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Course lowdown
Play a round at Poppy Hills Golf Course and you know you've stepped up to the big leagues.
Maybe it's the fact that it's one of the three Pebble Beach courses the PGA invades for the often rain-soaked AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. Or maybe it's the professional atmosphere, immaculate conditions and unusually difficult golf required of being one of the Northern California Golf Association's (NCGA) home courses (Poppy Ridge in Livermore is the other).
Maybe it's the seclusion of being stuck smack dab in the middle of Del Monte Forest. You're alone with the beauty of the all-consuming trees, the glorious smell of the ocean mixed with pine, and your golf game, for better or worse.
Poppy Hills, like Pebble, like Spyglass, is long, thought out and well-designed. But unlike Pebble and Spyglass, it has no ocean holes — so there's protection from Mother Nature's playful cruelty that always seems to sweep in from Monterey Bay.
The course is long, there's trouble everywhere you look, and it's ranked as one of the more difficult tracks in the state.
Just remember when you play it: The pros shoot in the high 70s here sometimes, so don't worry about your score.
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Poppy Hills