Every year at this time, the familiar coastline comes into view. Beamed into millions of living rooms and dens are the scenic assortment of aerials, ground-level looks from worm cams, slo-mo and super-slo-mo beauty shots of players and celebrities great and small strolling the golf course on the cliffs at Pebble Beach. To see it all unfold each February is a ritual as familiar as opening the family photo album.
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2007 Majors
* The Masters
* U.S. Open
* British Open
* P.G.A. Championship
And for nearly all the spectators of the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, there is only one tiny drawback. The closest they will get to the most lovingly photographed hole in golf is the front of their TV.
As captivating as the CBS pictures are from the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, stepping on the 18th tee is necessary to grasp the magnitude of this “most felicitous meeting of land and sea,” as Robert Louis Stevenson called it.
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