“Pebble Beach was at the end of the world,” the late Frank Hannigan told me once in recalling the USGA’s concerns. Hannigan was its tournament relations manager then, before becoming its executive director. “We considered going to Pebble Beach for the ’72 Open very risky. There might not have been anybody there. We thought, ‘People can’t get to Pebble Beach.’ The U.S. Amateur was played at Pebble Beach [in 1961] and nobody was there.”