Mark O’Meara set to retire at Pebble Beach, site of six major titles

Mark O’Meara is ready to retire and he’s picked the perfect spot in Pebble Beach.

O’Meara won the California State Amateur in 1979, the first of six titles he won in three decades at Pebble Beach. Five of those came at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, the last in 1997, when at age 40 he edged Tiger Woods and David Duval.

O’Meara, 67, wraps up his career this week at the Pure Insurance Championship, held at Pebble Beach and Spyglass, a unique PGA Tour Champions event that connects pros with kids from The First Tee.

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O’Meara, inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2015 at a ceremony in St. Andrews, ends his career with 16 PGA Tour victories, three on the European Tour, two on the Japan Golf Tour, one on the PGA Tour of Australasia and the 1994 Argentine Open.

He has won on every continent where golf is played except Africa, although he did team up with Nick Price of Zimbabwe to win the Liberty Mutual Insurance Legends of Golf, one of his three PGA Tour titles.

Pebble was the obvious choice to start again, starting with this 8-7 win over Lennie Clements.

O’Meara also won the U.S. Amateur that year, and his two biggest victories were the Masters and the Open in 1998, making him the oldest player to win two majors in the same year.

His favorite Pebble moment was winning it in 1990 with his father.

“I took it with my mom and then I won the tournament with my dad,” O’Meara said. “I put that at the top of my list of great things, winning at Augusta with a putt on the last hole, winning the U.S. Amateur. But playing with my dad and getting to the last hole, the 18th hole at Pebble, you can’t get any better than that.”