June 23 — So, even after watching the world’s best golfers founder around trying to hold the green at the dastardly 14th hole, you still want to play Pebble Beach Golf Links.
After all, what New England golfer wouldn’t want to card an eight or a nine (see Y.E. Yang, Zach Johnson, Ian Poulter, Paul Casey at last week’s US Open) on a putting surface that apparently couldn’t hold a cannon ball?
Open to the public. The course is open to the public, so there’s really nothing stopping you. Unless, of course, you have a mortgage to pay or need to, you know, eat.
For sure, you had better have a robust portfolio before you plunk down $495 for a round of golf at the famed seaside links layout. Of course, as Tod Leonard of the San Diego Union recently noted, that’s just the price of admission.
Exhausted from hauling out your wallet and need a golf cart? That’ll be another $35, according to the SportsByBrooks blog.
Two-night minimum. Then there’s the matter of tee times. Turns out, if you want to do so more than a day in advance (and unless you can fire up your private jet at a moment’s notice, or making the cross-country trek from New England, not a bad idea), you have to check into The Inn at Spanish Bay, The Lodge, or Casa Palmero for at least two nights, Leonard says.
The cheapest room at The Inn is about $600, but, hey, why not go all out and book a $2,750-per-night suite at the Casa Palmero? You only live — and play Pebble Beach — once, right?
What a deal. If you’re willing to wait until November 21, you may book a garden-view room at The Inn for just $475. That “special” is good through March 31, 2011.
Leonard also offered some nearby golfing alternatives to Pebble, such as Spyglass Hill ($350 per round), the Links at Spanish Bay ($260), or Quail Lodge (a bargain-basement deal at $185). You may also choose to walk the municipal Pacific Grove Golf Course, for only $48 on weekends.
Gimme Pebble. Fine courses all, no doubt. Only one problem; none of them is Pebble Beach.
(Emily Kay is a regular contributor to New England Golf Monthly. She also writes the Boston Golf Examiner and National Golf Examiner blogs.)
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