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Santa Maria sits in the heart of California's Central Coast, where the Santa Maria Valley opens up between the Santa Lucia Range and the San Rafael Mountains. It's a region better known for its pinot noir vineyards and its famously slow-smoked barbecue than for championship golf, but the area's mild, marine-influenced climate — cool mornings, afternoon breezes off the Pacific just a few miles west — makes for genuinely pleasant conditions on a course year-round.
Rancho Maria is a public facility that serves the everyday golf community of Santa Maria and the broader Santa Barbara County corridor. Courses like this one form the backbone of local golf culture: accessible, unpretentious, and used heavily by regulars who know every subtle break and which holes the wind turns tricky by midday. Par-72 layouts in this part of the Central Coast tend to work with open, rolling terrain rather than dramatic elevation changes.
For a visitor passing through — perhaps en route between Los Angeles and San Francisco on the 101 — Rancho Maria offers an honest round of golf in a part of California that rewards slowing down.
| Tee | Yards | Rating | Slope | Par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue · men | 6,362 | 70.5 | 124 | 72 |
| Blue · women | 6,362 | 76.4 | 131 | 73 |
| White · men | 6,088 | 69.3 | 120 | 72 |
| White · women | 6,088 | 74.9 | 128 | 73 |
| Red · men | 5,517 | 66.3 | 113 | 72 |
| Red · women | 5,517 | 71.6 | 122 | 73 |
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