The Hay - Pebble Beach's Par 3 Course and Putting Green

[iacas]

The Hay | Short Course | Pebble Beach Resorts

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Located just across from the first tee of famed Pebble Beach Golf Links, The Hay is a nine-hole short course designed by Tiger Woods & TGR Design.

$65, so now you can say you played Pebble for under a hundie? As well as a "Tiger Woods design"?

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The yardage of eight holes at The Hay correspond to a significant year in Pebble Beach history, with plaques on each tee telling the story.

The putting green is free to use:

I'm saving the best for last: the logo!

She's "Cynthia the Sea Lion".

[Shorty]

How awesome! This is how new golfers need to be introduced to the game -scaled down versions of what look like real courses. And I also wonder whether many of us would prefer to play this kind of golf more often than a "proper course". I mean - if you had full-time access to Augusta, maybe you'd rather just go and play the par 3 course, for example.

 

Edited March 23, 2021 by Shorty

[pganapathy]

Interesting looking course. I have played a couple of par 3 courses and while they are challenging, I view them as introduction to golf. No doubt they still require good golf shots and par isn't a given on any hole, but many aspects of the golfing challenge are missing. You don't have to plan your way round a course for example. Unless you duff a tee shot, a second shot is rarely a full shot (generally a chip/pitch/flop/bunker shot) and hence hitting a shot off a difficult lie is rarely as difficult as a full swing due to the slower swing speed and shorter distance. Not that you can't still duff it or rack up huge scores on such a course

[Hardspoon]

I saw this under construction, and it looked cool as hell.

Golf can only benefit from having many different "versions" - the more ways there are to play the game, the better off it is.

I'd play this, and probably really enjoy it.

[KMP]

Played it the morning of New Year's Eve. Greens were awesome; fast and true, with many false fronts and slopes. The staff treats you well and you definitely get a Pebble feel. Distances to pins are shot every morning and are posted with a tag on the tee marker. A daily "putting course" is set up and that is free to play if you play The Hay or not.