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There already had been plans for a golf course and homes to be built at Pebble Beach but Morse decided on fewer homes and a magnificent golf course, hiring Jack Neville and Douglas Grant as designers. Neville had won five state Amateurs and Grant had just returned from six years in Scotland and England, where he had studied the latest types of bunkering and greens construction on their championship courses, important elements in building a course that has become a mecca in golf. And, unlike most other prestigious courses in America, Pebble Beach Golf Links is open to the public.

Pebble Beach opened in 1929 and H. Chandler Egan was hired to toughen up
the course for the 1929 U.S. Amateur Championship. Some of his changes were dramatic. He rebunkered the short, par -3 seventh hole, Postage Stamp, making an already intriguing hole more demanding. An Already difficult par-5, fourteenth hole was lengthened 100 yards. But, contrary to popular belief, he did not change the 18th hole– on the ocean from tee to green and one of golf's most famous finishing holes– from a 379 yard par 4 to a 548 yard par 5.
Pebble Beach has hosted 4 U.S. Opens, including the 100th U.S. Open in 2000; a PGA Championship; a PGA Tour Championship, and four U.S. Amateurs. Bing Crosby brought his tournament for his celebrity friends from Rancho Santa Fe in Southern California to Pebble Beach in 1947. Crosby became AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am Tournament. Jack Nicklaus won the U.S. Open in 1972, a U.S. Amateur and three Crosbys on the course. Tom Watson prevented Jack from winning another U.S. Open on the course in 1982 with his dramatic chip-in birdie on the 17th hole of the final round. On that same hole during a Crosby, Arnold Palmer hit it long and over the cliff. He went down to the rocks below, found his ball and, instead of taking a one-shot penalty and relief, whacked away until he wound up with a 12.

The course record is 10-under-par 62 shared by Tom Kite (1983 Crosby) and by David Duval (1997 AT&T). Tiger Woods tied Jack Nicklaus for the all time U.S. Open record while winning the 100th U.S. Open in 2000 with a 12-under par at Pebble Beach.

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There already had been plans for a golf course and homes to be built at Pebble Beach but Morse decided on fewer homes and a magnificent golf course, hiring Jack Neville and Douglas Grant as designers. Neville had won five state Amateurs and Grant had just returned from six years in Scotland and England, where he had studied the latest types of bunkering and greens construction on their championship courses, important elements in building a course that has become a mecca in golf. And, unlike most other prestigious courses in America, Pebble Beach Golf Links is open to the public. Pebble Beach opened in 1929 and H. Chandler Egan was hired to toughen up the course for the 1929 U.S. Amateur	Championship. Some of his changes were dramatic. He rebunkered the short, par -3 seventh hole, Postage Stamp, making an already intriguing hole more demanding. An Already difficult par-5, fourteenth hole was lengthened 100 yards. But, contrary to popular belief, he did not change the 18th hole– on the ocean from tee to green and one of golf's most famous finishing holes– from a 379 yard par 4 to a 548 yard par 5. Pebble Beach has hosted 4 U.S. Opens, including the 100th U.S. Open in 2000; a PGA Championship; a PGA Tour Championship, and four U.S. Amateurs. Bing Crosby brought his tournament for his celebrity friends from Rancho Santa Fe in Southern California to Pebble Beach in 1947. Crosby became AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am Tournament.	Jack Nicklaus won the U.S. Open in 1972, a U.S. Amateur and three Crosbys on the course. Tom Watson prevented Jack from winning another U.S. Open on the course in 1982 with his dramatic chip-in birdie on the 17th hole of the final round. On that same hole during a Crosby, Arnold Palmer hit it long and over the cliff. He went down to the rocks below, found his ball and, instead of taking a one-shot penalty and relief, whacked away until he wound up with a 12. The course record is 10-under-par 62 shared by Tom Kite (1983 Crosby) and by David Duval (1997 AT&T). Tiger Woods tied Jack Nicklaus for the all time U.S. Open record while winning the 100th U.S. Open in 2000 with a 12-under par at Pebble Beach.
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