While I've only played this course once, thanks to Bill McBride's club friend, Murph; I can harken back to a truly magical and enchanting round over a golf course that has real charm and allure. There are perhaps a half dozen courses I can look back on that had everything one would want in a round of golf at a specific locale. First off, from the very entry and approach to the magical kingdom club house, you feel like you are entering a special place beyond everday realities. The landforms, trees and vegitation of TVCoM are both so Califormia in impression, yet in places woodland anywhere, that you get the sense of a nice hike through an enclave set apart from everday-everwhere. The occasional glimpses out to the Pacific keep reminding you of the beauty of California, with lavender green and earthtone hills and mountains in the opposite direction as backdrops to the scene.
But, the course and its architecture, with its graceful stylings of bunkering and contours along with its angles, generous width, and walkable stategic routing are a great test of golf, yet nothing that beats you up or grumbles you into a game beyond one's abilities as so much architorture presents on too many highly acclaimed courses. TVCoM is without a doubt a course one could spend their entire golf life playing, never get bored, and always be looking forward to your next round, either wanting to go from 18 back to first tee, or just wait for the next glorious California day to get back out there.