Golf courses in Lakeside, CA.

Lakeside, CA

Barona Creek Golf Club sits on the Barona Indian Reservation in Lakeside, about 30 minutes east of downtown San Diego. Gary Roger Baird designed the course, which opened in 2001 and runs through the rolling foothills and native canyon terrain of San Diego's backcountry. The layout settles into the existing grades with little heavy earthmoving, so holes are framed by scrub and native slopes rather than housing. Its inland, semi-arid setting produces firm, fast conditions that play very differently from the county's coastal courses. Running approaches and imaginative recoveries matter more here than aerial power.