Bodega Bay Golf Outing June 13th

I've moved the 19th Hole Golf Outing to Bodega Bay Golf Club and we're full with four groups. The next outing is during the second round of the British Open in July. Hope you can make it.

I have a US Open contest on my golf school site so I'll encourage you to pick a winner, beside Tiger. The winner will get a two-day golf school with me in the wine country. Enter here or send an email to me at kris.moe@sbcglobal.net

Favorite Golf Destinations

I've got quite a few great great places I've had a chance to play golf when I played on tour. Closest to my home is the Monterey Peninisula with Pebble Beach, Spyglass and Spanish Bay. The under appreciated stars down there include Fort Ord's Bayonet (a monster that has held numerous PGA Tour qualifying tournaments) and Del Monte Golf Club (only 6,000 yards but a classic test). If you've got the pull Cypress Point and Monterey Peninsula Country Club (two great tracks). Just up in Santa Cruz is an Alister Mackensey layout called Pasatiempo (open to public for cool $240). Few would know it but he also designed Claremont CC in Oakland and Green Hills CC in Millbrae also in Northern California.

San Francisco has four great courses but they're all private, SF Golf Club, Olympic Club, Lake Merced and California Club. All gems with Cypress Oaks keeping you honest with your driver.

Some of countries top courses were built at a time of great wealth, for some. From 1890 to 1925 our country's big metropolitan areas like NY, Chicago and Philly built great courses. We're having a similar trend these days with Charles Schwab building golf monuments in Hawaii and Montana. I wouldn't be surprised if Bill Gates is right behind him. In this area young Bill Getty is building a new course in Napa with designer Bill Doak of Bandon Dunes fame.

Australia is incredible for golf. I was lucky enough to play the tour there for three years and got to play the best courses there. Many are Mackensey designs (I'm still blown away how they traveled the world in those days) such as Royal Melboune and New South Wales. The turf conditions in Aussie is amazing, the best I've ever seen. The greens are scary quick and wind is almost always blowing. These conditions really demand good ball striking, it's no wonder so many great players come from the "land down under".

Another great spot for golf is the UK. So much great links land with marvelous landscapes that border on fantasy golf. And in the summer where "dark-thirty" is close to 11:00 pm, there's time to play 54 holes if you have it in you. In northern England, some call it England's Golf Coast, you have Royal Berkdale, Formby (where I lost to Colin Montgomery in British Am), Royal Lytham St. Annes and Royal Liverpool. Like great golf destinations every where, the local folk love their golf and being a golfer you are welcomed with open arms (and a pint).

Your turn, I've left quite a few but I don't want to hog the show...

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The First 19th Hole Wine Club Party

We had a great opening event for Kris Moe Wines in San Francisco's Harding Park GC. Forty players played in the event where rare sunny and warm temperatures made the day even more special.

I did my best to create an environment that the players would remember, I paired the Petite Sirah with a veal shank smothered in a rich mushroom sauce and another dish of rib-eye steaks. Echo Beach Band played some cool jazz in the background.

The next event looks like the Friday of the US Open in early June. We're going to do our best to get a Pinot Noir and Chardonnay along side our Petite Sirah and Sauvignon Blanc. I'm thinking about an event in San Jose at Cinnabar Hills or maybe even Pasatiempo in Santa Cruz. Anybody want to weigh in for a vote?

19th Hole Wine Club Uncorked

This blog is for wine and golf lovers. That's what I love and I'm creating a community where we can share our stories, places to golf and new great wines.

Many of you don't know me, I'm Kris Moe, a wine lover who happen to make a living in the golf industry. I've been a PGA tour player in the US and Europe and I run my golf schools in the wine country and Hawaii. Wine became a larger part of my life when I retired from tournament golf and settled into raising a family in Sonoma, California. I started making wine as a hobby in 1995 and appreciate the entire process from picking grapes from the vine to sharing the finished wine with friends.

The first of the Nineteeth Hole wines is being released in early April at a golf event at Harding Park in San Francisco. The first wines will be a tasty Petite Sirah and Sauvignon Blanc from the Russian River Valley.


I hope you'll join in to share some of your thoughts on either golf or wine.