Pebble Beach: How Does The Arccos Golf Community Stack Up?
By Ben Larsen
Strategic Content Manager
Pebble Beach Golf Links. It's one of golf's most hallowed grounds. It's at or near the top of nearly every golfers' bucket list and after one look at the landscape, it's easy to understand why.
It's also the location of this week's AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, featuring celebrities and PGA Tour stars in one of the professional golf season's most entertaining events.
As the Pros (and celebs) try their best on the oceanside layout, we decided to take a look at how the "Joes" inside the Arccos Golf Community have played at Pebble Beach.
With the wealth of data accumulated from Arccos users, we can examine how a course has played and which holes should prove most challenging for this week's competitors. Below, take a look at the hole-by-hole view of Pebble Beach as played and seen by the Arccos Golf Community:
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No. 1, Par 4 - 377 yards |
No. 2, Par 5 - 511 yards |
No. 3, Par 4 - 390 yards |
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No. 4, Par 4 - 326 yards |
No. 5, Par 3 - 192 yards |
No. 6, Par 5 - 506 yards |
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No. 7, Par 3 - 106 yards |
No. 8, Par 4 - 427 yards |
No. 9, Par 4 - 481 yards |
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No. 10, Par 4 - 446 yards |
No. 11, Par 4 - 373 yards |
No. 12, Par 3 - 201 yards |
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No. 13, Par 4 - 403 yards |
No. 14, Par 5 - 572 yards |
No. 15, Par 4 - 396 yards |
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No. 16, Par 4 - 401 yards |
No. 17, Par 3 - 177 yards |
No. 18, Par 5 - 543 yards |
Interestingly enough, the hardest hole on the golf course isn't the iconic par-5 18th. While that hole is among the toughest on the course according to the Arccos Golf Community (third toughest to be exact), the par-5 14th is Pebble Beach's most difficult hole.
Arccos users' average score on that hole is nearly a double bogey -- checking in at 1.91 shots above par.
Conversely, the easiest hole on the course is the par-3 5th hole. Arccos users managed to average less than a bogey with a 3.85 scoring average.
Have you played the iconic Pebble Beach Golf Links? Please share your memories on the course and your experience as compared to the Arccos community.
Editor's Note: Data compiled spanned from Arccos rounds played through Jan. 2016.