The golf course Jack Nicklaus picked to play over Augusta if he had one more round of golf left

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It is not only the incredible talents of the world’s greatest players that the everyday golfer is envious of, but also the stages that they get to play on over the course of their careers.

For the large majority of those who enjoy spending their free time desperately pursuing an unobtainable perfection on the golf course, there is an awareness that there will likely never be a tee-time at Augusta National or Cypress Point in the diary.

Nevertheless, there is always a great debate to be had about which course golfers would choose to play if they had the opportunity to play anywhere on the planet.

Of course, Jack Nicklaus will have played all of the world’s finest tracks, while he will have also designed many of them too. Nicklaus won 18 majors during his career and is widely regarded as the greatest to have ever played the game.

The course Jack Nicklaus would pick for his final round of golf

So many will perhaps be intrigued to know which course Nicklaus would pick to play if he had one more round of golf left.

Many may assume that he would opt for Augusta National – surely the choice of many – or St Andrews. But speaking to TIME in 2015, the Golden Bear suggested that there was another course which would probably edge out the other two.

“I got to say, I love Augusta National, but sort of from a golf standpoint if I want to go play one more round it would have to be Pebble Beach,” he said.

“My two favourite places in the game of golf are Augusta National and St Andrews, and that is why I ended my career at St Andrews, just because I had so much respect for where the game started. But it is a pretty hard choice; I hope I don’t have to make it soon.”

How Pebble Beach has played host to some of golf’s greatest moments

Like Augusta National and St Andrews, there is little need to explain why Pebble Beach is so special. It boasts some of the most incredible views of the Pacific Ocean. And it is one of those courses which has seemingly seen history made on every single hole.

The greatest major performance of all-time arguably came at Pebble Beach when Tiger Woods won by 15 shots in 2000. Meanwhile, Nicklaus won both the US Amateur and the US Open on the California course.

It was also the course in which Nicklaus said goodbye to the US Open in the year Woods blew the rest of the field away. So you can understand why Nicklaus felt that he had to pick Pebble Beach over anywhere else.