The sixth hole on Torrey Pines Golf Course - North is a stunner.
After watching that gripping U.S. Open finale, I suspect many of you are planning, or at least longing for, a San Diego golf vacation and the opportunity to play the South layout at Torrey Pines Golf Course.
Well, here’s a little secret if you make it out there. While the trophy hunters, chest thumpers, and low handicappers prefer to do battle only on the South Course, one of the most beloved San Diego golf courses among locals is the North Course.
Why? Well, Torrey Pines Golf Course – North is a classic player’s course rather than a championship test. It offers good sport, with a good chance to score well, and picturesque scenery. In fact, whereas parts of the South Course pass by hotels and a hospital, the North Course is more fully enveloped by nature. Read more →
Hang in there: Getting a tee time at Torrey Pines Golf Course isn
One of the reasons the 2002 U.S. Open was so popular was because it was contested on New York’s Bethpage Black, not only a public course but a municipally owned and operated public course. Well, get ready for “The People’s Open – West.”
The U.S. Open begins today, and it’s being played on the South eighteen at Torrey Pines Golf Course, owned and operated by the city of San Diego. Together with the North Course, Torrey Pines lays claim to America’s only two municipally owned seaside layouts.
While out-of-towners (especially groups of two or more) will sometimes find it frustratingly difficult to score a tee time on this Torrey Pines Golf Course before 3pm, a San Diego golf vacation just wouldn’t be complete without playing this venue, beefed up by Rees Jones in 2001 purposely to land this tournament. Read more →
You can get a tour-caliber test on your San Diego golf vacation at Torrey Pines Golf Course.
Want to play this week’s PGA Tour venue exactly the way the world’s best players will experience it on Sunday? If so, plan your next San Diego golf vacation so you’re at Torrey Pines Golf Course on the Monday following its annual Buick Invitational.
Few people outside of San Diego know that, immediately after the conclusion of the tournament, Torrey Pines Golf Course holds a lottery for the next day’s tee times. The lucky golfers selected not only get to play the South Course under championship conditions, they can play from the Championship tees and with Sunday pin placements. If there was ever a way to truly know the challenging set-ups that tour players contend with, this is it. Read more →
Torrey's serene scene will change come open time.
Add one more to the already long list of good reasons to take a San Diego golf vacation: the opportunity to score tickets to the 2008 U.S Open at Torrey Pines before they go on sale to the general public.
The USGA recently announced that it will give its members the opportunity to buy week-long “grounds” and “Trophy Club” ticket packages in advance of non-members as long as they submit an application by 5 p.m. on April 15, 2007. The Trophy Club option includes access to an on-site, air-conditioned tent with food and beverage service. Read more →
The luxurious but low key Lodge at Torrey Pines.
I don’t know where PGA Tour rookie Brandt Snedeker slept Wednesday night, but judging by his blistering score of 61 in yesterday’s opening round of the Buick Invitational, there’s a good chance it was at the elegantly rustic and restful Lodge at Torrey Pines.
With rooms starting at $335 per night, the Lodge is not cheap, but it’s one of the best places you can stay on a San Diego golf vacation and a monumental improvement over the no-frills travel lodge that previously stood behind the 18th green of Torrey Pines’ South Course. Read more →
