Pebble Beach's 8th Hole Before and After USGA Tweaks
by Ryan Ballengee on May 19, 2010 2:01 PM EDT
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PrintAs we draw closer to the US Open at Pebble Beach, the USGA staff headed by Mike Davis is preparing the course to fulfill the vision and changes Davis described to Waggle Room last fall. Brett Avery - or, as we call him here, the venerable one - studied the changes in person and snapped a few photos for Golf Digest. Take a look at his photo of the 8th hole.
Now, compare that to the photo that Rob Matre took of the same cliff in 2006.
It's a much more dangerous hole now, isn't it? Davis' inspiration was Depression-era photography of how the course used to look. No depression here, though. This is a more exciting Pebble, if possible.
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I must be missing something. Aside from a little more vegetation on the far cliff, I don’t see much difference between 2000 and today. The new picture is taken about 30 yards or so further back from the cliff. The bunkers are the same. It does look like they have added a bit of mounding along the cliff, but that doesn’t add any danger since you need to hit 25 yards farther to clear the bunker.
"this ball will fit in that fairway"
No rough to stop your ball
from running off the cliff
by I_miss_Switzer on May 19, 2010 2:43 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah, the potential for the ball to fly off the cliff is just awesome. I would love it if NBC had a Cliff Cam of some kind.
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lol – I don’t think they’re going to have a lot of balls over there it isn’t 17 at Sawgrass – but that would be pretty wild to see a ball going over the edge.
"this ball will fit in that fairway"
they are doing it all over the course from what I have read - lots less
of a buffer between fairway and cliff.
by I_miss_Switzer on May 19, 2010 11:10 PM EDT up reply actions
I think
They should have added a Big Dinasour and a Windmill to the hole, but thats just me.
"pain is only weakness leaving the body"
What is the problem
Why slow the ball from entering the hazard?
by I_miss_Switzer on May 19, 2010 11:11 PM EDT up reply actions
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