‘Best 36-Holes’ on Monterey Bay, Carmel’s Premier Collection of Boutique Hotels Offer a Wide Variety of Stay-and-Play Options
(SEASIDE, Calif.) – Bayonet and Black Horse Golf Club today announces its “stay and play” packages with Inns by the Sea, the area’s premier collection of boutique hotel properties, will be offered throughout the reminder of 2009 and in 2010.
Bayonet and Black Horse are two of the most storied golf courses on the Monterey Peninsula — opening in 1954 and 1967, respectively. The 18-hole, sister layouts have hosted golf’s greats including Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson, several U.S. Presidents and many foreign dignitaries. Both courses underwent a $13 million renovation by the Bates Golf Design Group and re-opened in December, 2008.
Inns by the Sea features five cottage-style hotels ranging from 13 to 35 rooms, all located in picturesque Carmel-by-the-Sea, one of the most sought-after shopping districts on the Peninsula. The packages, ranging from $249 to $389 per night, per golfer, offer a myriad of stay-and-play options at a variety of price points. Included (in addition to accommodations) is one round of golf, daily, on Bayonet or Black Horse with cart and range balls. Continental breakfast is delivered to the room each morning.
Additional golfers can be added for $95 per day, Monday through Friday, and $120 on Saturdays and Sundays. Rates are subject to availability and some restrictions and blackouts. For pricing and booking, visit www.innsbythesea.com or call 800.433.4732 and ask for the Bayonet and Black Horse package.
“We are excited to extend our relationship with Inns by the Sea and to provide traveling golfers with an unique combination of championship golf and boutique accommodations,” says Dick Fitzgerald, director for Seaside Resort Development. “The package is ideal for golfers and golf fans considering a trip to the Monterey Peninsula for the 2010 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, or to enjoy our year-round golf weather.”
Bayonet and Black Horse’s renovated features include: dramatic alterations to corridors and hole routings to reveal breathtaking ocean vistas; improved playing options off the tee and around greens; replacing invasive kikuyu and poa annua grasses on the tees, fairways and greens with the preferred Jacklin T1 Bentgrass, a rarity for the region that will ensure the best lies and smoothest putting surfaces on the Peninsula. Bayonet is still considered – and rated – one of the most challenging courses in the state, ranking No. 35 in Golf Digest’s list of the “50 Toughest Golf Courses in the United States.
Recently introduced at Bayonet and Black Horse is The Enclave at Cypress Grove. The first phase of a 400-acre planned, residential golf resort community, The Enclave at Cypress Grove offers homebuyers 29 custom home sites, ranging in size from 12,000 to 20,000 square-feet and featuring ocean or golf course views. The gated, luxury resort community provides residents convenient access to an abundance of dining, shopping and area attractions. It is minutes away from Monterey Bay, Cannery Row, The Monterey Bay Aquarium, numerous outdoor sports, vineyards and tasting rooms.
Bayonet and Black Horse information: www.bayonetblackhorse.com; 831.899.7271 (PAR 1). The Enclave at Cypress Grove: info@cypressgroveliving.com; 831.394.5600.
About Inns by the Sea
Inns by the Sea is a unique collection of eight lovely inns located in four premier destinations along California’s spectacular Central Coast. From Half Moon Bay to Carmel-by-the-Sea, each inn is unsurpassed for its warm, welcoming staff, cozy comfort, and relaxed elegance. Properties on the Monterey Peninsula include: Candle Light Inn, Carriage House Inn, Dolphin Inn, Svendsgaard’s, and Wayside Inn. For more information about rooms and amenities, visit www.innsbythesea.com.
About Bayonet and Black Horse Golf Club
Bayonet, with its narrow playing corridors and steep, penal bunkering, has long been considered the most difficult test of golf on the Monterey Peninsula. The par-72, 7,104-yard course has retained its famous bite after the recent renovation by award-winning architect Gene Bates, but playability and strategic options have been greatly improved. The uphill, dogleg right, 476-yard, par-4 ninth hole exemplifies the course’s significant challenge. Black Horse, a 7,024-yard, par-72 layout, features sweeping vistas of the Pacific and is highlighted by fescue-framed fairways, bunkers with distinctive, serrated edges and slickly-contoured greens. The par-3 15th, created during the renovation, faces the bay and is sure to emerge as one of the great holes on the Peninsula.
Getting There: The Monterey Peninsula Airport offers commercial and charter air service, including direct flights to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Phoenix and Las Vegas. San Jose International Airport and San Francisco International Airport serve the area and are one and two hours north of Bayonet Black Horse, respectively.
Contact:
Shane Sharp
Buffalo Communications
704.519.8381 (cell)
ssharp@billycaspergolf.com
www.buffalocommunications.com
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