Pebble Beach Golf Course

As Brandt Snedeker lifted the trophy at Sunday's Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, golf fans were treated to some of the most beautiful vistas and three of the best-kept golf courses in North America. As America's best-known public golf resort, Pebble Beach offers professionals and amateurs alike a world of golfing pleasure, with challenging holes set against a magnificent coastal backdrop.

With its scenic location on 5,300 acres of coastal property near Monterey, California, the Pebble Beach Resort consists of five championship golf courses which have become household names around the world. The Pebble Beach Golf Links, Spyglass Hill Golf Course, and The Links at Spanish Bay play host to the annual Pebble Beach Pro-Am, while Del Monte Golf Course and Peter Hay Golf Course are regular favourites with weekend golfers – all the courses are open to the public, and bookings are essential.

For golfers who are looking to play a legendary course, the Pebble Beach Golf Links is a course that offers exceptional scenery and challenging holes that can be thoroughly enjoyed by golfers of all handicaps. Since opening in 1919, this course has become hallowed ground. The greatest golfers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have teed off at Pebble Beach Golf Links, with each hole having witness a little piece of golfing history.

Highlights of the course include:

• The par 4 first hole, with its lengthy dogleg fairway and tightly bunkered green, that provides an instantly enjoyable challenge.

• The par 3 fifth hole provides birdie opportunities for precision players with its reachable green, the entire length of the hole being flanked by the Pacific Ocean.

• The par 5 final hole offers a significant challenge – lengthy fairways with bunkers abounding on the fairway and greenside make the passage from tee to green a tricky but enjoyable one, with magnificent ocean views making the challenge worthwhile.

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