Welcome to The Hole At, a new video series from Golf Digest featuring Ron Whitten. As the leading expert in golf course architecture, Ron breaks down the hidden histories of some of the most famous holes in golf. In this first episode, Ron dives into THE hole at Pebble Beach Golf Links – the 540-yard Par 5 18th. From its opening in February 1919 as a short par-4, to becoming the greatest finishing hole in America, Ron explains the fascinating history behind one of the games most cherished golf holes.
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Great analysis and insight, keep this series coming!!
Very well done, the last time I was at Pebble Beach green fees were $225 and the waiting list was 12 months!
More of this series please! truly one of the best finishing holes in golf, maybe 18 at The Old Course or Hilton Head next 🤌
Since when is Rod Witten a golf architect? He is a wonderful golf historian but not an architect. Maybe next time trying to hire a real one with a relationship to the property like That Layton instead of a former employee.
That was absolutely incredible! Love golf architecture, so just a treat of a 13 minute video
It’s so sad how far downhill Pebble Beach has gone now. We can only dream of a restoration — our only hope is if the USGA forces it.
What a good content 😊
How incredible it'd be if Pebble was restored to Egan's 1929 specs. 7 and 18 are even more compelling then than they are now. 8 also had incredible greenside bunkering that bled down the cliff
Awesome video
Amazing, please more videos of the same type….
Best finishing hole in golf is 18 at 1757 Golf Club, no argument
This series is phenomenal, thanks Golf Digest. Do more!!
MORE. This is so good. Double Ron's salary.
Ah Golf. The art of hitting an improbable object, into an inaccessible hole, with implements ill-suited for the purpose.
This is brilliant. Ron Whitten is the best architecture writer/historian alive.
I really enjoyed this guy's presentation of the history of the 18th at Pebble. Hope I get to see it in person one day!
Please make this a series with Ron Whitten
great video and golf course. a video of every hole's design at pebble/cyprus would be fascinating
Great video
What a great video. More of these, please!
500$ wrf way over priced because it can be. 😂😂. I wonder why golf is on the decline. Totally affordable for everyone. You can go to an entire IMSA Weekend for that. And that's a 4 day event.
This was genuinely fascinating, please have this guy do a series of all the most iconic holes in America and even a few of the oldest British courses
That was a joy to watch.
this was great, although they did lose one of the two cypress tress in the fairway in like 2017 or something… not sure if they've replaced it or not.
Golf Digest is finally doing something cool? 😮
That was really interesting! Definitely would love to see more of those.
That was a fantastic video! Golf course architecture is an underloved aspect of the game.
Fantastic video! More of this, please!
wow cool video
"off the tee" the ideal line is to left and just beyond the trees in the fairway
Super video. Thanks.
Great video! I'd love to see a video on how the 17th hole at Sawgrass came to be
Maybe the best thing I’ve seen on YouTube in a long time.
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superb geek watch!
Thank you for this presentation. I don't understand putting a tree, or trees, in the middle of a fairway. It you want an obstacle, put a bunker in the fairway, so you can hit short of it or over it. Now, if you hit a drive in the middle of the fairway, you can be blocked out by the tree. Just doesn't make sense to me.
Loved this! Would restoring the ravine be good, or would it mess up the strategy of the hole?