{"id":16158,"date":"2014-04-21T01:17:07","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T08:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=16158"},"modified":"2014-04-21T01:17:07","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T08:17:07","slug":"california-country-clubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-country-clubs\/","title":{"rendered":"California Country Clubs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One\u00a0Country Club in California that requires no fee or membership\u00a0is a census designated place\u00a0along the 1-5\u00a0near Stockton in\u00a0San Joaquin County. It’s possibly the cheapest you’ll ever experience as it is free.\u00a0Enjoy it because there aren’t many like\u00a0Country Club, California!<\/p>\n

Among the 11,600 country clubs in the U.S., California claims many. While there are clubs that cost several million dollars to join with annual membership fees in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, there are clubs in which you simply can’t join without being invited. Don’t worry, you won’t be invited, anyway!<\/p>\n

TOP CALIFORNIA COUNTRY CLUBS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Cypress Point<\/strong> in Pebble Beach \u00a0#2\u00a0in the World in 2013.\u00a0\u00a0Members have included Bob Hope and celebrity cast of all-stars. “One year they had a big membership drive at Cypress. They drove out 40 members,” said Hope who was a dues-paying member for 40 years.<\/p>\n

Pebble Beach Golf Links<\/a>\u00a0 <\/strong>#7 in the World in 2013. \u00a0and most expensive course to play in California.<\/p>\n

San Francisco Golf Club<\/strong> #27 in the World. Founded in 1895 as one of the first 100 clubs in America, it is intensely private and shuns attention.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles Country Club<\/strong> #30 \u00a0in the World. Opened in 1928, rumor has it that this exclusive, private club shunned Hugh Hefner’s request for membership. He lives off one of the fairways. Money can’t buy you golf, though it may buy you love.<\/p>\n

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One\u00a0Country Club in California that requires no fee or membership\u00a0is a census designated place\u00a0along the 1-5\u00a0near Stockton in\u00a0San Joaquin County. It’s possibly the cheapest you’ll ever experience as it is free.\u00a0Enjoy it because there aren’t many like\u00a0Country Club, California! Among the 11,600 country clubs in the U.S., California claims many. While there are clubs that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16158"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}