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- The greatest golfers in the world head to Pebble Beach Golf Links for the 2019 US Open Championship.
- Pebble Beach is celebrating its 100th anniversary and sixth time hosting the US Open.
- The course is considered to be one of the most beloved and beautiful courses in the world, located on the coast of California.
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The 119th US Open heads to the world-class Pebble Beach Golf Links this weekend.
Situated on the rugged coastline, the views of Carmel Bay make it one of the most beautiful in the world.
"They say it’s the greatest meeting of land and sea in the world. This course was heaven designed," said Johnny Miller, a three-time AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am champion and World Golf Hall of Famer.
Not only does Pebble Beach have the looks, but its history only adds to its significance, including what is largely-considered to be one of the most incredible comebacks of all-time.
Below we delve into the history of this famous course and what makes Pebble Beach the favorite of many pros and amateurs alike.
The course was designed for free.
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Course founder Samuel F.B. Morse approached amateur golfers Jack Neville and Douglas Grant to design the course. Both had no previous experience with designing courses but built this one for free to maintain their amateur status.
If they had been paid to architect the course, they would have been considered professional golfers and lost their prestigious standing.
Neville won two California State Amateurs at Pebble Beach after the championship moved there in 1920.
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That’s not the Samuel Morse most of us are familiar with, but they are related.
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Samuel F.B. Morse may sound familiar. This isn’t the same guy who invented the telegraph, but he is his grand-nephew.
Pebble Beach founder Samuel Morse was an environment conservationist and has left his own legacy throughout Monterey and California as one of the first to preserve the California coast. Plaques, streets and even an ecological preserve bear his name on the Monterey Peninsula.
The course was the first public course to host a US Open.
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Pebble Beach hosted the 72nd US Open in 1972. The deal was completed with the USGA after Samuel Morse died in 1969.
The USGA had its concerns about the course’s conditioning as a public course near a major city, but those concerns were quickly brushed away after a successful championship that included a shot to remember from its winner.
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