“Enough said” is saying the least when talking about the La Costa Resort. Adjectives would only prove insufficient. Its many achievements alone would be more than enough to tell the tales of its being accomplished, having been one of the best golf vacation destinations in the San Diego area for the past three decades.
To start with, the La Costa Resort is the home of the World Golf 
Championships – Accenture Match Play Championships for several years. It is also the home of 2 PGA Championship 18-hole courses; each one as celebrated as the other. Both courses are designed by Dick Wilson and feature traditional layouts. The North Course is slightly longer at 7,021 yards with a par of 72 compared to the South Course which stretches at 7,004 yards from the longest tees. North Course contains more of the lakes and has larger landing areas. The South Course, though, is deemed more difficult with its signature narrow creek that comes into play on 12 of the 18 holes. There’s no telling which course is better – the North Course allows golfers to tee off the same first tee as legends the likes of Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, and Tiger Woods; the South Course has PGA Tour’s “longest mile” in its closing five holes that has broken the hearts of many a PGA Tour champions. Needless to say, it offers golf vacations of superstar caliber.
To add to that stellar status, La Costa Resort is also a favorite golf hangout of Hollywood greats like Frank Sinatra among many others. If that is not enough yet, the South Course is ranked among the Top 100 Golf Courses in the US by Golf Magazine. “La Costa” in itself might as well be synonymous with “golf trips”. Enough said.
yards from the longest tees, all 18-holes spread on dramatically landscaped terrain. The course is a perfect collage of thirteen magnificent lakes, some stunning natural wetlands, and strategically placed beach bunkers. The greens and fairways of Tifsport Bermuda and A-grade bentgrass are conditioned to a state that could only be described as impeccable. The 
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designed by Keith Foster and stretches to a whooping 7,029 yards. It was carved out of the desert’s red clay and rocky outcroppings making it a rugged and challenging layout. The 
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Isles and has the signature large greens, double fairways, pot bunkers, sand dunes, and the soft to moderate blows of eastern shore winds. The wisps of winds could be as soft as whispers or strong enough to break any golfer’s game, but will leave a smile worth a thousand vacations elsewhere. The old racetrack, the surroundings and the atmosphere of vintage golfing makes one feel like not being in Maryland at all, but somewhere in a place and time when golf was just a young sport. The 18-hole par-72 Joel Weiman design brings about the best of links golf and the best of 
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