PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. -- One by one, each wave crashed onto the shore of Carmel Bay under a bright Sunday afternoon sky, the tide pushing the water into massive rocks, sending a cacophony spraying upward, then pulling it back out to sea. It would be a brilliant scene anywhere, but its beauty is enhanced by serving as the backdrop to one of golf's most iconic holes, the 18th at Pebble Beach Golf Links. Before Jack Nicklaus played the final hole of his U.S. Open career, he famously stopped for one last lingering contemplation of this view.
Vaughn Taylor loves the water; he grew up on the water.