Golf California - Temecula
The Temecula Valley is just two hours from the heart of LA and only an hour from San Diego and in the foothills of the Palomar Mountains there is a burgeoning golf destination in a land of year-around sunshine and perfect golf temperatures.
The Fallbrook area and the Temecula Valley date back to the Temecula Indians, who inhabited the hillsides before the white man came. In the 1800's it was a mail route which connected the east with the west, and today it is home to a blossoming wine industry and a golf course explosion
Visit here once and you will want to return time after time.
Pala Mesa Resort in Fallbrook, only 14 miles from Temecula, is a perfect place to base your weekend golf trip. Despite the short distance, Fallbrook is in San Diego County and Temecula is in Riverside County.
The resort has its own golf course, a 6,502-yard par-72 course that follows the beauty and rolling land. The hillsides are covered with huge round boulders and the twisting terrain presents the golfers with daring elevation changes through aged oaks, pines and sycamore trees.
Built in 1961 and designed by William H. Johnson, this course has unique subtle-breaking greens which are always in excellent condition. In 1997 the course added 15 new fairway bunkers and reconstructed 39 fairway and greenside bunkers. Dick Rossen was the first to redesign this course, followed by Ted Robinson in 1984. The resort also offers a Golf Digest School.
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