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The Bridges at Rancho Santa Fe, Rancho Santa Fe, CA

Located in the coastal foothills of Rancho Santa Fe, The Bridges occupies one of the premier sites for living in all the country. Its natural hillsides, creeks and canyons provide an idyllic environment for a gracious way of life

Year-round sunshine and sea breezes create the ideal climate for golf and The Bridges extraordinary Robert Trent Jones II- designed course is attracting wide acclaim.

At its center is an architectural masterpiece, a 35,000 square foot clubhouse designed in the style of a centuries-old Tuscan hillside village. Steps away, overlooking the golf course, the 10,000 square foot Sports Centre -- one of the finest family swim, fitness and recreation facilities of its kind.

Designed by the highly respected firm of Marsh & Associates, the clubhouse is notable for the quiet intimacy of its many elegant rooms and galleries. There is no vast meeting room here; only a succession of delightful spaces, striking in their perfect scale, their rich finishes and fine antiques.

Besides the formal dining room, the clubhouse includes a comfortable club grill with indoor and outdoor seating, a living room, and an upstairs wine loft with a handsome private dining room. Tasteful men's and women's lounges and card rooms occupy opposite ends of the clubhouse, as de the separate locker rooms, steam rooms and spas. A large, fully stocked pro shop overlooks the 18th green

The Bridges offers custom homes designed by Rancho Santa Fe's finest architects and builders and home sites on which to build your own custom designed home.

The Bridges at Rancho Santa Fe occupies one of the most picturesque sites in Southern California, its natural hillsides, creeks and canyons providing an idyllic environment for gracious, view-oriented, custom and semi-custom homes. Home lots in the Estate area, for example, provide sufficient area to accommodate even very large homes and expansive grounds - as much as two acres.

The Bridges Golf Course is among the most recent triumphs of the prestigious Robert Trent Jones II Group, creator of such highly regarded courses as Princeville Golf Resort in Hawaii, Spanish Bay at Pebble Beach and Desert Highlands in Las Vegas.

Like his legendary father before him, Robert Trent Jones II is noted for great golf courses that are both site-specific and visually powerful.

"The natural flow of the land suggests the routing of the golf course," he has said. When the natural flow is spectacular, there's a good chance the course may be, too.

With five sets of tees playing to nearly 7,000 yards from the tips, the course reflects a stimulating design precept that distance is but one element to degree-of- difficulty, and that a variety of strategic options make the game enjoyable for even the most skilled golfers, over and over again. A prime example is the course's signature 10th hole. At 315 yards, it is a classic par 4: short, challenging and memorable. "Big risk/reward," is how golf course architect Bruce Charlton, Sr. Vice President of Jones II Group, has described it. "Anyone can design a long 4 par. The challenge is to make a shorter hole absolutely great."  The hole sits on a peninsula of land across a deep natural canyon. From the regular men's tee, a 170-yard carry tempts golfers to take a risk, and the challenge increases as the tees get further away to the north. "A heroic shot that cuts the corner gets a big reward," Charlton said. "But it increases the risk dramatically."

Once on the fairway, 75 to 165 yards remain between ball and flagstick. "The green tilts from back to front," Charlton said. "Miss it to the right and you've got a tough downhill chip. Hit it too far and you're in the canyon beyond."

With the dramatic carry, the spectacular span of the stress-ribbon bridge over the canyon and the natural beauty of the creek below, the 10th promises to become one of the most photographed in California. 

Call Ken Crosby or Kathy Hewitt to explore the possibilities in prestigious Bridges at Rancho Santa Fe.