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Pebble Beach has planted a second cypress tree in the fairway of its 18th hole, restoring its original design. The new tree, moved from Spyglass Hill, enhances strategic play for golfers.
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Jim Nantz hinted that it was going to happen near the end of CBS’ broadcast of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in February. It was a light remark after Collin Morikawa won the signature event and it mostly went unnoticed.
On Thursday, however, Pebble Beach released images and news that made it official—a second cypress tree has been planted in the fairway of its iconic 18th hole, “restoring the hole to its original design intent and reinstating the signature look golf fans had come to know until the original was lost in a 2014 storm.”
Pebble Beach is ranked ninth in Golf Digest’s list of America’s Top 100 Greatest Golf Courses. It hosts the U.S. Open next year.
According to Pebble Beach, the tree is 30 yards farther down the fairway from the other cypress and is slightly more to the right, which brings more strategy into play for most players. The newly-planted tree was moved from the 17th hole at nearby Spyglass Hill.
On Dec. 11, 2014, Golf Digest reported that the previous tree, which was only planted 10 years earlier to replace a tree that was dying, was knocked down from winds during one of the area’s worst storms in years.
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The second cypress tree was planted to restore the hole to its original design intent and reinstates the iconic look lost after the original tree was destroyed in a 2014 storm.
The new cypress tree was moved from the 17th hole at nearby Spyglass Hill.
The new tree is positioned 30 yards farther down the fairway and slightly to the right, adding more strategic considerations for golfers.
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Not just the greatest meeting of land and sea in American golf, but the most extensive one, too, with nine holes perched immediately above the crashing Pacific surf—the fourth through 10th plus the 17th and 18th. Pebble’s sixth through eighth are golf’s real Amen Corner, with a few Hail Marys thrown in over an ocean cove on the eighth from atop a 75-foot-high bluff. Pebble hosted a successful U.S. Amateur in 2018 and a sixth U.S. Open in 2019. Recent improvements include the redesign of the once-treacherous 14th green and reshaping the par-3 17th green, both planned by Arnold Palmer’s Design Company a few years back, and modifications to the green at the famous eighth hole, which we deemed the second Greatest Hole in America. Green modifications have continued, and Pebble re-enters our top 10 after a brief time out the last two years. View Course
"I was standing on the 18th tee and conservatively the wind was blowing at least 40 miles an hour," Ron Read, a long-time USGA official who lived in the area, told Golf Digest at the time. Read said he returned to the tee later in the morning and took a picture looking down the fairway and did not notice the downed tree until examining the photo later.