Strawberry Farms Golf Club: Back 9

I’m interested to see how the heavy rains in Southern California have shaped this course. We decide to take advantage of their “Back 9 Special with Breakfast.”

Strawberry Farms Golf Course: The Reservoir

Playing this back nine at 7am is awfully pretty.

The Reservoir

A little more fog and I would be in early morn golf heaven.

From the soil to the sky, a lot going on here…

Hole 10: Prettiest on the course IMHO

I am barely awake and make the mistake of teeing my ball low. After launching a couple of laser beams into the reservoir, I finally “wake up and smell the granola”. The “granola” being a ball dropped into the “drop zone”.

Strawberry Farms Golf Club: Hole 10

The clouds settle in…

Hole 10: The “Golfing Squirrel” on the Attack

Hole 11

I love a nice par 3 hole…especially if I can use my beloved 6-iron.

There are many pelicans on the reservoir. Unfortunately they are hidden by the trees. I can’t recall seeing pelicans on a body of water at a golf course before.

Strawberry Farms Golf Club: Hole 12

Hole 13

Hole 14

Strawberry Farms Golf Club: Hole 15

Hole 16

Pretty ugly…

Hole 17

Strawberry Farms Golf Club: Hole 18

Hole 18: View of green

Triple Waterfall: 18th Hole Green

18th Hole: Green

View of Clubhouse and Front 9

Strawberry Farms Golf Club: Dining Room

Bella’s Simple Breakfast

Sausage, Egg & Cheese Breakfast Burrito

I veto the nasty dry potatoes typically added to most breakfast burritos. If they had hash browns they would’ve gone in, otherwise; they get vetoed every single time. This is moist with some seriously tasty sausage. And the strawberries at “Strawberry Farms Golf Club” are excellent. Shock-HER!

Strawberry Farms Golf Club: Dining Room

I think this place reminds me of Apple Farm in San Luis Obispo and The Cambria Pines Lodge in Cambria. Farmhouse comfortable design and decor.

Dining Room: View to Driving Range

It sure is nice seeing Southern California courses get green again via the unusually heavy Fall and Winter rains. We plan on enjoying play at a variety of golf courses before the late Spring heat browns everything out again.

THE END!!!

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Writer. Born David J. Evangelisti in Colorado. David has lived in New Mexico, Colorado, Ohio and California. Enamored with movies from an early age, he enrolled in San Jose State University’s Journalism program. While studying journalism, public relations and filmmaking, he wrote and directed two films: “A Day in the Life of a San Jose Cockroach” and “Theft of a Shopping Cart” (in the vein of Vittoria De Sica’s “Bicycle Thief”). David earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism, concentration in Film, from San Jose State University. He began working in the areas of sales and marketing as a writer. In addition, he has written travel articles, travel memoirs, advertising copy, comedy bits, feature film scripts, personal essays and short stories. To date, he has written three unproduced feature film scripts: “Treading Water”, “The Other Cinema” and “A Sympathetic Lie”. From 2003-2004 he was an official taster for the Royal Academy of Wine Tasters. The Royal Academy attempted to create an unbiased wine rating system available to every winery, vineyard or wine distributor across the United States and around the world. This blog is a compilation of the following: a slang dictionary; personal essays; comedic rants; travel memoirs; literary journalism; feature articles; recipes; restaurant reviews; wine reviews; slice-of-life vignettes.

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