Trip recommendations

[Mark Mammel]

I'm looking for advice from this learned and well-traveled group. A friend and I are driving from St Paul to Carmel, via Prairie Dunes. Planning a stop at Black Mesa GC in Espanola NM- any recommendations for good golf between there and Carmel? It's a long drive over a lot of country- we'd like to find the best of it.

[PCCraig]

Kansas is a bit out of your way on the drive to Indiana, isn't Mark? 

[Mark Mammel]

Oh you are a comedian, though Crooked Stick is nearby. But the other one.

[Daryl "Turboe" Boe]

Kansas is a bit out of your way on the drive to Indiana, isn't Mark? 

That's what I thought too until I saw that NM was the next stop...

[Phil Burr]

Arizona is the obvious stop between NM and CA, but I's skip it.  If you've driven nine hours to get from Hutchinson to Espanola, I'd make another 9-hour drive from Espanola to St. George and play Sand Hollow.  After that an eight hour drive would get you to Carson City, where I'd pull in every favor I could think of to play Clear Creek.  From there you could get to Carmel in another five hours or so.  Sounds like a lot of time behind the wheel to me!

[Tim Leahy]

I'm looking for advice from this learned and well-traveled group. A friend and I are driving from St Paul to Carmel, via Prairie Dunes. Planning a stop at Black Mesa GC in Espanola NM- any recommendations for good golf between there and Carmel? It's a long drive over a lot of country- we'd like to find the best of it.

Las Vegas would be a good stop between NM and Cali with plenty of great golf. From there the most direct route to Monterey would take you through Bakersfield to Paso Robles also a good rest stop with surprisingly good public golf including Hunter Ranch, a tribute to MacKenzie. From there Monterey would be next stop up the 101 and I would advise a side trip to Pasatiempo in Santa Cruz. Enjoy and report back with your findings.

[Tommy Williamsen]

I concur with Sand Hollow. It is  pleasure to play it. I might try Flagstaff, however. Forest Highlands is pretty good and COOL.

[Mark Mammel]

Arizona is the obvious stop between NM and CA, but I's skip it.  If you've driven nine hours to get from Hutchinson to Espanola, I'd make another 9-hour drive from Espanola to St. George and play Sand Hollow.  After that an eight hour drive would get you to Carson City, where I'd pull in every favor I could think of to play Clear Creek.  From there you could get to Carmel in another five hours or so.  Sounds like a lot of time behind the wheel to me!

Thanks all for suggestions. Phil- preference for a course at Sand Hollow?

[Phil Burr]

Mark, they just call it the Championship Course.p