You know that familiar Pebble Beach Pro-Am format and slew of celebrities you’ve grown accustomed to seeing over the years? Yeah, that’s all long gone.
The 2024 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am begins on Thursday in Pebble Beach, Calif., but not without some key changes that will make it look much different than the historic tournament viewers are used to.
For starters, it’s one of the PGA Tour’s Signature Events, which means a $20 million purse and $3.6 million winner’s check. That also means it comes with a smaller and more elite field, something Pebble has struggled to attract the past few years.
But while those changes are good for the tournament and probably for TV ratings, too, it means other tweaks had to be made. With only 80 pros in the field — roughly half what the tournament previously had — it no longer needs a three-course rotation. So Monterey Peninsula is out, and the tournament will be held on both Pebble Beach Golf Links and Spyglass Hill on Thursday and Friday and just Pebble Beach on Saturday and Sunday.
Thus, the final change: with fewer players, that means fewer amateurs. Eighty, to be exact, and the amateur portion of the tournament ends on Friday. Some mainstays are absent, too. Gone are Bill Murray and Jake Owen and Ray Romano and Jason Bateman.
While some star athletes are still in the mix — Larry Fitzgerald Jr., Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady, Josh Allen and Pau Gasol, among others — the rest of the amateur roster consists of mostly CEOs, philanthropists and some of the game’s powerbrokers.
And those 80 amateur spots aren’t cheap, either. According to Golfweek, which cited unnamed sources, the price for a pro-am spot this year increased from $38,000 to $70,000 to offset a smaller amateur field. (The tournament director didn’t confirm the $70,000 number but told Golfweek it was in the ballpark.)
As for how everyone’s handicap stacks up? You can check that out below.
2024 Pebble Beach Pro-Am handicaps
Michael McCarthy – 0
Pascal Grizot – 1
Geoff Couch – 2
Rich Petit – 2
David Abeles – 3
Ryan Smith – 3
David Hudson – 3
Ernesto Bertarelli – 4
Stephen Reyes – 4
Aaron Rodgers – 4
Stuart Francis – 4
Doug Mackenzie – 4
Murray Demo – 4
Pat Battle – 4
Julie Wirth – 5
Josh Kroenke – 5
Nate Taylor – 6
Dan Rose – 6
Rick Wurster – 6
Thomas Laffont – 6
Buster Posey – 6
Charlie Allen – 6
Donald Harrison – 6
Larry Fitzgerald Jr. – 6
David Gill – 6
Julie Frist – 7
Herb Allen – 7
George Solich – 8
Shantanu Narayen – 8
Todd Penegor – 8
Ping Duan – 8
Jerry Yang – 8
Fred Perpall – 8
Vivek Sankaran – 8
Tom Brady – 8
Andrew Wilson – 8
Geoff Yang – 8
Alex Smith – 8
Ryan Lance – 9
Jeff Rhodes – 9
Jonathan Vander Ark – 9
Annesley MacFarlane – 9
Egon Durban – 9
Josh Allen – 9
Lee Styslinger III – 9
George Still – 10
Phillip McCrorie – 10
Sean Mitchell – 10
Nikesh Arora – 10
Pau Gasol – 10
Dermot Desmond – 10
Hank Plain – 10
Jamie Sahara – 10
Jeff McElfresh – 10
David Grain – 11
David Dorman – 11
Greg Penner – 11
Jerry Tarde – 11
Neal Elattrache – 11
Harris Barton – 11
Greg Johnson – 11
Steve Squeri – 11
Jin Roy Ryu – 12
BJ Jenkins – 12
David Solomon – 12
Joe Kernen – 12
Patrick Zalupski – 12
Anthony Noto – 13
Heidi Ueberroth – 13
Chuck Robbins – 13
Steve Young – 13
Gregg Lemkau – 13
James Gorman – 15
Jim Kavanaugh – 16
David Kohler – 16
Ron Kruszewski – 16
Condoleezza Rice – 16
Lal Karsanbhai – 16
Joe Ucuzoglu – 16
Chris Kempczinski – 16
