Dean Wilson-Garbutt is a PGA golf instructor at The Santaluz Club in Rancho Santa Fe, a Rees Jones-designed private course embedded within a 3,800-acre master-planned community in North County San Diego that was developed with a commitment to preserving the natural coastal sage scrub habitat of the San Dieguito watershed rather than replacing it with imported turf and manufactured landscape features. The Jones design uses native vegetation as the rough boundary, routes holes through the existing terrain rather than imposing a design on the land, and creates green sites that sit within natural bowl and hillside formations — producing a course that feels grown rather than built. Wilson-Garbutt's instruction at this naturalistic private facility reflects both the course's strategic demands and the private club environment where relationship-based teaching and consistent practice access allow real improvement to develop over time.