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just taking it all in. Kelsey, and staff, to the reflection on your round with a
favorite beverage while sitting on the porch, overlooking
Public Course experience/Backswing the eighteenth green and Monterey Bay, everything
contributes to create a fabulous day of golf.
There is no public golf experience that can compare
with a day at the Pebble Beach Golf Links in Monterey I must forewarn you if it is your first time, or an infrequent
California! Period, drop the mic, floss, or whatever the round for you at Pebble, a certain sadness overcomes you
kids do these days, end of discussion!! as you head down the fifteenth and sixteenth fairways.
If you love the game of golf; the beauty of the area, You suddenly realize your round is winding to a close, and
the character of the golf course, the conditions, the you don't want it to end!
hospitality, and the history add up to a great day! In I have actually sat on the bench on the seventeenth
addition, the knowledge that you are walking on the same tee and let others play through in an effort to delay the
haloed ground that Jack, Arnie, Tiger, and Hogan played inevitable. ( Don't tell anyone, but I have also cut back to
on during the US Open, make this is an amazing golf number ten and played the back nine over)
experience. When the round continues the joy returns, as you slowly
From start to finish, the welcome at the Academy practice play seventeen and eighteen, and take it all in.
facility with legendary instructor Laird Small PGA, ( A Cliff Clavin [Cheers] Factoid): Number eighteen at

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