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The Riverwalk Golf Club

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People say that almost everything that is “classic” is beautiful and unforgettable – movies, music, arts – because this is how legends are born. The Riverwalk Golf Club is steeped in a rich tradition of golf legends past. It is a classic golf vacation destination that offers a quiet oasis from the hustle and bustle of the urban world. This club is a great place to spend an epic golf adventure with its rolling fairways, well-maintained bentgrass greens, and spectacular waterfalls.

The location of The Riverwalk Golf Club was once a flat and barren marshland. Formerly known as the Stardust Country Club, golf architects Ted Robinson, Sr. and his son transformed the place into a magnificent golf vacation destination in 1998 by using more than half a million cubic yards of soil, while maintaining its wetlands flora and wildlife preserve. This golf club is both beautiful and challenging with the San Diego River playing a prominent role in the layout. Water comes into play in the thirteenth of the twenty-seven holes. Lakes and waterfalls surround the green of the signature hole.

The club entertained numerous golf legends while hosting the 50s and 60s PGA tour. Offering a classic golf experience across three 9-hole courses, a golf vacation at The Riverwalk Golf Club promises a fun and memorable day of golf complete with its clubhouse, pro shop, bar and restaurant, driving range, putting green, and golf instruction. This ensures that every need of the guests are met. A truly classic golf destination, this club offers the golfers a memorable experience with its superb features and amenities. Like the classic “Romeo and Juliet” love story, “Titanic” movie, or the famous “I Will Always Love You” song of Whitney Houston, the golf experience here will last forever.

Eagle Crest Golf Club

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Many golfers look for a golf vacation destination that has gorgeous surroundings and an even better layout that could test their skill. And Eagle Crest Golf Club offers just that. Located just minutes away from the Wild Animal Park in Escondido, this club is a golfer’s paradise. It has all the ingredients for a memorable round of golf – thick rough, tight fairways, and plush greens set in a stunning desert ambiance. Integrating waterfalls, wildflowers, and eight lakes into a challenging and dramatic layout, this golf club is an actual nature and wildlife preserve that winds through an isolated valley.

Opened in 1992, Eagle Crest Golf Club has been offering Championship-Quality golf to both local residents and visitors. It is created by master architect David Rainville for players of all skill levels. It offers a series of holes that are unique and unforgettable, requiring a full range of shot-making abilities – its signature hole, the par-5 sixth is the most difficult. The fairways are always in great shape and the fast greens are incredibly smooth – meticulously maintained to complement the nature preserve and numerous flowers that wind through this peaceful paradise. The spectacular setting that abounds in natural beauty and demanding holes helped the club garner a three and a half star rating from Golf Digest. A golf vacation spent here will give the players a memorable experience from all angles.

As the course continues to undergo renovations, the playing conditions are quickly enhancing along with its challenges. The addition and redesign of new and existing sand traps have improved the beauty and main challenge of the course. Having a golf trip to Eagle Crest Golf Club will fill the dreams of every golfer to play in a heavenly paradise because of its aesthetic appeal and great challenge that it offers.

Twin Oaks Golf Club

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A beautiful and challenging course makes for a memorable golf trip. If these two characteristics are achieved at the same course, guests should be on the lookout for something big in their game. Twin Oaks Golf Club possesses these attributes – from its stunning environment up to its tough holes.

Twin Oaks Golf Club is a very fun and interesting course to play – with its protected wildlife habitat, great layout, fast greens, elevation changes, and plenty of water challenges on some of its holes. A golf trip to this 18-hole championship course will bring great challenge but fair track for golfers of different skill levels. It may get very tight so golfers should be careful on their swings. But once they hit nicely, they will start to appreciate things more. High on the hill, the Garden Room, banquet venue, the Stixx Café that offers variety of delicious foods and beverages for breakfast and lunch, and full service Golf Shop overlook the golf course. Guests need not look anywhere else in the area for other vacation facilities; they got it right here. These features and amenities make it one of the finest golf courses in San Diego, and among the most highly favored by golfers – local and visiting alike.

This challenging yet beautiful Twin Oaks Golf Club was opened in 1993. It is always in fine condition – the greens and fairways are always in good shape. So no matter what the season is, golfers will surely enjoy the game. A golf vacation here will let the visitors experience both beauty and challenge at the same time.

Park Hyatt Aviara Resort – Aviara Golf Club

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A round of golf at Park Hyatt Aviara Resort – Aviara Golf Club gives the feeling of playing through a botanical garden. The club has an unparalleled beauty – with its variety and abundance of local vegetation. It was developed around the natural topography of three valleys and a lagoon. Officially opened in 1991, almost a decade was spent in completing the golf course due to the ecological fragility of the lagoon with sensitive San Diego environmental issues. It was meticulously developed to make sure that the wetlands were preserved. A golf trip to this San Diego golf course will give guests a certain inexplicable connection with nature.

Park Hyatt Aviara Resort – Aviara Golf Club features 7,007 yards of golf that is shaped around native wildflowers, rolling hillsides, and lots of bunkers and water hazards. Spending a golf vacation in this 18-hole, par-72 course stimulates the senses of the players with the vibrant flowers and plants that surround it. The front nine holes are tight and meander through the canyons. On the other hand, the back nine is more open and this means that it is more exposed to the wind. So players must have the ability to easily shift their playing style in the half part of the game.

Park Hyatt Aviara Resort – Aviara Golf Club is the only San Diego golf course that is designed by Arnold Palmer. It was named one of the best resort golf courses in America by Golf Digest and Golf Magazine. It was also recognized by Conde Nast Traveler as the number one golf resort in Southern California. These recognitions are proofs of the greatness of its nature-like layout. A golf vacation at this club gives the players a relaxing experience because of its garden-themed environment.

 

Mount Woodson Golf Club

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Mount Woodson Golf Club is as touching to a golfer as dramatic movies are to a hopeless romantic. This place has the most dramatic golf course settings in the San Diego County characterized by the breathtaking ancient oaks, big granite boulders, and sparkling lakes that serve as the key ingredients in its immensely scenic and natural golfing surrounding. The striking environment of this place shows that even golf trips can be touching too.

Mount Woodson Golf Club is a 6,000-yard, par-72 layout. Its challengingly tight fairways make use of the rolling terrain that also ensures an abundance of magnificent views along the way. A meandering 450-foot wooden bridge and dramatic hillside holes make for a fun and outstanding golf experience. The thick, grassy mounds, strategically placed bunkers, and water hazards are the source of troubles. At the best of times tricky, downright vicious if the wind is blowing, a golf vacation here requires the golfers to stretch the limits of their skills at the same time fascinate them with its unique setting.

The elevation changes throughout Mount Woodson Golf Club help define the special character of Mt. Woodson where the challenge and enjoyment of every hole have been captured with these names: “The Plunge”, “The Chute”, “Tree Tops”, “Drop Off”. As one of the region’s most enjoyable courses to play, having a golf vacation at this club grants the golf drama that every player wishes for because of the great challenge and undeniable beauty of the place.

 

The Crossings at Carlsbad

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There are many things that make a golf course beautiful. But there are two essential things that course designers strive to achieve in creating an ideal golf vacation destination: great layout and an even better scenery. If they have come up with a layout that is both interesting and challenging, all the while capturing the best views their course locations could offer, they know they have done a great job. The Crossings at Carlsbad in San Diego is an example.

Located perfectly, the Crossings at Carlsbad has both accessibility and stunning views. It is only a good half hour drive from downtown San Diego and about a mile from the Pacific ocean. But the good things about this golf vacation hotspot do not end there. The challenging and unique canyon terrain and the risk-reward game give golfers a good test of skills. The course also serves as a haven not only for the lovers of the sport but of the natural wildlife found in the area as well. As much as the management maintains the course conditions to a world-class quality, it also works to keep nature at its best. The Greg Nash design that stretches to 6,835 yards has all of its 18-holes sitting on a thousand acres of perfection from man’s collaboration with nature.

The Crossings at Carlsbad, unsurprisingly, is a favorite among golfers for golf trips and golf publications for awards. It has the highest ranking among the San Diego courses, and was voted by GOLF Magazine readers as among the Top 10 Courses You Can Play. That, among many others of course. Needless to say, the course is beyond ideal, it even borders on perfect.

Maderas Golf Club

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Zagat Survey is one of the biggest and most reputable ranking institution in the United States. When Zagat ranks it top, there is no reason not to believe that it indeed is the top. On another note, San Diego is home to some of the best golf courses in the country. Now, imagine the best among some of the best – what Zagat ranks highest among all of San Diego county’s roster of top caliber golf courses. This is the Maderas Golf Club. Now imagine what it feels like taking a golf vacation here.

The Maderas Golf Club has consistently ranked top in Zagat Survey since 2003. It has also never left the Top Courses lists of such huge golfing publications as Golf Digest as well as San Diego Magazine. Apart from that, golfers seek out this golf vacation destination that is gently tucked amid rolling hills and forests. Proof that there is something so special about it as golfers hungry for a quality game work hard to find this precious gem. The course is characterized by well-placed bunkers, stunning water hazards of three lakes and five waterfalls, a dramatic terrain, and 40 full acres of wildflower. All these combine to make the course as difficult as it is beautiful.

Course designers, Robert Muir Graves and Johnny Miller, worked their way to bring out the best layout in one of San Diego’s best locations for a golf trip haven. On top of all its beautiful characteristics, it also has complete amenities – from its Italian-style clubhouse to the state-of the-art practice greens. The Maderas Golf Club is by far the most popular course in the San Diego county, and is undoubtedly the best among the rest, as Zagat survey and almost every golfer have proven.

Salt Creek Golf Course

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In a county like San Diego, where golf courses are just a little over a dime a dozen, how certain courses manage to stand out is a huge feat. The requirements are not necessarily easy. These golf vacation destinations have to have heaven on their side, with a good helping of well-placed holes and an even greater scenery around it, to make it to this elite list of San Diego’s best. Fortunately for Salt Creek Golf Course, it has constantly ranked among the top ones – and has a great probability of staying there for a long, long time.

One reason why the Salt Creek Golf Course is a standout is because it is the only Scottish links style course in the area. It is bordered on almost all sides by natural wetlands and overshadowed by the majestic Mt Miguel. Its interesting terrain was optimized by its designers, John Cook and Carl Bickler, to provide a golf layout that goes beyond fun and relaxing but push the golfers to the best of their abilities. The 18-hole, par-72 golf vacation favorite measures 6,588 yards from the back tees, with no homes in sight, thus giving golfers an untarnished view of the beautiful surroundings – including an overview of the Pacific ocean.

To say that golfers prefer the Salt Creek Golf Course for their SoCal golf trips because of its challenging layout and stunning scenery is pointing out the obvious and saying the least. The other amenities on the course are equally noteworthy: the practice and chipping greens are excellent and maintained to perfection (as are everything else on the facility), and the services are nothing short of world-class. It is not surprising at all why it is among Southern California’s Top 50 courses, and ranked among the top places to play.

Cross Creek Golf Course

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There can be many beautiful golf courses. But there can only be a few ones that offer a golfing experience untarnished by the presence of homes and the noise of the freeway. And fewer ones, still, offer a true wilderness golfing experience without being miles awat from civilization. Among these “fewer ones” is the Cross Creek Golf Course in Temecula. There’s nothing here for golfers to enjoy but golf and nature. And the golf vacation destination is just minutes off the highway. How they managed to keep it as secluded without necessarily being remote is a secret they would probably want to keep to themselves.

The Cross Creek Golf Course is like a world of its own. It is surrounded by groves of sycamores and age-old oaks and the wide wilderness. Golfers really need not be surprised if a coyote shows up; they are pretty much a commonplace around here. The Arthur Hills design was perfectly inserted into the natural setting that even natural wildlife could not tell there were some changes. This course treats the golfers on a golf vacation characterized by dramatic elevation changes, holes that play through natural creeks, and the sights and sounds of the great outdoors.

Despite its being located in the “outbacks”, golfers need not worry about amenities. The 18-hole par-71 course, that stretches to 6,940 yards, is complete with everything a golfer would need on a golf trip: a fully-stocked pro-shop, an excellent clubhouse that serves great meals, a good practice range and putting greens – not to mention 4 ½ stars from Golf Digest. A golfer needs to bring are good ball-striking skills, wise choice of tees, a sense of golfing adventure, and himself. Because nothing stands between the him and the Cross Creek Golf Course. Absolutely nothing.

Sycuan Resort – Willow Glen Course

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Art conservatives are usually wary of remakes. At best, the reaction is just plain scornful. At worst, they border on the outrageous. Many conservatives of golf design must have crossed their fingers when Ted Robinson and Dave Fleming handled the renovation of the William Bell design in what is now known as the Willow Glen Course of the Sycuan Resort in San Diego. But from the looks of it, the golf vacation destination looks rather pleasant that even the tightest of conservatives would be beckoned to agree and enjoy a round or two.

The Willow Course of the Sycuan Resort is part of a grand, 54-hole facility. The course is surrounded by a good helping of oaks, pines, eucalyptus and plane trees, and is secluded mostly from the rest of the course by a range of hills. This makes for rounds of golf that are serene at most, peaceful at best. In perfect contrast to the calm surroundings, golfers would have to battle inner turmoils from the rather difficult course layout. Playing on several holes, the Sweetwater River puts its own name in vain and gives golfers something to be bitter about along with several ponds on the course. The strategically placed bunkers and elevation changes also play their roles in making it hard to decide whether this course is easy or not. The bottomline is, it has the capacity to bring EPIC into every golf vacation.

It must have been difficult for old school artists to see the classic being remodeled. Good thing the Willow Course of the Sycuan Resort does not fall short of the glory days of its predecessor. The golf trip haven is every bit as amazing as the original, and conservatives need only give it a shot and they are surely in love.