An unofficial list of California courses that are closed (9th update)

[Joel_Stewart]

Please add or edit.  Some of the dates may not be accurate.


Northern California


Lake Redding, Redding (2009)
Paradise Pines, Redding (2014)

Adobe Creek, Peteluma (2017)
Aetna Springs, Pope Valley (2018)
Bass Lake, El Dorado County
Coyote Run, Beale AFB, Yuba City, CA (2021)
Cypress, Colma, 9 holes (2012)
Delta View, Pittsburg (2018)
Forest Meadow aka Murphys 9, Calaveras (2017)
Grayson Woods, Pleasant Hill (par 3 course)
Green Tree, Vacaville (2016)
Mountain House (2008)
Pleasant Hills, San Jose (2004)
Pine Meadow, Martinez (2014)
Riviera Hills, 9 holes, Lake County (2017)
Roddy Ranch, Antioch, (2016)
San Geronimo, Marin (2018)
Skywest, San Lorenzo (2020)
Shadow Lakes, Brentwood (2015)
Silver Pines, Newark (2000)?
Springtown, Livermore (2015)
Sunol Valley, Sunol  (2016)
The Ranch Golf Club, San Jose (2019)
Langtry Farms, Middletown (2017)
Wikiup, Santa Rosa (2015)

Central California

Rocklin Golf Club aka Sunset Whitney CC
Stevenson Ranch, Turlock 2015
Bass Lake, El Dorado County
Lindsay golf course, Porterville (2018)
Lockford Springs, Lodi (2017)
Lyons Golf Club, Stockton
Javier Fresno West, Fresno 2012
Diablo Grande (Legands course), Patterson 2014
Paradise Pines, Chico 2014
Rolling Greens, Roseville (2016)
Sierra Meadows, Ahwahnee 2015
Oak Patch, Visalia 2017
Ocean Meadows, Santa Barbara


Monterey

Rancho Canada (36 holes), Carmel, 18 closed 2015 and 2017

Southern California

Aliso Viejo CC, 27 holes condensed to 18 holes (2001)
Cascades, Sylmar (2013)

Champions Club at the Retreat, Riverside (2017)
Empire Lakes, Rancho Cucamonga
El Rancho Verde, Rialto (2011)
Elkins Ranch, Fillmore (2020)
Horse Thief CC, Tehachapi  (2018)
Lake Elizabeth, (2009)
Lost Canyons (36 holes), Simi Valley
Green River, Corona, 36 holes condensed to 18
Malibu Golf Club, Malibu
Montesoro golf course, Borrego Springs
El Rivino, Riverside (2005)
Ridgeline, Orange, 9 holes, (2013)
El Toro, Irvine (2000)
North golf course, Sun City (2017)
Palm Meadows, San Bernadino (2015)
Riverside (2009)
Mile Square, Fountain Valley (2021)
Moreno Valley Ranch, (2015)
Mountain View, Corona (2009)
Quail Ranch, Moreno Valley, (2015)
Paradise Knolls, Riverside (2020)
Point Magu, 9 holes, (2007)
San Bernardino CC (2018)
Westwinds, Victorville, 9 holes (2012)

San Diego

Escondido CC, Escondido (2017)
Carmel Highlands Golf Resort, Rancho Penasquitos, (2015)
Carmel Mountain Ranch, San Diego (2018)
Fallbrook Golf Club
Salt Creek, Chula Vista (2018)
San Luis Rey Downs, Bonsall (2014)
Sierra La Verne, La Verne, (2019)
Stoneridge CC, Poway (2017)
Sun Valley, LA Mesa (2017)

Palm Springs

Santa Rosa Golf Club
Rancho Mirage CC
Indian Springs, Indio, 9 hole par 3
Palm Desert (Short course)
Palm Springs CC aka Whitewater CC, (2007)

Bakersfield

Sycamore Canyon Golf Course (2014)
Wasco Valley Rose (2013)
Pepper Tree Golf Club (2006)
McAllister Ranch - fully built and never opened
Kern Valley (2018)

Barstow

Barstow Golf Club aka Sun and Sky (9 holes) (2007)

Lompoc

Marshallia Ranch (2016)

[David_Tepper]

Joel -

You have Diablo Grande listed in both Nor Cal and Central Cal. I think just the Legends course there has closed. The original course (the Ranch) there is still open.

The west course at Rancho Canada has already closed.

DT

[Tommy Williamsen]

Joel, is Robinson Ranch closed for good? I heard that they were closed because of the fire but plan to reopen.

[Pat Burke]

All southern cal

Claremont golf course 9 holes.
Moreno Valley at least 9 of 27 closed.  Looks like a developer trying to open 18
Quail Ranch.  Probably outside the "recent" window.
Mountain View in Corona same as quail
Cypress
Ridgeline
El toro
Riverside gc
cascades
Westridge is rumored to be endangered

[Kevin_Reilly]

Maybe asterisk or otherwise note par-3 or nine-hole courses.  Grayson Woods (Pleasant Hill) was just an unremarkable par 3 course.

[Tim Leahy]

It is pouring rain in Cali right now. Wonder if a wet winter might save some courses.I really liked Roddy Ranch and Malibu as well as Robinson Ranch.

[John Keenan]

You can also add Pine Meadow in Martinez. A nine hole course closed in 2015.


John

[Jeff Fortson]

Mesquite in Palm Springs is on the ropes.  I heard Marshallia Ranch was bought by new owners (same ones that purchased La Purisima) but that is only info I have heard secondhand.

[Joel_Stewart]

I heard Marshallia Ranch was bought by new owners (same ones that purchased La Purisima) but that is only info I have heard secondhand.

Thanks for the updates.  I've made the corrections.


Jeff:  Marshallia is on an Air Force base so it won't be purchased.   

[Jeff Fortson]

I heard Marshallia Ranch was bought by new owners (same ones that purchased La Purisima) but that is only info I have heard secondhand.

Thanks for the updates.  I've made the corrections.


Jeff:  Marshallia is on an Air Force base so it won't be purchased.

I thought that was the case but someone on staff at La Purisima told me their new owner/s also purchased Marshallia.  I internally raised an eyebrow at the comment when he told me that.  I'm way more inclined to agree with you.

[BCrosby]

A remarkably long list. I know nothing about the courses noted. Is there any architecture that will be missed?


Bob

[Kalen Braley]

A remarkably long list. I know nothing about the courses noted. Is there any architecture that will be missed?


Bob

Bob,


Stevinson Ranch for sure, it had some really terrific holes.  Sunol was a hard hat special, so nothing really lost there. And Springtown was a dog track.


Didn't play any of the others.  Where's Huck when you need him, I'll bet he's played most of these...


P.S.  I never knew Newark had a golf course...

[astavrides]

A remarkably long list. I know nothing about the courses noted. Is there any architecture that will be missed?


Bob

Bob,


Stevinson Ranch for sure, it had some really terrific holes.  Sunol was a hard hat special, so nothing really lost there. And Springtown was a dog track.


Didn't play any of the others.  Where's Huck when you need him, I'll bet he's played most of these...


P.S.  I never knew Newark had a golf course...

Roddy Ranch was pretty good, especially for the price.


Lost Canyons had its moments, but they probably good have done better with that location, as well as they people who did Malibu and Robinson Ranch, who also had nice grounds for golf--all of them a bit hilly, but not as difficult as what the Cascades people had to work with.


Empire Lakes was decent golf, but nothing interesting architecturally. You won't find many defenders of Cypress here--Doak gave it a zero in the earlier edition of Confidential Guide--but it was definitely something different than could be found in the LA area at the time--a change of pace.

[Greg Hohman]

The local couple who bought the Fallbrook land will turn it into a winery and vineyard. Here's a story from the San Diego Union Tribune:

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/north-county/sd-no-fallbrook-golf-20161116-story.html

I will miss the place. It would not get high marks here, but it had some positives: a few quirks (I can think of two fairways with portions of hillsides left in their natural state) and an above-average back nine (a better experience than the front in terms of both golf and scenery). The houses on the modest valley heights were unobtrusive.

There was talk in the summer that one of the nines would be preserved, but that appears to be off the table now.

[Mike Benham]

It is pouring rain in Cali right now. Wonder if a wet winter might save some courses.I really liked Roddy Ranch and Malibu as well as Robinson Ranch.

Highly doubtful, the economics of water pricing and delivery in California has changed forever. 

The forced conservation has resulted in many of the water districts to suffer substantial decreases in revenue, "forcing" them to increase prices (most water districts have very little variable costs so when deliveries/revenues decrease, they don't see a corresponding decrease in costs, hence they need to raise the price to maintain an overall revenue level than equals or exceeds costs).

As we all know with taxes, once the prices has been increased, highly doubtful they will ever be decreased to a level that is suitable for high volume users.

Unless a course has access to reclaimed water or their own water source, purchasing fresh water will continue to be expensive.

[JimB]

I heard Marshallia Ranch was bought by new owners (same ones that purchased La Purisima) but that is only info I have heard secondhand.

Thanks for the updates.  I've made the corrections.


Jeff:  Marshallia is on an Air Force base so it won't be purchased.

I thought that was the case but someone on staff at La Purisima told me their new owner/s also purchased Marshallia.  I internally raised an eyebrow at the comment when he told me that.  I'm way more inclined to agree with you.

The La P owners purchased Village Country Club, also in Lompoc.

[Bill Seitz]

El Rancho Verde in Rialto closed in 2011.  Shot way over my head there (for my ability at the time) in a college tournament when I was at UC Riverside in 1995.


Looks like you added Cypress, which was terrible.


Green River in Corona used to have 36 holes and it looks like it's now down to 18.  It used to have 18 in Orange County and 18 in Riverside County and what's there now looks like an amalgam of the two, so that's another 18 gone.

[Sam Kestin]

Robinson Ranch is a temporary closure due to recent fires that broke out nearby. They were in the midst of re-tooling their 36H facility into an 18H one--and now are completely renovating the golf course and clubhouse. The website says they are scheduled to re-open in early spring of 2017.

[Joel_Stewart]

Green River in Corona used to have 36 holes and it looks like it's now down to 18.  It used to have 18 in Orange County and 18 in Riverside County and what's there now looks like an amalgam of the two, so that's another 18 gone.

I did a quick search and couldn't find any information on Green River closing down?


I've updated the list adding 3 more courses.

[Mark Kiely]

Green River is not closed, but did condense its two 18-hole courses into one 18-hole course.


Over on greenskeeper.org there is a thread similar to this. If someone wants to take the time to cross-reference it to this one, here's a link:
http://www.greenskeeper.org/forums/discussions.cfm?forumid=57&topicid=76706

[astavrides]

Palm Springs CC and Lake Elizabeth both closed

[Joel_Stewart]

Over on greenskeeper.org there is a thread similar to this. If someone wants to take the time to cross-reference it to this one, here's a link:
http://www.greenskeeper.org/forums/discussions.cfm?forumid=57&topicid=76706

That was helpful. I added another 7 courses.

[Tim Leahy]

Palm Springs CC and Lake Elizabeth both closed

Lake Elizabeth was a hidden gem. Damn water costs.

[Mark Kiely]

Salt Creek in Chula Vista has announced it will close 3/18. I never played it, but I heard it had a fun linksy feel.

[Pete_Pittock]

Aetna Springs