Added Excitement Surrounds Opening Day Celebration at Poppy Hills Reinvented Layout in Pebble Beach, CA To Co-Host Champions Tour Event Starting This Fall
PEBBLE BEACH, CA (March 20, 2014) … It has been 13 months since Poppy Hills Golf Course closed for a near top-to-bottom redesign overseen by the course’s original architect Robert Trent Jones II. But if the excitement of today’s Opening Day festivities weren’t enough, it seems that there is even more good news. Adding to the buzz is the announcement that the all-new Poppy will co-host the Champions Tour’s Nature Valley First Tee Open, teaming with its esteemed neighbor, Pebble Beach Golf Links, from Sept. 22-28. Poppy Hills officially debuted its new layout today after closing last March for a comprehensive renovation. The course reopens for public play on April 4, 2014. Jones was on-hand to hit the ceremonial first shot at the new Poppy Hills, 28 years after he did so to debut his original design in 1986. He was joined for the first shot by:- Brian Morse, President of the NCGA, the largest regional golf association in the country
- Derrell Biddy, President of Poppy Holding Company, which oversees golf operations
- Patrick Moran, an 11-handicap golfer representing the 150,000 members of the NCGA.
- Revitalizing a seasonal creek that cuts in front of the new ninth green
- Building the new 11th hole, the shortest par 3 at Poppy Hills
- Creating the downhill 12th hole, which tees off toward a spectacular ocean view of Monterey Bay