Let There Be Pebble: A Middle-Handicapper's Year in America's Garden of Golf

It was “scary,” Jack Nicklaus said of Pebble Beach, and gave him nightmares so acute he famously woke his wife on the eve of his 1972 U.S. Open victory totally spooked. “It’s not a golf course,” sportswriter Jim Murray wrote, “it’s a hellship.” Golf writer Dan Jenkins once joked that the famed venue of the Bing Crosby National Pro-Am should be dubbed “Double Bogey-by-the-Sea.”


A one-time failed Division One golf walk-on, Zachary Michael Jack opts to stare down an early midlife crisis by chr...