Monterey Peninsula, California, USA
Monterey Peninsula, California, USA is home to 8 courses we'd build a trip around — starting with Pebble Beach Golf Links. Mostly Clifftop links and Clifftop and dunes links and Dunes-and-forest parkland courses. Every entry below is curated, fact-checked against public sources, and linked to a sample itinerary you can build on.
Plan a trip to Monterey Peninsula, California, USAPebble Beach Golf Links
The most famous public-access course on earth, hugging Carmel Bay.
Cypress Point Club
Alister MacKenzie's private masterpiece where forest, dune, and ocean meet.
Spyglass Hill Golf Course
A brutally beautiful Trent Jones test, from ocean dunes into the forest.
Pacific Grove Municipal
Locally known as "the poor man's Pebble" — coastal links on the same ocean cliffs, at muni rates.
Del Monte Golf Course
The oldest course in continuous play west of the Mississippi — a Pebble Beach Co. classic at modest rates.
Poppy Hills
The NCGA-owned Pebble Beach-area course — a 2014 Hanse-era renovation made it the wider, more strategic peninsula round.
Bayonet & Black Horse
Two former military courses on the old Fort Ord land — the peninsula's honest-test alternative to the Pebble price tag.
The Links at Spanish Bay
Robert Trent Jones Jr. + Tom Watson + Sandy Tatum — the most-photographed Pebble Beach Co. course after Pebble itself.
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