The five opening holes, in Pine Valley-like sand dunes, are an all-too-brief encounter with the Pacific seacoast. Given the task of designing a course just up 17 Mile Drive from Pebble Beach and Cypress Point, Robert Trent Jones responded with a combination of Pine Valley and Augusta National.
Open.ġ00 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2003. Because of its water reduction, the course was recently awarded a Green Star environmental award by Golf Digest. Opens were played on consecutive weeks at No.
Playing firm and fast, it was a wildly successful fortnight when the 2014 Men's and Women's U.S. They reduced the irrigation to mere single rows in fairways to prevent grass from ever returning to the new sandy wastelands. Between fairways and tree lines, they established vast bands of native hardpan sand dotted with clumps of wiregrass and scattered pine needles. 2 and killed out all the Bermuda grass rough that had been foolishly planted in the 1970s. In 2010, Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw led a team that descended on Pinehurst No. Donald Ross (9 1902 /Donald Ross & Walter Travis (A.9 1907)
