Spyglass Hill Golf Course

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Spyglass Hill Golf Course
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Spyglass Hill Golf Course
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Spyglass Hill Golf Course
Club information
Location Pebble Beach, California,
Elevation100 feet (30 m)
Established1966, 59 years ago
TypePublic
Owned byPebble Beach Company
Operated byPebble Beach Company
Total holes18
Events hosted AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am
(1967–present)
Website Pebble Beach Resorts
Spyglass Hill Golf Course
Designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr.
Par 72
Length7,026 yards (6,425 m)
Course rating 75.4
Slope rating 145 [1]
Course record62 – Phil Mickelson (2005)
and Luke Donald (2006) [2] [3]

Spyglass Hill Golf Course is a golf course on the west coast of the United States, located on the Monterey Peninsula in California. [4] The course is part of the Pebble Beach Company, which also owns the Pebble Beach Golf Links, The Links at Spanish Bay, and the Del Monte Golf Course. The PGA golf head pro at Spyglass Hill is Patrick Gannon.

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Golf Digest has ranked Spyglass Hill as high as fifth on its list of "America's 100 Greatest Public Courses". [5] It has also featured in the popular Tiger Woods PGA Tour series of video games, along with the sister course Pebble Beach.

History

Spyglass Hill was designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr., and opened 59 years ago on March 11, 1966, after six years of planning, design, and construction. Since 1967, it has been in the rotation of the multi-course AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, a February tournament on the West Coast Swing of the PGA Tour. [6] [7] It will host a senior women's major professional golf tournament, the U.S. Senior Women's Open in 2030.

Originally called Pebble Beach Pines Golf Club, it was renamed to Spyglass Hill by Samuel F. B. Morse (1885–1969), the founder of Pebble Beach Company, [8] after the place in the 1883 novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), who had spent time in the Monterey area in 1879. [9] All the holes at Spyglass Hill were named by Bob Hanna, executive director of the Northern California Golf Association, after characters and places from the novel. [10] [11]

Its par-72 layout measures 6,960 yards (6,364 m) from the championship (blue) tees, with a course rating of 75.4 and a slope rating of 145. [1] The first five holes all have views of the Pacific Ocean, and the other thirteen wind through the Del Monte Forest.

The course record of 62 (–10) was set by Phil Mickelson in 2005 and equaled by Luke Donald the next year; both were carded on Thursday of the AT&T under calm conditions. [2] [3]

The back tees at Spyglass Hill were called "Tiger tees" when it opened, [7] long before the birth of Tiger Woods.

Layout

The first hole is called Treasure Island, and is a downhill 597-yard (546 m) par 5, which doglegs almost 90 degrees to the left. One of the more renowned holes is the fourth, a 376-yard (344 m) par 4 named Blind Pew, which Robert Trent Jones called his favorite par 4. The green is the most photographed on the course, and is surrounded by ice plant. Other hole names include The Black Spot (3rd), Captain Flint (10th), and Long John Silver (14th).

HoleNameYardsParHoleNameYardsPar
1 Treasure Island 597510 Captain Flint 4094
2 Billy Bones 349411 Admiral Benbow 5625
3 The Black Spot 171312Skeleton Island1773
4 Blind Pew 376413 Tom Morgan 4584
5Bird Rock203314 Long John Silver 5585
6 Israel Hands 441415 Jim Hawkins 1323
7Indian Village545516 Black Dog 4694
8Signal Hill398417 Ben Gunn 3244
9 Captain Smollett 430418 Spyglass 4274
Out3,51036In3,51636
Total7,02672

Scorecard

Spyglass Hill Golf Course
Tee Rating/Slope 123456789Out101112131415161718InTotal
Blue75.4 / 145597349171376203441545398430351040956217745855813246932442735167026
Gold73.3 / 140565321147370173408520372414329037649015943052512244731640432696559
White71.8 / 133533300128360138372479356393305936645914339351410143330437830916150
Green70.0 / 12852329212435312632446931035328743194511233534879540429536028875761
Red67.4 / 12248824183302943204623003492639315420953224818328626633226005239
SI Men's313179157111512101646182148
Par543434544364534534443672
SI Women's513179151711361216821810144
Source: [1] [12]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Course Rating and Slope Database™ - Spyglass Hill GC". USGA. Retrieved January 16, 2021.
  2. 1 2 "'Long' Mickelson goes low again". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Associated Press. February 11, 2005. p. C4.
  3. 1 2 "Donald goes way under at Spyglass". Eugene Register-Guard. Oregon. Associated Press. February 10, 2006. p. D4.
  4. ↑ "Spyglass Hill Golf Course". MontereyPeninsulaGolf.com.
  5. ↑ "The Pirates Of Pebble Beach: Spyglass Hill Golf Course". Golf Adventures. August 8, 2007. Archived from the original on January 7, 2009. Retrieved 2009-04-06.
  6. ↑ Stevenson, Jack (January 19, 1967). "Jack wins bet from Crosby by taking 'Spyglass Hill'". Florence Times. Alabama. Associated Press. p. 10.
  7. 1 2 "Bing enthused over links, but some golf pros aren't". Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. Associated Press. January 22, 1967. p. 6.
  8. ↑ Stewart, Jerry (June 13, 2010). "Birth of an Icon: The story of Pebble Beach Golf Links". Monterey herald. California. Retrieved February 11, 2016.
  9. ↑ Barkow, Al (May 2006). "Spyglass Hill Golf Course". LINKS. Retrieved February 11, 2016.
  10. ↑ Stevenson, Jack (January 15, 1967). "Golf course holes named for fighters". Park City Daily News. Bowling Green, Kentucky. Associated Press. p. 18.
  11. ↑ Stewart, Jerry (April 2, 2009). "Bob Hanna dies". The Monterey County Herald . Retrieved February 11, 2016.
  12. ↑ "2022 Spyglass Hill Scorecard" (PDF). www.pebblebeach.com.

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