The winner of this item will receive a gift certificate for a foursome with cart at Sonoma Golf Club (a.k.a. Sonoma National).

Playing just over 7,100 yards from the championship tees, this classic layout offers strategic choices and challenges that excite golfers swinging graphite and titanium just as it did when they were carrying hickory and persimmon in 1928 when the course first opened.

At its heart, is a treasured "core golf" experience set on 177 acres of rolling terrain highlighted by massive oaks, lakes, and sweeping vistas of the Mayacamas Mountains and neighboring vineyards.  The balance and blend of long and short holes creates a perfect rhythm as you move through the round. Considered a fair but formidable test, unique challenges keep golfers focused on the task at hand.  You'll particularly enjoy the distinctive set of Par 3's that offer a great diversity of aesthetic beauty and personal challenge.  In fact, three of them are over 200 yards from the back tees.

The back nine offers some extra excitement with the reachable Par 5 13th and 16th holes.  The uphill 11th is a wonderful, short Par 4 followed by the lengthy Par 4 12th that is fairly difficult to stick in two.  The finishing hole demands navigation through a stretched dogleg with a prominent fairway bunker to a green guarded by huge oaks and fronted by a small creek.