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The people playing out here are having a once- in-a-lifetime experience, that’s sort of our Pebble Beach motto. The day


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you forget that is the day you start losing ground


the ’82 U.S. Open!” The 8th green


It will be a crew of 140 maintaining the course the week of the 2019 U.S. Open - forty members of the Pebble Beach crew plus one hundred volunteers. Quite an upgrade from what Rick remembers in 1982. But some things never change; he’s still working U.S. Opens at one of the finest golf courses in the world and, yes, he’s still married to that gardener.


Exceeding expectations


Left to right:Jack Holt, assistant superintendent, Bubba Wright, assistant superintendent and Chris Dalhamer, CGCS and Director of Golf Course Maintenance


The 2019 U.S. Open begins 13th June and is the ultimate way for the course to celebrate its 100th anniversary. This will be the sixth U.S. Open played at Pebble Beach, with previous years being the 1972, 1982, 1992, 2000 and 2010 tournaments. The U.S. Open will return again in 2027, and the Women’s U.S. Open will be played there in 2023. It’s all par for the course at Pebble Beach. Chris Dalhamer, Certified Golf Course Superintendent, works as director of golf course maintenance over all four courses at Pebble Beach Resorts: Pebble Beach, Spyglass Hill, the Links at Spanish Bay and Del Monte Golf Course all fall under his jurisdiction. Major championship golf, professional golf and once-in-a-lifetime golf is nothing new to Chris and his crew. “We want to exceed expectations each and every day,” Chris says. “We tell that to our crew all the time - the people playing out here are having a once-in-a-lifetime experience, that’s sort of our Pebble Beach motto. The day you forget that is the day you start losing ground.”


The Pebble Beach crew 12 PC April/May 2019


Chris started working at Pebble Beach as an intern in 1993. A native of the area, he first fell in love with golf maintenance as a high school kid working on the crew at Poppy Hills Golf Course in Pebble Beach. He graduated Chico State University, Chico, California, with a degree in business and a minor in plant science. From there, he participated in the Northern California Golf Association’s internship programme, which got him the internship at Pebble Beach. He was eighteen months into the internship when the superintendent at the time, Mark Michaud, promoted him to assistant superintendent, a job he held for five years.


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