Images from legendary celebrities and players at America’s most iconic golf venue, Pebble Beach Golf Links.
Images from legendary celebrities and players at America’s most iconic golf venue, Pebble Beach Golf Links.
American television personality Ed Sullivan (1902 - 1974) (right) sits at an outdoor table and interviews American singer and actor Bing Crosby (1903 - 1977) for the CBS Television variety show ‘Toast of the Town’ at Pebble Beach, California, October 1954. A guitarist sits nearby and strums his guitar. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images)
Douglas Fairbanks And Mary Pickford In 1930 (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)
The seventh hole at Pebble Beach Golf Course, Pebble Beach, California circa 1950. (Photo by Underwood Archives/Getty Images)
A sports reporter at the Crosby Clambake Golf Tournament, Pebble Beach, California, c. 1958. (Photo by Julian Graham/Underwood Archives/Getty Images)
President Eisenhower playing golf at Pebble Beach, California, Pebble Beach, California, 1956. (Photo by Underwood Archives/Getty Images)
Patty Berg swings at a golf driving demonstration, Pebble Beach, California, June 28, 1956. (Photo by Underwood Archives/Getty Images)
Babe Didrikson gives a golf demonstration on teeing off in a tight skirt at the Weathervane golf tournament, Pebble Beach, California, c. 1951. (Photo by Julian Graham/Underwood Archives/Getty Images)
Bobby Jones playing golf, Pebble Beach, California, circa 1929. (Photo by Julian P. Graham/Underwood Archives/Getty Images)
Bobby Jones playing at Pebble Beach, Pebble Beach, California, circa 1929. (Photo by Julian P Graham/Underwood Archives/Getty Images)
Jack Neville of the Monterey Peninsula, C.C., California, designed the golf course at Pebble Beach. Neville is shown here playing golf.
A new contestant for golfing honors among the film colony is Bette Davis who announced she would enter the Del Monte Women’s Championship at Del Monte, California, August 28th. She’s shown here with the seldom photographed Harmon Nelson, her husband, a band leader at Pebble Beach, California.
America hailed a new amateur golf champion when Harrison Johnston of St. Paul, defeated Dr. O.F. Willing in the final round of National Amateur Golf play at Pebble Beach, California. The dethroned champion, Bobby Jones, was among those who witnessed the presentation of the cup, emblematic of the championship. Photo shows Harrison Johnston playing from a difficult trap during his match with Dr. Willing in National Amateur Golf play at Pebble Beach, California.
Mrs. Miriam Burns Horn of Kansas City, holder of the National Women’s Golf Championship, shot a 74 four strokes under par and the best previous score ever made on the Monterey Peninsula Country Club course, near Pebble Beach, CA, in the qualifying round of the annual Pebble Beach Women’s Championship. Mrs. Horn set a dizzy pace for the field of contenders which included Miss marion Hollins, former National Women’s titelist and a score of prominent Pacific coast players.
Crooner Bing Crosby (left) congratulates Byron Nelson after he won top spot in the Pro Division of the $10,000 Crosby Pro-Amateur Tourney at Pebble Beach, California. Nelson won with a three-round total of 209. A great golfer! January 17, 1951.
Still sporting the long hair grown for his role in ‘Gone With the Wind,’ Clark Gable (R) rushed up here for another ‘take’ in his real-life honeymoon sequence with Carole Lombard. With the grinning couple on Pebble Beach links is Eric Tyrrell-Martin, British polo player.
Clark Gable drives a hard one at Cypress Point, Pebble Beach, California. Dividing his time between golf and fishing, Gable has been vacationing at Del Monte Lodge with British actors Rex Harrison, Nigel Bruce, and David Nivens.
Bing Crosby, (R), strikes a simulated fashion pose along with Jimmy Demeret, (L), as they show off their knickers at the $15,000 Bing Crosby Golf Tournament. With his trousers tucked into his boots, John Geersten of San Francisco goes along with the gag and attempts to imitate them.
Three former National Golf Champions meet on the links at Pebble Beach, California. Left to right: Chandler Egan, 1904-5; George Von Elm, 1926; and H.J. Whigham, 2nd champion, 1896-7.
Throngs of people cluster around the 8th green to watch Byron Nelson drop a 2-foot putt during the final round of the $10,000 Crosby tournament at Pebble Beach, California. Watching Nelson putt is E.J. ‘Dutch’ Harrison (left). Nelson took top honors with a 3-round total of 209.
The man in the middle here, the usually grim-faced Ben Hogan, is pictured with partner Bing Crosby, left, and the latter’s brother Larry, as the Crosby Pro-Amateur Tournament got under way. When the first round scores were in, Hogan and Crosby led the field with a 12-under-par.