Monterey Peninsula course ranks with world’s most celebrated layouts
(SEASIDE, Calif.) – The Bayonet Course, flagship layout at the 36-hole Bayonet Black Horse Golf Club on the Monterey Peninsula, is ranked No. 15 among California’s best public-access courses by GOLF Magazine in the September issue.
Bayonet is in elite company on the list of California’s finest, alongside Pebble Beach, Spyglass Hill and Torrey Pines. The state boasts more than 630 public-access facilities in all. GOLF Magazine’s ratings panel included editorial staff and well-traveled golf industry sources.
“Bayonet’s ranking among California’s best public golf courses is a resounding, third-party endorsement of the Gene Bates redesign and Tour-caliber conditioning,” says Dick Fitzgerald, project director for owner/operator Seaside Resort Development. “We are proud to be recognized by GOLF Magazine, one of the game’s foremost authorities on golf course architecture.”
Bayonet and Black Horse re-opened in December 2008 after a $13 million renovation by Bates Golf Design Group. Both courses underwent dramatic view-shed alterations and hole re-routings to reveal new, breathtaking ocean vistas and improved playing options (including new bentgrass greens).
For more information, rates and tee times, log onto www.bayonetblackhorse.com, and visit iTunes to download the Bayonet Black Horse iPhone App, key word: Bayonet.
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
ssharp@buffalocommunications.com
