Golf notebook: Crocker takes 2nd in San Diego

Based on his recent performance, Westlake High sophomore Sean Crocker appears to already be in midseason form. Highlighted by a final-round 4-under-par 67, Crocker finished second at the San Diego Junior Amateur Championships at Steele Canyon Golf Course Dec. 29-30.

Ventura resident helps restore La Costa course

Steve Pate has had a love affair with the La Costa Resort for as long as the Westlake Village resident can remember. La Costa was the place Pate saw his first professional golf tournament and where his dream of becoming a professional golfer started to take shape.

PrairieView in Byron latest golf course open in January

Several area golf courses should be open this week. PrairieView in Byron was the latest to announce it will be open in these unseasonably warm January temperatures. Here are some other courses you can count on any time it gets warm.

Warm weather a financial, public relations boon to golf courses

It looked like the middle of the summer at Westlake and Elliot golf courses Tuesday. Make that better than the middle of the summer.

Golf notebook: Pasadena's Johnson wins VCJGA tourney

In his first tournament with the Ventura County Junior Golf Association, Landon Johnson of South Pasadena posted a pair of even par 72s to capture the Boys Championship Division of the VCJGA's Disney Store Winter Classic by five strokes at Camarillo Springs Golf Course, Jan. 21-22.