Oceanfront golf for $44? It is potential right here

Rising up in Southern California’s Inland Empire, Orange County seashores have been simply an hour’s drive away, and I spent everything of my youth making day journeys to Newport Seaside as typically as I may on the weekends, and searching ahead to our annual week-long keep as a household throughout the summer time.

My dad and I at all times favored to tee it up a couple of times throughout these holidays, however discount golf is difficult to seek out in Orange County. And an reasonably priced tee time with a view of the ocean? Rarer nonetheless! That’s why my first go to to Coronado Golf Course — a muni almost 100 miles south of Newport — was so affecting.

My household had gathered in San Diego for birthday celebration, and we have been all trying ahead to testing out a brand new space’s muni scene. The highest course course on the docket: Coronado — a neighborhood treasure that opened in 1957.

For anybody who hasn’t been, visiting the island of Coronado is an expertise in itself. To get there, you cross San Diego Bay through the Coronado Bridge, a beautiful 2.1 mile journey. You’ll be able to get pleasure from panoramic views of the water, downtown San Diego and the close by U.S. naval base.

The island is gorgeous and quaint, and the course is splendidly unpretentious. It affords a stern check, too. Although it’s solely 6,590 yards from the tips about the scorecard, the ranking tells you all you could know: 78.5/138 (!).

Water views are ample at Coronado, significantly on holes 3, 4 and 5, and the memorable closing stretch of 16, 17 (a beastly 437-yard par-4) and 18, all of which play straight alongside the bay.

I used to be completely charmed Coronado’s simple walkability and the frequent airplane and helicopter sightings from the close by naval base. My complete household had a blast. There are few issues sweeter than a late-afternoon tee time at a course by the water. And the very best half, after all, is the worth. Inexperienced charges vary from $44-$83, with a $25 reserving charge tacked on for guests hoping to make a tee time as much as 14 days prematurely. That’s a smokin’ deal in my e book. I can’t wait to return.

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As a four-year member of Columbia’s inaugural class of feminine varsity golfers, Jessica can out-birdie everybody on the masthead. She will be able to out-hustle them within the workplace, too, the place she’s primarily chargeable for producing each print and on-line options, and overseeing main particular tasks, reminiscent of GOLF’s inaugural Model Is­sue, which debuted in February 2018. Her origi­nal interview sequence, “A Spherical With,” debuted in November of 2015, and appeared in each within the journal and in video type on GOLF.com.