AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am
The first Signature Event of 2026 is here, aka music to the ears of One and Done players. The AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am champion will earn slightly more than double what the winners took home at the first four regular events this season. That means even if you had a rough start, one good pick can put you right back in it. With Signature Events in three of the next four weeks, followed by THE PLAYERS Championship on the back end, this next month could determine your leagues for the foreseeable future.
The Pro-Am's unique format features 80 professionals playing alongside 80 celebrity amateurs in a two-course rotation, alternating between Pebble Beach and Spyglass Hill. While there's no cut, the amateurs step aside after Friday, leaving all 80 pros to finish out the weekend.
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Course Tidbits
- Courses: Pebble Beach Golf Links (6,989 yards, par 72), Spyglass Hill Golf Course (7,071 yards, par 72)
- Location: Pebble Beach, California
- Purse: $20 million ($3.6 million to winner)
- Defending Champion: Rory McIlroy (-21)
- 2025 Scoring Average: 70.10 (Pebble Beach), 69.99 (Spyglass Hill)
- Average Winning Score Last 5 Years: -18.6
Pebble Beach is one of the most iconic venues in golf with a long stretch of holes along the Carmel Bay coastline. The panoramic backdrop draws crowds who are more than willing to spend a small fortune to play here. The course boasts the smallest greens on the PGA Tour at around 3,500 square feet. That puts a premium on wedge and iron play just to find the putting surface and give yourself a quality birdie look. The greens this time of year are usually quite soft, and spin control can be difficult.
Pebble Beach is also one of the shortest courses on the PGA Tour at just under 7,000 yards as a par 72. When the conditions are perfect, this is a place where golfers can rip to shreds, however, it can quickly become one of the most challenging venues if unexpected weather rolls in off the Pacific. The forecast for the first three rounds calls for ideal conditions, but Sunday could see rain move in and the winds really kick up. While no lead is safe on this golf course, it should provide a thrilling conclusion to the first Signature Event of 2026.
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AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am: One and Done Picks
Kim has been the most used player in OAD early this season, and for good reason. He has played all four tournaments thus far and gone T11-T6-T2-T3. I'm hoping to cash in on this heater during the first big money event of 2026. He has a strong record at Pebble Beach with three top-15s in his last five attempts, including each of the last two years since it became a Signature Event. Kim has been Scottie Scheffler-like with the ball striking so far this year, and if the putter finally cooperates, he is capable of running away from this loaded field. --Ryan Andrade
I'm not fond of going with the popular pick, and Rose will likely be a popular play this week, but I think it's the right move. Rose is one of a few golfers in the field who has current form and a record in his favor. He won the Farmers Insurance Open in his most recent start, and I'm generally not fond of taking players in their first start after a win, but he's had a week off, which should have provided him time to come down from the thrashing he put on the field a couple weeks ago. Rose finished T3 here in 2025 and won this event in 2023, so he knows how to get around this course. --Greg Vara
We know that Hovland's game can come and go, so I'll look to use him while he's in form. He made his 2026 PGA Tour debut in Phoenix last week and was in contention for much of the event but ultimately faded late and finished T10. His iron game is sharp as he ranked fifth in SG: Approach. Prior to last week, he had a solid T14 against a strong field in Dubai at the end of January. Hovland's track record here is also solid with a pair of top-15s at Pebble when it was a full-field event. I don't expect him to be overly popular, so we can gain some leverage on the field with a strong showing. --Ryan Pohle
Henley has gained a collective 9.4 strokes on approach through his first six measured rounds of the 2026 campaign, and he now heads to a short track where his lack of distance off the tee is muted. He tied for fifth here at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am last year when he paced the field in SG: Putting and total birdies (26). --Bryce Danielson
Sometimes the obvious choice is the right one. Day has certainly found the right side of the leaderboard at AT&T, racking up nine top-10s on a perfect 15-for-15 cuts made. This year, the Aussie benefits from a three-round rotation at Pebble Beach GL, where he leads the field all-time in SG: ARG and sits second in total strokes gained (1.72 per round), two critical markers of success on this layout. Day's 2026 season has shown his poa prowess across two events, placing him 6th in SG: Putting versus this week's lineup. Despite a recent T38 at the Farmers, Day's runner-up at the AmEx is the version I'm buying. In a no-cut, big-name week, I'll take the dependable veteran and let the short game do the work. --Lauren Jump
If you wanted to pick Scheffler this week, I can back that strategy. It's a $4 million winner's share. It's just hard to pull the trigger and "burn" him so early in the season. But he's been top-10 here the past two years and you have to like his chances to beat only 79 guys when he's been regularly crushing 155. That said, Rose checks off all the boxes this week. He's playing well, he's won and played very well here before and he could navigate the possible rainy weekend better than many others. Yes, he just won a couple of weeks ago, but Chris Gotterup doesn't see that as a deterrent. --Len Hochberg
In typical Henley fashion we haven't heard much from him early this season, but he quietly finished top-20 in his first two starts and has not finished lower than 19th since missing the cut at the PGA Championship last May. His approach game gives me confidence regardless of the conditions, and although his track record at Pebble Beach isn't stellar he did post a T5 last year. Plus, while I'm pretty sure Henley is among the best 13 golfers — four majors, THE PLAYERS and eight signatures — he's not someone I'm considering for the first two items on that list. --Kevin O'Brien
AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am: One and Done Fades
I'm not exactly sure why Schauffele has the third best odds this week (+2500). He missed the cut by one shot at Torrey Pines, then made the cut by a shot last week in Scottsdale. Schauffele doesn't have much history at this event, with a T66 in 2017 and a T54 in 2024. He'll be a player to use in a Signature Event down the line, but this is definitely not the right one or the right time. --Ryan Andrade
Schauffele had a rough 2025 season while recovering from an injury, but he seemed to get back on track in the fall when he won the Baycurrent Classic. It was that win, along with the notion that Schauffele was ready to take off when healthy that lead many of us to speculate that 2026 would be a much different season than 2025. That still will likely hold true, but there's no debating that Schauffele is off to a slow start this season. He missed the cut in his first start at the Farmers in January and finished T41 at the WM. His track record here isn't helping matters this week either as he has just two starts here and nothing better than a T54. --Greg Vara
Fleetwood has teed-it-up at Pebble Beach four times with a best finish of T22 (out of 80 golfers), which doesn't give me much confidence that this is the time to use him. On top of that, this will be his first stateside start since August, following a modest T41 in Dubai two weeks ago. I expect Fleetwood to continue to build off a strong 2025 campaign, but wouldn't be surprised if it took a little time. The last two majors both set up well for him this year if you're planning ahead, and there's no need to force him early on. --Ryan Pohle
The 35-year-old Englishman went on a brilliant run by his standards from August through November this past season, but he looked a bit rusty across his first two starts of 2026 on the DP World Tour. He particularly struggled with his iron play en route to a solo-25th at the Dubai Invitational, and then he endured some short-game woes on the way to a T41 at the Hero Dubai Desert Classic. Additionally, he's yet to place top-20 through four career appearances at Pebble Beach. As one of the more valuable OAD pieces, I'd rather save Fleetwood for a tougher ball-striking setup than a putting contest on poa. --Bryce Danielson
Aberg's last TOUR start at the Farmers Insurance Open was a missed cut at +6 (78-72), and it came right after he withdrew from The American Express due to illness. Even if the sickness explains the regression, I'm not paying the OAD premium until we see him back to full strength and looking like himself for four rounds. We've got plenty of golf ahead to strike strategically. --Lauren Jump
The books still have a lot of faith in Schauffele -- he's the No. 3 guy behind Scheffler and McIlroy. But his recent play and history at Pebble don't align with that placement. He missed the cut two weeks ago and barely made it last week. In two previous starts in the Pebble Beach tournament -- last year and many years ago -- he has yet to crack the top-50. There's just been something off with his game overall since last year. Until it turns back on, Schauffele is a fade. --Len Hochberg
Based on my pick in this section last week you may want to pick him to win, but I'm avoiding Matsuyama. He has been locked in to start the season, but he took a pretty tough playoff loss in Phoenix, has only played Pebble Beach competitively the last two years and did not finish higher than 48th in either instance. --Kevin O'Brien
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