Tiger Woods. Phil Mickelson. Tom Watson. This week, golf’s top players and stories gather for the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach – one of the world’s iconic venues – to contend for the coveted championship of the United States.
We’ll all have to wait until Sunday to see who hoists the winner’s trophy, but in the meantime fans around the world will able to enjoy the unmatched beauty and windswept challenges of Pebble Beach.
Big Sur’s most famous golf course holds a special place in the history of the Stonehouse Golf Collection. Pebble was the first course shot by Patrick; the first venue captured in his trademark panoramic format. And it should come as no surprise that his image of hole number 7 continues to be the most requested in the Stonehouse Collection.
This week the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach holds center stage in the world of golf… and in the hearts of all of us at Stonehouse.
Since Omaha, Nebraska is Stonehouse Golf’s hometown, we were extremely excited by Golf.com‘s recent naming of Sand Hills as the Greatest Course of the Last 50 Years. The article, written by Joe Passov, is really a great read. We hope that you will check it out. Here are few excerpts from that story:
America’s most celebrated courses — among them, Pine Valley and Pebble Beach — date to the golden age of golf architecture between the World Wars. The best course designed since then lies deep in the wilds of Nebraska.
We also thought it was interesting how Golf.com valued the simplicity and the natural design of Sand Hills.
Currently ranked No. 8 in the U.S. and No. 11 in the world, Sand Hills is a private 1994 creation of architects Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw. Almost as soon as it opened Sand Hills ushered in two trends that have flourished since: minimalist course design, and the Field of Dreams theory, which holds that if you build a truly great golf course, people will come see it, no matter how remote the location.
We hope that you enjoyed the images of Sand Hills in this post, check out all of our framed Sand Hills images for purchase here.
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