Carts are optional. The course pro is Mark Darby, and golf instruction is available. The clubhouse features a nice golf shop and a large restaurant with a full bar. Locals should ask about the many membership plans available that include privileges at Rancho Ca ada in Carmel Valley. Next to the Monterey Fairgrounds on Garden Road, it's right in town and provides a great golf value, especially for military personnel.
Carts are optional.
The course pro is Steve Soule, and lessons are available. This 5571-yard, par 70 course is actually two distinctly different sets of nines. The front nine is inland and offers nice green fairways, a few towering pines and oaks, and an achievable par on a solid day of driving and putting. But then it's time to cross Asilomar Boulevard and face the often-brutal coastal back nine. The 10th hole teases you with a short and easy par 3, but then 11 heads directly seaward toward sand dunes, ice plant, thin fairways, and, if you're really lucky, howling gusts off the Pacific.