I spent a few years here and think that the "tournament course" is a really good Dick Wilson design. If you can single out the original holes it is a great routing. I think it may be one of his best efforts, on par if not better than Cog and Bay Hill. It's pretty interesting to look at the GD top course book from about 30 years ago and view what the LaCosta hillside looked like. This was once a ranch "rancho la costa". Like many similar properties, demand dictated more golf. The problem was that on the now south course there just wasn't (and still isn't) enough room. What is now the front nine of the south course is a real shame. I don't blame Joe Lee for this, he had no chance with the land he was given. The routing for the original course is now 1,2,3,13,14,15,16,17,18 of the north course and then the entire back nine of the now named south course (including golf's longest mile 15-18). The new holes on the north course are on much better property, although I spent two years on this course almost every day and can't remember them. If you can get to play the "tournament course" I'd make a special trip, if you can't then go to Sea World.