Host Club:  Hacienda Golf Club

Address:  718 East Road, La Habra Heights, CA  90631

Phone Number:  (562) 694-1081
Club Website:  www.haciendagolfclub.com

Year Opened:  1920

Par:  71

Yardage:  6,955

Hacienda Golf Club was born during the Golden Age of golf course architecture as a dream of turn-of-the-century oil man Alphonso Bell.  In a beautiful canyon carved out of the La Puente Hills, Bell sought to build a golf course of demanding and championship caliber.  For its design, he retained the services of William Watson, the most prolific and best-known golf course architect in all of California at the time.  The first nine holes opened in 1920, and the second nine in 1923.  The first real clubhouse was built in 1927. In the more than eighty years since its design, the layout of the golf course has remained the same.  Along with several of the club’s original founders, Bell created our “jewel of the canyon” within what was first known as the “Rancho La Habra.”  What began as one of Southern California’s most exclusive and premier golf clubs, servicing bankers, lawyers and doctors in the Fullerton, Whittier and La Habra areas of North Orange County, has evolved into a club and golf course of such distinction that its current membership is drawn from all five counties in Southern California.  By the end of 2004, the club needed major improvements to its facilities.  Golf course architect John Harbottle III was hired to rebuild the green complexes, adjust bunkers and add length to the golf course.  In the process, the creek running throughout the golf course was reintroduced to Hacienda Golf Club.