Monarch Dunes Golf Course

Few stretches of California's Central Coast feel as unhurried as the area around Nipomo, a small agricultural community sitting between San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara where the coastal dunes roll inland and the marine layer keeps summer temperatures unusually mild. Monarch Dunes Golf Course takes its name from that duneland character — the same Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes complex that ranks among the largest coastal dune systems on the West Coast — and the setting gives the course a windswept, links-adjacent personality that stands apart from the manicured resort layouts further south.