Has a 100-year-old champion ever looked so good?

Pebble Beach Golf Links celebrates a century of existence this year by hosting the US Open from June 13-16 (and by retaining its spot atop Golf Digest’s biennial ranking of America’s 100 Greatest Public Golf Courses). It’s hard to beat Pebble Beach’s combination of locale (nine holes strung along California’s Carmel Bay), memorable holes (the par-3 seventh, the ocean-cove eighth, the parabolic par-5 18th along the sea) and championship history.

Pebble Beach Golf Links
Beauty on the bay: The 523-yard, par-5 sixth and the tee of the 109-yard seventh.
Future US Open Venues

2020 Winged Foot GC (West), Mamaroneck, New York
2021 Torrey Pines GCse (South), La Jolla, California
2022 The Country Club, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
2023 Los Angeles CC (North), California
2024 Pinehurst No.2, Pinehurst, North Carolina
2025 Oakmont CC [below], Oakmont, Pennsylvania
2026 Shinnecock Hills GC, Southampton, New York
2027 Pebble Beach GL, Carmel, California

Pebble Beach Golf Links

US Opens at Pebble Beach

1972 Par 72
First prize: $US30,000
Jack Nicklaus 71-73-72-74—290
Bruce Crampton 74-70-73-76—293
Arnold Palmer 77-68-73-76—294

1982 Par 72
First prize: $US60,000
Tom Watson 72-72-68-70—282
Jack Nicklaus 74-70-71-69—284
Bill Rogers 70-73-69-74—286
Dan Pohl 72-74-70-70—286
Bobby Clampett 71-73-72-70—286

1992 Par 72
First prize: $US275,000

Tom Kite 71-72-70-72—285
Jeff Sluman 73-74-69-71—287
Colin Montgomerie 70-71-77-70—288

2000 Par 71
First prize: $US800,000

Tiger Woods 65-69-71-67—272
Miguel Angel Jimenez 66-74-76-71—287
Ernie Els 74-73-68-72—287

2010 Par 71
First prize: $US1.35 million

Graeme McDowell 71-68-71-74—284
Gregory Havret 73-71-69-72—285
Ernie Els 73-68-72-73—286
Phil Mickelson 75-66-73-73—287
Tiger Woods 74-72-66-75—287

Pebble Beach Golf Links
Stunner: The 495-yard, par-4 10th at Pebble.