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Golf Course Gets A Warm Welcome

If you regularly read San Diego’s largest daily newspaper and haven’t heard about The Auld Course, a South Bay public golf course, you’re not paying attention.

Nine stories on the Chula Vista course have appeared in the San Diego Union-Tribune since excavation for it began in October 1999.

As can be imagined, course owner Mike Strode said the coverage was great publicity.

“They came about every six to eight weeks just so they could see some progress and then they wrote some stories,” Strode said. “It was very nice.”

Strode, who also owns the Stadium Golf Center along Interstate 15, said The Auld is his first golf course.

“I’ve been playing for 30-some years and I think golf course design has gotten a little strange in the not too distant past,” he said. “I wanted to build a traditional, straight-forward golf course with no tiered greens or big humps or funny stuff that has shown up in a lot of golf courses recently.”

The course, which opened Jan. 5, has 18 holes, and is a par 72 across 6,889 total yards. It also features a 25-acre driving range , the largest in San Diego.

The name of the course is fashioned from the Old English spelling of the word ‘old.’ It was given that style to symbolize the traditional atmosphere Strode hoped to create through the course layout.

The course was originally called The Auld Goff Course, but Strode thought it would create too much confusion among the public.

“We thought people would think we didn’t know how to spell golf,” he said.

The Southern California Golf Association rating committee recently assigned the course a 73.4 rating with a slope of 135. And so far the course has scheduled 87 tournaments for this year. Tournaments commonly generate large amounts of revenue at public golf courses.

“We’re pretty proud of what we’ve done and we hope people will come out and give us their opinion,” Strode said.

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