Spanish Bay Golf: The Gil Hanse Redesign and Reopening

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The Links at Spanish Bay is closed for a Gil Hanse redesign. The last round on the old layout was March 17, 2026. Construction started March 18, 2026. Public play returns April 17, 2027 — ahead of the 127th U.S. Open at Pebble Beach Golf Links.

Bagpiper at Spanish Bay, Pebble Beach — Spanish Bay bagpiper — Dominickvcannatelli / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Still sorting a Monterey Peninsula week while Spanish Bay is dark? Use the golf vacation planner, and fly clubs the way how to travel with golf clubs lays out. Sister resort rounds worth adding: Pebble Beach Golf Links and Spyglass Hill — check what’s open on pebblebeach.com before you book.

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What is changing

Spanish Bay sits on former sand-mine ground along 17-Mile Drive — a seaside links feel that opened November 5, 1987 (Robert Trent Jones Jr. with Tom Watson and Sandy Tatum). Hanse, Jim Wagner, and HGCD are leading a full renovation. Planned redesign figures from Pebble Beach / Hanse announcements (not “as played today”): championship tees about 7,115 yards, forward tees about 4,705, par changing from 72 to 71, among other design updates.

Spanish Bay redesign / transformation (course closed until April 17, 2027) — Spanish Bay transformation — courtesy Pebble Beach Resorts

How to book the 2027 reopen

Official course page: The Links at Spanish Bay.

Pebble Beach Resorts’ Preview Availability for Spanish Bay is the official reopen door — phone-only. Call (800) 877-0597 to talk tee times; there is no online checkout on that page. Broader golf reservations also run through pebblebeach.com or 800-654-9300 per Pebble Beach press. Resort Reservations was already taking new-course bookings.

The Inn at Spanish Bay stays a lodging option — it is not a substitute tee-time booker.

Building a Peninsula week while you wait

Sleep once in the Pebble Beach / 17-Mile Drive corridor if the reopen week is the goal. While Spanish Bay is dark, look at sister public resort courses still listed on pebblebeach.com (Pebble Beach Golf Links, Spyglass Hill, Del Monte, The Hay). Our Pebble Beach Golf Links and Spyglass Hill pages have course details for the rest of the week.

Lone Cypress on 17-Mile Drive, Pebble Beach — Lone Cypress — Tuxyso / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Bottom line

Spanish Bay’s next public chapter starts April 17, 2027. Open the official course page and Preview Availability, then call (800) 877-0597 when you are ready to lock the new layout — that preview path is phone-only, not an online tee-time cart. Until then, build the Peninsula week around courses that are actually open.

Need a hand mapping a 2027 reopen week around one Inn night? Email editor@destination-golf.com.