Posted on 02/07/2017 11:36:35 PM PST by nickcarraway
The weather already had an impact on the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, and the tournament doesn't start until Thursday. Due to rainy conditions on the Central Coast, the ever-popular $100,000 Chevron Shootout was taken indoors and turned into a putting contest. Colin Resch has the full story in the above video.
I grew up on the Monterey Bay. Ever since I was a kid back in the 50’s the weather was always a problem. I often wondered why it was scheduled for that time of the year and why it was never rescheduled.
I seem to recall that a tournament was shortened to 3 rounds, but not sure.
Moving the date of a well-established golf tournament is a recipe for killing it, even if the weather might be better at a different time of year. The GGO, Greater Greensboro Open, was played in the early Spring, so the weather was widely variable, even the odd late snow flurry on a few occasions. So, they moved it for better weather. It pretty much died. The remains of it are now the Wyndham, played in the fall
I think you’re correct. The Monterey Bay, in a typical year, gets around 20” of precip/annually and about 5” dumps in January.
Getting too senile now to remember if it was held right before or right after the Masters. Whatever, it always seemed to have strong fields. Snead (Sam) won it like eight times.
He won the inaugural GGO held at Starmount Forest in 1938 and won it seven more times, correct. The heyday of the GGO was at Forest Oaks out in the county, but the Wyndham is at Sedgefield.
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