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Enjoy Southern California Golf Courses

Golfers come to Southern California because of the wonderful weather year round, which allows them to play their favorite sport.   There are many Southern California golf courses from which to choose your favorites.   They offer excellent play for novices to advanced players, as well as some of the most beautiful Pacific Coast scenery.   Because golf courses in California are so lush and manicured, they are also often widely used as a venue to host special activities such as weddings and wedding receptions.   Whatever your purpose, you will have a great time at Southern California golf courses.

If you want to play golf at Los Angeles golf courses, you will need to book golf tee times.   California golfers find that it is easiest for them to make reservations online for golf tee times.   California courses all have websites, where you can easily check for availability on particular days and at certain times that best fit into your schedule.

El Dorado Park Golf Course is one of the LA golf courses that prominently features water as a hazzard.   Located in Long Beach and one of the top golf courses in California, it hosts the Long Beach Open golf tournament.  

Another of the Southern California golf courses that you will want to play is found in nearby Fullerton at the Fullerton Golf Course.   The William Bell-designed course is set along the picturesque Brea Creek, and also offers golfers an eighteen-stall driving range, along with a pro shop, putting greens, rental clubs and a restaurant.   Tee time specials are available here, making a round more affordable for you and your friends to enjoy more often.

Southern California golf courses also offer quality instruction if you want to brush up your skills or learn how to play golf.   Marabella Country Club in San Juan Capistrano is one of the courses that has PGA teaching professionals onsite for instruction.

People come to Los Angeles golf courses for spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean, and the Los Verdes Golf Course will not disappoint in this regard.   Many golfers find themselves distracted while putting because of the gorgeous water views as they play through one of the most lovely golf courses in California.  

Beginners enjoy playing at LA golf courses such as the Paradise Knolls Golf Course in nearby Riverside.   This eighteen hole, par seventy-two course tests golfers with par four and par three holes throughout the walking course.  

To get in on all of the fun, Southern California Golf Courses each have websites that give greater detail about each of the courses as well as when tee times are available.

Wayne Hemrick writes about–Los angeles golf courses and Southern California Golf Courses

Golf in Asia(1)

The first destination we are going to is China. Golf courses have sprouted like mushrooms across the country as the sport catches on, but no place has hitched its wagon to the sport’s boom quite like Hainan, which resembles an oval golf green on a map of the South China Sea. Hainan is playing up its tropical climate in a major plan to position itself as a “golf island”, the capital of the sport in China. A decade ago, there were no golf courses here; today there are more than 20 and long-term goals include an eventual 100 courses, or about one-fifth of China’s current total. For some golf operators, expansion cannot come fast enough, especially in winter when icy weather across much of China sends golfers to Hainan in droves. “Year after year we have found it really tough in winter to satisfy golfers’ demands,” said Deborah Jiang, deputy manager of the 18-hole Yalong Bay Golf Club, one of the island’s first courses. Jiang said the club hosted 40,000 rounds of golf last year — double the number just a few years ago — and will soon build another 18 holes to handle growth. Sanya, the main resort area, saw six million visitors last year, up 30 percent from 2006, according to government data, with plenty of golf attire mixing with the head-to-toe matching floral print outfits of many Chinese tourists. The economic crisis has stemmed the flow of South Korean and Japanese golfers who formerly made up 80 percent of the island’s business in the sport, Jiang said. But the growing number of mainland golfers has filled the gap. Expectations are high on Hainan that China will launch a new drive to develop golf in a bid to dominate yet another Olympic event. A chief official from the State General Administration of Sport (SGAS) has called for a decrease of the tax on golf clubs to allow more people to take part in the sport, which will return to the Olympics in 2016. “With golf coming back to the Olympics, we all hope that in the near future we can get more support from the central government to help golf clubs to grow, to give us big support,” said Jiang, of Yalong Bay Golf Club. Another good golf resort is Sichuan Province in China. It’s chilly and wet back home at there, but you can cheerfully tee off in shorts on a sunny palm-lined golf course on China’s southern Hainan Island. The weather here is very good for playing golf — there’s the sun, the sand and the beach. That’s the greatest advantage. The Largest Golf Club In The World

The first destination we are going to is China. Golf courses have sprouted like mushrooms across the country as the sport catches on, but no place has hitched its wagon to the sport’s boom quite like Hainan, which resembles an oval golf green on a map of the South China Sea.

Hainan is playing up its tropical climate in a major plan to position itself as a “golf island”, the capital of the sport in China. A decade ago, there were no golf courses here; today there are more than 20 and long-term goals include an eventual 100 courses, or about one-fifth of China’s current total.

For some golf operators, expansion cannot come fast enough, especially in winter when icy weather across much of China sends golfers to Hainan in droves.

“Year after year we have found it really tough in winter to satisfy golfers’ demands,” said Deborah Jiang, deputy manager of the 18-hole Yalong Bay Golf Club, one of the island’s first courses. Jiang said the club hosted 40,000 rounds of golf last year — double the number just a few years ago — and will soon build another 18 holes to handle growth. Sanya, the main resort area, saw six million visitors last year, up 30 percent from 2006, according to government data, with plenty of golf attire mixing with the head-to-toe matching floral print outfits of many Chinese tourists.

The economic crisis has stemmed the flow of South Korean and Japanese golfers who formerly made up 80 percent of the island’s business in the sport, Jiang said. But the growing number of mainland golfers has filled the gap.

Expectations are high on Hainan that China will launch a new drive to develop golf in a bid to dominate yet another Olympic event. A chief official from the State General Administration of Sport (SGAS) has called for a decrease of the tax on golf clubs to allow more people to take part in the sport, which will return to the Olympics in 2016.

“With golf coming back to the Olympics, we all hope that in the near future we can get more support from the central government to help golf clubs to grow, to give us big support,” said Jiang, of Yalong Bay Golf Club.

Another good golf resort is Sichuan Province in China. It’s chilly and wet back home at there, but you can cheerfully tee off in shorts on a sunny palm-lined golf course on China’s southern Hainan Island. The weather here is very good for playing golf — there’s the sun, the sand and the beach. That’s the greatest advantage.

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Doral Golf Resort

The Doral Golf Resort and Spa goes to great lengths to stress that its name has long been associated with an elegant legacy of ‘extraordinary golf and superlative service’.  

For almost a half century this outstanding Miami establishment that includes five championship golf courses, including the famed Blue Monster where this week’s WGC-CA Championship is to be played, says it has continually raised the bar on standards of resort excellence while maintaining the classic style and ambiance envisioned by its creators.  

Besides the five golf courses which are nestled in tropical Miami, Doral which has hosted PGA Tour events including the Ford Championship since 1962, has a top quality pro-shop where discount golf clubs are available and practice facilities and a Jim McLean Learning Center where you can brush up on your game or be taught how to play from square one.  

It also has world-class accommodation in rooms or suites, five restaurants serving a wide variety of menus, an award-winning Spa with a host of health and beauty services, tennis facilities and a magnificent water park (Be aware of Watery Grave) that includes Camp Doral, with its full program of children’s activities.  

THE GREAT WHITE COURSE: This 148-acre course, designed by Greg Norman, is primarily landscaped with tightly packed coquina sand and is the only “desert-scape” golf course of its kind in the Southeastern United States. The Great White was rated as the best new golf course of 2000, according to the National Golf Foundation
Type of Course: Resort
Number of holes: 18
Year Built: 1961
Designer: Greg Norman
Type of Greens: Bermuda Grass 

THE GOLD COURSE: Originally designed by the Bob Von Hagge and Devlin design team in 1968 and redesigned by Raymond Floyd in 1995. The Gold Course follows a traditional Florida layout, with gently contoured greens, strategic bunkering, and water surrounding 16 holes.
Type of Course: Resort
Number of holes: 18
Year Built: 1960
Designer: Robert von Hagge
Type of Greens: Bermuda Grass 

THE RED COURSE: This shortish course forces golfers to use strategy and shot placement rather than driving for show. Featuring 14 water holes with fairways (fairway woods recommend: TaylorMade R9 Fairway Wood) winding around serene lakes, the course provides breathtaking beauty and exhilarating challenges without intimidating length. The Red course hosted The Office Depot championship, an LPGA event, in 2001.
Type of Course: Resort
Number of holes: 18
Year Built: 1960
Designer: Robert von Hagge
Type of Greens: Bermuda Grass 

THE SILVER COURSE: Breaking away from a Florida-style layout, golf legend Jerry Pate redesigned the Silver Course to include narrow, rolling fairways, raised tee-boxes, and elevated greens. Water comes into play on 16 holes, which include a diverse mix of long and short, par 3 and par 4 layouts. The course features a signature 14th hole island green and hosted the 1999 PGA Qualifying School finals.
Type of Course: Resort
Number of holes: 18
Year Built: 1960
Designer: Jerry Pate (redesigned in 1998)
Type of Greens: Bermuda Grass

 

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