Monterey Peninsula Country Club (Shore)

Mike Strantz's 2004 rebuild of Monterey Peninsula Country Club's Shore Course, routing rock-lined holes along the Pacific next door to Cypress Point.

Monterey Peninsula Country Club added the Shore Course around 1961, designed by Bob Baldock and Jack Neville on land near the ocean between Cypress Point and Pacific Grove. For four decades it drew far less attention than the club's Dunes Course. In 2003 the club hired Mike Strantz, who reversed the direction of most holes so they played toward the Pacific and built 12 new holes in the seaside ground. He oversaw construction on site while battling cancer, which took his life shortly after the course reopened in 2004.

The rebuilt course is full of rock outcrops, sandy waste areas and greens set against the water, especially through the coastal loop from the 5th to the 12th, which includes just two par 4s. It rejoined the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am rotation in 2010 and stayed until the event became a signature event in 2024. The response to Strantz's work later led the club to hire Tom Fazio to renovate its Dunes Course in 2016.

Holes to know

5

Par 4

A short par 4 that opens Strantz's coastal loop.

13

One of several holes on which Strantz set an elevated green against the Pacific.

15

Par 4

A dogleg par 4 that closes the stretch of holes Strantz reversed to face the ocean.

Championships

• AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am (rotation course) 1965, 1966, 1977, 2010–2020, 2022–2023

Design history

• 1962: Modifications by Bruce Harris
• 2003–04: Mike Strantz redesign; 12 new holes, with holes 5–15 reversed to face the ocean (reopened June 2004)