Strawberry Farms Golf Club
Rates: $70-$155(Includes cart)This course, which opened in November, 1997, combines the rural beauty and tranquility of the surrounding area with the challenge of true championship golf.The club’s managing partner is Doug DeCinces, who played Major League Baseball for the Baltimore Orioles and the Anaheim Angels. While requiring both distance and accuracy, the course has enough variety to bring players back time and time again. The course is set amid canyons and wetlands and offers players narrow fairways within environmental sensitive areas, and tall underbrush paralleling both sides of the fairways. A local rule provides that the environmental areas are to be treated as lateral hazards. There are many sand bunkers on the fairways and around the greens. Most greens are not leveled and have subtle undulation that require several rounds of play to figure them out. All of the golf carts are equipped with Pro Shot electronic range finders. Two outstanding holes are hole #10 and hole #18. Hole #10, a 369-yard, par 4, is probably the most photographed hole. It is a dogleg left around the Sand Canyon Reservoir, with the tee area being elevated above the fairway and many sand bunkers placed along the left side of the fairway. Hole #18 is a great finishing hole. This 403-yard, par 4 requires a long tee shot to set up an approach that must carry a stream to the elevated green. This is also a very pretty hole with natural waterfalls coming down the cliff to the right of the green.Directions:From North Orange County• take the 55 South • to the 405 South (about 3 miles) • exit Right Jeffery/University (South for about .5 miles) • make a Left on Strawberry Farms Road From Los Angeles• take the 405 South (about 3 miles past the 55) • exit Right Jeffery/University (South for about .5 miles) • make a Left on Strawberry Farms Road From San Diego• take the 405 North (about 3 miles past the 5) • exit Left Jeffery/University (South for about .5 miles) • take a Left on Strawberry Farms Road
Jim Lipe