Pacific Palms Resort is billed as "LA's hilltop hideaway", the only full-service luxury golf and conference resort in Los Angeles County. The setting of the 292-room hotel and two golf courses by William F. Bell and Casey O'Callaghan is set against the San Gabriel Valley Mountains. Live music and jazz sets the mood at the Red Restaurant and Bar.…
While the city of Angels is more known for its private clubs such as L.A. Country Club, Riviera and Bel-Air CC, the daily-fee golf in the Los Angeles area is pretty good if you know where to look.
Anaheim, California has a pretty obvious theme parks, that is. Theme parks. And Anaheim has some of the best in the world: from Knott's Berry Farm, to LEGOLAND California, to nearby Universal Studios Hollywood to Disneyland. Yes, when you are home to the "Happiest Place on Earth," and you can still offer visitors some tough choices, you are doing something right. That's not to mention the options for sports fans, such as Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim baseball and loads of great golf.
Heading to Pasadena to see FSU and Oregon in the Rose Bowl Game? There are plenty of worthwhile golf courses in the Pasadena area to play before or after the game.
Yes, there is plenty of public golf beyond the exclusive private clubs in Tinseltown. And fortunately, in an area where mild weather and copious sunshine are the norm, decent conditions rule, and business is steady for the canniest of the local operators. Los Angeles resident golf writer David Weiss shares where he plays around his hometown when he's not playing on the road.
What's the golfer to do in southern California when corralled into a family trip? Pony up cash for a swank resort and spend much of the time away from the course indulging the family, or seek affordable golf destinations near major attractions?
When you're playing a municipal golf course in a state, city, county or metropark chain of parks, you're almost always guaranteed a round of golf in a natural setting with no homes and little traffic.
In Los Angeles, local golfers and savvy visitors are willing to wait a little longer on the tee because they reap the rewards of quality city golf for minimal capital. L.A.'s muni courses range from undulating fairways in the Hollywood Hills to a bucolic getaway on the West Side. Two top-notch choices are Griffith Park and Rancho Park in Cheviot Hills. Robert Gray has more.
Everybody knows about Bel-Air, Los Angeles Country Club or Riviera. All are great places to play if you're in Los Angeles. The trouble is they are all very, very private. So if you're visiting downtown L.A. either on business or pleasure, where do you play daily fee or public golf? Relax. Mike Bailey has some suggestions.
Robinson Ranch debuted its new Valley course the first week of March, roughly eight months after the infamous Sand wildfire torched 3,300 acres of the surrounding Angeles National Forest
In Southern California, Robinson Ranch has a new name, Sand Canyon Country Club, and plans to build a hotel onsite in addition to its 27-hole golf course.
If you're taking the family to Disneyland or planning a business trip to the Anaheim Convention Center, don't forget your sticks. Golf, as you might expect, is plentiful in southern California. Even better, a few courses offer ocean views. But even the ones that don't have some pretty nice vistas. Here's a list of five courses you should consider if you're venturing in Mickey's backyard.
Robinson Ranch Golf Club, located 25 miles north of Los Angeles in Santa Clarita, Calif., is home to two 18-hole Ted Robinson Sr. layouts: the Valley Course and the Mountain Course. Robinson Ranch G.C. has a private club feel, but it's open to the public.
Lost Canyon Golf Club in Simi Valley, Calif. is a 36-hole, daily-fee facility located near downtown Los Angeles, off Highway 118. Both courses here, the Sky and the Shadow, were designed by Pete Dye with assistance from Fred Couples, and wind through the Santa Susana mountains. Oleg Volovik shows us more in this photo gallery.