Following the wake of the last posts we have published about the best golf field, like the St Andrews Golf Club among others, today we wanted to tell you about one of the most beautiful golf courses that exist: Pebble Beach Golf Links, which is located in the west coast of the United States, in Pebble Beach, California.
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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.
Pebble Beach Golf Link, where legends play
In 1982, our Slazenger legend, Tom Watson, won in this field for the first and last time. This is why we are taliking about Pebble Beach Golf today.
In 2001, this field 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 $525 (plus $40 cart fee or $92.50 caddie fee for non-resort guests) per round in 2018.
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.
More than a golf field
The PGA Tour and PGA Tour Champions play annual events at Pebble Beach, AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and the First Tee Open. It has hosted six men’s major championships: five U.S. Opens (1972 • 1982 • 1992 • 2000 • 2010) and a PGA Championship.
It also hosted the 1988 Nabisco Championship, now known as the Tour Championship, the season-ending event on the PGA Tour. World-renowned, the course is included in many golf video games, such as the Links series and the Tiger Woods PGA Tour series.
In 2019, the Championship returns to Pebble Beach for a sixth time — more than any course in the last 50 years.
