U.S. Open Golf Chronicle: The Links at Pebble Beach
One of the first things I saw upon arriving at Pebble was Lefty eating a cookie.
Sitting calmly in the back of a golf cart, this Lefty is in training to be Pebble Beach’s next – keep the geese off the greens – dog.
Assuming the reference to Mickelson, I asked about the choice of name. “Really? Didn’t think of that,” came the response from the greenskeeper, “perhaps it will bring him some good luck.”
Lefty, along with the rest of the field would need all the luck they could muster whilst tackling a very different Pebble Beach.
If I had to pick one course, a course to shoot every day, it would be Pebble Beach. I got my first taste during the AT&T Pro-Am and immediately fell in love. With it’s sweeping ocean vistas, intimate forest trails and incredible routing and angles, Pebble Beach is a golf photographers dream.
I was last at Pebble for the AT&T. In large part I chose to cover the Pro-Am in preparation for the Open walking the course numerous times and scouting the various holes.
And as with those who played the Pro-Am with goal of preparing their games, found that Pebble Beach – U.S. Open style – to be a completely different beast.
Thick native fescue now surrounded the bunkers, gnarly rough encroached upon the already tight fairways and the greens, as Mr. Woods so eloquently stated, “the greens, awful.“
And whilst these conditions reeked havoc on the players and their game’s, as I photographer I found myself positivity smitten by the USGA’s additions.
Finally Pebble without the manicured resort facade. A Pebble true to her Links golf heritage.
I decided that I liked this Pebble better, rugged and coastal – think Tom Watson in his trademark polo sweater and a Graeme McDowell style beard.
U.S. Open Pebble Beach Golf Links, a sight to behold!
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