2026 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am betting tips and preview

It’s the first of the Signature Events as the PGA Tour’s finest head to the California coast for the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Our tipster has a few names to follow…

With the cancellation of The Sentry in January, the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am will now have the honor of being the first of the PGA Tour’s Signature Events of the 2026 season.

Before we get into the details and the players I’m going to back, here’s how it all works. The 160-strong field will be made up of 80 pros who will each be paired with an amateur.

For the first two rounds, the pairs will play a better-ball format with one round at Pebble Beach Golf Links and the other at Spyglass Hill. There will also, of course, be the individual stroke play format for the pros.

Only the pros will take part in the third and fourth rounds, which will both be played at Pebble.

Here’s everything you need to know…

AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am key details

Dates: February 12-15, 2026
Venue: Pebble Beach, California
Courses: Par 72; 6,989 yards (Pebble Beach); Par 72; 7,071 (Spyglass Hill)
Format: 72-hole stroke play with no cut
Purse: $20 million ($3.6m winner’s share)
FedEx Cup: 700 points
Defending champion: Rory McIlroy (-21)

AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am field

Here are the 80 pros taking part at Pebble Beach this week…

Ludvig AbergDaniel BergerAkshay BhatiaKeegan BradleyJacob BridgemanSam BurnsBrian CampbellPatrick CantlayBud CauleyWyndham ClarkCorey ConnersPierceson CoodyJason DayNico EchavarriaHarris EnglishTony FinauSteven FiskMatt FitzpatrickTommy FleetwoodRickie FowlerRyan FoxRyan GerardLucas GloverChris GotterupMax GreysermanBen GriffinEmiliano GrilloHarry HallBrian HarmanRussell HenleyGarrick HiggoJoe HighsmithRyo HisatsuneRico HoeyTom HogeBilly HorschelViktor HovlandMackenzie HughesStephan JaegerMichael KimSi Woo KimChris KirkKurt KitayamaJake KnappMin Woo LeeShane LowryRobert MacIntyreHideki MatsuyamaDenny McCarthyMatt McCartyMax McGreevyRory McIlroyMaverick McNealyKeith MitchellCollin MorikawaAlex NorenAndrew NovakTaylor PendrithMarco PengeJT PostonAldrich PotgieterAaron RaiPatrick RodgersJustin RoseXander SchauffeleScottie SchefflerAdam SchenkMatti SchmidAlex SmalleyJJ SpaunJordan SpiethSam StevensSepp StrakaNick TaylorSahith TheegalaMichael ThorbjornsenSami ValimakiJhonattan VegasCameron YoungKevin YuAT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am tee times

Tee times for the 2026 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am can be found on the PGA Tour website.

AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am TV coverage

US viewers can catch all the action on the Golf Channel and CBS.

Thursday: Golf Channel from 3pm
Friday: Golf Channel from 3pm
Saturday: Golf Channel from 1pm then CBS from 3pm
Sunday: Golf Channel from 1pm ET then CBS from 3pm
(All times ET)

UK viewers can catch all the action on Sky Sports.

Thursday: Sky Sports Golf from 4.45pm and Main Event from 10.45pm
Friday: Sky Sports Golf from 4.45pm and Main Event from 10.45pm
Saturday: Sky Sports Golf and Main Event from 4.30pm
Sunday: Sky Sports Golf from 4pm and Main Event from 7pm
(All times GMT)

2026 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am betting tips

Right, after going so close with Hideki Matsuyama, who lost in a playoff at the WM Phoenix Open, here’s who I’m backing at Pebble…

The Banker: Viktor Hovland

22/1 e/w (Bet365 8 Places 1/5 Odds)

Much was expected of Viktor Hovland at Pebble Beach after he won the US Amateur there in 2018 and then finished T12 in the US Open a year later while still an amateur.

Despite his lack of success in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am so far, I’m still bullish on Hovland’s chances, especially as he was 5th going into the final round before finishing 13th in 2023, while last year he was sat in 2nd after round one and still in the top 10 at halfway before finishing 22nd.

While 13th and 22nd-place finishes hardly jump off the page for an elite talent like Hovland, this is the first time in his career he’s coming into this event bang in form.

When making his debut in 2020, he was coming in off a missed cut in Phoenix and a 23rd at the Dubai Desert Classic. He didn’t return in 2021 or ’22, but his 13th in ’23 his best effort to date. That was after being lightly run at the start of the year, with a T18 finish at The Sentry his only start beforehand. He had won the Hero World Challenge at the end of 2022, but he had certainly not played much golf to kick off the year, nor impressed to that point. In 2024 it was similar, as he finished T22 at The Sentry, and last year, when he started so fast, he did so having finished T36 at The Sentry, before missing the cut in Dubai.

This time around, Hovland has kicked off the year with a 14th-place finish in Dubai, where he was 3rd after 54 holes, and a 10th-place last week in Phoenix. While he will still be hoping for a better, there was certainly potential for him to win yesterday, having entered the final round within four strokes of Hideki Matsuyama’s lead. Given that was his first start in Phoenix since finishing 42nd in 2023, and he had never finished better than that in three starts in the past, I think there are huge positives in last week’s performance.

That feeling is underlined by him ranking 6th and 5th in SG: Approach and 3rd and 18th in SG: Tee to Green in his first two starts of the year.

If this continues for Hovland he will no doubt be contending again in the near future, so I am happy to play him at a course where he holds such fond memories.

The Outsider: Matt Fitzpatrick

40/1 e/w (BetMGM 5 Places 1/4 Odds)

Another player who finished T12 at the US Open here in 2019 is Matt Fitzpatrick and he can challenge for the title this week alongside his Ryder Cup teammate.

Fitzpatrick finished 6th in this event four years ago and while, on paper, that remains his only good effort, I am confident there is more to come from him here.

He missed the cut on debut here and finished 60th the following year, but he was in 20th going into the final round that week. That showed huge growth from the year before, and two years later he recorded that 6th-place finish where he got better after every round. Finishes of MC-58-48 have followed, but when finishing 58th two years ago, he was 14th after 18 holes and 10th going into the third round before the event was shortened to 54 holes.

We never really know what a player would have done had the weather not rolled in, but I feel like Fitzpatrick is a player that could have grown into that weekend had it been 72 holes as scheduled. Last year he could only finish 48th, but he bounced back from a slow start with a second-round 67 and closed out with a final round 69, two eye-catching rounds in an otherwise quiet week.

Most will remember just how poor Fitzpatrick played in the second half of 2024 and it wasn’t until he finished 8th at the PGA Championship in May 2025 that we started to see the best of the Englishman again. All this to say that he’s in a far better place than he was the last two times he has teed it up here, and I think he will now show how well suited he really is to this test. Context is certainly important when looking at course and event form, and his lead in form has just been poor coming in the past couple of years to give it too much credit.

Instead, he now comes into this one having recorded eight top-10s in his last 14 starts, including a win at the season-ending DP World Tour Championship.

A 9th place in Phoenix was eye-catching for Fitzpatrick, given it was his best finish at that course, and he was also better placed all week, sitting 2nd after round one, 5th after round two, and in 6th and just two back of Matsuyama’s lead heading into Sunday.

Like Hovland, Fitzpatrick hit the ball nicely at Scottsdale, ranking 8th in SG: Approach and 3rd in SG: Tee to Green, and I am happy to right off his poor effort at The American Express, where he was seemingly just blowing off the cobwebs after an extended break.

A good links player who will enjoy the test if windy conditions arrive, Fitzpatrick ranks as one of the best bets on the board, and I am happy to take fewer places in favor of the biggest odds on the board.

The Long Shot: Ryan Fox

190/1 e/w (Bet365 8 Places 1/5 Odds)

Ryan Fox had his best ball-striking week of the year so far in Phoenix, and while there are still improvements to be made, I think he’s playing better than his odds suggest.

You have to go back to the Wyndham Championship in August for Fox’s last missed cut, and while he hasn’t recorded a top-10 in eight starts since, there have been signs of positivity for the Kiwi.

Firstly, he ranked 32nd in SG: Approach and 29th in SG: Tee to Green last week, both season highs, and his 24th-place finish was his best of the year so far as well. He was inside the top 30 all week in Phoenix, and that built on a 45th-place finish in Dubai, where he was 15th going into Sunday.

It’s small steps and this event may come too soon for Fox, who certainly needs to improve if he’s going to emulate his two-win season last year, but those wins in Myrtle Beach and Canada show he can come out on top on the PGA Tour. This is a tougher event with Scheffler and other stars in the field, but his suitability to playing in the wind and his links golf form could well come in handy here.

A winner of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship and a runner-up at the Irish Open on the DP World Tour, Fox knows how to handle any adverse conditions thrown his way. And it’s that links pedigree, as well as his recent wins on the PGA Tour, that lead me to believe he can win here at Pebble Beach.

He’s clearly improving and stabilizing after a rough patch following his second win, and now the building blocks are in place, he can go and tackle this event with confidence on debut.

The Bonus Bet: Michael Thorbjornsen

40/1 e/w (BetMGM 5 Places 1/4 Odds)

Like Fitzpatrick, I will take fewer places on Michael Thorbjornsen this week in favour of the best odds, as I strongly believe he can go out and win this week.

Sure, he’s coming in off the back of making two bogeys in his last three holes, to miss out on a playoff by one, but the fact he was leading the Phoenix Open after 70 holes, with so many top names in contention, is what I really want to focus on.

This isn’t new for Thorbjornsen either, who has already recorded 10 top-10 finishes on the PGA Tour, despite only turning pro in 2024. His first came as an amateur at the 2022 Travelers Championship where he finished 4th, but it’s once he turned pro that he really kicked on.

In just his third professional start, Throbjornsen finished runner-up at the 2024 John Deere Classic, shooting a final-round 63 to be the best of the rest that week. Another runner-up finish followed in April 2025 at the Corales, where he came up one stroke short, and his 3rd-place finish last week was, to date, his best chance of winning having led so late in the tournament.

Three of his 10 top 10s on tour have come in his last seven starts, finishing 3rd at the Baycurrent Classic and 7th at the RSM, before his effort last week, and that shows signs of improvement. His iron play has been solid these past two events, and he’s ranked inside the top eight for SG: Tee to Green in his last two, ranking 3rd in that category last week.

Like Hovland, Thorbjornsen will have fond memories of Pebble Beach, having finished 3rd in the stroke play portion of the same 2018 US Amateur that Hovland won. He suffered an early exit in the match play section, but he will make his debut in this event knowing he’s played solid rounds at both Pebble Beach and Spyglass Hill in the past.

He’s going to win at some point, and he seemed to take a lot of positives out of last week, despite the disappointment, so let’s see if he can put that right at the first time of asking.

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