Pebble
Beach Golf - Nerves tend to
run tight at the start of a round at Pebble Beach, what
with the teeing area raised like a stage above the omnipresent
gallery of Lodge guests, breakfast diners and tee-time-awaiters.
From the first hole, the golfer quickly realizes that this
is no typical West Coast resort course, tucked tightly between
condos and designed within economics of scale. This course
is larger than life, boasting mature stands of trees, roller
coaster greens and bunkers in which you could easily hide
one of the bigger sport utility vehicles. But it looks as
if the course has taken a hundred years to develop this
way and indeed it nearly has. The first 9-hole track was
laid out along the cove in 1913.