⛳ NEW COURSE: TBC Shores

Last month I put out TBC Dunes, my version of the Dunes Course at Monterey Peninsula Country Club. A lot of you played it, a lot of you liked it, and more than a few of you asked the obvious question: where's the other one? Monterey Peninsula has two courses sharing that same stretch of California coast, and the Dunes was only half the club. This is the other half. TBC Shores, my take on the Shore Course, and you voted it in as the Round 30 winner.

If the Dunes was about the wide, sandy, windswept feel, the Shore leans into the water. Half these holes have the ocean sitting right there on the edge, and the routing keeps pushing you out toward the rocks. You get elevated tees looking straight down the fairway with the coastline behind it, and then you turn around and there's another one. It's the kind of course where you keep stopping to look before you hit.

The cypress are the thing that makes it. Those big old Monterey cypress frame the greens and hang over the tee boxes, and getting them to sit right in the build took some time. They change the whole feel of a hole, throwing shade and giving you a target to work off of. Between the trees, the sandy waste areas, and the firm coastal turf, it plays like exactly what it is: a proper Monterey course that happens to be the quieter, prettier neighbor.

It is not just a looker either. The greens have real movement, the bunkering makes you pick a side off the tee, and the wind coming off the water changes your number more than you'd think. Play it back to back with the Dunes and you get the full club, two courses that feel related but ask you different questions. Honestly, when the light gets low out there, the Shore might be the one I'd pick.

So that's TBC Shores. The Shore Course at Monterey Peninsula, the sister to the Dunes, and the course you all picked in Round 30. It's live now in GSPro for Patreon members. Thank you to everyone who nominated it and voted it up. Go play both, tell me which half of the club you like better, and I'll see you at the vote for what's next.