The Coachella Valley — a desert oasis framed by the Santa Rosa Mountains two hours east of Los Angeles — becomes a hotbed of activity in winter thanks to more than 100 golf courses.
Top clubs compete by catering to a customer’s every need, including complimentary valet parking.
Have you been waiting for the perfect golf vacation your entire life?
Let’s say you have five days to play, money is no object, and you want to experience the best public courses in the Greater Palm Springs area. From November through March daytime temperatures here average in the mid to upper 70’s, making fall and winter the best time to plan your trip. The Coachella Valley is blessed with one of the most temperate climates in the world; it’s truly a golfer’s paradise.
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Over 30 golf destinations in the valley are open to the public, and many of these golf clubs have multiple courses available. With so many options, the toughest decision for your golf vacation will be where to play.
While many of these resorts and public facilities have great amenities and off-course activities, our focus will be on the golf courses themselves.
San Diego
San Diego, California – the perfect year-round golf destination and the fastest growing destination for golf in California if not fastest growing golf destination in the whole U.S.A.
Of course Torrey Pines Golf Course and the La Costa Golf Resort & Spa are the most famous golf courses in San Diego but the San Diego golf scene has much more to offer beyond those two world-renown golf courses.
Over the past 15 years the San Diego golf industry has quietly built two dozen upscale private and daily fee resort golf courses in San Diego. Torrey Pines Golf Course and La Costa Resort and Spa are no longer the only world-renown golf courses in San Diego.
Park Hyatt Resort Aviara, the Troon managed Maderas Golf Course, the JC Resorts group of courses – Rancho Bernardo Inn, Arrowood, Twin Oaks and others – the Landmark Singing Hills Golf Resort – now called the Sycuan Golf Resort & Casino are but a few of the newly created or redesigned upscale daily fee resort courses now available to residents and visiting golfers