A desert golf course at golden hour — a green and sand bunkers in front, with a desert-style clubhouse behind

A Memory Book

Pelican Hill

Pelican Hill Golf Club · Newport Coast, California
October 2026

The stone entrance sign reading Golf Club, Pelican Grill, framed by olive trees and hedges — The arrival — Golf Club & Pelican Grill.

Two golfers standing on a tee with drivers in hand, the Pacific Ocean behind them — On the tee, with the Pacific behind us.

A fairway running uphill toward homes on the hill at Pelican Hill — Up the fairway, toward the homes on the hill.

A tee box marked with the number 4, looking across a canyon to the fairway beyond — The fourth tee — looking down the canyon.

A fairway winding through brush-covered hills with the ocean on the horizon — Through the canyon, with the ocean beyond.

A green across a ravine, guarded by bunkers, with the sea behind it — A green across the ravine.

From a tee, the view over a canyon to a distant fairway, with long shadows on the grass — The tee shot over the canyon.

A lone tall tree standing beside a green, with the ocean behind it — The lone tree, standing over the sea.

A wide fairway with sand bunkers under a big blue sky — Fairway and bunkers under a big sky.

A green beside a pond and sand bunkers, with the Pacific Ocean behind it — The postcard hole — pond, sand, and the Pacific.

A flat-topped umbrella tree alone on a green, with golfers in the distance and the Pacific Ocean behind it — The umbrella tree, standing over the Pacific.

A forecaddie in white coveralls and a wide-brim hat, waving from the fairway — The forecaddie, keeping watch.

A wide fairway lined with trees and sand bunkers under big clouds — Down the tree-lined fairway.

From the high tee — a slow pan across the Pacific.

The same view, a moment later — worth a second look.

Steve Ward taking a selfie with the group's forecaddie on the fairway, bunkers and umbrella pines behind them — A selfie with the forecaddie.

Gregg Wintner at his follow-through, playing from a grassy hillside lie with his ball visible below — Gregg plays it from the hillside.

Gregg Wintner at the top of his backswing in morning sun, with sand bunkers behind him — Gregg at the top of the swing.

The Shot of the Day

Hole-in-One

Gregg Wintner · Hole No. 12 · Pelican Hill Golf Club

The view from the 12th tee, looking down the hole past bunkers to the green in the distance — Hole 12 — from the tee.

The 12th green and its surrounding bunkers, seen from the fairway — Hole 12 — the green.

Gregg Wintner standing on the 12th green beside the yellow checkered flagstick, holding up the ball from his hole-in-one — Hole-in-One

Gregg Wintner. Hole-in-one, No. 12 — one swing, straight in.

The Ace, Caught on Video

The ace, caught on video.

Gregg Wintner celebrating on the 12th green with a playing partner, both pointing number one — Ones all around — the celebration on 12.

Pelican Hill Golf Club · Newport Coast, California

Certificate of Achievement

This certifies that

Gregg Wintner

scored a Hole-in-One on Hole No. 12 at Pelican Hill Golf Club, Newport Coast, California, in October 2026 — one swing, straight in.

Witnessed on the day by his playing partners.

A Mediterranean-style resort building entrance in early-evening light — a herringbone brick courtyard with manicured hedges and olive trees leading to a lit doorway — Evening at the resort — a brick courtyard, olive trees, and a quiet doorway.

Some rounds you play.
This one you keep.

Pelican Hill Golf Club — October 2026

With Gratitude

For years of early tee times and long walks down fairways like these — for the laughs, the lost balls, and the shots we'll be retelling for years — thank you.

The golf brought us together. The friendship is what we keep.

Here's to the rounds behind us, and to all the ones still to come.