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Saturday, June 14, 2008

Chivas USA may build fields in O.C.

California | Local | By Tony Barboza | June 14, 2008
After months of speculation by soccer fans and meetings with city officials, Chivas USA of Major League Soccer confirmed it is in talks to build fields and possibly a stadium for youth at an aging golf course in Santa Ana. Read more
 

Friday, April 25, 2008

Heck no, we won’t grow

California | Local | By Scott Gold | April 25, 2008
When Richard Nixon made San Clemente his western White House, the late satirist Art Hoppe described the population as “15,000 conservative Republicans, 2,000 surfers, five poor people [and] roughly the same number of liberal Democrats.” Read more
 

Saturday, February 9, 2008

Riviera field has 17 of the top 20 in world

Sports | February 9, 2008
Phil Mickelson and 16 other players ranked in the top 20 committed Friday to play in next week’s $6.2-million Northern Trust Open at Riviera Country Club. Read more
 

Saturday, December 29, 2007

Chipping away at Scotland’s dunes

World | By Kim Murphy | December 29, 2007
The chilly, wind-whipped dunes and grasslands of the Scottish coast may have been the birthplace of golf, but that hasn’t been much help to Donald Trump and his plans to create what he says will be the world’s best golf course here. Read more
 

Sunday, November 18, 2007

Santa Barbara greens of envy

Travel | By Tim Hubbard | November 18, 2007
SANDPIPER GOLF CLUB Santa Barbara County Though no golf course in America can rival the history and nirvana of the Pebble Beach Golf Links on the Monterey Peninsula, few visitors can afford to shell out the $475 greens fee. Read more
 

Thursday, October 25, 2007

Golf courses to reopen, offer rounds as relief

California | Local | By David Mckibben | October 25, 2007
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Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Trump, town on opposite sides of ficus

California | Local | By Jason Song | October 2, 2007
Donald Trump thought that some homes overlooking his Rancho Palos Verdes golf course were so unsightly that he ordered them hidden from view with a row of ficus plants. Read more
 

Sunday, August 19, 2007

Golf’s Bogeyman - Meet David Dilworth, the crusading golf course hater who helped ruin Clint Eastwood’s day and turn the manicured Monterey Peninsula into an environmental cause celebre

Magazine | By Paul Lieberman | August 19, 2007
We are passing the most spectacular stretch of 17-Mile Drive, where the waves crash on Seal Rock and the seals loll on Bird Rock, when David Dilworth brings up the man who died after licking his golf ball, or some such thing. Read more
 

Thursday, June 28, 2007

Trump agrees to buy Fresno golf course

California | Local | By Steve Chawkins | June 28, 2007
Donald Trump – as in Trump Tower, Trump Entertainment and Trump Organization – announced Wednesday that he’s purchased a bankrupt golf course in Fresno – as in Fresno, Calif. Read more
 

Monday, June 18, 2007

After going gets tough, everyone gets going early

Sports | By Chris Dufresne | June 18, 2007
The top players in the world couldn’t get out of Oakmont Country Club fast enough. Read more
 

Next Major: British Open, July 19-22, Carnoustie Golf Links

Sports | By Daniel Wexler | June 18, 2007
Once called “the hardest course in the world” by Gary Player, Carnoustie, the site of next month’s 136th British Open, will be host of the championship for the seventh time. Read more
 

Thursday, June 14, 2007

Coastal panel rejects Monterey golf project

California | Local | By Kenneth R. Weiss | June 14, 2007
They didn’t make his day. Read more
 

Thursday, April 19, 2007

O.C.’s parking lot idea is out of bounds, golfers say

California | Local | By Dave Mckibben | April 19, 2007
Orange County is considering ripping out the back nine of a popular Newport Beach executive golf course for overflow parking at John Wayne Airport, unsettling golfers hooked on the club’s convenience and inexpensive greens fees. Read more
 

Monday, April 9, 2007

SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY

Sports | April 9, 2007
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The Times’ Top 10s

Sports | April 9, 2007
The must-play list If you are a serious golfer in Southern California, here are 10 courses you should have in your I’ve-played-there portfolio: Arroyo Trabuco: It turns out Tom Lehman’s as good an architect as he is a golfer. Read more
 

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GOLF GUIDE

Sports | April 9, 2007
Key: Yardage is front to back tees. Read more
 

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY

Sports | April 9, 2007
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Editors’ picks

Sports | April 9, 2007
Glenn Bunting 9 HANDICAP Torrey Pines (San Diego): SoCal’s Pebble. Read more
 

This was Tiger’s proving ground

Sports | April 9, 2007
Woods lives in Florida now, but he grew up in Orange County playing the courses of Southern California. Read more
 

SAN DIEGO COUNTY

Sports | April 9, 2007
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