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    Pebble Beach Golf Links

    Pebble Beach, CA Public

    Overview

    Not just the greatest meeting of land and sea in American golf, but the most extensive one, too, with nine holes perched immediately above the crashing Pacific surf—the fourth through 10th plus the 17th and 18th. Pebble’s sixth through eighth are golf’s real Amen Corner, with a few Hail Marys thrown in over an ocean cove on the eighth from atop a 75-foot-high bluff. Pebble hosted a successful U.S. Amateur in 2018 and a sixth U.S. Open in 2019. Recent improvements include the redesign of the once-treacherous 14th green, and reshaping of the par-3 17th green, both planned by Arnold Palmer’s Design Company a few years back—and the current changes to the iconic eighth hole. Pebble Beach hosted the Women's U.S. Open for the first time in 2023.

    About

    Holes 18
    Length 7075
    Slope 144
    Price $680
    Facility Type Public
    Year Opened 1919
    Designer Jack Neville & Douglas Grant

    Awards

    100 Greatest
    100 Greatest Public
    Best Courses in Every State

    Ranking history:

    100 Greatest: Ranked since 1966. Ranked among the top 10 since our inaugural edition in the 1960s.
    2023-'24 ranking: 12th.
    Previous ranking: 8th.
    Highest ranking: No. 1, 2001-2002.

    100 Greatest Public: Ranked No. 1 since 2003.

    Best in State: Ranked second from 2011 through 2024.

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    Golf Digest Logo Panelists

    Ratings from our panel of 1,900 course-ranking panelists

    4.7

    100 GREATEST/BEST IN STATE SCORES

    Shot Options
    8.0259
    Character
    8.4381
    Challenge
    7.9263
    Layout Variety
    8.1825
    Fun
    8.0069
    Aesthetics
    8.7237
    Conditioning
    7.6528

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