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		Robb Report ~ September 2007 The Front 10: America’s best golf course communities Santa Lucia Preserve has preserved 18,000 of its 20,000 acres as open space. The centerpiece of the developed land is a 7,067-yard, par-72, Tom Fazio-designed golf course that plays through 350 acres of ancient oak stands, meadows, ponds, and streams.
Media Contact Information: Kristen Hunter Hunter Public Relations Phone: 831.375.1747 Email: khunter@hunter-pr.com		Travel + Leisure Golf ~ January/February 2007 America's Top 100 Golf Communities Ranked 3rd of America’s top 100 golf communities, on the Santa Lucia Preserve Golf Course there is space for 130 golf courses, but the master plan calls for just one: a beloved Tom Fazio layout that tumbles through redwoods and oaks and plays its way toward distant peaks.
		Carmel Magazine ~ Spring/Summer 2007 My Own Private California: The Santa Lucia Preserve is a Place of Natural and Man-made Magic Only a few miles from Highway One off Carmel Valley Road is a portal into another land. Behind the Gates of the Santa Lucia Preserve the road may be paved, and there may be houses tucked beneath the tree canopies, but everything else feels very, very wild.
		Golf Magazine Living ~ Spring 2007 The 25 Best Courses You Can Live On Ranked 9th of the best courses you can live on, the Santa Lucia Preserve Golf Course’s layout’s greatest attraction is that the holes complement the setting, rather than compete with it. Once you step onto the first tee, you’ll be willing to get lost for a while.
		Travel + Leisure Golf ~ January/February 2006 America's Top 100 Golf Communities Voted #1 Santa Lucia Preserve. With an entrance gate only three miles from the sophisticated bustle of Carmel and Pebble Beach, the Santa Lucia Preserve seems like a miracle.
		Travel + Leisure Golf ~ July-September 2006 A Dream Unblemished "The exceptional quality of life on Santa Lucia Preserve comes from its natural setting," says developer Tom Gray. "Our objective was to ensure that the beauty of this landscape would be perpetuated for generations. Miraculously, the Preserve today is virtually as planned."
		Stratos ~ August 1, 2006 Stratos Special Report Elite Golf Course Communities The 80-year-old Hacienda continues its tradition as a hospitality and cultural center. Hundreds of miles of trails invite families to experience the Preserve by foot or horseback. Equestrian, swimming, golf and tennis facilities provide varying sources of family activity.
		Pinnacle Northern California Real Estate ~ Summer 2006 The Nature of Conservation The Santa Lucia Preserve, a community encompassing 300 homesites, luxury amenities and the Santa Lucia Conservancy, an organization endowed with $25 million and charged with protecting the remaining 18,000 acres of land.
		Estates West ~ Summer 2006 The Nature of Conservation The Santa Lucia Preserve, a community encompassing 300 homesites, luxury amenities and the Santa Lucia Conservancy, an organization endowed with $25 million and charged with protecting the remaining 18,000 acres of land.
		Gentry Magazine ~ April 1, 2006 Travel: The Best Place You'll Never Play Golf…Unless? Stand back Augusta National. Back off Cypress Point. We've got another exclusive golf venue for you. The Santa Lucia Preserve has recently been ranked No. 1 on the list of America's Top 100 Golf Communities by Travel & Leisure Magazine.
		Golf Magazine Living ~ Spring 2006 The 50 Best Golf Communities in America Voted Best Intimate Community - Most homes nestle unobtrusively amid mountain meadows, 1000 year old redwoods, ponds, streams, and wetlands. The only outward signs of development are a 20,000 square foot hacienda-style clubhouse that dates to 1924, an equestrian center, tennis and croquet courts, and a fitness center. There's also a Tom Fazio-designed course that melts flawlessly into a landscape peppered by creeks and live oaks.
		Luxury Golf & Travel ~ March/April 2006 Top 25 Golf Communities Intimacy, community, respect for open space and California's unique Spanish architectural style are on resplendent display at Santa Lucia. Now crowding guaranteed - The Santa Lucia Conservancy manages 18,000 acres here for recreation, conservation and wildlife habitat..
		San Francisco Chronicle ~ March 11, 2006 Treading Lightly On the Land: A Modern Home Honors the Timeless Beauty of the Carmel Valley Surrounded by oak trees and covered by a sod roof, the house becomes part of the hillside on which it was built - at the same time that it provides unhindered valley views from light-filled rooms.
		California Home & Design ~ March 1, 2006 Into the Woods: Contemporary, Eco-Friendly Compound in Carmel Tucked into a narrow ridge, camouflaged by a materials palette inspired by the landscape and topped with a living roof covered in wildflower beds, grasses, strawberries and succulents, the 2,900 square foot house is almost indistinguishable from its pristine surroundings in the Santa Lucia Preserve.
		Robb Report Collection ~ January 2006 Special Issue Home All-Stars: Inside Looking Out Santa Lucia boasts an understated atmosphere with a social scene that revolves around recreation. Hikers, bikers and equestrians can access 100 miles of trails, while golfers can hit the links of the private Tom Fazio - designed course.
		Links Magazine ~ January/February 2006 Monterey Spread The winding road that leads from the stone gatehouse to the clubhouse at the Santa Lucia Preserve in Carmel Valley is no less than eight and a half miles long, climbing through stands of centuries -old redwoods and rolling hills drenched in native grasses and wildflowers.
		Western Interiors and Design ~ September/October 2005 Carmel Valley Colors: Barbara Scavullo Brings Warmth and Whimsy to a Northern California Retreat Scavullo, whose San Francisco firm is known for its vibrant interpretations of European styles, met her clients, through the project's architects. Hart Howerton, which has offices in both San Francisco and New York, conceived the 8,000 square foot house perched on a knoll surrounded by California oaks at Santa Lucia Preserve.
		Hors Ligne ~ Autumn 2005 Private. Members Only High up in California's beautiful Carmel Valley is the Santa Lucia Preserve just ten miles inland from Pebble Beach. 20,000 acres in the foothills of the Santa Lucia Mountains, the Preserve consists of two clubs: The Preserve Golf Club, with its pristine Tom Fazio championship design, is dedicated to golf, while The Ranch Club encompasses all sporting pursuits outside of golf.
		HomeStyle by the Sea ~ Fall 2005 Lovely Land. Colorful Past Gazing across the 31 square mile expanse that is The Santa Lucia Preserve in the coastal Santa Lucia Mountains, one can imagine the West the way it once was - vast open lands, rugged yet fertile lushly forested terrain, where golden eagle and red-shouldered hawk soar overhead.