The NCGA Tour Sure, you may say, sounds great, but what about a tour the average golfer can play? Consider these courses that are part of the NCGA Member Advantage program, providing a PGA Tour-worthy challenge at terrific rates for NCGA members.
• Bodega Harbour: Where the wind-swept dunes might make you think you are play- ing a British Open. Members enjoy $10 off regularly posted rates ($20 on Sundays) and complimentary birthday green fees.
Bodega Harbour
• Metropolitan: Another British Open candidate in the East Bay. The Member Ad- vantage allows for a 10% discount in the golf shop and a free cart on Sundays after 12:00. • Diablo Grande: Thirty-six challenging holes at a facility where members enjoy a 10% discount in the golf shop. • Crystal Springs: Discover why this is one of the most environmentally-honored courses in the nation while taking advantage of one-hour early twilight rates, discounts in the golf shop and a range bucket upgrade. • Darkhorse: A strenuous test, this Auburn course might make a terrific major champi- onship venue. NCGA members spend 10% less in the golf shop and receive the course’s mid-day rate one hour early.
• Whitehawk Ranch: Spend the night in one of the on-course cabins and enjoy the terrific scenery north of Truckee while taking advantage of twilight rates that begin for NCGA members at 1:00 daily. • Chardonnay: The new 18-hole configura- tion is beautiful and challenging. NCGA members have access to free club fitting and a two-person $120 package (Monday- Thursday) that encompasses golf, cart, range and appetizer after play among other benefits. • San Juan Oaks: This Fred Couples design in Hollister challenges every club in the bag; NCGA members can undertake that challenge for $57 (cart included) Monday through Friday. • Turkey Creek: Fun in large quotients is the offering at this Brad Bell design in Lincoln. Twilight and super-twilight rates are offered a half hour early as well as a 10% discount in the golf shop.
Because of the benefits and discounts
offered, these and the rest of the more than 90 courses that comprise the Member Advantage program are worthy of the cache a championship event bestows, especially given value inherent in an NCGA member card. Create your own “PGA Tour” schedule of Member Advantage courses and you’ll be putting money back in your pocket. –Scott Seward
always happy to relax during the annual Wine Coun- try Championship held at Mayacama. In fact, the competition in the tasting room is more intense than the on-course action. Greg Norman, Ernie Els, Luke Donald, David Frost and Mike Weir are among the players with their own wine label. Since fans get a free glass of vino every time an eagle is made, this tourna- ment features some of the biggest and happiest galler- ies of the season. From the Napa Valley
the Tour presses onward to the Very Northern Califor- nia Invitational at Fall River Valley Golf & Country Club, in the shadow of Mt. Shasta. More scenery awaits at the Gold Country Open, at Saddle Creek. This hid- den gem is situated in the foothills that gave rise to Mark Twain’s celebrated short story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.” As such, Golf Channel announcers are contractually limited to one utterance per day of Twain’s famous quip about golf be- ing a good walk spoiled. The Tour returns again
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