Above California's (Coastal) Golf Courses

[David_Tepper]

Tom-
This inlet is in the stretch of dunes/linksland that I have mentioned in my prior posts. It is 5-10 miles south of Pigeon Point, starts south of where Gazos Creek reaches the ocean and extens south towards Ano Nuevo. Next time you drive Highway 1 to Santa Cruz, keep an eye out for it. It is some of the most bonafide linksland I have ever seen on the California coastline. The area starts with image 6340 and runs thru 6352.
DT

[THuckaby2]

David - I am 99% sure I have been there and almost that sure I have hit golf balls off of exactly this point.  I've driven the length of Highway 1 from border to border, with the stretch from SF to Monterey being done most frequently... I'm kind of a coast-nut.

Don't comment on that, redanman.  

Anyway thanks for the post... this is really cool.

TH

[JohnV]

It sounds like you are talking about the area that is below the Costanoa campground.  Somewhere I have some pictures I took there earlier this year.  I'll look tonight.

[Tommy_Naccarato]

Tom, where and how I got Big Sunday is beyond me....I know the movie is named Big Wednesday. How I typed Big Sunday?

Maybe the same thing happened once before when I was typing about how bad of a course Sandpines really is?

Nah!!!!!

Redanman,
Yeah, your right again. The California coast sucks and doesn't have very good geography for golf..........

[Tommy_Naccarato]

Mike,
I was in Huntington Beach last night, driving down PCH and by some of the beautiful wetlands and sandy waste, just thinking to myself what it must have looked like 80 years ago.

I think many would be surprized to know that Newport Beach/Balboa was at one time pretty good golf land--at least in my thinking. However I'm sure many in Orange County do think otherwise. They have created a zoo out of it, just as they wanted.  (lets not forget that at one time Newport Dunes must have meant something relating to duneland would you not agree?)(It bares any resemblence to have anything related to sand now, looking more like housing and other various structures as part of the original natural landscape.)

The images of Trestles, both Upper and Lower look pretty good too! (At least for riding the endless wave!)

[redanman]

Redanman,
Yeah, you're right (Or did you mean it was my right to point it out or-what I said is correct!) again. The California coast sucks and doesn't have very good geography for golf..........

Tommy, note the lines of erosion and how they radiate straight downhill to the shore.  GREAT natural dunesland?  .....Nah.  When you come back East, I'll show you some interesting coastline out on long Island.

It is a nice sand pile, though.

But I am glad there are some dedicated fruitcakes defending it from people like Fazio.

[Tommy_Naccarato]

See Redanman, Your so busy looking at the stuff close to the shoreline, you forgot to look at everything in back of it!:)

[Patrick_Mucci]

Tommy Naccarato,

Bet you never thought that this NJ boy surfed Rincon,
played volleyball on the beach at Santa Barbara.
Or had a girlfriend from Carpenteria.

There is more to life than golf, I just wish I knew what.  

[Tommy_Naccarato]

Pat,
I have surfed Rincon, and not very well either. Did it two times in a storm and thought I was going to end up shark food. In fact, I think all of the times I surfed, it was the same scenario--floating on foam into the seashore.

Yikes!

But man was it fun!

[redanman]

Tommy_N

Lay us out a routing!

[George Pazin]

I don't know how you guys can even look at that land. Isn't there a better chance that Bill Gates decides to give me a spare billion than California allowing a new golf course along a coast?

[Tommy_Naccarato (Guest)]

Pacific Grove--I love this place.