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Pebble Beach Golf Links

Pebble Beach nearly became housing lots before Samuel Morse persuaded the owners to use the coastal property for golf. He commissioned amateur architects Jack Neville and Douglas Grant to lay out the course.1

Pebble Beach Golf Links club mark
Pebble Beach Golf Links’s Club mark
Location
Pebble Beach, CA
Course
18 holes · par 72 · Opened 1919
Club website
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Saving the shoreline for golf

An early opening exposed unfinished turf and rocky fairways. The course closed for almost a year before reopening on Washington’s Birthday in 1919, the date later used for its centennial.1

The course

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Championships

  1. 2023 U.S. Women's OpenPebble Beach Golf Links
  2. 2019 U.S. OpenPebble Beach Golf Links
  3. 2018 U.S. AmateurPebble Beach Golf Links
  4. 2010 U.S. OpenPebble Beach Golf Links
View all 16 past editions
  1. 2005 The Wal-Mart First Tee Open at Pebble BeachPebble Beach Golf Links
  2. 2000 U.S. OpenPebble Beach Golf Links
  3. 1999 U.S. AmateurPebble Beach Golf Links
  4. 1992 U.S. OpenPebble Beach Golf Links
  5. 1982 U.S. OpenPebble Beach Golf Links
  6. 1977 PGA ChampionshipPebble Beach Golf Links
  7. 1972 U.S. OpenPebble Beach Golf Links
  8. 1961 U.S. AmateurPebble Beach Golf Links
  9. 1948 U.S. Women’s AmateurPebble Beach Golf Links
  10. 1947 U.S. AmateurPebble Beach Golf Links
  11. 1940 U.S. Women’s AmateurPebble Beach Golf Links
  12. 1929 U.S. AmateurPebble Beach Golf Links
Results and dates 16 editions

U.S. Open

  1. Jack Nicklaus

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  2. Tom Watson

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  3. Tom Kite

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  4. Tiger Woods

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  5. Graeme McDowell

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  6. Gary Woodland

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U.S. Amateur

  1. Harrison R. Johnston

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  2. Robert H. “Skee” Riegel

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  3. Jack Nicklaus

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  4. David Gossett

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  5. Viktor Hovland

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U.S. Women's Amateur

  1. U.S. Women’s Amateur

    Betty Jameson

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  2. U.S. Women’s Amateur

    Grace S. Lenczyk

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First Tee Open at Pebble Beach

  1. The Wal-Mart First Tee Open at Pebble Beach

    Hale Irwin

PGA Championship

  1. Lanny Wadkins

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U.S. Women's Open

  1. Allisen Corpuz

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Sources and editorial notes10 references

Sources for this story

  1. Nine Things to Know: Pebble Beach Golf Links PGA TOUR

    History and course description.

    Consulted 2026-09-21
Record sources9 references
  1. Club mark source
  2. USGA Women's Open Champions and Championship Results The official champions table records the 2023 winner and site. Recorded site text follows that table; no canonical Club or Course identity is inferred. Explicit date span: www.usga.org
  3. 2026 USGA Championships Media Guide - U.S. Open The official 2026 USGA Championship Record Book directly enumerates the completed 2019 Championship, champion, explicit date span, and site in Championship Results: 1895 to 2025. The recorded champion and site preserve the higher-resolution register text. The current official U.S. Open Champions table independently confirms the year, champion, and site.
  4. USGA: 2019 U.S. Open Media Information Package The USGA 2019 media package identifies the Neville/Grant course opened in 1919, calls 2019 its sixth U.S. Open, and enumerates the five previous editions. The official Pebble Beach championship register and Course Changes history corroborate continuing physical-course identity while documenting alterations. The USGA 2026 record book confirms each completed edition and host. This binding does not assert unchanged holes or round-by-round use. Original club-only provenance is retained in the reviewed withdrawal fixture and source ledger.
  5. USGA: 2024 U.S. Amateur Record Book Printed/PDF page 11, 2018 result row. Viktor Hovland def. Devon Bling, 6 and 5. Match margins and extra-hole lengths are not stroke totals. Actual dates from the retrospective result table.
  6. PGA TOUR: official 2006 Champions Tour media guide PDF page 258, printed 5-40, 2005 entry: The Wal-Mart First Tee Open at Pebble Beach. Exact competitive-day boundaries remain unverified.
  7. 2026 PGA Championship Media Guide The official Media Guide directly enumerates the 59th playing, champion, site, and its year-page date span. The recorded venue and champion preserve the official PGA Championship History entry’s published text.
  8. PGA Championship host record The 1977 PGA record names Pebble Beach. The host Club is verified; the exact course and routing used for this edition have not been confirmed.
  9. USGA: 2026 U.S. Women’s Amateur Record Book Printed/PDF page 8, 1948 result row. Retrospective completed-championship result and date range.
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