Mark O’Meara is ready to retire, and he has picked the ideal spot in Pebble Beach. O’Meara won the California State Amateur in 1979, the first of his six titles over three decades at Pebble Beach. Five of those were the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am,

Sophia Waddell is more than familiar with the Monterey Peninsula from her days living in San Luis Opisbo. “We used to travel up there every year or so to go and stay there and just go around the town and see everything and go to the beach," said Waddell, 16 and now a junior at Palm Desert High School.

Nothing against the 20-foot birdie putt he knocked in on the 72nd hole to win the Masters in 1998. Or the victory three months later in the British Open at Royal Birkdale in a four-hole playoff over Brian Watts.