Pebble Beach Pro Am Tips

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The Courses: Pebble Beach, Monterey Shore & Spyglass Hill Monterey Peninsula - California, USA

Purse: $9,000,000

The Monterey Peninsula provides the stunning backdrop to the PGA Tour this week, as the players hit the West Coast for one of the biggest and most enjoyable weeks of the season. Played across three host courses with Pebble Beach as the centrepiece, the AT&T Pro Am regularly attracts one of the strongest fields of the season. This year is no different as defending champion Phil Mickelson heads an all star field in his home state. Although these courses can be brutal, if the wind stays away as it is forecast to this week, conditions can be quite benign, and with the courses set up to accommodate amateur players too, scoring is expected to be low. The first three days are pro am format across each of the courses, with the top 60 professionals and amateurs making it to Pebble on Sunday for the final day.

Pebble Beach - 7050 Yards - Par 72

Designed over 100 years ago, and perhaps the most instantly recognisable golf course in the World, Pebble Beach is actually a public course where players can play without a member, although the green fees are still eye watering! This week, though, is all about the professionals, and seeing who can join the illustrious names on one of the most famous trophies in golf. A visually stunning course on one of the World's most precious pieces of real estate, Pebble offers up a great challenge with 120 bunkers amongst the hazards that the field has to contend with. Nine of the eighteen holes run alongside the Pacific Ocean, and the course is heavily exposed to the wind when it does blow.

From the tee, Pebble isn't too penal. The fairways are average width, and the first cut of rough is eminently playable. Drift further off line and there are troubles; the rough gets thicker, and there are bushes or steep drops to the ocean to contend with, but on a calm day most players will be able to overcome these hazards without too much difficulty. The approach shots are far more difficult. The greens at Pebble Beach are notoriously tiny, and the greenside rough is heavy meaning that there is a real premium on accurate iron play. The green complexes last week in Phoenix were over 7,500 square feet, here they are under 3,500 to give an idea of the difference in the challenge faced. All the greens here are poa annua and experience putting well on these surfaces is a substantial advantage. Pebble is the hardest course on the rotation.

Monterey Shore - 6850 Yards - Par 71

Monterey is another spectacular course, and thirteen of its eighteen holes run alongside the Ocean, making it equally as susceptible to the elements as Pebble Beach. This week, that probably won't factor in as much as normal with the lack of wind, and on a calm day this would likely take over from Spyglass as the easiest of the three host courses. The challenges and geography are similar to Pebble Beach, but the fairways are wider and, most notably, the greens are far bigger making mistakes here far less likely. If players are to contend they will need to be looking at around five under par as a minimum at Monterey. If the wind doesn't blow it just becomes all about who has a hot putting day here.

Spyglass Hill - 6960 Yards - Par 72

The newest of the three courses having been designed by Robert Trent Jones Jnr back in 1966, Spyglass is very different to the other two. Set slightly inland, it is a tree lined links type golf course that offers up some protection from the elements; a huge advantage, and one that makes this the easiest of the three courses in years where the wind blows. The greens are again small here, more akin to Pebble than Monterey, although as a par 72 under 7,000 yards, that still isn't enough to significantly challenge the players these days. The key metrics here, as really with the other two host courses, are greens in regulation, par 4 scoring, and being able to putt well on poa annua greens.

Pebble Beach Pro-AM 2023 Betting Tip

Our pick for the 2023 Pebble Beach Pro-AM competition was American Jordan Spieth, American's have a fantastic record at the event with the form Spieth has been in plus the fact that he won the event in 2017 was enough for us to believe that at 12/1, the 2022 Runner-Up had a fantastic chance of victory.

In the end, it was Justin Rose who came out victorious and Spieth had one of his worst performances in recent memory tieing for 63rd on 1 over par. Rose is the first English winner in the history of this event.

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