SAN DIEGO -- Barona Creek Golf Club, which hosted last year’s Nationwide Tour Championship was rated as the 11th “Best Tour Golf Courses You Can Play” by Golfweek magazine and third best in California behind landmark courses Pebble Beach and Spyglass Hill, host properties for the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.
This is Golfweek’s inaugural ranking list of 136 PGA TOUR, Nationwide Tour, Champions Tour and LPGA courses nationwide.
Golfweek’s course raters are comprised of a team of more than 450 evaluators who surveyed the tour courses on the basis of 10 standards of evaluation.
Golfweek’s Best Tour Courses You Can Play
1. Pebble Beach GL, California (PGA TOUR/Pebble Beach National Pro-Am)
2. Whistling Straights, Wisconsin (Champions/U.S. Senior Open)
3. Spyglass GC, California (PGA TOUR/Pebble Beach National Pro-Am)
4. TP Sawgrass, Florida (PGA/The Players Championship)
5. Kiawah Island, South Carolina (Champions/Senior PGA Championship)
6. Harbour Town GL, South Carolina (PGA/Verizon Heritage)
7. Pine Needles, North Carolina (LPGA/U.S. Women’s Open)
8. Kapalua Resort, Hawaii (PGA/Mercedes-Benz Championship)
9. Sunriver Resort, Oregon (Champions/Jeld-Wen Tradition)
10. Bulle Rock GC, Maryland (LPGA/McDonald’s LPGA Championship)
11. Barona Creek Golf Club (Nationwide/Nationwide Tour Championship)
Other California courses in the Top 40 were Sonoma Golf Club (13), The Classic Club (16), Torrey Pines South (18), Torrey Pines North (t31) and Poppy Hills (40).
“This is a great honor to be in such exclusive company. Having a prestigious professional golf event like the Nationwide Tour Championship certainly elevated are course on a national scale and we’re very appreciative of this recognition from the Golfweek raters,” said Don King, director of golf at Barona Creek. “Our tribe takes great pride in presenting an outstanding golf experience for our guests each time they tee it up at Barona Creek Golf Club and to be in this collection of great courses is very rewarding.”
Barona Creek Golf Club is a par 72 course that is now extended to 7,448 yards with more than 100 multi-fingered bunkers and a series of lakes and ponds that are connected to the area’s naturally fed streams. The golf course also has more than 170 mature native oak trees transplanted from other regions of the Barona Indian Reservation. Making use of the subtly undulating terrain, prominent rock outcroppings and gentle elevation changes preserve the lands’ unique characteristics. The combination of both natural and strategic elements of the design make Barona Creek Golf Club one of the most challenging and thought provoking golf courses in San Diego.
Barona Creek Golf Club is located at 1932 Wildcat Canyon Road in San Diego. To schedule a tee time please call (888) 7-BARONA. Additional course information is also available at www.barona.com.
Contact: Rick Schloss (619) 682-3407
Kelly Speer (619) 933-5013
