Golf in California is truly a treat. There are so many great courses it's hard to narrow them down to a ranking but here we go.

When it comes to golf, everyone has heard of Pebble Beach. The Accolades come in every year and with FIVE courses under their umbrella, any of them could rank in the top 50 in the nation at any time.
Pebble Beach is on every golfers bucket list and if you have played it, you'll understand why.
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Pasatiempo is arguably Alister Mackenzie's favorite design. He lived along its sixth fairway during his last years. With its elaborate greens and spectacular bunkering fully restored by Tom Doak and now by Jim Urbina, it’s a prime example of Mackenzie's art. The five par 3s are daunting yet delightful, culminating with the 181-yard over-a-canyon 18th. The back nine is chock full of other great holes: 10, 11, 12 and 16 all play over barrancas. The storied course has hosted two USGA championships: the 1986 U.S. Women's Amateur and the 2004 U.S. Senior Women's Amateur. In 2014, Pasatiempo received a Golf Digest Green Star environmental award for its measures in dealing with drought. Today, water worries are in the past, in part because of a new storage tank that allows the club to capture and store recycled water.
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Torrey Pines North {#4 Golfweek} and the South course {#10 Golf Week} are the highest rated municipally owned courses in all our rankings. After finishing all eighteen holes, you are hard pressed to come up with just one signature hole, and more often than not, amazed with the picturesque beauty of the course rather than the score you shot. Playing this course is Truly a One-of-a-Kind Experience.
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Welcome to Yocha Dehe Golf Club which means “home by the spring water” in the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation’s native language. We strive to deliver pristine playing surfaces, incredible hospitality, and excellent amenities to make your experience with us memorable. Our award-winning service and course conditions have made us the region’s leading resort and daily fee golf course aimed at providing a country club atmosphere with a “member for the day” impression.
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Rustic Canyon Golf Course is a tribute to the very roots of the game with a lay-of-the-land creation by Gil Hanse Golf Design. Built without detailed blueprints or working drawings, Hanse shaped the large contoured, free-form green complexes and sculpted the bunkers from the natural landscape preserving and incorporating into the design the native barrancas. The canyon hills are dotted with sagebrush, cactus, waves of brome, and stipa grass highlighted by a few picturesque oaks.
Challenging the Rustic Canyon layout is an exercise in restraint, with flat, wide-open fairways that fade into the native surroundings and bunkers edged with shaggy eyebrows of thick, drooping fescue. The ground game is critical as the greens play to a bump & run approach. Rustic Canyon is a strategic course for golfers who savor the discovery of a proper approach position on an expansive fairway to best attack the green depending on the pin location.
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Every part of the award-winning Rams Hill Experience is created by golfers, for golfers. The 18-hole Tom Fazio layout was resurrected from the desert floor with the help of one of the industry’s hottest up-and-coming teams. The fairways and greens are brought to life each fall by a maintenance team dedicated to creating best-in-class playing conditions. Our restaurant philosophy is simple — create a menu of eats and drinks (and those mouthwatering apple-caramel cookies) that elevate your golf adventure and make you want to come back for more. And our Stay & Play Team prides themselves on finding the perfect overnight accommodations for every golfer, couple, foursome, group or event.
It’s time to Make Your Great Escape to the desert in the shadow of California’s largest state park. Enjoy pleasant fall and warm winter weather. Colorful, expansive outdoor spaces. After-golf fun and games, including a simulator loaded with America’s other best courses. Acres of surrounding terrain to explore. Even high-flying helicopter service. Most importantly, fill yourself an indelible sense of place and hospitality that turns any visit into a true golf getaway. It’s all here in the Middle of Nowhere. Exactly Where You Need To Be.
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