Monterey Peninsula Country Club Pebble Beach pin flag Seth Raynor pga 1

Description

Monterey Peninsula Country Club
On February 1, 1919,
Samuel F. B. Morse
formed the Del Monte Properties and purchased extensive real estate holdings on the Monterey Peninsula. On January 19, 1925, a
Charter
for the Monterey Peninsula Country Club was granted by the state of California. A month later, an organizational meeting was called and Samuel F. B. Morse was elected president of the newly formed club. On February 19, 1925, there were 68 charter members of the Monterey Peninsula Country Club. Formal opening of the new country club was on July 2, 1926, with over 300 at the grand opening.
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The club properties account for roughly four hundred acres (1.6 km
2
) of land in the central region of the Monterey Peninsula. The Shore Course was designed by Bob E. Baldock and Jack Neville in 1959 after the members purchased the club from Del Monte Properties.
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Seth Raynor
designed the Dunes course in 1926, but died before construction was complete. Local Robert Hunter was called in to finish out the construction of the course.
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Bruce Harris redesigned the Shore course in 1962, and it was later redesigned in 2003 by
Mike Strantz
.
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In
2010
, the Shore course returned to the
rotation
of the
AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am
, a
PGA Tour
event founded by entertainer
Bing Crosby
and played on three courses. The Dunes course hosted the event from 1947 to 1964 and the Shore course hosted in 1965, 1966, and 1977