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Play where the pros play

11/24/2020

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Inland Empire’s Goose Creek Golf Club has earned its stellar reputation

While Goose Creek Golf Club in Jurupa Valley is challenging enough to be a perennial favorite to host some of the biggest professional events in the region, it’s also welcoming enough to ensure that average golfers can enjoy themselves too.

Nestled in the Hidden Valley Wildlife Area and meandering along the Santa Ana River, the Inland Empire gem is easily accessible from Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego and Riverside counties and has hosted qualifying events for the PGA Tour, USGA and others. The par-71 Schmidt-Curley Design routing that plays 6,560 yards from the tips should be a destination no matter where you live in Southern California.

“If you are looking for a pure golf experience based on a creative and effective course design that’s well maintained and a course that’s fun and challenging to play for all levels, this is it,” said Ross Fisher, the PGA Director of Golf at Goose Creek. 

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Team spirit

11/18/2020

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NCAA picks La Costa Resort to host trio of future national championships

The NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Golf Committees have selected Omni La Costa Resort & Spa as the host site for the 2024, 2025 and 2026 Division I Men’s and Women’s Golf Championships. Play will be conducted on the resort’s storied Champions Course following a planned 2022 renovation by golf course architect Gil Hanse.

The event’s debut at La Costa will mark the Division I Women’s Golf Championship’s return to SoCal
after a 28-year absence. The Division I Men’s Golf Championship was last played in the region at Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades in 2012.

The Men’s and Women’s Championships will be contested over consecutive weeks starting in 2024, the first year each culminating national championship will be played in combination at a neutral site. 

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Best of the rest

11/10/2020

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The par-3 14th hole at Oak Quarry Golf Club was a reader favorite.

Our favorite hole contest is over, but here's a bunch more reader submissions

We asked our readers to tell us their favorite holes in Southern California and received a variety of responses.

And while not all of our entries could be winners (we picked four in October), here are the rest of the submissions. Scroll to the bottom of this post to see the four winning entries.

Thank you to all who participated!

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Youth movement

11/5/2020

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Camps & classes at Indian Wells Golf Resort offer juniors a chance to advance

The teaching professionals at Indian Wells Golf Resort are gearing up for a holiday season filled with festive activities for junior golfers of all abilities.

Led by PGA Lead Teaching Professional Eric Solander, the upcoming camps and classes will focus on the fundamentals and how to take what is learned on the practice tee out to the golf course.

​Here's a look at what's upcoming…

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The King's seaside paradise

11/4/2020

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Aviara's par-5 8th presents a slew of challenges framed by water hazards and greenery.

Carlsbad’s Aviara Golf Club is among Arnold Palmer’s best design work

Aviara Golf Club is known for its many on-course amenities. Lush fairways, native wildflowers, rolling hillsides, picturesque views of the Batiquitos Lagoon nature preserve and its seaside ambiance along the Pacific Coast come to mind. 

But what most golfers don’t know is the backstory behind one of the course’s most distinctive features: its extra-large, undulating greens.

​Back when the 7,007-yard, par-72 Arnold Palmer design was being developed in the early 1990s, somebody involved in the construction made a fairly significant math error, and it wasn’t until nine of the greens had been built that anyone noticed they were each twice the size they were intended to be. After some debate, it was decided to continue forward by increasing the size of the remaining nine greens.

​And that’s how the Carlsbad gem came to have some of the largest putting surfaces of any course in Southern California.

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Masters contest!

10/27/2020

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Augusta National No. 12, courtesy flyosity

Pick the winner for your chance to win a free foursome and a $100 gift card

You may not be able to win a green jacket at the Masters in mid-November, but you can be victorious at SoCalGolfInsider.com.

We’re putting on a Masters contest and the winner will take home a golf package that includes a foursome to the newest golf course in Southern California – Rancho Del Sol Golf Club in Moreno Valley – as well as a $100 gift card that can be used at Roger Dunn Golf Shops or The Golf Mart.

Here’s what you need to do to enter the contest:

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Island adventure

10/26/2020

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Golfers can follow in the footsteps of history on No. 17 at the Stadium Course

Congratulations to Gregory Beehler for winning the fourth and final week of SoCal Golf Insider's Favorite Hole Contest and taking home a dozen Titleist Pro V1 golf balls!

Below is Beehler’s choice, the 168-yard, par-3 17th hole on the Stadium Course at PGA West in La Quinta, which has been home to a PGA Tour event since the days of the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic. It also has hosted the Skins Game, where PGA Tour legend Lee Trevino once aced the hole, as seen in the video above.

Thank you to all who participated in the contest! Here is Beehler’s pick:

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Shots in the Night

10/20/2020

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Indian Wells Golf Resort’s nighttime venue adds a spark to golf in SoCal

Las Vegas may have Top Golf, but Southern California has Shots in the Night.

Known for its evening golf and entertainment activities, Shots in the Night opened at Indian Wells Golf Resort in 2018, and has been lighting up the nightlife in the Coachella Valley ever since, much the way Top Golf has for visitors in Las Vegas.

Shots in the Night offers guests an experience unlike any other in Southern California, with an after-dark scene that includes golf games, lights, lasers, smoke machines, music, and food and drinks.

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Pressure cooker

10/19/2020

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Golfers may have to deal with first-tee jitters at Dad Miller Golf Course.

The first hole at Dad Miller Golf Course in Anaheim draws a crowd of onlookers

Congratulations to Boris Chung for winning the third week of SoCal Golf Insider's Favorite Hole Contest and taking home a dozen Titleist Pro V1 golf balls! There’s still one more week to go to make your submission for a chance to win.

​Here is Boris’s pick, the first hole at Dad Miller Golf Course in Anaheim, and information on how you can enter, too:

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Desert fox

10/13/2020

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The 17th hole at Shadow Hills Golf Club in Indio features water all down the left side.

You’ll have to be sly to avoid the perils on the 17th hole at Shadow Hills Golf Club

Congratulations to Rob Lasorsa for winning the second week of SoCal Golf Insider's Favorite Hole Contest and taking home a dozen Titleist Pro V1 golf balls! There are still two more weeks to go to make your submission for a chance to win. Here is Rob's pick, the 17th at Shadow Hills Golf Club in Indio, and information on how you can enter, too:

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