Pebble Beach Golf Links is a golf course located in Pebble Beach, California, on the west coast of the United States.
Pebble Beach is widely regarded as one of the most beautiful courses in the world. It hugs the rugged coastline and has wide open views of Carmel Bay, opening to the Pacific Ocean, on the south side of the Monterey Peninsula. In 2001 it became the first public course (i.e., open to the general public for play) to be selected as the No.1 Golf Course in America by Golf Digest. Greens fees are among the highest in the world, at $495 (plus $35 cart fee for non-resort guests) per round in 2008.
Four of the courses in the coastal community of Pebble Beach, including Pebble Beach Golf Links, belong to the Pebble Beach Company, which also operates three hotels and a spa at the resort. The other courses are The Links at Spanish Bay, Spyglass Hill Golf Course, and Del Monte Golf Course.
Pebble Beach has played host to a number of world-class tournaments over the years as well as co-hosting the annual AT&T Pebble Beach Pro Am with Monterey Peninsula Country Club Shores Course and Spyglass Hill Golf Course. A total of 11 USGA championships have been contested at Pebble Beach Golf Links, five of which were U.S. Open championships held in 1972, 1982, 1992, 2000 and 2010. Pebble is also scheduled to host its sixth U.S. Open in June 2019. It is the only PGA TOUR course to currently host both a FedEx Cup and a Champions Tour event in the same season annually.
The course is included in many golf video games, such as the Links series and the Tiger Woods PGA Tour series.
Read more about Pebble Beach Golf Links: History, Tournaments, Layout and Signature Holes, Scorecard, U.S. Open Championships At Pebble Beach Golf Links, Major Tournaments Hosted, Controversy Over Further Golf Course Development
Famous quotes containing the words pebble, beach, golf and/or links:
“What was that whiteness?
Truth? A pebble of quartz? For once, then, something.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“A young person is a person with nothing to learn
One who already knows that ice does not chill and fire does not burn . . .
It knows it can spend six hours in the sun on its first
day at the beach without ending up a skinless beet,
And it knows it can walk barefoot through the barn
without running a nail in its feet. . . .
Meanwhile psychologists grow rich
Writing that the young are ones’ should not
undermine the self-confidence of which.”
—Ogden Nash (1902–1971)
“Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.”
—Franklin Pierce Adams (1881–1960)
“An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States gains no advantage and it loses prestige by offering, indeed peddling, its alliances to all and sundry. An alliance should be hard diplomatic currency, valuable and hard to get, and not inflationary paper from the mimeograph machine in the State Department.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)