AT&T Pro-Am
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The AT&T National Pro-Am is a PGA Tour golf tournament that is held every year at Pebble Beach, California, in the United States. The tournament is typically held during the month of February on three different courses, Pebble Beach Golf Links, Poppy Hills Golf Course and Spyglass Hill Golf Course.
In 1937, Bing Crosby hosted the first National Pro-Amateur Golf Championship at Rancho Santa Fe Golf Club in Rancho Santa Fe, California, the event's location prior to World War II. Sam Snead won the first tournament, in which the first place check was for $500. After the war, the event resumed play in 1947 on golf courses in Pebble Beach, where it has been played ever since. Beginning that year, it was played at Pebble Beach Golf Links, Cypress Point Club and Monterey Peninsula Country Club until 1966.
In 1967 Spyglass Hill replaced Monterey Peninsula Country Club as the third course (with the exception of 1977, when it returned to MPCC). In 1991, Cypress Point Club was dropped by the PGA Tour because it would not admit women, and was replaced as a tournament venue by Poppy Hills Golf Course, a move that finalized the current roster of tournament venues.
Notable professionals in recent years have included Tiger Woods, Mark O'Meara, Davis Love III, and Vijay Singh. Notable celebrities have included fan favorite Bill Murray, Kevin Costner, Steve Young, and Carson Daly.
The tournament continues to be a success every year despite the rain fall that typically slows down play. The tournament has only been postponed one year, in 1998, when the third and final round was delayed until August, causing many players to withdraw.
The equivalent celebrity pro-am event on the European Tour is the Dunhill Links Championship.
[edit] Winners
AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am
- 2006 Arron Oberholser
- 2005 Phil Mickelson
- 2004 Vijay Singh
- 2003 Davis Love III
- 2002 Matt Gogel
- 2001 Davis Love III
- 2000 Tiger Woods
- 1999 Payne Stewart
- 1998 Phil Mickelson
- 1997 Mark O'Meara
- 1996 Tournament cancelled due to inclement weather that made the course unplayable
- 1995 Peter Jacobsen
- 1994 Johnny Miller
- 1993 Brett Ogle
- 1992 Mark O'Meara
- 1991 Paul Azinger
- 1990 Mark O'Meara
- 1989 Mark O'Meara
- 1988 Steve Jones
- 1987 Johnny Miller
Bing Crosby National Pro-Am
- 1986 Fuzzy Zoeller
- 1985 Mark O'Meara
- 1984 Hale Irwin
- 1983 Tom Kite
- 1982 Jim Simons
- 1981 John Cook
- 1980 George Burns
- 1979 Lon Hinkle
- 1978 Tom Watson
- 1977 Tom Watson
- 1976 Ben Crenshaw
- 1975 Gene Littler
- 1974 Johnny Miller
- 1973 Jack Nicklaus
- 1972 Jack Nicklaus
- 1971 Tom Shaw
- 1970 Bert Yancey
- 1969 George Archer
- 1968 Johnny Pott
- 1967 Jack Nicklaus
- 1966 Don Massengale
- 1965 Bruce Crampton
- 1964 Tony Lema
- 1963 Billy Casper
- 1962 Doug Ford
- 1961 Bob Rosburg
- 1960 Ken Venturi
- 1959 Art Wall, Jr.
Bing Crosby National Pro-Am Golf Championship
- 1958 Billy Casper
- 1957 Jay Hebert
- 1956 Cary Middlecoff
Bing Crosby Pro-Am Invitational
- 1955 Cary Middlecoff
- 1954 E.J. "Dutch" Harrison
- 1953 Lloyd Mangrum
Bing Crosby Pro-Am Formerly 6 days now only 4.
- 1952 Jimmy Demaret
- 1951 Byron Nelson
- 1950 Jack Burke, Jr., Dave Douglas, Smiley Quick, Sam Snead (tie)
- 1949 Ben Hogan
- 1948 Lloyd Mangrum
- 1947 George Fazio, Ed Furgol (tie)
- 1943-46 No Tournament
- 1942 John Dawson
- 1941 Sam Snead
- 1940 Ed Oliver
- 1939 E.J. "Dutch" Harrison
- 1938 Sam Snead
- 1937 Sam Snead
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