On the closing holes you can't see very well. When we got to the 17th hole you couldn't even see where the ball was landing. It gets tough when you're hitting to an area you can't see. That's probably different than a lot of Open courses. On a good day there are a lot of birdie holes, but when the weather gets nasty it makes the course incredibly difficult.
Pebble Beach is hard by the Pacific Ocean, and fog and rain are always possible here.
In the winter when the PGA Tour comes for the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, rain is always the culprit. In the summer, fog is commonplace. But the locals say that Thursday's soup would not have kept them from playing Pebble Beach. It was almost like smoke or dry ice. Sutton, of course, didn't see anything neat or cool about the situation, but he wasn't depressed.