Pebble Beach Golf Course: Top 10 U.S. Open vs. AT&T Pro-Am Differences

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Published: June 16, 2010

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Featured Columnist Andy Reistetter is on site at the United States Open at Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, California.  

The sixth stop on the PGA TOUR , the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am was contested on the same golf course four months ago. After my first full day on site here are my Top 10 differences between the United States Golf Association's national championship and the last two PGA TOUR regular season events I attended here.

 

1.  The magnitude of the tournament operations is a million times bigger for the U.S. Open. As it should be as most Americans rank it as the top major while the rest of the world points to the British Open as the premier competitive event in all of golf.

 

A whole new city, encompassing the transportation hub, a grand main entrance which includes the merchandise tent and Trophy Club and the television compound sets up on the hillside between the Lodge and practice range.

 

The television compound is by far the largest I have ever seen in my three years out on tour- production trucks, satellite trucks and office trailers one after another as far as the eye can see.

 

NBC Sports, The Golf Channel, ESPN… you name them and they are all here.

 

I think the media center alone could tent over the entire lodge at Pebble Beach.

 

The worldwide media presence here makes Tiger Woods' February 19th speech at the Clubhouse at TPC Sawgrass look like a little tea party amongst the neighborhood kids.

 

2.    There are no celebrities inside the rope, only the golfers. I am sure they will likely show up outside the ropes especially this weekend or for sure in the corporate hospitality tents.

 

I did see Jerry West near the practice putting green and heard Arnold Palmer was ...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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