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Saturday, June 14, 2008
Chivas USA may build fields in O.C.
California | Local |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Trump, town on opposite sides of ficus
California | Local |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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
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
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
