There is no agreed upon signature hole at Pebble Beach Golf Links, but the most obvious candidate would be 8. Notable holes include the short par 3 7th, which plays to just over 100 yards even during major championships, is one of the most photographed holes in the world.
In 1948, Grace Lenczyk won the second U.S. Women’s Amateur played at Pebble Beach. This green is framed by a chute of beautiful oaks and flanked by some useful helping slopes. Perhaps a horseshoe green is fitting for a hole honoring the first sudden-death winner in Major Championship history.
Here’s a look at the rest of The Hay, a clever design that weaves in the history of Pebble Beach Golf Links through its yardages, and tests you through bite-size greens brimming with personality.
The first professional tournament at Pebble Beach was the Monterey Peninsula Open in 1926, which had a $5,000 purse. "Lighthorse" Harry Cooper of Texas won with a 72-hole score of 293 (+5). In 1929, Pebble hosted its first major—the U.S. Amateur.
Monterey Cypress grow natively in just two places around the world — between Fanshell Beach and Pescadero Point in Pebble Beach, and across the Carmel Bay at Point Lobos.
Yes, it belongs to Clint Eastwood, a long-time resident of the area and chairman of the Monterey Peninsula Foundation and next week's AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. Eastwood, a co-owner of Pebble Beach Golf Links, bought the 6,922-square foot home on 4.7 acres for nearly $4 million in 1994.
$575Pebble Beach green fees for a standard round are a whopping $550 per person and will increase to $575 on April 1, 2020. In addition to that initial price, it costs $45 per person to use a cart. If you choose to go the caddie route and walk, which is recommended, the caddie fee will run you another $95 per bag.
$60-$120A respectable tip for a single caddie is $60-$120 and $100-$140 for a double bag. The caddies at Pebble are what make the round(s) so memorable and they know the greens like no other and provide knowledge about not only the course, but the entire Monterey Peninsula.
An investment group that includes actor Clint Eastwood, golf master Arnold Palmer and former baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth on Thursday announced they have agreed to acquire the legendary Pebble Beach golf resort near Monterey for $820 million.
$841 millionOn this day 29 years ago, Japanese real estate developer Minoru Isutani bought the Pebble Beach golf resort for $841 million.
If you're planning a trip to Pebble Beach and don't book in advance, you could get there and not be able to get a tee time. But if you're a single, and there are no events the following day, chances are pretty good you're going to get on. If you have a foursome, it's a little more dicey but not impossible.
You can walk around the area by the first tee, go in the pro shop, go in the Lodge, see the 18th hole, see all the plaques of tournament winners and Bing Crosby and take lots of pictures. There are several shops and restaurants. Tourists like us who weren't playing seemed very welcomed.
There are roughly 300 members of Augusta National, and being invited by one of them is the quickest way to get a round in at the famous course. Members are allowed to bring a guest on the course for a relatively small fee of $40.
Average Caddiemaster Caddie weekly pay in Pebble Beach is approximately $674, which is 12% above the national average.
$20-$50 per playerWell, of course, how much to tip a caddie is up to you and the level of service that you get, but you should generally tip a caddie anywhere from $20-$50 per player after the round.
Initiation fee is $18,000 and monthly dues are $260. Two top ranked 18-hole golf courses – Shore and Dunes, fitness, numerous dining facilities. Membership is by invitation only. World famous exclusive private course on the Pebble Beach shoreline experienced by just a few.
This green is framed by a chute of beautiful oaks and flanked by some useful helping slopes. Perhaps a horseshoe green is fitting for a hole honoring the first sudden-death winner in Major Championship history. Lanny Wadkins pulled off the feat in 1977, the only time the PGA Championship came to Pebble Beach.
100 YARDS. “TIGER”. At the 100th U.S. Open Championship in 2000, Tiger Woods was utterly dominant, winning by a record 15 strokes at Pebble Beach. On the right day on the ninth hole, you’ll find your ball funnel to the bottom of a “thumbprint” feature.
HOLE 3. 82 YARDS. “WATSON”. Tom Watson famously chipped-in for birdie on the 17th hole of the 1982 U.S. Open to edge Jack Nicklaus. You won’t find a tipped-over hourglass green here, but this green complex does have its own tricky slopes to navigate.
But chances are, the first shot you’ll be talking about over a post-round beverage at The Bench or The Tap Room is the one you hit at No. 7, the shortest, yet most beautiful par-3 in U.S. Open golf. Amazingly, you can now prepare for that shot before you hit it.
The green is pictured here looking back towards the tee. HOLE 5. 48 YARDS.
At the 2000 U.S. Open, while playing the par-5 6th hole at Pebble Beach, Tiger Woods smashed his 7-iron from 205 yards out of ankle-deep rough and found the green, two-putting for birdie on his way to a 15-shot victory. That shot on No. 6 seemed so impossible that Roger Maltbie simply said, “It’s just not a fair fight.”.
The left side is littered with bunkers to penalize those looking to bail out, while the right side is property of Stillwater Cove, which comes into play more readily than it appears. Simply put: don’t go right! The landing area off the tee is large, but you have to keep it between the bunkers left and water right.
Though the fairway is one of the widest on the course, you can’t just hit it anywhere .
Herbert Fowler — who is credited with creating the current 18th hole at Pebble Beach — recommended abandoning it. Jack Nicklaus and Pete Dye admitted they wouldn’t have considered the possibility of a hole here. This was Egan’s take on the hole before the 1929 U.S. Amateur:
Pebble Beach Golf Links officially opened for play on Feb. 22, 1919. A gathering of 50 players competed in the opening tournament, with each golfer committing to a “golfer’s oath” around a cherry tree on George Washington’s Birthday. The San Francisco Examiner used the oath for its headline: ‘We Pledge Ourselves by Our Faith in ...
The other hole MacKenzie fixed up during his visit to Pebble Beach in 1926 was No. 13. Egan added a vast waste bunker to visually divide No. 13 from No. 9, while MacKenzie reworked the bunkering around the green:
Both Grant and Neville were acclaimed amateur golfers — they even chose to design Pebble Beach for free to preserve their amateur status. A year after Pebble Beach opened, it joined Del Monte’s First Course (still in Monterey today) as the host for the California State Amateur.
The golf on Feb. 22 was actually overshadowed by the opening of the Del Monte Lodge — now known as The Lodge at Pebble Beach. The San Francisco Examiner gushed about a 400-guest gathering that evening, dedicating its story to who attended, and what they wore:
A large double green more or less surrounded by sand dunes has been built on the site of the old green. The left, or ‘championship’ half of the green is guarded in front by sand and is separated from the other half by a long ridge. The entire green is particularly visible.”.
It wasn’t until the 1922 California State Amateur that the 18th hole played as a par-5. It was originally conceived as straightforward 370-yard par-4. Only after Morse sought the consult of English golf course architect Herbert Fowler was the closing hole transformed into the famous par-5 that it is today.
In 1929, Pebble hosted its first major—the U.S. Amateur. A match play event, it was won by Jimmy Johnston of Minnesota, while Bobby Jones tied for medalist honors in the stroke play qualifier, but lost his first-round match to Johnny Goodman .
In 2023 , Pebble Beach will be the first course to host a men's, women's, and senior men's golf tournament in the same calendar year, as the course will host the U.S. Women's Open.
The 16th hole runs alongside the 3rd hole to complete the figure eight, and bring the dramatic closing holes along Stillwater Cove. These include the long par 3 17th, whose place in golf history was assured when Jack Nicklaus (1972) and Tom Watson (1982) made key shots there to win U.S. Opens .
The green is long and thin, tilted about 45 degrees from the angle of the golfer on the tee. Depending upon pin position and wind, a golfer may use a great variety of clubs for the tee shot and, although the green is large in area, the landing area for any approach is relatively small.
A large sand trap guards the front and left. The 18th hole is a medium length par 5 (about 550 yards) with Pacific Ocean all along the left. What may be the greatest closing hole in golf was originally an unremarkable par 4. In 1922, William Herbert Fowler added almost 200 yards to the hole.
In 1947, Pebble Beach began its run as one of the host courses for the Bing Crosby National Pro-Am tournament, sometimes known as the "Clam Bake", and now the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. The tournament is held annually, usually in February, and is an unusual four-round tournament.
The new golf course proposal has existed in some form since the early 1990s; while the environmental protection issues center on the potential damage to rare and endangered species in this locale. The Pebble Beach Company agreed to leave 635 acres of forest area on the Pebble Beach property undeveloped.