Hands Down Pebble Beachs' Seventh Hole - Golf Worlds' Legend

By Jimmy Doyle


Among numerous and challenging courses around the world, Pebble Beach Golf Course has considered as one of the common choices of golfers because of its extraordinary designs. It portrays the classic early Scottish links courses such as is an out-and-back layout with the 11th at the far end of the gold course. The three such as 1st, 2nd and 3rd hole are inland while 4th and the 6th to the 10th run along cliffs of Carmel Bay. The 11th heads are positioned inland, but the 13th to the 16th move back toward the landscape. They are set among eucalyptus, oaks, pines and cypress around the site. Though all inlands are good, they lack the features of the ones placed on the cliff tops.

Jack Neville was an amateur real-estate man who won the California Championship five times and selected as one of the Walker Cup team in 1923. Because of this excellence, one great client came into his way to request for a golf course design for him in 1918. However, Jack Neville once said to Sam Morse that the golf course was there all the time, but the most challenging part is to find a perfect hole. Neville spent weeks walking and wandering in the land until he made a decision to modify the route and the site for golf course. He then called Douglas Gran, an amateur with great skills and advices for the subject of bunkering. Neville, with guidance from Gran, produced a good masterpiece.

Pebble Beach is one of the most recommended places for amateur and skillful golfers around the world. It offers a course demanding heroic shots and safer routes to play if one golfer has lost the stroke or par, Those heroic shots all come on the pacific holes, but you can always choose among the 4th par, a relatively gentle introduction, a short par 4 of just 297 m (325 yards), the 6th and the 10th.

Bobby Jones was the greatest golfer in the world in 1929. Though an amateur golfer, Jones recently won the US Open for the third time because of his great golfing skills. However, he was dismissed after Johnny Goodman won their fight in the first round of the 1926 US Amateur at Pebble Beach. Goodman, Goodman was also eliminated from the tournament the same day, yet a few years later he was to open the last amateur (up to date) to win the US Open.

Among the sequence of par 4s in the world, the 8th, 9th, and 10th are the toughest. Pebble Beach Golf Course was the most popular place wherein championships are settled and a home of golf champions such as Nicklaus. With his pars of the two, held a 4-strke lead in the final round of the 1972 US Open, he won the competition and became a champion with his shots on 17th along with his 290, the second highest winning total in the US Open over 50 years. After ten years, Nicklaus prevailed in the record-breaking fifth US Open Championship and only Watson had a chance of catching him. Their duel became challenging, but Watson provided solutions to win.




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