Cheap golf in Orange County is an oxymoron, since most of our top courses are high-end, daily-fee facilities that will set you back an easy $100. But at $44 on the weekends and $36 weekdays, this city course is affordable, boasts an old-school layout designed by legendary designer Billy Bell, and has a gem with its 15th hole, a 196-yard par-3. “It's a good hole, challenging, and if you turn around a little bit and stretch your neck and contort in just the right way, you can see the Pacific Ocean, which is nice,” says Eric Marson, the co-founder of Southland Golf Magazine who now runs Inside Golf Media, which produces digital golf magazines. Hell, you can even buy a painting of it at gavinarts.com/green.shtml.
