 Spyglass Hill Golf Course | |
| Club information | |
|---|---|
| Location | Pebble Beach, California, |
| Elevation | 100 feet (30 m) |
| Established | 1966, 59 years ago |
| Type | Public |
| Owned by | Pebble Beach Company |
| Operated by | Pebble Beach Company |
| Total holes | 18 |
| 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 |
| Length | 7,026 yards (6,425 m) |
| Course rating | 75.4 |
| Slope rating | 145[1] |
| Course record | 62 –Phil Mickelson (2005) andLuke Donald (2006)[2][3] |
Spyglass Hill Golf Course is agolf course on thewest coast of theUnited States, located on theMonterey Peninsula inCalifornia.[4] The course is part of thePebble Beach Company, which also owns thePebble 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.
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 popularTiger Woods PGA Tour series ofvideo games, along with the sister course Pebble Beach.
Spyglass Hill was designed byRobert Trent Jones Sr., and opened 59 years ago on March 11, 1966, after six years of planning, design, and construction. Since1967, it has been in therotation of the multi-courseAT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, a February tournament on the West Coast Swing of thePGA Tour.[6][7] It will host a senior women's major professional golf tournament, theU.S. Senior Women's Open in 2030.
Originally calledPebble Beach Pines Golf Club, it was renamed to Spyglass Hill bySamuel F. B. Morse (1885–1969), the founder of Pebble Beach Company,[8] after the place in the 1883 novelTreasure Island byRobert 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 acourse rating of 75.4 and aslope rating of 145.[1] The first five holes all have views of thePacific Ocean, and the other thirteen wind through theDel Monte Forest.
The course record of 62 (–10) was set byPhil Mickelson in 2005 and equaled byLuke 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 ofTiger Woods.
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 namedBlind Pew, which Robert Trent Jones called his favorite par 4. The green is the most photographed on the course, and is surrounded byice plant. Other hole names includeThe Black Spot (3rd),Captain Flint (10th), andLong John Silver (14th).
| Hole | Name | Yards | Par | Hole | Name | Yards | Par | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Treasure Island | 597 | 5 | 10 | Captain Flint | 409 | 4 | |
| 2 | Billy Bones | 349 | 4 | 11 | Admiral Benbow | 562 | 5 | |
| 3 | The Black Spot | 171 | 3 | 12 | Skeleton Island | 177 | 3 | |
| 4 | Blind Pew | 376 | 4 | 13 | Tom Morgan | 458 | 4 | |
| 5 | Bird Rock | 203 | 3 | 14 | Long John Silver | 558 | 5 | |
| 6 | Israel Hands | 441 | 4 | 15 | Jim Hawkins | 132 | 3 | |
| 7 | Indian Village | 545 | 5 | 16 | Black Dog | 469 | 4 | |
| 8 | Signal Hill | 398 | 4 | 17 | Ben Gunn | 324 | 4 | |
| 9 | Captain Smollett | 430 | 4 | 18 | Spyglass | 427 | 4 | |
| Out | 3,510 | 36 | In | 3,516 | 36 | |||
| Total | 7,026 | 72 | ||||||
| Tee | Rating/Slope | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 75.4 / 145 | 597 | 349 | 171 | 376 | 203 | 441 | 545 | 398 | 430 | 3510 | 409 | 562 | 177 | 458 | 558 | 132 | 469 | 324 | 427 | 3516 | 7026 |
| Gold | 73.3 / 140 | 565 | 321 | 147 | 370 | 173 | 408 | 520 | 372 | 414 | 3290 | 376 | 490 | 159 | 430 | 525 | 122 | 447 | 316 | 404 | 3269 | 6559 |
| White | 71.8 / 133 | 533 | 300 | 128 | 360 | 138 | 372 | 479 | 356 | 393 | 3059 | 366 | 459 | 143 | 393 | 514 | 101 | 433 | 304 | 378 | 3091 | 6150 |
| Green | 70.0 / 128 | 523 | 292 | 124 | 353 | 126 | 324 | 469 | 310 | 353 | 2874 | 319 | 451 | 123 | 353 | 487 | 95 | 404 | 295 | 360 | 2887 | 5761 |
| Red | 67.4 / 122 | 488 | 241 | 83 | 302 | 94 | 320 | 462 | 300 | 349 | 2639 | 315 | 420 | 95 | 322 | 481 | 83 | 286 | 266 | 332 | 2600 | 5239 |
| SI | Men's | 3 | 13 | 17 | 9 | 15 | 7 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 10 | 16 | 4 | 6 | 18 | 2 | 14 | 8 | |||
| Par | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 36 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 36 | 72 | |
| SI | Women's | 5 | 13 | 17 | 9 | 15 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 16 | 8 | 2 | 18 | 10 | 14 | 4 |
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