Mountain View, CA: The Golf Club at Moffett Field is a great deal, and a well-kept secret. Where else in the Bay Area can you warm up on a driving range on which nasty slices risk being lost among the bisected mounds of Air Force munitions bunkers, or pause on the teebox at 14 to watch Air National Guardsmen descend by rope from the belly of a helicopter hovering just yards away? And yet, during lunch hour last Tuesday, I was the only paying customer at the clubhouse restaurant, the Tee Minus One Bar & Grill.
At just $30 per 18 holes for anyone with a valid driver’s license (with deep discounts for current or former military personnel), it’s hard to beat the former NASA-run links by the Bay on price.