PASATIEMPO GOLF COURSE

The Alister MacKenzie masterpiece carved into the Santa Cruz hills delivers everything you'd expect from the good doctor's strategic brilliance, with elevated tees revealing dramatic elevation changes and MacKenzie's signature bunkering that punishes wayward shots while rewarding proper angles. The par-4 16th plunges 200 feet downhill through towering eucalyptus trees, creating one of California's most memorable golf holes that perfectly captures MacKenzie's genius for using natural terrain. This is public golf at its most cerebral—a thinking player's course where course management trumps pure distance every time.