The Preserve Golf Club

Access

Take care which direction your GPS takes you!!! Please ALL enter by the entry gate that is situated about a mile south on Rancho San Carlos Road off Carmel Valley Road.

GPS step 1: Enter the golf course address which is:

19 E Pronghorn Run, Carmel-By-The-Sea, CA 93923.

GPS step 2: Enter the entry gate as an intermediary stop. That address is:

One Rancho San Carlos Road, Carmel, CA 93923

The Preserve Phone: (831) 620-6871

Please send names of all known spectators and entourage to Coaches Philip Rowe or Eric Frazzetta ASAP so that we can collect a guest list to expedite gate entry for all.

Arrival

Team vans are encouraged to drive right up to the circle in front of the pro-shop and clubhouse entry so that players can enjoy a grand welcome into the beautiful clubhouse. Outside service staff will load clubs on assigned carts or line them up next to your practice range bays TBA/as requested.

Parking

Please leave the upper parking lot for members and park your vans in the lower parking lot. Outside service staff can help direct you but there are no pre-assigned parking spaces.

Do not leave gratuities as the tournament already has them provisioned.

Please also remind your known spectators to park in the lower parking lot or as instructed by The Preserve staff.

Full use of all clubhouse and locker room facilities are available to Coaches and Players only. The locker room alcove areas will be labelled with your team logo and a locker will be designated to each team. Additional lockers may be available on request after completion of the College Am.

Do not leave gratuities as the tournament already has them provisioned.

Spectators may enter certain clubhouse areas and will have access to some paid concessions, however, please do not encourage parents or spectators to enter team and tournament areas.

The club policy is to wear tucked in collared shirts at all times and remove hats when entering the clubhouse.

Play will be five-man teams with the best four scores counting towards the daily total.

We will play 36 holes on Monday, October 28th, and 18 holes on Tuesday, October 29th.

Tee times will be published on Scoreboard or another avenue TBD.

It is unlikely that you will be able to rely on any cell coverage (except possibly AT&T) on property. However, Wifi is freely available in the area around the clubhouse.

We will have a coach group text with rules officials. You can try to contact Philip Rowe/Eric Frazzetta via Facetime Audio or Whatsapp call because if we are in the clubhouse we will get those calls and messages via Wifi). The Proshop and tournament staff will have radios connected to operations and rules.

USGA Rules of Golf will govern play and be administered by The Northern California Golf Association (NCGA) who will have extensive on-course coverage with 10 rules officials present.

The NCAA Hard Card and Tournament Local Rules will also be provided in your coaches’ packet and will be printed on the reverse of the daily hole location sheets.

Will be supervised by NCGA Rules with The Preserve Professional and Superintendent. We will publish and print hole locations ready for you to study over breakfast on tournament days. Any hole location paint dot markings visible during the practice rounds may or may not be the actual tournament hole locations.

We will have one freshly cut hole per tournament day (therefore expect only one hole location for 36 holes on Monday 10/30/23). The predicted stimpmeter reading for greenspeed will be 12.

Pre-round warmup practice area space is limited, we will assign each team to two hitting spots on the range so please work a rotation within your team. There may be some additional WEDGE ONLY range spots available to the left side of the range hitting toward the hill on the right side of the range.

For short game and bunkers, coaches may shuttle players to the far side of the range in their COACHES CART ONLY. We will rope off a section of that far-end-of-range short game area beyond which that area can be used for bunker, chipping and pitching shot practice. For safety reasons when that short game area is in use, drivers must be aimed into the trees to the far right side of the range.

The putting green is located beside just behind the range hitting area next to the clubhouse. Short chip/pitch shots are permitted. Another smaller putting surface is located adjacent to the 1st tee.

The following meals are provided for you by The Santa Lucia Preserve Executive Chef, Marc Johnson, and his team:

Sunday October 27th – Lunch during golf & post round meal

Monday October 28th – Breakfast, Box Lunch, and post round meal

Tuesday October 29st – Breakfast, and post round meal (to go boxes available).

In keeping with The Preserve golf club policy, we will not be providing water. Please bring a water bottle as there will be water stations on course. We will provide Gatorade in your locker.

Please do not rely on our provision of any other snack or hydration supplies (we may have a limited supply of sponsored items but it would be best to stock up with your preferred sustenance on your team/coach carts).

Designated programs will participate in collegiate am. Where student athletes will join up with invited tournament guests in a fun, best-ball, Collegiate-Amateur event run in conjunction with our practice round.

Collegiate Amateur/sponsor guests will understand that primary focus is course reconnaissance and extra shots are permitted within reason. Your remaining 3 team players (4 if individual) will follow in a group behind where coaches can bounce between groups.

Play will be in carts for the round, however, one of your players may need to rotate in a walk/ride situation.

We are grateful to The Preserve Board & Members for their generosity in hosting, as well as our Cal Poly supporters who have contributed to our provision of meals, tee prizes and other tournament expenses.

Upon check-in on Sunday morning, coaches will be given tournament gifts to distribute to their teams and coaches.

This year's tee gift is a Malbon polo.

We will have tournament posters to be signed as a gift to The Preserve Golf Club for hosting this event.