AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am 2025 Tips: JT to get it done in Cali

After Harris English battled demanding conditions to win his fifth PGA Tour title in the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines, the tour continues its West Coast Swing this week.

We take a detour from California to Arizona for the Phoenix Open next week, before returning to Torrey Pines, as it steps in to host the Genesis Invitational due to the devastating wildfires that have engulfed the areas around usual host, Riviera Country Club.

That is all to come but first, it’s to one of the most iconic courses in the game, Pebble Beach Golf Links for the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro Am – our second Signature Event of the season.

As always, here are our golf tipster Jamie Worsley's AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am 2025 tips, as well as his usual comprehensive preview featuring four players priced from 14/1 to 70/1.

TOURNAMENT HISTORY

First staged in 1937, the Pebble Beach Pro Am is one of the oldest events on the PGA Tour. As with 2024, it is the second Signature Event of the year, which means a limited 80-man field and no cut.

This is our third multi-course tournament in a row to be held in California, as Pebble Beach Golf Links shares hosting duties with the highly respected Spyglass Hill Golf Course. Like last week, the players will rotate across each course over the first two rounds, before coming back to Pebble Beach for the weekend’s play.

The two most successful player’s in the event’s history, tied together on five wins apiece, are Mark O’Meara (1985, 1989, 1990, 1992,1997) and Phil Mickelson (1998, 2005, 2007, 2012, 2019).

Sam Snead – who won the first two editions – comes next with four wins, following his back-to-back titles in 1937 and 1938 with victories in 1941 and 1950. Meanwhile, Jack Nicklaus (1967, 1972, 1973) and Johnny Miller (1974, 1987, 1994) have each won three.

Other notable winners of the Pebble Beach Pro Am include Ben Hogan (1949), Tom Watson (1977, 1978), Hale Irwin (1984), Payne Stewart (1999), Tiger Woods (2000), Dustin Johnson (2009, 2010) and Jordan Spieth (2017).

Last five winners:

• 2024 – Winner: Wyndham Clark (-17, reduced to 54 holes)

        Runner-up: Ludvig Aberg (-16)

• 2023 – Winner: Justin Rose (-18)

     Runners-up: Brendon Todd, Brandon Wu (-15)

• 2022 – Winner: Tom Hoge (-19)

        Runner-up: Jordan Spieth (-17)

• 2021 – Winner: Daniel Berger (-18)

        Runner-up: Maverick McNealy (-16)

• 2020 – Winner: Nick Taylor (-19)

        Runner-up: Kevin Streelman (-15)

Last year’s edition was shorted to 54 holes due to extreme weather, though not before Wyndham Clark breathtakingly shot a record-breaking 12-under 60 at Pebble Beach in the third round. This took him to the top of the leaderboard and with the final round being cancelled, helped him claim the title. He returns to defend this week.

THE COURSES

This week’s courses:

Pebble Beach Golf Links: 6972-yard par 72; 4x par 3s (106-202 yards), 10x par 4s (331-504 yards), 4x par 5s (516-580 yards)

Spyglass Hill Golf Course: 7041-yard par 72; 4x par 3s (130-203 yards), 10x par 4s (325-476 yards), 4x par 5s (549-595 yards)

Designed by Jack Neville and Douglas Grant in 1919, Pebble Beach Golf Links – a six-time US Open host, most recently in 2019 – is the main stage and has been a part of this event since 1947.

Spyglass Hill Golf Course was designed by Robert Trent Jones in 1966 and made its debut in the Pebble Beach Pro Am in 1978. It is typically the toughest of the courses used in this tournament and is described by many as one of the best never to host a major championship.

Each is situated just five minutes from one another on the Monterrey Peninsula in California, where they share a stretch of coastline that offers up spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean.

The two courses share many similarities, most pertinent of which are the small poa annua greens, dramatic elevation changes and undulating, sloped fairways. Both courses also features four reachable par 5s; drivable par 4s; and one very short par 3. However, they also have many contrasting elements.

Pebble Beach is a largely exposed oceanside course, built on cliffsides overlooking the Pacific Ocean. It makes excellent use of its location on holes 4-10, which are played parallel to the ocean and represents one of the finest stretches of golf in the world. The ocean then reappears on the final two holes, including to the left-hand side of the exciting 543-yard par 5 18^th.

The fairways there are generous and regularly slope back towards the ocean. As with many pro-am events, the rough isn’t too thick this week but there are 116 bunkers at the course, many of which are smartly placed and offer protection to these fairways.

Hitting the small and elevated poa annua greens is a challenge in itself, but even more so when you counter in the frequent elevation changes that can make getting the correct yardage difficult. They’re very undulating and slope severely in places, often from back-to-front, and are again well-protected by sand, as well as some steep run-offs.

Spyglass Hill is an extremely hilly course, that although beginning on reasonably exposed land over the first five holes, moves into a densely tree-lined setting from there on in.

The often doglegging fairways are much tighter than those found at Pebble and often framed by tall Monterrey pine and cypress trees. Bunkering is more limited, yet it is strategically placed and with the rough that little bit longer, there is a premium on finding fairways there.

Whilst not as pocket-sized as the tiny ones found at Pebble Beach, the elevated greens – which are also poa – are still small and players will face the same difficulties in terms of dealing with changes in elevation on approach. Though they’re not as severely sloped or undulating, the more subtle breaks on them can outfox many.

If the weather doesn’t have an impact, Spyglass Hill is the tougher of these two courses, possessing a higher average score than Pebble in each of the last five renewals of this event. That being said, our major-tested course is a completely different animal if the wind blows, even in the kinder pro-am conditions on show this week.

THE WEATHER

Pebble Beach has seen a lack of rainfall in the buildup to this event, which should mean we get a firm and fast course for the start of the tournament.

This weather for this week is predicted to be cool, but largely dry and bright. The wind is forecast to rise steadily throughout, with gentle 6mph winds on Thursday replaced by a stiff 11mph breeze on Sunday, which could gust at up to 22mph.

KEY STATS

• SG: Approach/Greens-in-Regulation/Proximity from 100-125yds

Quality iron play into these small, hard-to-hit greens is always key at Pebble Beach and I’d especially want to get the strongest wedge players on side, with approaches from 100-125yds the most frequent.

Data is only recorded for the rounds at Pebble Beach in this event but that should still help us work out the likely contenders this week, with that headlining course now the home of three of the four rounds.

Wyndham Clark was superb in approach in that incredible third round last year, ranking 3^rd for the day and we also had Matthieu Pavon finishing 3^rd and ranking 3^rd overall in this area.

Justin Rose was a solid 14^th in approach for his two rounds at Pebble Beach when winning in 2023, with Brandon Wu in 2^nd ranking 1^st in greens-in-regulation and 6^th in approach.

The top of the leaderboard was approach-heavy in 2022. Winner, Tom Hoge ranked 5^th, runner-up, Jordan Spieth was 2^nd and 4^th-place finisher, Troy Merritt ranked 3^rd.

Daniel Berger was 6^th in approach and 13^th in GIR over his three rounds at Pebble in 2021; Nick Taylor ranked 13^th and 10^th in each respective area when winning in 2020; meanwhile, Phil Mickelson was the leading iron player when taking the title in 2019.

• SG: Putting (poa annua)

The greens here can be treacherous if fast and firm, though even with that lack of rain this year they’re still expected to run at a slow 10.5 on the stimp. Having said that, the putter has still proven to be an extremely important club if wanting to contend here.

Wyndham Clark was exceptional on the greens last year, ranking 1^st. Indeed, he gained over five strokes on these surfaces in round three.

Justin Rose was a solid 14^th in putting in 2023, with runner-up Brendon Todd ranking 1^st. Whilst Tom Hoge ranked 3^rd in 2022, and Nick Taylor ranked 2^nd in 2020.

• Scrambling

Those rising winds could make things tough over the weekend and with these tiny greens not difficult to miss, it is likely that players will need to scramble well.

Almost every winner since 2017 ranked inside the top 25 in scrambling and in the year where that wasn’t the case (Daniel Berger, 2021), four of the top six ranked inside the top 10.

• Par 5 Scoring

The eight par 5s across this week’s courses offer up excellent birdie chances and it’s no surprise to see that winners of this event usually score well on those holes.

Wyndham Clark ranked 1^st in par 5 scoring last year; Justin Rose ranked 5^th in 2023; Tom Hoge and Daniel Berger were top 15 in 2022/2021 respectively; Nick Taylor ranked 5^th in 2020; whilst Phil Mickelson and Ted Potter Jr. each ranked 2^nd in 2019 and 2018.

CORRELATING EVENTS (COURSES)

RSM Classic (Sea Island Resort)

I’m going to begin with a quartet of other short, coastal courses/events, first of which is the RSM Classic at Sea Island.

This is another multi-course event that mixes one open and exposed venue with a more tree-lined, parkland setup. It players to a similar level of difficulty, with wind usually the only thing capable of keeping birdies at a minimum and it ranks closely to Pebble Beach in most aspects, whilst also requiring players to bring a strong wedge game.

Notable correlating form:

Daniel Berger:

Pebble Beach (1^st) / RSM (2^nd)

Tom Hoge:

Pebble Beach (1^st) / RSM (4^th)

Ludvig Aberg:

Pebble Beach (2^nd) / RSM (1^st)

Chris Kirk:

Pebble Beach (2^nd) / RSM (1^st)

Maverick McNealy:

Pebble Beach (2^nd, 5^th) / RSM (1^st)

Brendon Todd:

Pebble Beach (2^nd) / RSM (4^th)

Denny McCarthy:

Pebble Beach: (4^th) / RSM (5^th, 8^th)

Kevin Chappell:

Pebble Beach (6^th, 8^th) / RSM (2^nd)

Joel Dahmen:

Pebble Beach (6^th) / RSM (5^th)

Brian Gay:

Pebble Beach (7^th, 8^th) / RSM (3^rd, 4^th)

RBC Heritage (Harbour Town Golf Links)

Harbour Town possesses the second-smallest greens on the PGA Tour behind Pebble Beach and sharing similar ball-striking stats – despite Harbour Town’s, tighter and more densely tree-lined setup – it should act as a strong comp this week.

Notable correlating form:

Brandt Snedeker:

Pebble Beach (1^st, 1^st) / Heritage (1^st)

Wyndham Clark:

Pebble Beach (1^st) / Heritage (3^rd)

Daniel Berger:

Pebble Beach (1^st) / Heritage (3^rd)

Vaughn Taylor:

Pebble Beach (1^st) / Heritage (3^rd, 4^th)

Kevin Streelman:

Pebble Beach (2^nd) / Heritage (3^rd, 6^th, 7^th)

Maverick McNealy:

Pebble Beach (2^nd, 5^th) / Heritage (4^th)

Brendon Todd:

Pebble Beach (2^nd) / Heritage (4^th)

Patrick Cantlay:

Pebble Beach (3^rd, 4^th) / Heritage (2^nd, 3^rd, 3^rd, 3^rd, 3^rd)

Si Woo Kim:

Pebble Beach (4^th) / Heritage (2^nd)

Troy Merritt:

Pebble Beach (4^th, 8^th) / Heritage (3^rd)

Brian Gay:

Pebble Beach (7^th, 8^th) / Heritage (1^st)

Bermuda Championship (Port Royal Golf Course)

Of the courses I looked at, none had recent crossover form stronger than the often wind-affected Port Royal. This short, coastal venue is spacious and somewhat hilly, with elevation changes throughout. In addition, it provides a similar test to Pebble Beach in approach, requiring players to be dialled in with their wedges.

Notable correlating form:

Wyndham Clark:

Pebble Beach (1^st) / Bermuda (2^nd)

Brendon Todd:

Pebble Beach (2^nd) / Bermuda (1^st)

Scott Stallings:

Pebble Beach (3^rd) / Bermuda (5^th)

Thomas Detry:

Pebble Beach (4^th) / Bermuda (2^nd)

Mark Hubbard:

Pebble Beach (4^th) / Bermuda (3^rd)

Denny McCarthy:

Pebble Beach (4^th) / Bermuda (4^th, 6^th)

Matt Jones:

Pebble Beach (5^th, 7^th) / Bermuda (4^th)

Brian Gay:

Pebble Beach (7^th, 8^th) / Bermuda (1^st, 3^rd)

Kevin Yu:

Pebble Beach (7^th) / Bermuda (3^rd)

Sony Open (Waialae Country Club)

Waialae Country Club ticks many of the same boxes as the three previous courses and ranking closely to Pebble Beach in all areas from fairway to green, it can provide further clues.

Notable correlating form:

Jimmy Walker:

Pebble Beach (1^st, 3^rd) / Sony (1^st, 1^st)

Nick Taylor:

Pebble Beach (1^st) / Sony (1^st)

Brandt Snedeker:

Pebble Beach (1^st, 1^st) / Sony (2^nd)

Tom Hoge:

Pebble Beach (1^st) / Sony (3^rd)

Ted Potter Jnr:

Pebble Beach (1^st) / Sony (7^th)

Chris Kirk:

Pebble Beach (2^nd) / Sony (2^nd, 2^nd, 3^rd)

Chez Reavie:

Pebble Beach (2^nd) / Sony (3^rd)

Si Woo Kim:

Pebble Beach (4^th) / Sony (1^st, 4^th)

Pat Perez:

Pebble Beach (2^nd, 4^th) / Sony (4^th, 8^th)

Scott Langley:

Pebble Beach (6^th) / Sony (3^rd)

Brian Gay:

Pebble Beach (7^th, 8^th) / Sony (5^th, 6^th)

Travelers Championship (TPC River Highlands)

We’ll move away from the coast now and I believe the Travelers Championship at TPC River Highlands is worth checking out this week.

Though tree-lined, the generous fairways give this gently-rolling course a more open feel and it features frequent elevation changes, from the doglegging fairways to the small bent/poa mixed greens. It matches up closely to Pebble Beach in many areas statistically and is particularly similar in approach, with an adequate wedge game a necessity.

Notable correlating form:

Daniel Berger:

Pebble Beach (1^st) / Travelers (2^nd, 5^th)

Tom Hoge:

Pebble Beach (1^st) / Travelers (3^rd)

Vaughn Taylor:

Pebble Beach (1^st) / Travelers (4^th)

Kevin Streelman:

Pebble Beach (2^nd) / Travelers (1^st, 2^nd)

Chez Reavie:

Pebble Beach (2^nd) / Travelers (1^st)

Beau Hossler:

Pebble Beach (3^rd) / Travelers (2^nd)

Patrick Cantlay:

Pebble Beach (3^rd, 4^th) / Travelers (4^th, 5^th)

Scott Stallings:

Pebble Beach (3^rd) / Travelers (6^th, 8^th)

Procore Championship (Silverado Resort – North Course)

We’ll come back around to California and the Procore Championship at the Silverado Resort for my last comp course. I’m especially keen to include it due to the comparable challenge it serves up into/around the small poa annua greens.

It possesses similar greens-in-regulation and scrambling stats to Pebble Beach, whilst the wedges are again key there, with approaches from 100-125yds the most common.

Notable correlating form:

Brandt Snedeker:

Pebble Beach (1^st, 1^st) / Procore (2^nd)

Nick Taylor:

Pebble Beach (1^st) / Procore (6^th, 9^th)

Maverick McNealy:

Pebble Beach (2^nd, 5^th) / Procore (2^nd)

Chez Reavie:

Pebble Beach (2^nd) / Procore (3^rd)

Kevin Streelman:

Pebble Beach (2^nd) / Procore (3^rd)

Brendon Todd:

Pebble Beach (2^nd) / Procore (6^th, 9^th)

Troy Merritt:

Pebble Beach (4^th, 8^th) / Procore (4^th, 7^th)

THE FIELD

World #1 Scottie Scheffler is set to make his season debut this week, having had a prolonged absence due to an unfortunate hand injury sustained over Christmas. #3 Rory McIlroy will also tee it up on the PGA Tour for the first time in 2025, with Xander Schauffele the only eligible member of the world’s top 50 not in attendance.

Wyndham Clark is the defending champion and one of five former winners teeing it up, alongside Justin Rose (2023), Tom Hoge (2022), Nick Taylor (2020) and Jordan Spieth (2017).

Rasmus Hojgaard debuts in the event on his first start as a full PGA Tour member; Robert MacIntyre also makes his debut after an excellent 2024 campaign; other notable entrants in this limited 80-man field include 2019 US Open winner here, Gary Woodland and recent first-time PGA Tour winners: Kevin Yu and Maverick McNealy.

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SELECTIONS

Market leaders (1/4 5 places): Scottie Scheffler 4/1, Rory McIlroy 11/1, Justin Thomas 14/1, Collin Morikawa 14/1, Ludvig Aberg 16/1, Patrick Cantlay 20/1

The winners of the eight Signature Events in 2024 reads: Chris Kirk, Wyndham Clark, Hideki Matsuyama, Scottie Scheffler, Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy, Scottie Scheffler, Scottie Scheffler. The class of these players is very telling and although the first three went off at reasonable prices, they did include two major champions.

With many of the runners-up also of the highest order, including names such as Xander Schauffele and Collin Morikawa, it’s safe to say that the elite players largely dominated the tournaments, and we’ll need to have the top of the betting well scouted this week.

There are question marks over some at the top, chief of which is Scheffler returning from an almost two-month injury-enforced absence. Meanwhile, Rory will come here after playing in his first TGL contest on Monday and doesn’t have a great record at Pebble to begin with.

It ultimately came down to a decision between Justin Thomas and Collin Morikawa of those market leaders, who have both started the season well. Although, looking back to his very best with the wedges, and a little unlucky to not get the chance of a fourth-round challenge in this event last year, it’s J.T who gets the nod as this week’s headline selection.

3.5 pts Justin Thomas each way (1/5 - 8 places) @ 14/1

After a 2023 campaign that went down as one of Thomas’ worst since turning pro, he played to a higher, more consistent standard last year, and was particularly hitting the ball well towards the end.

That is when he recorded his best finish of 2024, when 2^nd in the ZOZO Championship on his second-last start (one of five top-5 finishes), leading the field in ball-striking, tee-to-green, approach and scrambling that week.

His approach play again looked in good shape on his first start of this year, as he ranked 7^th when 26^th in The Sentry. He then backed that up with a runner-up finish to Sepp Straka in The AmEx on his next and latest start, gaining strokes right across his game.

The American has been one of the very best wedge players on the PGA Tour for several years and after showing some regression in this area in 2023, he returned to form last year, ranking 3^rd in proximity from 100-125yds. He ranked 9^th in approach overall and as an excellent scrambler and par 5 scorer at his best, he has many of the assets we want for this test.

His putter had been an issue lately, but he’s looked in good form on the greens in those first two starts this season and putting together some decent displays on poa in recent years, he can keep it rolling this week.

He missed the cut here on debut in 2014 and did so again in the 2019 US Open at Pebble Beach. However, he finally got the hang of the course last year, finishing 6^th and playing some of the strongest tee-to-green golf in the field, he’d have fancied his chances of a Sunday charge.

That frustration should provide Thomas with adequate motivation this week and in possession of some strong comp form – including a win in the Sony Open and top 5s in the RBC Heritage, Travelers Championship and Procore Championship – I expect him to be among the main contenders in California.

2 pts Hideki Matsuyama each way (1/5 - 6 places) @ 25/1 

Hideki Matsuyama began the year with a blistering scoring display to win The Sentry and as one of the elite wedge players in this field, he has every chance of completing an early-season double at Pebble Beach.

Hideki enjoyed a good year in 2024, winning the Genesis Invitational and St Jude Championship on the PGA Tour, claiming a bronze medal in the Olympics and stretched his cuts-made record in the majors to 18 events.

He then began 2025 in spectacular fashion, shooting an incredible -35 to win The Sentry – setting the PGA Tour’s 72-hole scoring record in the process. A 16^th-place finish in the Sony Open immediately followed that and he was solid again last week, finishing 32^nd at Torrey Pines.

His irons have been in excellent form over those first trio of events this year, ranking 3^rd in approach at this very early stage of 2025. He was 4^th on tour in proximity from 100-125yds last year, 2^nd in scrambling and after producing his best putting numbers since 2019 in 2024, it is a positive to see him again putting well so far this year.

Hideki only debuted in this event last year and finished a disappointing 71^st, though his game wasn’t in as good a place as it is now. He does have some positive form here, finishing 21^st in the 2019 US Open and having won the Sony in 2022, we know he can win on these shorter, coastal courses.

1 pt Beau Hossler each way (1/5 - 6 places) @ 60/1

We were on Beau Hossler at Torrey Pines last week, as he continued his promising start to the season with a second straight top-15 finish. It was a real positive to see this occasionally erratic ball-striker hit the ball well at that more demanding layout and returning to a course at which he’s started to amass a good record, he looks well worth another shot.

As mentioned last week, Hossler was in good form at the end of last year and he has carried that over into the West Coast Swing – at which he typically performs well – at the beginning of 2025. His 12^th-place finish in The AmEx on his first start of the year was his sixth top-25 in eight starts and he made that seven in nine last week, with a 15^th-place finish in the Farmers Insurance Open.

He drove the ball well in The AmEx and did so again at Torrey Pines, ranking top 25 off-the-tee for his three rounds at the South Course. A ranking of 14^th in driving accuracy into those narrow fairways, for a player who can be wayward with the driver, made that all the more encouraging. Combined with a solid iron performance, we now have a player matching his usual quality with the short game with some strong ball-striking displays.

Hossler has missed just two cuts in eight starts in this event, but he has taken his form to new levels recently, finishing 3^rd, 11^th and 14^th in the last three renewals, often transferring his top-20 putting ability to the venue. With a runner-up finish in the Travelers Championship an appealing piece of comp form, there are many reasons to be optimistic about his chances of contending for an overdue breakthrough win this week.

1 pt J.T. Poston each way (1/5 - 8 places) @ 70/1 

Enduring a slow start to the season, J.T. Poston finally found some form on his latest start in The AmEx. As a usually strong wedge player and putter, he should appreciate this course and can capitalise on question marks over some of the market leaders to earn the fourth and biggest win of his PGA Tour career at Pebble Beach.

Poston finished last year in excellent form, winning the Shriners Open and finishing 5^th in the RSM Classic on his final two starts. He couldn’t replicate that level of performance in the first two events this year, finishing 40^th in The Sentry and missing the cut in the Sony Open; though he was much better two weeks ago in The AmEx, where he fired excellent rounds of 62 and 64 to help him to a 12^th-place finish.

He was good with his irons there, ranking top 20 for the two rounds at the Stadium Course both in approach and GIR. This was an area in which he was looking very strong at the end of last year and at his best with the wedges, ranking 25^th from 100-125yds, and possessing a competent all-round short game, he is a great fit for the course.

Poston has played here three times and made the cut on each visit, recording a best of 20^th last year, where he looked especially good on the greens. Possessing a runner-up finish in the Travelers Championship and top 5s in the RBC Heritage and RSM Classic, he has form in many correlating events, which can help him get in the mix this week.