Pebble Beach has eight public and private 18-hole golf courses. Pebble Beach Golf Links, The Links at Spanish Bay, Spyglass Hill and Peter Hay Golf Course are owned by Pebble Beach Company and are all public courses. Poppy Hills is also a public course.[15] Private courses located at Pebble Beach are Cypress Point Club and the private Monterey Peninsula Country Club's two courses, the Dunes Course and the Shore Course. Pebble Beach Company also owns Del Monte Golf Course a few miles away in Monterey, which is the oldest continuously operating course in the Western United States.
Several of these courses are widely celebrated, especially Pebble Beach Golf Links. Designed by Jack Neville and Douglas Grant, it is the most famous course in the Western United States, and the only course which has ever beaten Pine Valley Golf Club to top spot in Golf Digest's biennial list of America's 100 greatest courses. Pebble Beach Golf Links was the site of the US Open in 1972, 1982, 1992, 2000, and 2010.[15]
The AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am (formerly known as the Crosby Clambake) is held on three of the courses here annually in February. The tournament began in 1937 at Reancho Santa Fe near San Diego, where it was last played in 1942. After World War II, it moved to Pebble Beach in 1947, and has continued annually since.[16]
Friday, February 3, 2012
pebble beach open news update
Coach Jim Harbaugh and quarterback Alex Smith will take the field together again — at least on the most picturesque sod on this planet, at Pebble Beach. The 49ers’ duo will join Tuesday’s Charity Shoot-Out preceding the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, it was announced Wednesday.
Also representing the 49ers Foundation in the Shoot-Out are former 49ers Jerry Rice, Brent Jones, Harris Barton and Dwight Clark. Playing for the Giants Community Fund are Matt Cain, Will Clark, Mike Krukow, Dave Flemming and his new celebrity caddy Duane Kuiper.
On Saturday, Harbaugh accepted his invitation to join the tournament’s pro-am field. Smith, a pending free agent who is expected to re-sign with the 49ers, is not listed among the celebrity entrants. Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo will return to the field.
A total of $100,000 in charity contributions are at stake. The competition begins at 1:30 p.m. on the first hole. Tickets are $20 until Saturday and $30 after that date. Tickets are available at www.attpbgolf.com or by calling 800 541-9091.
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