Sterling Hills Golf Club

Sterling Hills Golf Club sits in the rolling terrain above Camarillo in Ventura County, designed by the partnership of Robert Graves and Damian Pascuzzo. The course occupies elevated ground that offers views across the surrounding agricultural valleys and toward the Santa Monica Mountains, with the layout working through natural hillside contours and native California landscape. The design makes use of the property's elevation changes and natural drainage patterns, routing holes along ridgelines and through draws. The terrain creates varied playing angles and demands thoughtful club selection on approach shots where depth perception can be affected by the topography. Several holes play across or along hillside slopes, and the green complexes incorporate the natural ground movement rather than fighting against it. Graves and Pascuzzo, who collaborated on several Southern California courses during the 1990s and early 2000s, typically favored strategic design that rewarded course management over pure length. At Sterling Hills, the routing takes advantage of prevailing wind patterns that come off the Pacific Ocean, located roughly ten miles to the south. The course serves a daily-fee clientele in a region where public access to quality golf can be limited, and it has developed a reputation among Ventura County golfers as a solid test that requires more than just distance off the tee.