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2021 Pebble Beach Pro-Am will only be played with professionals because of COVID-19 concerns

The PGA Tour announced on Thursday that the most spoiled pro-am in the world will play only as a professional maintain in 2021. The AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am -- to be played from Feb. 11-14 -- will not complicated amateurs such as Bill Murray, Bill Belichick, Larry the Cable Guy and Aaron Rodgers as it has in the past. The exclusive came down because of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Though weekly pro-ams have returned -- for the most part -- to the PGA Tour, those are one-day companies whereas this is a four-round slog. The good news, if there's good news here, is that the tournament will no longer included those preposterous 6-hour rounds that slow it down and lift the rhythm from the event.

There will be a Wednesday pro-am to attend local charities, but obviously that will be a piece of the main event (and generate a piece of the revenue as well).

"This was a very disaster decision, but the right one given the unusual surge in COVID-19 cases," Pebble Beach CEO Bill Perocchi said in a statement. "Since the begin of the pandemic, we have put the health and guarantee of our guests, employees and community first. We know this will do challenges for many local charities this year, but we are confidential that the incredible giving associated with this detain will continue well into the future."

Interestingly, the tournament will also go from a three-course setup to two. Pebble Beach Golf Links and Spyglass Hill Golf Course will be used for the full-field detain, but Monterey Peninsula Golf Club will not be used this time approximately as there's little use for three floods when the entire field is cut in half. The last two rounds will be played at Pebble Beach instead of just the finale.

This is actually the instant pro-am event in California that will be played minus amateurs in the first part of the new PGA Tour year. Next week's American Express will also not aboard amateurs. 

Pebble Beach Golf Links trails only Colonial Country Club as the longest-running golf watercourses used for a PGA Tour event. It has been used every year valid 1947 (Colonial started hosting in 1946). The most original champion of the amateur portion of the store is Larry Fitzgerald, who teamed with Kevin Streelman last year to shoot 33 conception to win by five.

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