The Farms Golf Club is located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA. Most people haven't heard of this town, but it was rated the most expensive zip code a couple of years ago. Almost every property in the hills is a minimum purchase of 5 acres. Homes range in this area from the cheapest at 2.5 million all the way up to 45 million. This is a small town but there is plenty of privates club for the rich residents including (The Bridges, The Crosby, Fairbanks Ranch, Del Mar CC, Rancho Santa Fe GC, Morgan Run, The Grand, and Santaluz). Though there are many private clubs, I wouldn't say that they are loaded with great courses. IMO the top 3 are RSFGC, Del Mar, and the Farms, I’m sure people will argue with me that the Bridges should be in there.
The Farms opened in 1988 with a Pete Dye Design, it was quite a hard course to begin with according to the members, but they had some drainage problems with bad fairways in 1999, so they decided to get it redesigned. They hired John Fought to come in and use Pete Dyes routing, but put in his own bunkers and greens. So if you can imagine, it has Pete Dye water everywhere, with real deep John Fought Bunkers.
I worked here for a couple of years and thought this was a great facility, it is a players club, and it was in the top 10 for lowest handicap clubs. Very tough course.
Hole 1 (390 yards) Par 4
Hole 2 (184 yards) Par 3
Hole 3 (555 yards) Par 5
No where to miss on this hole
Hole 4 (388 yards) Par 4
Good hole that goes up and over a little hill
Hole 5 (207 yards) Par 3
Hole 6 (312 yards) Par 4
Hole 7 (427 yards) Par 4
Hole 8 (399 yards) Par 4
Hole 9 (486 yards) Par 5
Hole 10 (436 yards) Par 4
Usually into the wind, tough hole
Hole 11 (370 yards) Par 4
Hole 12 (570 yards) Par 5
OB left the whole way, the tee shot asks for the butter cut
Hole 13 (424 yards) Par 4
Cool hole, if you spray your drive right you are hitting out of the fairway bunker all over water, scary shot.
Hole 14 (170 yards) Par 3
Waterfall par 3
Hole 15 (390 yards) Par 4
Pretty cool hole, don't go long!
Hole 16 (220 yards) Par 3
Usually into the wind, no where to bail out except short
Hole 17 (471 yards) Par 4
Very tough hole considering you are hitting a long iron or hybrid into the green
Hole 18 (512 yards) Par 5
Very normal finishing hole after all the holes leading up to it