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Considered one of the most scenic golf courses in the world, Pebble Beach Hole 7 sits perched atop a rugged cliff edge on the Monterey Peninsula, a jagged finger of land jutting directly into the Pacific Ocean. The hole itself is built on an outcropping of land sticking into Carmel Bay, a short downhill par 3 of barely 100 yards, completely surrounded on three sides by the water.
Pebble Beach is that rare American course built in the British links tradition. Links golf is golf played on coastal land where the game was invented. The term comes from the old English word hlinc, meaning "rising ground" or "ridge", a reference to the sandy dunes along the Scottish coastline where golf first took root in the 15th century. It is the same sandy coastal terrain, the same wind off the water, the same demand for low, running shots that define the great courses of Scotland and Ireland. Tom Watson, who won the Open Championship five times on those very links, and Sandy Tatum, a lifelong devotee of the Scottish game, helped shape nearby Spanish Bay in that same style. Watson's verdict after his opening round: "It's so much like Scotland, you can almost hear the bagpipes playing."
Painted in oils on canvas, 81 x 60 cm.
Considered one of the most scenic golf courses in the world, Pebble Beach Hole 7 sits perched atop a rugged cliff edge on the Monterey Peninsula, a jagged finger of land jutting directly into the Pacific Ocean. The hole itself is built on an outcropping of land sticking into Carmel Bay, a short downhill par 3 of barely 100 yards, completely surrounded on three sides by the water.
Pebble Beach is that rare American course built in the British links tradition. Links golf is golf played on coastal land where the game was invented. The term comes from the old English word hlinc, meaning "rising ground" or "ridge", a reference to the sandy dunes along the Scottish coastline where golf first took root in the 15th century. It is the same sandy coastal terrain, the same wind off the water, the same demand for low, running shots that define the great courses of Scotland and Ireland. Tom Watson, who won the Open Championship five times on those very links, and Sandy Tatum, a lifelong devotee of the Scottish game, helped shape nearby Spanish Bay in that same style. Watson's verdict after his opening round: "It's so much like Scotland, you can almost hear the bagpipes playing."
Painted in oils on canvas, 81 x 60 cm.