Monterey Peninsula Country Club (Dunes)

Seth Raynor's design next to Cypress Point, finished by Robert Hunter after Raynor's death, with a run of seaside par 3s and a 2016 Fazio renovation that brought back sand.

The Dunes course at Monterey Peninsula Country Club was designed by Seth Raynor, who died before it was finished. Robert Hunter completed the work, with input from Alister MacKenzie, and it opened in 1926 on land beside Cypress Point. From 1947 to 1964 it was one of the courses used for the Bing Crosby Pro-Am, the event that became the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

Raynor's influence shows in templates such as the downhill 4th, a long par 3 to a Biarritz green with sand on both sides, and the 7th, which plays to a plateau green falling away on every side. The club covers roughly 400 acres and also has a second 18, the Shore course. Rees Jones remodeled the Dunes in the late 1990s and moved the 14th green out onto rocks along the Pacific.

Tom Fazio and his former associates at Jackson Kahn Design renovated the Dunes again in 2016–17, removing trees and adding sand dunes, waste areas and bunkers to make it look and play more like a coastal course. The par 3s carry its reputation, from the long Biarritz 4th and the plateau 7th to the drop toward the ocean at the 10th and the 14th green on the rocks. Its course record, a 63, dates to 1954.

Holes to know

4

Par 3 · 233 yd

A downhill Raynor template to a Biarritz green with bunkers on both sides.

10

Par 3 · 170 yd

Drops toward the coastline to a raised green ringed by sand next to the ocean.

14

Par 3 · 176 yd

Rees Jones moved this green onto the rocks beside the Pacific; often called the course's best hole.

Championships

• Bing Crosby National Pro-Am (rotation course) 1947–1964

Design history

• 1998–99: Rees Jones remodel, including moving the 14th green onto the rocks by the ocean
• 2016–17: Tom Fazio and Jackson Kahn Design renovation adding dunes and waste areas and removing trees