Industry Hills Golf Club at Pacific Palms (commonly referred to as Industry Hills ), is a golf club located in the City of Industry, California . It is made up of two 18-hole courses known as The Ike and The Babe . It is the location of PGA , LPGA , and Champions Tour qualifiers and hosted the 2011 Kia Classic .
7-496: Industry Hills was founded by Bill Bryant and designed by William P. Bell in 1979 and 1980. and built on top of a former landfill site. It is two 18-hole courses, one named after President Dwight D. Eisenhower (The Ike) and the other after Babe Zaharias (the Babe). The Eisenhower course opened in November 1979, and when built had eight lakes and 108 sand traps. The Zaharias course opened
14-548: A filming location for television and movies due to its close proximity to Hollywood. Bill Bryant (golf executive) George William Bryant (July 24, 1914 – April 17, 1983) was an American golf executive. He was the founder of the Junior Golf Association of Southern California and Industry Hills Golf Club . Bryant worked as a golf executive in Southern California for more than 50 years. He started as
21-567: A golf library which was the only public golf library in the west, and only one of two in the United States. The California Open moved to Industry Hills in 1980. The club also hosted the Olympia Gold Classic in both 1981 and 1982. The tournament stopped playing at the club after players complained about the length, the hills, and the rough. The club was purchased by John Semcken and Ed Roski Jr. of Majestic Realty Co. in 2000. After
28-550: A teenager when him and his father operated the Westward Ho golf course located in Palms, California . He later worked at Rio Hondo in Downey, California before leasing Brentwood golf course and opening it up for public play. His father died in 1947 and he took over the operation of Fox Hills . Bryant was one of the founders of the Junior Golf Association of Southern California. He started
35-415: The following year with 52 sand traps. It is a shorter but narrower course than Eisenhower. The course was built with a trolley-like funicular to transport golfers and carts up a steep hill at the finish of the 36th hole. The trolley runs to a snack bar that at one time held the rail car that carried the body of Winston Churchill at his funeral (the car was returned to Britain in 2007). The club also housed
42-596: The organization in 1948 in the club house of the California Country Club (now the property of California Country Club Estates ). Bryant was the founder of Industry Hills Golf Club , two 18-hole courses located in the City of Industry . The club was completed in 1980 and ranked in the top 25 public courses in the United States. The course also hosted LPGA tournaments as well as the California State Open and
49-628: The purchase, they undertook at $ 25 million renovation. In 2011, the Kia Classic was moved to Industry Hills due to renovations taking place at La Costa Resort and Spa . The tournament used a combination of holes from both the Eisenhower and Zaharias courses, eliminating the long hills on some holes. Industry Hills has also held the Monday qualifier for the Genesis Open . Industry Hills has been used as
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