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Golf courses in California

California has 995 golf courses: 6.1% of the US total of 16,298. That ranks #2 by count and #50 per person (2.52 per 100,000 residents) of 51.

#50

national rank (per capita)

995

golf courses

2.52

per 100k residents

The data

Source: OpenStreetMap, October 2026. Every feature tagged as a golf course, one point each. The National Golf Foundation counts about 16,000 courses. OpenStreetMap is community-made, so a few may be missing or out of date.

Licence: ODbL: © OpenStreetMap contributors. Reuse must credit OpenStreetMap and keep the data open.

California: 995 rows (CSV)All of the US (CSV)

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Named golf courses in California include

Blythe Golf Course · Steele Canyon Driving Range · Sun Lakes Country Club Executive Golf Course · Sun Lakes Country Club Championship Golf Course · Mission Bay Golf Course · Rowland Heights Golf Center · Los Serranos Golf Club · River View Golf Course entrance · Westchester Golf Course · Mesa Verde Country Club · Championship Course · Skylinks Golf Course

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