Malibu Golf Club - Closed

Few places in American golf carried a setting quite like this one. Malibu Golf Club occupied a canyon in the Santa Monica Mountains, where the Pacific Coast Highway and the ocean lay just minutes away and the surrounding terrain alternated between chaparral-covered hillsides and the dramatic coastal light that defines this stretch of Southern California. It was a short, walkable layout — the kind of place where the landscape did most of the talking.

The club drew from the celebrity-heavy Malibu community and the broader Los Angeles golf culture, operating as a semi-private retreat at a time when courses along the 18-mile Malibu coastline were genuinely scarce. The canyon setting meant elevation changes, narrow corridors, and a rugged intimacy unusual for courses this close to a major metropolitan area.

The course is now closed, and its land has returned to the broader conversation about development pressure and open space along the California coast — a fate that underscores just how rare and fragile a golf property in Malibu always was.