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Golf is trying to take a page from the Whole Foods playbook and convince us golfers that "earth-friendly courses" with worse conditions and higher green fees are the noble, righteous play.
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The Monterey Peninsula is home to golf courses that can bring out your competitive side, but Quail Lodge gives you both a challenging play and a tranquil environment. With award-winning turf management, the course trails the Carmel River to give golfers a day of golf that will feel like a deep-tissue massage for the senses. And the resort's recent $25-million upgrade makes it a choice for those venturing inland from the beaches of Carmel.
Dear, links course snobs: If The Links at Spanish Bay is left off of your uber-purist list of the world's links courses, your list means
nothing, Andrew Resnik writes. This Pebble Beach course is more or less
smack dab on the beach, sand dunes are a factor on most holes and the
wind (even on calm days) is ever present. If that's not enough, you're
encouraged to hit low run-up shots and putt from off the green.
Even in a setting as posh as the Monterey Peninsula, public, affordable, seaside links golf is there for those who don't carry Platinum cards. Witness Pacific Grove Golf Links. Here in the land of $300 green fees it’s refreshing to drive into a parking
lot totally lacking in pretension. So low-key is
the approach to this "Poor Man's Pebble Beach" that,
if you’re gazing at players strolling up the
18th fairway, you might miss the clubhouse altogether.
The Web site for Bayonet Golf Course in Seaside
only hints at the bigness of the place. A golf course
on a very large scale, it's apparent from the moment
you set foot on the first tee that you're some place
special. Extraordinarily beautiful and painfully
exacting, Bayonet will have you pulling out every
single club and probably more often than you'd like.
In a single world, writes Andrew Resnik, Bayonet
is macho.
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While the golf industry on the Monterey Peninsula
does cater to an affluent crowd, there is an absurd
amount of quality, affordable golf to be played out
here. Not so-so munis that just happen to reside
two hours south of San Francisco, but excellent courses
that have long been popular with the locals and will
forever be overshadowed by the high-dollar likes
of Pebble Beach, Spyglass, Poppy Hills and Links
at Spanish Bay.
Let's face it, in addition to being darn pricey, tee times at Pebble Beach Golf Links are impossible
to get. With the room reservation and green fees
needed to hold a valid tee time, you're already in
the range of $1,000. But there's another way, writes
Dave Berner. If you show up as a single and are willing
to wait, there's a reasonable chance you'll get on.
This isn't something the resort advertises but it's
real.
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