San Diego Golf Bachelor Party: The Weekend, Thursday to Sunday
A golf bachelor weekend in San Diego from Thursday to Sunday: Torrey Pines and a North County round, a rooftop pool, a dry-aged steak and a Gaslamp night on foot.
A golf bachelor party in San Diego runs Thursday to Sunday, and once the round is done the night is on foot. Arrive Thursday for dinner and the rooftop bar at Born & Raised in Little Italy. On Friday, play Torrey Pines, the city-owned pair of courses on the coast at La Jolla, then the Float rooftop pool, dinner at STK at Sixth and F, and a walk up Sixth Avenue to Parq or down to Nova. On Saturday, play Aviara in Carlsbad or Maderas in Poway, spend the afternoon at Float's Liquid Sunshine dayclub, eat at Cowboy Star and finish at Altitude Sky Lounge over Petco Park, or at Onyx Room. Sunday is one easy round at Coronado or the flight home.
That is the short answer. Below is the weekend, day by day. Last updated November 2026.
Why we wrote this guide
San Diego is built for this weekend: a famous public course on the coast, a rooftop pool downtown, and a Gaslamp Quarter where the steakhouse and the clubs are a short walk apart. The golf comes from our sister site golfinca.com, which covers every course in the state. Its California golf bachelor party guide plans the San Diego weekend from the golf side. The dinners, the pool and the nights are ours.
The weekend at a glance
- Thursday: dinner and the rooftop bar at Born & Raised.
- Friday: Torrey Pines, Float, STK San Diego, then Parq or Nova.
- Saturday: Aviara or Maderas, Liquid Sunshine at Float, Cowboy Star, then Altitude Sky Lounge or Onyx Room.
- Sunday: a last round at Coronado, or the flight home.
Getting around
The golf is a drive and the nights are a walk. Torrey Pines is up the coast at La Jolla, Aviara is in Carlsbad and Maderas is inland in Poway, so book a car with room for the clubs on the golf mornings. Stay downtown and the rest needs no car: STK, Parq and Nova are on Sixth Avenue, Onyx Room is on Fifth, Float is on Fifth by the harbor, and Altitude is on K Street by Petco Park.
Thursday: Little Italy
Arrival night is Born & Raised on India Street in Little Italy, a two-story steakhouse that calls itself an ode to European fine dining and West Coast hip hop, with a dry-aged 20-ounce bone-in ribeye at the center of the menu and an open-air rooftop bar upstairs for the first round.
Friday: Torrey Pines, then Sixth Avenue
Torrey Pines South is why most golfers come. The City of San Diego owns it, the public can book it, and it staged U.S. Opens in 2008 and 2021. From the Black tees it runs 7,802 yards, rated 78.8 with a 148 slope, and the wind off the Pacific does the rest. Non-residents can reserve it up to 90 days out. Torrey Pines North, rebuilt by Tom Weiskopf in 2016 to play gentler than its neighbor, is the better first round for most visitors at 7,259 yards and a 134 slope.
Back downtown, the late afternoon is Float, the rooftop pool at Hard Rock Hotel San Diego, over the Gaslamp and the harbor, with daybeds and cabanas by day and fire pits after sunset; the hours shift with the season and the weather.
Dinner is STK San Diego at the Andaz, on the corner of Sixth and F: the steakhouse built to throw a party, with live DJs and a 34-ounce tomahawk. Then walk. Two blocks up Sixth Avenue, Parq at Sixth and Broadway has built its nights around a 32-foot LED screen since 2014, with VIP tables in the middle of the room. A few blocks the other way, Nova at 454 Sixth Avenue spreads across a main room under a concave LED screen, a balcony room and a rooftop terrace, with touring DJs on most weekends.
Saturday: North County, the dayclub, the ballpark
Aviara Golf Club at Park Hyatt Aviara in Carlsbad is Arnold Palmer's only design in the San Diego area, over hillsides above Batiquitos Lagoon. The public books 60 days out, and carts and range balls are included. Inland, Maderas Golf Club in Poway is the rough-terrain pick, routed by Johnny Miller and Robert Muir Graves through rocky hills in 1999, with forecaddies available on 48 hours' notice.
Saturday afternoon at Float is Liquid Sunshine, the hotel's dayclub, from 1 PM to 6 PM, with DJs poolside; it is 21 and over.
Dinner is Cowboy Star, in the East Village since 2008 and named San Diego's Best Steakhouse by San Diego Magazine every year from 2019 through 2025; the 18-ounce Cattleman's Cut is dry-aged 35 days in-house. Then the ballpark side of the Gaslamp: Altitude Sky Lounge is the open-air rooftop 22 stories up at the San Diego Marriott Gaslamp Quarter, looking down into Petco Park, with a DJ on weekend evenings. Or Onyx Room on Fifth Avenue, three rooms on two levels with more than six DJs on weekend nights, hip-hop and EDM upstairs and reggaeton and Latin downstairs.
Sunday: Coronado, or the flight
Sunday is an easy round or the airport. Just over the bridge from downtown, Coronado Municipal Golf Course opened in 1957 and is the gentlest card in golfinca.com's San Diego guide, with wide fairways and skyline views. Be on the course at 8 a.m. and you will stand for the colors ceremony from Naval Air Station North Island. Its tee times open 14 days ahead.
How to book it
Tee times are on golfinca.com; Torrey Pines books online, with separate terms for city residents and non-residents, and the San Diego courses guide covers the rest of the county. The steakhouses book on OpenTable from their own pages, linked above. For a club table or a cabana at Float, send the night and the group from the venue's page, and our San Diego partner sets it up.
Frequently asked questions
Can visitors play Torrey Pines? Yes. Both courses are city-owned and public, and non-residents can reserve the South up to 90 days out.
Torrey Pines South or North? The North, at 7,259 yards and a 134 slope, is the better first round for most visitors. The South is the U.S. Open course.
Do we need a car at night? Not if the group stays downtown. STK, Parq and Nova are on Sixth Avenue, Onyx Room is on Fifth, and Altitude Sky Lounge is on K Street by Petco Park.
Is there a pool party? Float, the rooftop pool at Hard Rock Hotel San Diego, runs Liquid Sunshine on Saturdays from 1 PM to 6 PM, 21 and over.
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