Pebble Beach, the golf course laid out along Carmel Bay on California's windswept Monterey Peninsula, has tricky traps, yawning water hazards and yapping sea lions which have plagued the world's best golfers. There last week 164 golferines gathered for the 44th U. S. Women's Amateur. To make the course less formidable, four of its holes had been shortened—paring 113 yards off the dog-tiring, 6,661-yd. course.
California is proud of Pebble Beach. But it is not proud of the fact that a Californian has never won the Women's golf championship. Californians converged on Pebble Beach...