Aaron Rodgers

Pebble Beach - Fun and Games in Bad Weather

Updated Mar. 4, 2020 4:18 p.m. ET

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The Pebble Beach Pro-Am has a glorious history of fun, games, and awful weather. This year looks to be more of the same.

Pebble Beach is a terrific place to play golf, but not in February. That’s the rainy season on the Monterey Peninsula. And this year has been particularly horrid as weather goes. Who would want to play golf on soggy fairways with cold winds howling off the Pacific cliffs? The 2017 Pebble Beach Pro-Am field, of course.

@tonyfinaugolf getting ready for the AT&T Pro Am by playing Pebble Beach in hurricane force winds pic.twitter.com/0HPsM0a20W

— ForePlay Barstool (@4playbarstool) February 9, 2017

It’s not Bing Crosby’s Clambake any more, but there’s a good deal of the Clambake spirit to the Pebble Beach Pro-Am. And it just doesn’t seem right to hold this event in April or May, when the sun will be predictably shining on the Pebble Beach links. There needs to be some rain and wind, just to keep things interesting.

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You couldn’t ask for three more challenging and picturesque venues than Pebble Beach Golf Links, Spyglass Hill Golf Course, and Monterey Peninsula Country Club Shore Course to host this annual party. After all, the Pebble Beach Pro-Am is to the players what the Waste Management Phoenix Open is to the fans – a glorious four-day party celebrating good company and the game of golf.

They’re going to play golf the way we’d all like to play golf, sometimes intensely, sometimes with great good humor, always with a sense of pleasure in the company they’re keeping. After all, who’d turn down an opportunity to play a round with Larry the Cable Guy or Mark Wahlberg? Or with Justin Timberlake or Kelly Rohrbach? I’d jump at that opportunity.

Having fun at Pebble Beach Pro Am! Just saw #BillMurray #AaronRodgers #PeytonManning #PebbleBeachProAm pic.twitter.com/bECcEhXJ2n

— Zoe Alexander (@ZoeNashville) February 9, 2017

It’s part golf tournament, part celebrity-watching.

The weather promises to be absolutely horrible. It’s probably going to be a lift, clean, and place tournament with some suspensions of play during the early round. The real question isn’t whether or not the field will get wet but how many of the players and spectators will be treated for hypothermia.

I’m even looking for Wayne Gretzky to wear rain gear!

By the weekend the sun’s predicted to make an appearance. Those who survive the first and second rounds will get to enjoy some less stressful play. But there’s not going to be anybody running around in shorts and flip flops this weekend at Pebble Beach!