2022 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am: Top 10 power rankings
The PGA Tour stays in California this week, heading north from the San Diego area to the scenic Monterey Peninsula.
We’ve arrived at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, a staple on the schedule since 1937.
The event is spread out across three courses: Spyglass Hill Golf Course, Monterey Peninsula Country Club, and Pebble Beach Golf Links.
Players play Spyglass Hill and Monterey Peninsula once over the first three rounds and Pebble Beach once in the first three rounds and on Sunday.
Last year due to the pandemic, only Spyglass Hill and Pebble Beach were used and amateurs were not invited.
We’re back to the normal schedule this year with a 54-hole cut.
A brief rundown of the courses includes mentioning the windy, cool conditions that predominate all three.
Pebble Beach measures at 6,816 yards and features some of the smallest greens players will face all year. There are a lot of doglegs and shorter holes that limit driving distance. Most weeks these days on the PGA Tour it’s a bomb-and-gouge fest, but not here.
Monterey Peninsula tends to play as the easiest of the three and is also under 7,000 yards at 6,958. Players tend to eat up the par-5s here.
Spyglass Hill is the toughest of the three. The 7,035-yard layout is largely inland and treelined, but the wind can still heavily factor in.
The rough won’t be out of control and the greens won’t be too speedy with amateurs in the mix, but having a good short game is crucial for pros this week.
The weather forecast looks fairly docile. Temperatures will mostly be in the 50s-60s with little to no rain expected and light winds.
Grinders and mudders are often good picks here, but that may not be the case in 2022.
The field quality has diminished over the years. The proliferation over international events, whether on the DP World Tour or the newer Saudi International event, has peeled top players away.
Others just don’t care for playing competitively with amateurs and waiting around on five-hour plus rounds that are common at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
No. 4 Patrick Cantlay is the only top-10 player from the Official World Golf Rankings in the 156-player field.
Regardless of the talent assembled, the spectacular views of Pebble Beach are worth it on their own. The par-5 18th can offer eagle attempts or can have a player staring down a double-bogey if they blow it left into the ocean.