Torrey Pines Golf Course is a municipal public golf course owned by the city of San Diego, California. A township (or Municipality) is a settlement which has the status and powers of a unit of local government California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It sits on the coastal cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean in the community of La Jolla south of Torrey Pines State Reserve. The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth 's Oceanic divisions La Jolla (ləˈhɔɪə "luh-HOY-uh") is a wealthy Seaside resort community of up to 42808 residents within the city of San Diego, California Torrey Pines State Reserve is a coastal state park located in the California community of La Jolla California, off North Torrey Pines Road (formerly a part of It has two famous golf courses, the North Course and the South Course. The South Course was designed by William F. Bell and redesigned by Rees Jones in 2001. Rees Jones (born September 16, 1941) is a noted Golf course architect. It is now a par 72 course at 7,643 yards (6,989 m) in length from the back tees.
Much like Bethpage Black on Long Island, Torrey Pines boasts a unique method to ensure continued public access to the course. Bethpage State Park is a New York State park in Nassau County (and partially in Suffolk County) on Long Island. Long Island is an island located in southeastern New York, USA, its western shores directly across from Manhattan, from which the island stretches On weekends, individuals arrive as early as 6 p. m. the prior night to get in line for the first come / first serve tee times that are given out from sunrise till the first reservations at 7:30 a. m. .
Torrey Pines is the home of the PGA Tour Buick Invitational each year in January or February. The PGA Tour is an organization that operates the main professional Golf tours in the United States. The Buick Invitational, is a PGA Tour professional Golf tournament played in the San Diego California area in the early part of the Tour season known It hosts the San Diego City Amateur Golf Championships every June, and the Junior World Golf Championships every July. The Junior World Golf Championships are held in San Diego California, USA each year currently in July It will also host the U.S. Open in 2008. The United States Open Championship, commonly known as the US
Torrey Pines is the featured golf course in the 1990 computer game Links: The Challenge of Golf by Access Software (now Indie Built) as well as in Microsoft Golf 2. Links was the name of a series of Golf Simulation Computer games first developed by Access Software, and then later by Microsoft Indie Built Inc was a Salt Lake City Utah based Computer game developer founded in 1983 by Bruce Carver as Access Software 0 by Microsoft.
It is named after the Torrey Pine, a rare tree that grows in the wild only in parts of the coastline in San Diego County and on Santa Rosa Island. The Torrey Pine ( Pinus torreyana) also called "Del Mar Pine" and "Soledad Pine" is a broad open-crowned Pine growing to 8-15 m tall with San Diego County is a County located on the Pacific Ocean in the far southwest of the U Santa Rosa Island is the second largest of the Channel Islands of California at 53195 acres (215
North Course
The North Course is the shorter (from the men's tees) and easier of the two courses. All measurements made in yards.
| Tee | Rating/Slope | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | OUT | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | IN | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Championship | 72. In Golf, the teeing ground is the area at the beginning of a hole from which the player's first stroke is taken A golf handicap is a numerical measure of an Amateur Golfer s playing ability 1 / 129 | 412 | 326 | 121 | 429 | 520 | 206 | 400 | 436 | 548 | 3398 | 416 | 467 | 190 | 469 | 507 | 397 | 338 | 172 | 520 | 3476 | 6874 |
| Regular | 70. 0 / 119 | 355 | 313 | 112 | 384 | 511 | 150 | 354 | 418 | 480 | 3077 | 404 | 422 | 174 | 418 | 490 | 387 | 323 | 159 | 472 | 3249 | 6326 |
| Par | Men's | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 36 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 36 | 72 |
| Handicap | Men's | 7 | 15 | 17 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 14 | 8 | 18 | 12 | 16 | |||
| Black | 75. A golf handicap is a numerical measure of an Amateur Golfer s playing ability 4 / 134 | 346 | 303 | 109 | 374 | 504 | 141 | 346 | 404 | 470 | 2997 | 391 | 410 | 159 | 407 | 478 | 377 | 314 | 129 | 460 | 3125 | 6122 |
| Par | Women's | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 36 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 38 | 74 |
| Handicap | Women's | 3 | 13 | 17 | 7 | 11 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 12 | 16 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 14 | 18 | 6 |
South Course
At 7,607 yards (6,956 m), the South Course is the longest course played in a regular PGA Tour event. A golf handicap is a numerical measure of an Amateur Golfer s playing ability All measurements made in yards.
| Tee | Rating/Slope | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | OUT | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | IN | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black | 78. In Golf, the teeing ground is the area at the beginning of a hole from which the player's first stroke is taken A golf handicap is a numerical measure of an Amateur Golfer s playing ability 1 / 143 | 452 | 387 | 198 | 483 | 453 | 560 | 462 | 176 | 613 | 3784 | 405 | 221 | 504 | 541 | 435 | 477 | 227 | 442 | 571 | 3823 | 7607 |
| Blue | 76. 1 / 139 | 444 | 362 | 160 | 471 | 404 | 530 | 442 | 164 | 590 | 3567 | 376 | 203 | 477 | 539 | 417 | 462 | 206 | 429 | 551 | 3660 | 7227 |
| White | 74. 3 / 136 | 432 | 347 | 149 | 460 | 393 | 518 | 434 | 154 | 535 | 3422 | 362 | 193 | 456 | 521 | 404 | 392 | 192 | 419 | 524 | 3463 | 6885 |
| Gold | M:72. 5/133 W:79. 2/138 | 415 | 318 | 142 | 450 | 380 | 501 | 424 | 131 | 516 | 3277 | 349 | 162 | 443 | 505 | 390 | 345 | 185 | 400 | 486 | 3265 | 6542 |
| Par | Men's | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 36 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 36 | 72 |
| Handicap | Men's | 5 | 15 | 13 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 17 | 7 | 16 | 14 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 18 | 4 | 10 | |||
| Black | 73. A golf handicap is a numerical measure of an Amateur Golfer s playing ability 5 / 128 | 368 | 281 | 113 | 388 | 324 | 452 | 381 | 96 | 432 | 2835 | 299 | 105 | 394 | 408 | 276 | 286 | 176 | 347 | 416 | 2707 | 5542 |
| Par | Women's | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 36 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 37 | 73 |
| Handicap | Women's | 7 | 13 | 15 | 9 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 17 | 3 | 10 | 18 | 2 | 6 | 14 | 16 | 12 | 8 | 4 |
External links
- Torrey Pines Golf Course official site
- Torrey Pines Golf Course web guide to additional course and tee time information. A golf handicap is a numerical measure of an Amateur Golfer s playing ability
- Satellite images of Torrey Pines Golf Course
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