Valspar Championship

Innisbrook Resort (Copperhead)



    California Golf Club

    South San Francisco, CA Private

    Overview

    For a course that featured Alister Mackenzie bunkers (added just two years after it first opened), Cal Club was never considered the equal of its near neighbors, No. 35 Olympic (Lake) or No. 33 San Francisco G.C. That’s partly because it was so claustrophobic, not just from dense trees, but from its truncated front nine reworked in the 60s by Trent Jones after road expansion took two holes. Architect Kyle Phillips resolved the problem by clearing trees and creating five new holes, including a new par-4 second in the old practice range and a new dogleg-right par-4 seventh atop a previously unused mesa in the middle of the course. Best of all, he re-introduced Mackenzie’s glamorous bunkers. Cal Club is now much closer to its top-ranked neighbors.

    About

    Holes 18
    Length 7216
    Slope 135
    Facility Type Private
    Year Opened 1926
    Designer A. Vernon Macan, ASGCA/(R) Kyle Phillips Golf Course Design

    Awards

    100 Greatest
    Best Courses in Every State

    Ranking history:

    100 Greatest: Inaugural appearance on America's 100 Greatest.
    2023-'24 ranking: 71st (highest).


    Second
    100 Greatest: Ranked since 2013.
    Previous ranking: 101st.

    Best in State: Ranked 15th, 2015-'16, 2019-'20. Ranked 16th, 2013-'14, 2017-'18. Ranked 25th, 2011-'12.
    2023-'24 ranking: Ninth (highest).
    Previous ranking: 13th.

    Golf Digest Logo Panelists

    Ratings from our panel of 1,900 course-ranking panelists

    4.7

    100 GREATEST/BEST IN STATE SCORES

    Shot Options
    7.6959
    Character
    7.8215
    Challenge
    7.6078
    Layout Variety
    7.6821
    Fun
    7.707
    Aesthetics
    7.6195
    Conditioning
    7.8221

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