It was "scary," Jack Nicklaus said of Pebble Beach, and gave him
nightmares so acute he famously woke his wife on the eve of his
1972 U.S. Open victory totally spooked. "It's not a golf course,"
sportswriter Jim Murray wrote, "it's a hellship." Golf writer Dan
Jenkins once joked that the famed venue of the Bing Crosby National
Pro-Am should be dubbed "Double Bogey-by-the-Sea." A one-time
failed Division One golf walk-on, Zachary Michael Jack opts to
stare down an early midlife crisis by chronicling a U.S. Open year
spent at Pebble Beach, object of his ailing father's fantasies and
site of the nation's number one public course and its fairy-tale
host town, Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. There, along the blue
Pacific, he traces the colorful, capricious, and comical world of
golf on the Monterey Peninsula as never before via interviews with
legends of the game Johnny Miller, Gary Player, and Tom Watson;
with today's brightest stars-Padraig Harrington, Phil Mickelson,
and Bubba Watson; and with some of its most famous celebrity
linksters-actor Bill Murray, Olympic soccer star Brandi Chastain,
and billionaire entrepreneur Charles Schwab. Conducting more than
one hundred interviews, Jack ranges far and wide to get the scoop,
talking golfing haunts with bestselling golf novelist Michael
Murphy; teeing up with members of a Carmel-based worldwide golfing
society devoted to mystical play; learning to play Pebble at the
knee of one of the Top 50 Golf Teachers in America and with a
Carmel-based journeyman pro described as "a golf savant"; and
raising a cup with a lifelong Pebble Beach resident and caddy who,
unbeknownst to the hackers he shepherds, is a Hall of Fame golfer.
By turns hilarious, haunting, and historic, Let There Be Pebble
reveals the utter uniqueness-the people, the rich history, the
unforgettable setting and sporting culture-of this one-of-a-kind
golfing cathedral.
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