San Diego - Golf - Round 2 & 3

That last post was getting a little long so I decided to break up my golf post :)

We played our second round of golf on Thursday, and we played Coronado Golf Course.

The views at this course were almost as stunning as the views at Torrey Pines. Torrey Pines is elevated, so you get cliff side views of the ocean...Coronado is at sea level, so you get a totally different ocean view.

A few photo worthy views...

One of the other amazing views you get throughout the course is of the Coronado Bridge; Coronado has an island feel, but it's actually a peninsula - the bridge takes you across San Diego Bay.
Curt making his second shot on the 18th hole...good thing it was low tide!
Just to prove that I was there...and because I like the palm trees :)
We played with two men, George and Steve, and really enjoyed their company! George had to quit after nine holes because his back was bothering him; Steve played the full round, and because he was a local, he had lots of interesting local knowledge to share with us.

Notice the buildings in the background? The locals call those 'Taco Towers' - when they were originally built, none of the locals wanted to buy them (they are ocean front, but pretty ugly), so the builders went to Mexico and sold them to wealthy Mexicans!
I think our round at Coronado was probably my favourite round of the trip. Torrey Pines was amazing, but I was playing so poorly it was more about the experience then the golf. I played a lot better at Coronado, and it was a great experience, so it takes first.

Our third round of golf was on Friday, and we played the course at our resort. We were originally going to play another round at Torrey Pines - this time the North Course - but decided to keep our last day of vacation a little more low key. Playing the resort course allowed to sleep in and have a relaxing morning, which was nice.

The course was actually an executive course - I think there were 11 par threes! It would have been great to warm-up on this course, we did things totally backwards.

Curt, loving life!
No ocean views at this course, but plenty of mountain views!
And, this always happens...we have hardly any pictures from our last round! Oh well, there is no shortage of pictures in this post anyway!