This Week In Cigar History: Feb 18-24

[blessednxs65]

Acknowledged by golf great Jack Nicklaus as “…possibly the best in the world,” the exquisite and challenging Pebble Beach Golf Links, a premier destination for cart driving cigar lovers, opened this week on February 22, 1919.

Designed by Jack Neville and Douglas Grant, the course hugs the rocky Pacific coastline and offers wide-open vistas, cliffside fairways, and challenging greens that undoubtedly conjure up scores of ‘close but no cigar’ scenarios.

Better yet for the King of Corona wannabe, the luxurious Pebble Beach Club XIX restaurant overlooking the 18th hole has a very rare menu of properly aged pre-embargo Cuban cigars for puffers to stoke up. Since Pebble Beach’s hoard exists courtesy of a little known legal loophole around the U.S. embargo, richly priced gems such as Romeo y Julieta #2 Tubos are available - putting this high end resort on the must visit map for tobacco lovers.

Even cigar sommeliers that don’t swing a golf club are enticed by the stogy centric indulgence/ culinary gorge-athon Pebble Beach Food and Wine festival (March 27-30) with deluxe, won’t find anywhere else cognac-cigar pairings. No wonder cigar connoisseur Clint Eastwood put down roots in nearby Carmel.

 

[jmatkins]

Thanks for the history note.

 

[oneaday]

Beautiful course.

 

[tubaman]

I golf on the Wii!!

 

[bballbaby]

I definitely gotta get out there and play. It's on my list of things to do before i die.

Golf. The only professional sport where the average civilian can play on the same field as the pros. Can't do it in baseball. Can't do it in football. Can't do it in basketball or hockey. Maybe Jai Lai, but i don't know.