Monterey Peninsula Country Club: Shore Course

The younger sibling to MPCC's Dunes Course, the Shore hugs the Pacific along the 17-Mile Drive in Pebble Beach. Originally laid out by Bob Baldock and Jack Neville in 1961, it was reconfigured by Mike Strantz in 2004 into a bold coastal routing that weaves among cypress, native grasses, and direct ocean frontage. It has since been used in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am rotation.

Monterey Peninsula Country Club sits along California's 17-Mile Drive between Pebble Beach and Spyglass Hill, with frontage directly on the Pacific Ocean. The club was founded in the early 1920s and its original course, the Dunes, opened in 1926. A second 18, the Shore Course, was added in 1961 on a parcel closer to the water. The original Shore design is credited to Bob E. Baldock, with input from Jack Neville, the co-designer of Pebble Beach Golf Links. Baldock's layout served the club for four decades but was modest in its use of the ocean-adjacent terrain compared with its famous neighbors. In early 2003 the club commissioned architect Mike Strantz to reconstruct the course. Strantz, whose portfolio included Tobacco Road, Caledonia, and Royal New Kent, was given a broad mandate and essentially created a new routing on the same property. The reconstructed course opened in June 2004. Strantz reversed the direction of the fifth through fifteenth holes so that the Pacific Ocean became a backdrop for most of the stretch, weaved fairways among stands of Monterey cypress, and introduced native fescue roughs that give the course a coastal prairie appearance. He designed twelve new holes and remodeled the other six, adding more than 500 yards to the par-72 layout. The result has been widely praised as one of Strantz's finest works; it was completed shortly before his death in 2005. The Shore Course measures around 6,873 yards and has since joined the rotation of courses used for the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. In 2025 Monterey Peninsula Country Club hosted the U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur, its first USGA championship, as part of the club's 100th-anniversary celebration. Championship play in that event used a composite of Shore and Dunes holes.