Course Preview and Fits: AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am

As usual, the Waste Management Phoenix Open delivered a finish filled with chaos. Chris Gotterup had less than 1% win equity after he finished his round, yet wound up in a playoff less than an hour later, and ultimately sealed the deal on the first playoff hole. You have to love PGA Tour golf. The Tour season rolls on as the West Coast swing continues this week with the first signature event of the season at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Given the elevated nature of the event, it should come as no surprise that the field Is absolutely stacked. 21 of the top 25 players in the world will tee it up at Pebble Beach, including nine of the top 10, as European players like Tommy Fleetwood, Rory McIlroy, and Shane Lowry make their 2026 PGA Tour debuts. Note that the AT&T is the first no-cut event of the season, so all players will have a chance to play four rounds of golf this week.

The Course:

Another multi-course setup, the AT&T Pro-Am is hosted by Pebble Beach, while Spyglass is the secondary golf course for the first and second rounds. One of the truly iconic golf courses in the entire world, Pebble will play as a 6,989-yard par 72, while Spyglass will play to a 7,071-yard par-72 setup, making them two of the shortest golf courses left on the PGA Tour calendar. Both Pebble and Spyglass will have four par 5s, four par 3s, and 10 par 4s while featuring poa greens with a rye/poa mix from tee to green.

Pebble Beach has seen it all over the 80 years it has hosted professional golf tournaments, but, unlike many venues that have added length to combat the distance explosion in professional golf, Pebble simply does not have the land to do so. The Pacific Ocean constrains it, and thus it has remained under 7,000 yards to this day as a par-72 setup, making it somewhat of a unicorn on the Tour schedule. Amazingly, Pebble has still been a formidable test when conditions allow it. A combination of thick rough, blustery winds, and tiny greens can make Pebble extremely challenging when it is cold, windy, and firm. The greens are by far the smallest on Tour at only 3,500 square feet, on average, and are notorious for their front-to-back tilt, along with bumpy poa that makes short putts uncomfortable for even the best putters.