The Orinda Country Club’s golf course, designed by famed course designer Willie Watson, is an example of one of the finest early American courses. Like the best Scottish courses, Orinda’s course has dogleg holes and depends more on natural hazards than on traps and artificially constructed troublemakers. Its five doglegs, its narrow, tree-lined, sloping fairways, and its blind spots make it particularly difficult. Fine big oaks line the fairways and guard the greens. The course bends around the base of hills and extends up the canyons toward the Clubhouse. The last five holes are perhaps the most beautiful and picturesque golf holes of any inland course in the country—great old spreading oak trees surrounded with fine verdant turf—landscaping that satisfies and makes you enjoy your game even though you are playing badly.