Pebble Beach Golf Links

The public course on Carmel Bay, famous for the coastal run from the 7th through the 10th and its 17th and 18th. Six U.S. Opens and an annual PGA Tour stop.

Pebble Beach opened on February 22, 1919, as part of the Del Monte resort holdings, laid out by amateur champions Jack Neville and Douglas Grant in a figure-eight routing that puts as many holes as possible on the shoreline. H. Chandler Egan reworked it before the 1929 U.S. Amateur, and much of what is played today reflects his changes. Jack Nicklaus added the current 5th in 1998.

The 7th through the 10th, often called the best stretch of holes in golf, sit on the rocky coastline, and the round returns to the water for the par-3 17th and the par-5 18th beside Stillwater Cove. The interior holes are plainer, a point Robert Trent Jones made in The Complete Golfer, but the wind off Carmel Bay affects every shot. It has hosted six U.S. Opens, the 1977 PGA Championship and the 2023 U.S. Women's Open, plus the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am every year since 1947. In 2001 it became the first public course ranked No. 1 by Golf Digest.

Holes to know

7

Par 3 · 109 yd

The shortest hole on the course at 109 yards and the start of the famed coastal stretch.

17

Par 3 · 208 yd

Where Jack Nicklaus hit the flagstick with a 1-iron in 1972 and Tom Watson chipped in to win the 1982 U.S. Open.

18

Par 5 · 543 yd

A par 5 played beside Stillwater Cove; Tom Watson birdied it to seal the 1982 U.S. Open.

Championships

• U.S. Open 1972, 1982, 1992, 2000, 2010, 2019
• PGA Championship 1977
• U.S. Women's Open 2023
• U.S. Amateur 1929, 1947, 1961, 1999, 2018
• AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am Annually since 1947

Design history

• 1928: H. Chandler Egan remodel ahead of the 1929 U.S. Amateur
• 1998: Jack Nicklaus built a new 5th hole
• 2016: Arnold Palmer Design (Thad Layton) renovation