If you’ve been keeping up with our demo calendar then you’ll know that on Sunday, April 3rd, Pure Grips will be out at the legendary Torrey Pines Golf Course. A lot of golfers know about the golf course’s breathtaking coastal views and that it’s a major stop on the PGA Tour. They may even be aware of its designer, famous golf course architect William F. Bell. Well here’s some less commonly known tidbits about this memorable battlefield of golf.

It overlooks the countries’ largest nude beach.
Elderly golfers with pacemakers beware. Torrey Pine’s Gliderport has the perfect vantage point overlooking Blacks Beach. The isolated strip of sand is the largest nudest beach in the Untied States and is frequented by a local nudist colony. Just ask Phil Mickelson..

Its harder than you think to get a tee time.
70% of all Torrey Pines tee times are only available to San Diego City Residents by participating in a telephone tee time lottery conducted by Torrey Pines Golf Course and held every evening at 7 p.m. for tee times 7 days in advance.

It was first a Military Training Center.
The land that would later become Torrey Pines golf course was first Camp Callen, a military training center. In 1941 the U.S. Army setup Camp Callen on a 750 acres leased section of Torrey Pines, as anti-aircraft artillery replacement training center.

It is among the top 20 longest courses in the world.
The original south course measured 7,000 yards, but after a $3.5 million renovation and redesign in 1999, Torrey Pines became a Goliath, stretching more than 7,600 yards. Rees Jones’ renovation nearly doubled then number of bunkers, moved four greens and added ten new tees- making the course among the top 20 longest courses in the world.

It was named after the rarest pine tree.
Torrey Pines is named after the rarest pine tree in the country that lives in only two locations – Santa Rosa Island off the coast of Santa Barbara and in San Diego within the Torrey Pine State Reserve.