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California Golf Courses

California delivers golf in its most cinematic forms. Pebble Beach and Cypress Point perch above the Pacific with the kind of scenery that stops a round mid-swing; Torrey Pines and TPC Harding Park host U.S. Opens and host the game's sharpest competitive theatre. Inland, Napa and Sonoma fold fairways between vineyard rows and rolling oak country — Mayacama, Eagle Vines, and Chardonnay Golf Club among them — where a round starts at dawn and ends at a tasting table. Southern California adds a different register entirely: the resort precision of Pelican Hill and Aviara, the social energy of Monarch Beach, the approachable brilliance of Rustic Canyon. What ties this collection together is range. California golf can mean a major-championship test under Open conditions or a wine-country walk with no one else on the course. Inside Loop curates both extremes — the courses worth crossing the country for, and the ones that reward those lucky enough to call the state home.