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Sherwood Country Club

#180 in Golf Digest Course Rankings

Jack Nicklaus stated, "This was one of the more magnificent pieces of land I've had the opportunity on which to design a golf course. It is rare to see a piece of property that is so private, with so much natural beauty. There isn’t another golf course in the World that has a more beautiful tree complex than Sherwood."

Sherwood is no stranger to hosting the top players in the world, starting with the world #1 at the time, Greg Norman, who hosted his Shark Shootout from 1989-98, followed by Tiger Woods' World Challenge from 2000-13. If most golf fans across the country don't remember the Showdown at Sherwood, where David Duval and Tiger Woods faced off in a nationally televised prime-time event, they nevertheless would have seen the course on television because of the World Challenge. A limited field, special invitation event, the World Challenge benefited the Tiger Woods Foundation. Its winners over the past 14 years looks like the modern-day Who's Who of Golf, including Luke Donald, Padraig Harrington, Davis Love lll, Graeme McDowell, Vijay Singh, Zach Johnson, and Tiger Woods (five-time champion). The next chapter in professional tournaments for Sherwood includes the Champions Tour, Power-Shares QQQ Championship, played at Sherwood in October of 2016. The Power-Shares QQQ Championship is the first of three season-ending events in the inaugural Charles Schwab Cup Playoffs, and features 72 of the best players on the Champions Tour. Sherwood hosted this event from 2016-19. And in 2020, Sherwood was pleased to host the ZOZO Championship at Sherwood, a PGA TOUR event that was rescheduled from its home in Japan to Sherwood who hosted the tournament on last minute notice during the pandemic.

North Ranch Country Club

North Ranch Country Club has been a home for the Waves since the late 1980s. The championship golf course, created in 1976 by Ted Robinson, consists of three distinct nines peppered with the community's signature oak trees. It also has played host to the 1988 NCAA Men's Golf Championship as well as the Southwestern Invitational, one of the oldest collegiate events, hosted the last eight years by Pepperdine.

The Saticoy Club

The challenging Saticoy Club has been a best kept secret in Southern California for decades. Well-bunkered, severely sloped greens make it a championship test. It has been voted regularly by the SCGA as one of the "Toughest Courses" in Southern California.

The Los Angeles Country Club

#19 in Golf Digest Course Rankings

Founded in 1911, The Los Angeles Country Club is one of the most renowned courses in the country. The North Course, a George Thomas design, has hosted LA Opens, a Walker Cup, and multiple USGA Championships, with the next event on the docket being the 2023 United States Open Championship.

Lakeside Golf Club

Max Behr designed Lakeside Golf Club in 1924. The great architect Alister MacKenzie (Augusta National, Cypress Point, Pasatiempo) was a big admirer of his work and in his book The Spirit of St. Andrews, the doctor described Lakeside as one of the "world's greatest courses." The 6,500-yard. par-70 layout is known for its small, fast greens and tree-lined fairways.

The Riviera Country Club

#22 in Golf Digest Course Rankings

For nearly a century, our golf course has withstood the tests of time. The course was developed by the Los Angeles Athletic Club over an 18-month span, opening to critical acclaim in 1927. The LAAC commissioned George C. Thomas, an amateur architect who agreed to take on the project free of charge. It became his crowning achievement and today is considered one of the finest natural layouts in all of golf. As Hale Irwin attests, "The integrity of the course is influenced greatly by the fact that no two holes are alike and the course has been placed, rather than forced, into the land." The beauty in Thomas' design is that each hole presents a new challenge. Johnny Miller, winner of the 1981 Los Angeles Open, described Riviera as "definitely one of the greatest, no-nonsense golf courses in the world! It requires a player to play every club in his bag and every shot in his game." Whether it's a casual round with friends or a major championship, Riviera never ceases to provide a thrilling challenge. As Arnold Palmer once wrote of Riviera, "I consider it one of the great tests of golf."

Bel-Air Country Club

#127 in Golf Digest Course Rankings

"Completing a George C. Thomas hat trick of designs (the others being No. 19 Los Angeles C.C. (North) and No. 22 Riviera) is Bel-Air C.C., a charming throwback design that winds through mansion-dotted canyons of Los Angeles, the topography so steep that golfers are guided from hole to hole via a tunnel, an elevator and the city’s most famous suspension bridge, which spans a gulch on the par-3 10th and serves as a dramatic backdrop for the 18th green. Bel-Air’s design had been altered over decades by, among others, Dick Wilson, George Fazio, Robert Trent Jones Jr. and Tom Fazio. But in 2018 Tom Doak erased every bit of their work, removing phony water hazards and faithfully recapturing Thomas’s splashy signature bunkering. To complete a round amidst these Hollywood hills, you’ll definitely encounter a Hollywood star. Her name is Bel-Air." -Golf Digest Magazine

El Caballero Country Club

El Caballero Country Club was designed by acclaimed golf architect Robert Trent Jones, Sr. the course has long stood as a challenging track boasting many of his signature elements – tight fairways, gentle doglegs and daunting green-side bunkers – on a layout that winds through modest hills and mature trees. In 2017, the club's management and board set out to modernize and improve the course, devoting $10 million to a comprehensive upgrade of the entire venue.