Industry Hills Golf Club: This tranquil hilltop oasis, surrounded by the hustle and bustle of sprawling urban Los Angeles, but not intruded on by any housing, is home to two excellent and renowned championship courses. The Eisenhower and Zaharias, better known as the Ike and Babe, transport you back to an era when parkland layouts required skilful shot-making and good course management. Recently renovated and stretched to over 7200 yards from the tips, the Ike course incorporates several dramatic elevation changes and many superbly laid out and testing golf holes. Definitely one of the "hidden" gems of southern California. Excellent bunkering is deployed along the rolling, tree-lined fairways and around the often large and undulating greens. From the layout's higher elevations you will enjoy panoramas over Los Angeles and onto the San Gabriel mountains, which begin their upward ascent just a few miles to the north. Alongside the par-3 9th, you can inspect the funicular railway that once transported golfers from the 9th green up a steep incline to the 10th tee, via the "St Andrews Station" (see Did You Know section below). The green at the par-3 9th, measures fully 50 yards from front to back. Among many excellent and challenging holes, the long, bunkerless par-3 5th is compensated for at the wonderful short par-4 17th, with a posse of bunkers lining the hole. Industry Hills Golf Club at Pacific Palms Resort is surrounded neither by industry nor palm trees (pine and eucalyptus are more common on the Ike), but as a 36-hole golf resort it has just about everything you could wish for.