Sun & Fog - Monterey Peninsula - Photos

[Mike_Sweeney]

Growing up summers at The Jersey Shore and spending a good portion of those summers working on a fishing boat out in the middle of the ocean, it is not surprising that seaside golf is my real passion. Here are some more photos from the trip to MP:

The trip started out at Spanish Bay



The warmup on the back 9 at Pacific Grove with some morning golfers



The bunkering details are overlooked due to the surroundings at PG



The Nicklaus 5th hole at Pebble Beach



Words and pictures can't describe the 7th hole at Pebble



The greatest second shot hole (Pebble 8th) I have ever played, my ball is in the circle and I got up and down for Par 4 from the tippy tips. Please note I am only telling the few highlights of my golfing !!



Looking back on Pebble's 8th from the green, this is an inspirational place





We picked up a 4th at Pebble and his girlfriend (on left) walked the course with us and we had alot of fun with her. For some reason, she is not that interested in the architecture of Pebble.



9th Green



Surfing and golfing



The most famous walk in golf to the 16th hole for my partner Dean



His hit to the green,



The opposite side holeout from the right bunker for birdie on the 16th at Cypress !



Clayman's mysterious fog continued as we moved to the beach at MPCC



Good night Monterey Peninsula.

[Bill_McBride]

These pictures are as great as those posted last week of NGLA.  If there is no other reason for GCA.com to exist, this is enough.  Thanks Mike.

The only comparable fog I can recall will be familiar to the Portland contingent:  Eastmoreland 1968, an early round. The Portland guys I played with were able to locate your tee ball by the sound.  No sound, in the fairway or first cut.  Into the perimeter trees, "kwock!!"

[Michael Moore]

!!!

[RJ_Daley]

Thanks much Mike for sharing your time there with your pictures.  Some of the GCA readers may never have the opportunity to see a place like the Monterey Pennisula.  Pictures of a fellow GCA poster enjoying and commenting on what they experienced is allowing others to live vicariously, and that is a good thing to offer friends.  I still hope that Ran could encourage the people that run this website to figure a way to add a button where people can easily post a few pictures for a limitted period on an allotment basis by just sending an e-mail rather than creating a personal web site.  I'm probably going to kick myself when I finally figure out how to do the personal web page thing and find it isn't as hard as I have made it out to be...

[Brian_Ewen]

Mike
Thanks for sharing .

RJ Daley
I used to think like you , even though I knew that my ISP supplied me 10mb of webspace for free , I just thought I would have to build a website and learn html code which seemed a lot of hassle and beyond my skills .Then I found a small utility to download from the net called snapgallery . Using this simple utilty along with an FTP is amazingly easy and like you say , I am kicking myself I never looked into it before .

Brian

[Steve Lapper]

Mike,

   Congrats on a great trip!

I am happy to know there is another GCA'er who has shared the joy of making 2 at one of the world's premier one-shotters. I hope you kept that ball out seperate, as I did. It will remain one of the most special moments of anyone's golfing lives.

Steve

[THuckaby2]

FANTASTIC!

Thanks, Mike.

The good news is I live about 50 miles from these places.

The bad news is I live about 50 miles from these places.

TH

[Tony_Chapman]

Great Pictures and Thanks!!! The Monterey Peninsula is beautiful no matter the weather. I am kicking myself for not playing Pacific Grove while I was out there. Drats!!

[Scratch_Nathan]

Mike -

Thanks for the pics.  Great bunker bird on #16.  Even better smile.  Congratulations.  Was that your first time at CPC?

[Mike_Sweeney]

Sorry for the confusion as I mentioned this on another thread, that was my partner Dean making birdie. I ONLY made Par. I have been to MP a few times, but never played the Big 3 before.

[THuckaby2]

Big 3?

I've always counted a Big 22 or so down there...  

TH

[A_Clay_Man]

A beautiful picture of the #1 handicap hole at Spanish Bay #4.

The first P.G. Pic is looking back toward the 15th tee. The ugly green round building use to be batteries protecting the bay. The second picture is of the 16th green and in all honestly the picture does not do justice to the deep faces on both those bunkers. The one on the left has much "lore" and the one on the right is actually placed within the green since they extended the green surface behind it.

On the fifth at Pebble, imagine it without the green. I swear, before it went in, the shot looked like it would be a draw out over the water, but JN put a cut green and threw me for a loop.

The pic of the ninth green shows just how deceptive it is. Becuase this is the tenth green.

Great picture of the walkway to 16.

And thanx for the acknowledgement

[Jimbo]

Stunning pictures.  Can't imagine how beautiful it was in person.  Thanks for sharing.

Where were the beverage carts?