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COURSES FOR GOLFERS OF ALL TALENTS, WALLETS.


Byline: - Dave Shelburne

Golf fans in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley

Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills.
 and adjoining communities have plenty of options for varied playing opportunities, from short courses to historic ones, high-end to moderately priced, from par-3 through all the difficulty one would want.

Beginners can chose from a half-dozen par-3 courses, which combine limited distance, reasonable green fees, and - in the case of Sinaloa GC in Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969.  - some memorable lore.

For years, former Sinaloa general manager Lynn Shackelford, the one-time Burroughs High of Burbank and UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles
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 basketball standout, opened the course to free play the first Monday First Monday is a short-lived U.S. television drama centered on the U.S. Supreme Court. Created by JAG creator Donald Bellisario, the show aired on CBS from January until May of 2002.  after every Bruins football win over USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. .

Shackelford is no longer at the course, but his legacy makes for some good memories for UCLA fans who play the nine-hole layout.

Advanced players can take on a trio of executive courses, so called because they play to a par of 10-12 strokes lower than regulation courses. When this type of shorter course - they include no par-5 holes - was first designed in the 1960s, it was with the idea of providing a shorter time commitment for busy executives.

El Cariso in Sylmar, Scholl Canyon in Glendale and Vista Valencia in Valencia - where current PGA Tour The PGA Tour is an organization that operates the USA's main professional golf tours. It is headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, USA. Its name is officially rendered in all caps as “PGA TOUR".  player Jason Gore Jason William Gore (born May 17, 1974) is an American professional golfer.

Gore was born in Van Nuys, California. He attended Pepperdine University. Gore plays on the PGA Tour after moving from the Nationwide Tour midseason in 2005.
 got his start in the game - are all challenging executive courses.

Vista and El Cariso are the longest and toughest of the trio, but short and tight Scholl Canyon, surrounded by canyon, demands accuracy or plenty of extra golf balls and further challenges with sloped greens that can be extremely quick.

Upscale courses include Moorpark's scenic Tierra Rejada, which offers some spectacular hillside views of eastern Ventura County farmland; Sunland's Angeles National, site of a U.S. Open The term U.S. Open is applied to "open" United States national championships in a particular sport, in which anybody, amateur or professional, American or non-American may compete. These include:
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 local qualifier last year; and Camarillo's Sterling Hills, which has been host to Southern Section preliminary and championship high school tournaments.

Robinson Ranch of Santa Clarita and TPC (Transaction Processing Performance Council, San Francisco, CA, www.tpc.org) An organization devoted to benchmarking transaction processing systems. In order to derive the number of transactions that can be processed in a given time frame, TPC benchmarks measure the total performance of  at Valencia are upscale courses in the Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. , where an Arnold Palmer-designed course is expected to be built within a few years.

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 a links-type experience at a reasonable rate might consider Moorpark's Rustic Canyon, a virtually treeless facility where large, closely mowed chipping surfaces surround each green and wind is a constant factor.

History buffs will appreciate Griffith's Park's Wilson and Harding courses, which predate the Great Depression and were used for the 1937, '38 and '39 Los Angeles Opens.

Harry Lighthorse'' Cooper, who won the inaugural Los Angeles Open in 1926 at Los Angeles Country Club, became the event's second multiple winner with his victory at Griffith Park in 1937, when he hit 274 for the lowest 72-hole total of the first 12 L.A. Opens.

Knollwood Country Club, an open-to-the-public course that is part of the Los Angeles County system, is another reasonably priced layout and one that offer great variety in its holes, which wend Wend

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 through a well-established neighborhood filled with large trees.

Here is contact information for local golf courses

Agoura Hills: Lake Lindero(818) 889-1158

Burbank: De Bell(818) 845-0022

Camarillo: Camarillo Springs(805) 484-1075

Camarillo: Sterling Hills(805) 987-3446

Encino: Sepulveda Balboa(818) 986-4560

Encino: Sepulveda Encino(818) 986-4560

Glendale: Scholl Canyon(818) 243-4100

Granada Hills: Knollwood(818) 363-1810

Griffith Park: Harding(323) 663-2555

Griffith Park: Wilson(323 663-2555

Lancaster: Rancho Sierra(661) 946-1080

Moorpark: Tierra Rejada(805) 531-9300

Pacoima: Hansen Dam(818) 889-2200

Palmdale: Desert Aire(661) 538-0894

Palmdale: Rancho Vista(661) 272-9903

Pasadena: Brookside C.W. Koiner(626) 585-3594

Pasadena: Brookside E.O. Nay(626) 585-3594

Pasadena: Eaton Canyon(626) 794-6773

Santa Clarita: Robinson Ranch(661) 252-8484

Simi Valley: Lost Canyons Shadow(805) 522-4653

Simi Valley: Lost Canyons Sky(805) 522-4653

Simi Valley: Simi Hills(805) 522-0803

Sunland: Angeles National(818) 951-8771

Sylmar: El Cariso(818) 367-6157

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(805) 495-6421

Valencia: Vista Valencia(661) 253-1870

Van Nuys: Van Nuys(818) 785-8871

Lake Balboa: Woodley Lakes(818) 787-8163

Westlake Village: Westlake Village(818) 889-0770

AREA PAR-3 COURSES

Burbank: De Bell Par-3(818) 848-3292

Mission Hills: M.H. Little League(760) 324-9400

Simi Valley: Sinaloa(805) 581-2662

Studio City: S.C. Golf and Tennis(818) 761-3250

Tujunga: Verdugo Hills(818) 352-3161

Valencia: Chica(661) 253-1870

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