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Pebble Beach, CA
Monterey Peninsula Country Club
Monterey Peninsula Country Club opened in July 1926 as part of Samuel Finley Brown Morse’s development of the peninsula. Golf joined tennis, riding and coastal recreation in a larger effort to attract residents and visitors.
- Courses
- 2 courses
- Club website
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Courses
Course design
A country club in Morse’s peninsula development
Clarence Tantau designed the Spanish-style clubhouse. Nearby, a former quarry became a small swimming lake with a sandy bottom and beach, giving the Club an inland complement to its stretch of ocean shore.
Championships
Results and dates 3 editions
U.S. Girls' Junior
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Mickey Wright
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U.S. Senior Amateur
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Thomas C. Robbins
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U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur
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U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur
Ina Kim-Schaad
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In the archive
Sources and editorial notes7 references
Sources for this story
- Monterey Peninsula Country Club University of Washington / PCAD
History and course description.
Consulted 2026-09-21
Record sources
- Club mark source
- Mike Strantz Design: Monterey Peninsula press release
- Rees Jones, Inc.: Monterey Peninsula Dunes project
- USGA: 2026 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur Record Book USGA record book, PDF pages 2, 3 and 8: Ina Kim-Schaad defeated Hanley Long in a 23-hole final on Monterey Peninsula Country Club’s Dunes Course. The championship ran October 4–9, 2025; it was the 38th playing. An 18-foot birdie putt on the fifth extra hole ended the final.
- USGA: 2026 U.S. Senior Amateur record book, page 7 Offline: archived primary source /Users/cwhitelam/Documents/AGA Research Archive/shared/usga-championship-records-20261024/26SeniorAm.pdf; SHA-256 db447a8079c9a707c54710acb92d7da567e788bc38b4b449c065d542155ab300. Exact result row: 1958 (Sept. 29 – Oct. 4) Thomas C. Robbins d. John W. Dawson, 2 and 1; Monterey Peninsula C.C., Pebble Beach, Calif.; Medalist — *71, (Dunes Course), J. Clark Espie; Entries: 370 Use the championship final, not the qualifying medalist. Match-play outcomes are not stroke totals. Current routing, scorecard and par are not asserted. Named Course identity is supported by the championship result or the archived primary routing evidence. The same USGA record book page 11 explicitly identifies Dunes as the 1958 championship Course.
- USGA: 2026 U.S. Girls Junior record book, page 7 Offline: archived primary source /Users/cwhitelam/Documents/AGA Research Archive/shared/usga-championship-records-20261024/26GirlsJunior.pdf; SHA-256 311526e6f45012af71b823745da59f40499591f1efae990bafaa12566d8bfc15. The 1952 results row explicitly names Monterey Peninsula Country Club Dunes Course in Pebble Beach and the Wright-McIntire final. Bind Dunes, not Shore, without asserting that the current routing, tees or scorecard are unchanged.