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Updated October 18th, 2004
 Pebble beach 7th hole picture at sunset |
 Pebble Beach 8th tee |
 18th hole at Pebble Beach |
 Pebble Beach 5th hole |
 Panoramic view of the 8th hole Pebble Beach |
 7th hole at Pebble Beach |
From day one The Pebble Beach Company was formed as a money-maker -- if was real estate driven. Creating what Jack Nicklaus calls the greatest golf course in the world was just a grand result. And it didn't always cost $300 to play this course. In the beginning a single golf ball cost more than a round of golf.
Actually, the first golf course in the Monterey area was the Del Monte Golf Course. Pebble Beach was the vision of Samuel Morse, who arrived in 1915 as the manager of the Del Monte properties, which included the Hotel Del Monte, now the administration building of the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School.
Morse came up with a residential lot plan for Pebble Beach and started selling lots. Can you imagine tract housing where Tom Watson chipped in on No. 17 in the 1982 U.S. Open? Not long after, Morse's vision changed. He wanted a golf course on that southern shoreline where the lots were being sold. So he started buying the lots back and got Jack Neville and Douglas Grant to start designing what would become Pebble Beach Golf Links.
One of the first lots sold was a 5.5-acre parcel on a bluff overlooking Stillwater Cove. The owner, William Beatty, wouldn't sell this lot back to Morse and hole No. 5, the blind par-3 through a chute of trees had to be built off the shoreline. In 1943, during post-depression hard times, Beatty's widow sold the property for $43,000 to Matthew and Mimi Jenkins. Matt died in 1982 and Mimi in 1995. Their heirs, facing formidable tax bills, had to sell the property.
Eighty years later, in the 1999 Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, the original thoughts for the hole finally came true. The new No. 5 was open for play.
The Pebble Beach Company had at last bought back the property ($8 million just for the land) and Jack Nicklaus designed the hole. The old hole location was split into three lots and sold for home sites to Charles Schwab, the investment broker, and West Coast auto dealer Don Lucas. The third parcel was the shoreline property for the fifth hole.
Today, the old fifth hole is no more. A construction fence surrounds the property where Schwab's new house is being built.
Can you believe there have been some people whose first round of golf was at Pebble Beach? Talk about five-hour rounds. One caddy said: "We should require a golfer to qualify for a 'range card' before allowing them on any golf course."
The most famous hole is the 7th hole at Pebble Beach picture. As you can tell from the picture there is no hole like this in the world. Inspite of the green fees you may forget how light your wallet is once you see this spectacular view of man made blending with nature.
Along 17 mile drive you must stop and take a photo of the lone cypress tree. A landmark that will eventually pass since the tree is slowly dieing. Enjoy this gallery of pebble beach photography.
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