MONTEREY PENINSULA CC

The Dunes Course delivers raw coastal golf at its most elemental, where sand, wind, and native scrub create a links experience that predates Pebble Beach's manicured fame by decades. Mike Strantz's restoration honors the property's 1926 bones while amplifying the natural drama of rolling fairways that tumble through towering dunes just inland from Monterey Bay. When Pacific gusts howl through the marram grass and visibility drops to 50 yards, this becomes the closest thing to Scottish golf you'll find without crossing an ocean.