Spyglass Hill

Robert Trent Jones Sr. considered Spyglass Hill among his best work, and tour players still call it the toughest course on the peninsula—harder than Pebble on most days, without the ocean to console you after 5.

The opening five holes tumble through white dunes toward the Pacific like a links; then the course turns inland and becomes a shot-maker's march through the Del Monte Forest, where doglegs, elevated greens and pine-framed corridors demand your full attention.

Into the forest

The march into the Del Monte pines

Spyglass opens with five holes tumbling through the ocean dunes near Spanish Bay, then turns inland and climbs into the Del Monte Forest—tight corridors of Monterey pine and moss-hung oaks where the greens are ringed with sand and the course quietly collects strokes. Two courses in one round, and the forest half is the one that bites.