After an infamous round of golf on Del Monte No. 2 at Pebble Beach in April 1918, sports writer, humorist, and author, Charles E. Van Loan, said, “Never again, it is too dangerous a course.”
Van Loan found a very large garter snake next to his ball on the fifth hole, and then “encountered four prairie dogs, innumerable lizards, and three jackrabbits. Yes indeed it is a dangerous course.”
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