Both courses at Rancho Canada in Carmel to close

[Joel_Stewart]

Sign of the times in California.


http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/blogs/news_blog/acres-of-rancho-ca-ada-golf-course-to-become-parkland/article_3c25657c-0bfb-11e6-8470-6f9aff30241a.html


Not the best courses in the world but provided reasonable golf in the Carmel area. Clint Eastwood is now involved trying to develop one of the courses into homes. 

[Carl Nichols]

Joel--
What's the best course east of Hwy 1 in the Carmel Valley area?  I've been there a few times but have never played one of the "inland" courses.

[Tim Leahy]

Monterey will miss two of the more affordable public courses in the area. I played many rounds on the west course to offset the costs of the more expensive venues. I remember one afternoon watching Bobby Clampett on the range there. At 18 he was scratch and I was about 18 hdcp. He put on a show for friends including stepping on a ball then taking a 1 iron and hitting the plugged ball about 250 yds straight down the middle. I dont remember there ever being any water in that "river" from May through October.

[Sam Kestin]

That's a shame.


I went to a Nike Golf Camp when I was like 13 that used to be based out of there. Reasonably decent courses as far as I can recall.

[Kris Shreiner]

The PB caddies often slipped over after a round to play the Rancho Show.
Decent 36 hole facility with some solid holes.
Guess Clint can't get enough. He already took a conservation area out of that designation in the past, and built his Tepileashit golf course,  imposing a design on ground that had significant slope and water erosion issues. There are a couple of all-world GCA abortions on that routing.
We called it Harry's Dirty Woods;
it was yet another gross over-reach by a greedy fossil determined to have his little playground high on the hill, looking down over Cypress, PB and all the rest.
Sadly, a rather repugnent icon fawned over by those that aren't interested in the truth.
Laguna Seca, a sporty inland offering, is probably the best value proposation in the Carmel Valley.
Quail Lodge and Carmel Valley Ranch are also worth a go, though both have their warts.
Must try and get West to tee it up on those babies before they are gone.

Cheers,
Kris

[Todd Eckenrode]

I was disappointed to see this as well.  I used to really enjoy Rancho Canada as a kid.  Before knowing anything about architecture, I just liked the challenge of the holes over the river, the tall riparian trees there, etc.


Kris, get a look at Quail Lodge.  We renovated it very extensively and reopened last summer.  Bunkering turned out really well, introduced short-cut around all greens, removed about half the lakes, and introduced a deep swale on holes #1-3, and #16-17 for interest and strategy.