California Golfin': Orange County is becoming known as a new mecca for the sport. (Destination: California).

Travel Agent, May, 2003 by Weiss, Elizabeth

With the explosion of championship golf courses to lit the area in recent years, Orange County, Calif., is poised to take off where other California golf regions--Palm Springs, San Diego, and even Pebble Beach--have left off. According to the 2002 National Leisure Travel Monitor, a premier marketing tool for the travel industry published by Yesawich, Pepperdine & Brown and Yankelovich Partners, Inc., approximately one out of every six consumers surveyed said they would like to incorporate golf into an upcoming vacation.

The desire to play golf when on vacation coupled with the rise in drive vacations since Sept. 11, 2001, make Orange County--located less than an hour from Los Angeles and 90 minutes from San Diego, and rated one of the World's 50 Greatest Golf...

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