The dormant fairways were brown and surrounded by lush rough that had been over-seeded for the winter. They take less water and are ideal for play most of the year. Those back-to-back low rainfall years resulted in cutbacks in irrigation that the Bermuda fairways tolerated. There already have been more than 16 inches of rain this year in Temecula compared to 9 inches last year and under 6 inches the prior year. As with Northern California, Temecula and Southern California in general had been slammed by heavy rainfall and snow in the mountains. We played Journey the morning after our spa treatment.
From right: San Jacinto Peak (Palm Springs to east), San Bernadino Mountains, Mt. The 305-acre site of Temecula Creek is next to the reservation and includes 27 holes of golf plus 125 guest rooms and a restaurant. We’ve been back three times since and drove over from Carlsbad to check out the huge expansion of the resort as well as the Temecula Creek Inn property that the tribe purchased in 2018 in March. We had the pleasure of playing Journey at Pechanga, its outstanding 18-hole golf course, shortly after it opened in 2009. The Pechanga Resort and Casino in Temecula has been a favorite site to occasionally visit throughout our ACES Golf journey.
