than Pebble, Spyglass and The Links at Spanish Bay.

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lumping Monterey into 'SoCal' is punishable by death

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A friend of mine has played Monarch Beach in Dana Point, and said it was just gorgeous. My wife and I hope to play it on our next trip to SoCal, although the price tag is a little steep (I just looked online, and you can get a tee time tomorrow for $170. Yuck.)

My wife used to work in LA, and has said in the past that there aren't a lot of really nice public courses close by. You can go to the Southern California Golf Association website at scga.org and use their course directory to look up specific facilities.

[Los Feliz Slim]

I've heard that St. Andrews is pretty good.

[manUfan]

torrey pines ftw.

[DeezNuts]

I play LA public courses a few times a month, nothing over $70/round w/ cart and no more than a 45 min drive from metro LA. I suck at golf, though.

Nice public courses(not awesome, but decent munis) in LA are:
Rancho Park - Century City
Wilson Harding - Los Feliz
El Dorado - Long Beach
Diamond Bar Golf Course - Diamond Bar
Santa Anita - Arcadia

There are a bunch out in the valley that are good too, but most of my foursome are out east, so we never play those.

DN

[shemp]

torrey pines hosts the buick annually and the 2008 open

[thirddan]

out towards anaheim there are a couple...

-there is a par 3, Birch Hills, Brea
-Green River has a full course past yorba linda towards corona
-anaheim country club has a full course in anaheim...

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I've heard that St. Andrews is pretty good.

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lol'd

[TDouble]

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Am I missing something or isn't Pebble Beach about 300 miles from LA?


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It's south of Frisco, so it's close enuff. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]