On the first tee before the traffic.
Pre-dawn departures, on-site waiting through the day, and staged returns when play finally stops.
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Tournament days on the Peninsula start before dawn and end whenever play does. Neither end of that is predictable enough to book two separate cars around.
Chauffeurs are rostered from 4am and the car is held on site through the day, with clubs and kit left aboard. Where a group needs it, vans loop between the hotel and the course on a fixed cadence.
Tee times start before the roads do
A six o'clock tee at Pebble means leaving the Bay in the dark, which is an entirely different drive from the same route at ten.
Two hours before dawn on an empty road is the easiest part of the day and the part most people ruin by driving it themselves. Sleep through it, or take the coffee stop — either is planned in.
A round does not finish to a timetable and a fog delay finishes it even less so. The car is held on site through the day rather than rebooked at the turn.
Four bags and four players is not the same vehicle as four people. Say what is travelling and the car is sized for it, with the kit left aboard between rounds.
Chauffeurs rostered from 4am through the tournament.
The car held on site, with clubs and kit left aboard.
Vans looping between hotel and course on a fixed cadence.
The courses, the resorts and the tournament weeks
The Pro-Am is the hardest week of the year to drive on the Peninsula. Play runs across more than one course, so a group can start at Spyglass and finish at the Links, and the crowds and road closures make the short hops the slow ones. We hold cars for the week, move them between courses against the tee sheet, and agree drop points with the resorts rather than joining the general queue.
When the championship returns to Pebble Beach the Peninsula fills well beyond Car Week levels, and the roads on and off 17-Mile Drive carry far more than they were built for. Planning starts from the exit rather than the arrival: where a car can legitimately wait, and how to be moving before a full grandstand is.
The resort course sits beside The Lodge, so the drive ends inside the gates. Tee times are early and often before dawn, which makes the run down from the Bay a two-hour job in the dark. Clubs and shoes stay in the car between rounds rather than being carried in and out.
Spyglass is inland and wooded, a different entrance and a different drive from the Links even though the two are minutes apart. Groups playing both in a week are a routing question rather than two separate bookings, and we treat them that way.
At the northern end of 17-Mile Drive, alongside The Inn at Spanish Bay. It is the easiest of the three to reach from Highway 1 and the one most often paired with a stay at the Inn, so arrivals and the first tee are usually the same conversation.
The Lodge at Pebble Beach, The Inn at Spanish Bay and Casa Palmero. 17-Mile Drive is gated, so resort arrivals are handled at the gate rather than worked out on the spot, and the chauffeur knows which entrance is quickest from the direction you are travelling.
The bags are already in
Clubs loaded, coffee in the car, and nobody in the group driving at five in the morning. It is the least demanding part of a day that starts before the light does.
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