Pebble Beach, CA – The 2024 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am is one of eight Signature Events on this year’s PGA Tour schedule. This year’s field of 80 players featured 49 of the top 50 finishers on the 2023 FedEx Cup points list, along with the prior season’s tournament winners.
Teeing it up this week was Nick Dunlap, who turned pro following his win as an amateur at the American Express tournament two weeks ago. The no-cut Signature Event featured a $20 million purse, with the winner earning $3.6 million.
Instead of the usual three-course rotation that included Pebble Beach, Spyglass Hill and Monterey Peninsula, this year’s AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am was confined to only the Pebble Beach and Spyglass Hill courses. Unlike in year’s past, the amateur portion of the event took place during the opening two rounds, with the winner crowned on Friday afternoon, clearing the weekend the tour pros.
The Courses
The 18-hole “Pebble Beach” course at the Pebble Beach Golf Links features 6,828 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 72. The course rating is 74.3 and it has a slope rating of 144. Designed by Jack Neville and Douglas Grant, the Pebble Beach golf course opened in 1918. It was extensively revised in 1928 by H. Chandler Egan.
Spyglass Hill is the most challenging among the Pebble Beach Resort trio of courses. Its par-72 layout measures just short of 7,000 yards with a course rating of 75.4 and a slope of 145. The course, designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr., opened 58 years ago on March 11, 1966. Spyglass Hill’s hole Nos. 6, 8 and 16 are consistently ranked as among the toughest on the PGA Tour.
Round 1
The rotation of the courses this week, had everyone playing the Spyglass Hill course once during the first two rounds with the final two rounds being played exclusively on the Pebble Beach course.
Belgium’s Thomas Detry opened with a 63 (-9) at Spyglass Hill to put himself back where he spent most of last week at Torrey Pines, around the top of the leaderboard. With typical Monterey Peninsula’s January weather making a tough Spyglass Hill course play even tougher, Detry managed to grab the lead with his tenth birdie of the day, a chip-in gain from the rough on No. 18.
Patrick Cantlay, who also started out on the Spyglass track, was only one back after a bogey-free round of 64. Playing one of the most solid rounds of the day, Cantlay finished with eight birdies.
Last week’s Torrey Pines winner Matthieu Pavon, playing the Pebble Beach Course, found himself in third after a 7-under 65.
Tournament headliner Rory McIlroy was cruising along at 6-under par through 15 holes, but then the wheels fell off. The Northern Irishman finished his final four holes this way: bogey-triple bogey (penalty induced)-bogey-par, en route to a 1-under 71.
Round 2
It was only a matter of time before Scottie Scheffler decided enough was enough. The world No. 1 ranked golfer posted a 64 on the Pebble Beach course to reach 11 under and secure a share of the 36-hole lead, alongside Detry (70) and Ludvig Aberg (65).
Detry, over the past week and a half, has moved himself from virtual obscurity to a permanent fixture at the top of the leaderboard. This was the second straight week he was part of the lead pack heading into the weekend.
Aberg, showing why he’s a force to be reckoned with, opened birdie-eagle, followed by four more birdies across his final 16 holes to share the marquee.
Patrick Cantlay was 10 under following a second-round 70. One further back at 9-under par was the trio of Justin Thomas (67), Emiliano Grillo (69) and Pavon (70).
Keegan Bradley and Beau Hossler were T8 on 8 under, one clear of a six-player logjam which included Collin Morikawa (70), Tom Hoge (66), Matt Fitzpatrick (68), Si Woo Kim (71), Peter Malnati (68) and Sam Burns (69).
Defending Champion Justin Rose was one further back on 6 under, alongside 11 other golfers.
Rory McIlroy and partner Jeff Rhodes, a 9-handicap and the co-managing partner of TPG Capital, won the pro-am portion of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. The two finished 36 holes at 17 under par, one clear of three other teams.
Round 3
The 2023 U.S. Open Champion, Wyndham Clark (-17) put one in the record books with an unforgettable round on the Pebble Beach course where he was able to overcome both Mother Nature, and a saturated golf course, to post 12-under 60 – both a tournament and course record on the iconic Pebble Beach layout. (The PGA Tour has always counted records when players can lift, clean and place their golf balls in the short grass.)
Clark’s 60 eclipsed, by two shots, the tournament record formerly held by four players while it was one better than the course record set by Texas Tech’s Hurly Long during the 2017 Carmel Cup.
Clark was one ahead of Aberg (67) and two clear of Pavon (66).
Mark Hubbard (65) and Detry (69) were three back at -14.
Scheffler (70), Thomas (68), Hoge (66) and Jason Day (63) were T6 on 13 under.
Final Round
Organizers pushed the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am final round to Monday after severe weather in and around the Monterey Peninsula brought torrential rains and strong winds making the course unplayable. Clark (-17) was one stroke ahead of Aberg (-16), Pavon (-15) was alone in third, two shots back.
The weather delay meant a Monday finish for the third time in six years, which included Phil Mickelson‘s three-shot victory over Paul Casey in 2019 and Justin Rose‘s victory last year.
After consultation with local government officials, the PGA Tour cancelled the final round of the 2024 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, handing a 54-hole victory to Wyndham Clark.
The 30-year-old Clark added the 2024 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am to his resume as he picked up the $3.6 million winner’s share along with 700 FedEx Cup points. This was Clark’s third PGA Tour title in less than a year (2023 Wells Fargo Championship and 2023 U.S. Open) and moved the Colorado native to No. 6 in the controversial Official World Golf Rankings.
Clark didn’t get to pose with the trophy on the 18th green but claimed to have received a winner’s share of congratulations after his record setting round on Saturday.
“Everyone was celebrating and congratulating me,” Clark said. “I even said to myself, ‘This feels like I just won the tournament,’ and yet we had another round to play.
“Today, waking up and they cancel the day, you’re trying not to go too far in the future. I get a call that we’re going to cancel and you’re the winner.
“It’s pretty surreal right now.”
Sweden’s Aberg, who finished runner-up, earned $2.16 million and 400 FedEx Cup points, while Frenchman Pavon took solo third, a week after his maiden PGA Tour victory at the 2024 Farmers Insurance Open. He picked up a check for $1.36 million and 350 FedEx Cup points.
