Torrey Pines: Land of Naked Backgammon

Little known fact about the site of this year's U.S. Open: there is a nudist colony that frequents the beach near Torrey Pines. No, seriously. They get naked and run around the beach and from said strip (bwa-ha-ha) of sand, they can see the Open workers firing up all the golf Major obstacles. Like bleachers and stuff. For the fans who will be watching.

"It's pretty much what you would see on any other beach," said [Lloyd]Johnson, the frontal man for the nudist group that frequents the scenic stretch. "People playing volleyball, throwing the Frisbee, body surfing, building sandcastles, collecting seashells. Maybe playing some backgammon."

[...]A scant 100 yards below one of the most scenic vistas in golf is a historic eye-opener of another sort. Paralleling the Torrey courses is a stretch of storied sand called Black's Beach, where they congregate in the buff below the bluff.

Dios mio. And Steve Elling, apparently investigating for CBS, did the requisite follow up question about the legitimacy of nude backgammon. It is indeed real. Phil Mickelson, from San Diego, was able to confirm some of the dangling questions left by this group of always-nudes.

'As long as I lived there, I have never gone there,' said the area's most popular local, Phil Mickelson. 'But you hear funny stories. I know that the week of the San Diego tournament, the blimp, which has some very powerful lenses, has encountered some very interesting sights. Sometimes you go in some caves and corners and think you are isolated, but you aren't from directly above.'

Yikes. To sum up, Black's Beach is probably not a good place to wander if you're an elderly golf fan with a pacemaker. Or looking to pick up on women. As San Diegan Charley Hoffman put it, there are "too many dudes."