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South Bay, Named for a View

Bay View Golf Club Milpitas, California

Milpitas golf in the South Bay, a compact layout in a region better known for campuses than fairways.

The place

Bay View puts a golf course in Milpitas, which is a Silicon Valley sentence. The name promises a view; the South Bay sometimes delivers haze instead. Either way, it is golf in a landscape of warehouses, hills, and the endless work of the region. Finding a fairway here is a small act of resistance against the calendar.

JW’s personal notes from the round will live here — the funny moment, the people, the 19th hole — without inventing what hasn’t been written yet.

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