In the 1980s, the famed actor and director Clint Eastwood spent two years as mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, a small California .

Of the 19 golf courses at California resorts just named among Golfweek’s top 200 in the country, nearly a quarter were right in our own backyard.

It goes without saying that where Taylor Swift goes, crowds follow – and this time the spotlight’s on coastal California.