[Nick Pozaric]

My California trip is just a couple days away.  I am playing
Cypress Point
Spyglass Hill
San Francisco GC
Olympic Club
Pebble Beach
Pasatiempo(maybe if time permits)

For those that have been out there what are things that are must do or must haves out there.  For example a certain drink or meal at a club or whatever.  Your help is greatly appreciated.

[cary lichtenstein]

Pebble Beach-19th hole overlooking the 18th green. Have lunch, cheeseburger with mushrooms and grilled onions, preceded by Ceasar Salad. Order a bottle of Dom Perignon to start. Just great.

[Pete Lavallee]

The hambergers shaped like hotgogs at the Olympic Club snack shack are a must.

[THuckaby2]

Well you certainly are hitting our jewels.  There is obviously nothing to add on the golf front.

Re food/drinks, I assume you mean AT each club?  The choices are endless outside of them... we are rather a culinary capital out here, I dare say.

So for in-club food/drink, adding to Cary's fine recommendation at Pebble, I'd make sure and have:

1. Prime rib chili at Spyglass grill (snack hut by 9th green).  Especially on a cold day, this is to die for.

2. The hamburger on hot bun at Olympic.  World famous.

3. ANYTHING at SFGC - just make sure and have a meal there, and spend some time in that world class, creaky old locker room.

4. If you get to Pasa, do take time and have a beer on the veranda overlooking 9 green.  That is one of golf's great views.

5. If you have access to the member's part of the clubhouse at Cypress and can have a drink/meal there, well that makes Pasa look like dirt.  From what I hear, anyway.

TH

[Mike Benham]

At O Club (downstairs grill), the Manhattan Clam Chow-dah is fantastic ...

[Craig Van Egmond]

The only thing I see missing is drinks with Bob Huntley at MPCC.

Seriously,  what a fantastic trip, kick back and enjoy.

[Lance Rieber]

Hey Nick do you ever work? Just got back from the show a week or two ago and now this.  Get to work on level 3, I turned mine in last week.
Lance

[THuckaby2]

The only thing I see missing is drinks with Bob Huntley at MPCC.

Now that goes without saying.  And the halfway house on either course at MPCC is well worth lingering at, as are the dining room and men's grill.

BUT... we don't want to put good ole Bob on the spot, do we?

 

[Nick Pozaric]

Hey Nick do you ever work? Just got back from the show a week or two ago and now this.  Get to work on level 3, I turned mine in last week.
Lance

Turned it in already, thats awesome!  I am about half way finished.   I cant go to my next checkpoint till the late fall so I am in no hurry.  BTW i played Seminole, Trump International, and Isleworth while at the show

[Scott_Burroughs]

Nick,

I had a very Barney-esque answer to your question, but decided to tone it down a bit.  It involved going back to your hotel and getting hairy palms thinking about all the great courses you get to play.  

 

[Tiger_Bernhardt]

Actually after dark slide into the Tap Room at the Lodge for drinks and the previously mention food. That is the 19th hole at Pebble. The view of the 18th green is good living and should be done as well. I would eat down at spanish Bay rather than at spyglass for views alone. The 19th hole there is grand as well. the other guys nailed Olympic Cypress and SFGC very nicely.

[Top100Guru]

You should try to arrange Burlingame or Monterey Peninsula C as well

[THuckaby2]

Good call re eating down at Spanish Bay - that too has a fine bar right off the pro shop, and Roy's is a don't-miss destination for foodies, with one heck of a great spot also to sit and have a driink at dusk - at the fire pits right outside of the restaurant.

Re eating at the Glass, that would be for at the turn during the round there.  That prime rib chili is really good.

 

[Lance Rieber]

I don't want to hear it.  

[THuckaby2]

You should try to arrange Burlingame or Monterey Peninsula C as well

Assume time is an issue, as he seems to say.

Which one would he give up for those?

MAYBE he might enjoy one of the MPCC courses more than Spyglass.  But if he hasn't played the Glass, I can't even see making that substitution.

Nope, I'd say he has a perfect slate of courses lined up.

TH

[Lance Rieber]

Hey Huck, ever eat at the Hollins house at Pasa, if I am not mistaken it is a nice place to eat?
Lance

[THuckaby2]

Lance - yep - we had a nice meal there after the first round of THE KING'S PUTTER II, as a matter of fact.  Very nice indeed.  But to me, it's just as well to eat down in the clubhouse...

[Top100Guru]

Tom;

He could "easily" play 36 two days and squeeze in Both!!!!!!!

Unless of course.......

....well, let's just leave it at that!!!!

[Steve Pozaric]

Hey Nick do you ever work? Lance

I don't think he does - at least not what I would consider work.  

[Nick Pozaric]

Tom;

He could "easily" play 36 two days and squeeze in Both!!!!!!!

Unless of course.......

....well, let's just leave it at that!!!!

im actually doing 36 both monday and tuesday and 18 wed.  I have to get it all in before the wife gets out there wed night

[Mike Hendren]

Go to a winery or seven.

Be a contrarian and lay off the pinot.

Mike

[James Bennett]

As an Ozzie from down-under, I have to agree with redanman.  Check out In N Out Burger, enjoy the retro decor and be thankful for the freshness of cut for the lettuce, meat (yes, real meat) and chips (sorry, fries) made from whole potatoes in front of your eyes!  Deciding from the extensive (ha) menu is pretty easy.   :DCould be a thread on the golden age of hamburger making! Ha!  Visits to Vegas and California were always 'In N Out' visits.

Unfortunately, In N Out Burger hasn't made it to Australia yet, although Crispy Creme donuts recently have.

[THuckaby2]

3. ANYTHING at SFGC - just make sure and have a meal there, and spend some time in that world class, creaky old locker room.
TH

SFGC may have the Duel Hole, but CalClub has the dueling locker rooms.

Considering that on this one I have to be considered a homer, with all due respect, the showers are indeed better at SFGC, but do they really have the better locker room(s)?  They don't have a better bar.

redanman:

He never mentioned going to CalClub.  I reserved my comments for courses he said he was going to play.

OH hell yes, if world class locker-rooms and bars are the intent, he ought to START at Cal Club and never leave.  

But he is gonna play SFGC, and my comment was that if he has time, he ought to spend some time there also.

But if his world is perfect, he plays SFGC, drives over and changes, eats and drinks at Cal Club.

Is that better?

Now re IN n Out burger, yes that is a California must.  And although that is most definitely a SoCal invention, we have them all over the place here in NorCal now also.  In fact, there's one damn near within sight of SFGC, just off the freeway barely south of Lake Merced G&CC.  Could make for a fine diversion after golf at SFGC and Olympic....

TH

[Tony_Chapman]

My California trip is just a couple days away.  I am playing
Cypress Point
Spyglass Hill
San Francisco GC
Olympic Club
Pebble Beach
Pasatiempo(maybe if time permits)

      This is some kind of trip. I am waiting to have the snow off the ground so I can play Wild Horse. Unbelievable.

[THuckaby2]

Yes, you did.  But you also conveniently didn't read the thread, in which he stated he's already playing 36 +36+18, with no time for any additions.

Cal Club ain't gonna happen.

Context is a beautiful thing.

 

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