Oceanfront golf for $44? It is attainable right here

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

My dad and I all the time preferred to tee it up a few times throughout these holidays, however discount golf is difficult to search out in Orange County. And an inexpensive 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 wanting 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 stunning 2.1 mile journey. You possibly can 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 take a look at, too. Although it’s solely 6,590 yards from the recommendations on the scorecard, the score tells you all you must know: 78.5/138 (!).

Water views are ample at Coronado, notably 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 instantly 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 perfect half, in fact, is the value. Inexperienced charges vary from $44-$83, with a $25 reserving payment tacked on for guests hoping to make a tee time as much as 14 days prematurely. That’s a smokin’ deal in my ebook. 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 answerable for producing each print and on-line options, and overseeing main particular tasks, similar to GOLF’s inaugural Type 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 kind on GOLF.com.