PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. – Should you agree with the notion that there is just too much noise in this world and that the information highway is littered with much of it, then here’s a solution: Go talk to a wall that quietly informs.

Where to find a wall, you ask?

Great question and timely, too, because recent travels have provided the opportunity to discover a wall that regales you with information and presents itself in such a distinguished manner that you could spent a significant amount of time studying it.

Now you might not want to actually talk to it, lest you be considered a candidate for custodial issues. But you can quietly have many questions answered and be informed with a variety of intriguing pieces of information.

The wall in question is perfectly situated at a shrine, of sorts. Pebble Beach is our country’s grandest golf resort and while you might not agree with a quote that is prominently on display at the wall it surely gets you thinking.

The quote is this: “If I was going to be president of the United States Golf Association any longer, I’d hold ‘em all here. This is the greatest place to hold a golf tournament I’ve ever seen.”

It is attributed to a gentleman named Charlie Littlefield, USGA president in 1946-47. Now Littlefield’s sentiment, while impractical – honestly, national golf championships must move around – is curious in this respect: During his two-year tenure only one national championship was held at Pebble Beach, the 1947 U.S. Amateur.

But if we offer him some leeway and grant that he was making a statement that hit at the heart of Pebble Beach, then kudos to him. He’s spot on. Pebble Beach is to America what the Old Course is to the British or Royal Melbourne to the Aussies. It is our best championship golf arena.

Fittingly, the keepers of Pebble Beach have continually made upgrades to enhance the experience when you visit and the wall deserves your attention. “We feel it’s an absolutely beautiful wall. Very distinct,” said John Sawin, vice-president of the Pebble Beach Resort.

The wall is immersed in great taste as attention is paid to all aspects of the resort’s history. Homage is made most prominently to the visionary behind the marvel that is Pebble Beach, Samuel F.B. Morse. A bust sculpture of Morse is the centerpiece to the wall but give credit to Pebble Beach officials for jamming so much history into a relatively tight area.

To the left as you stand and study the wall is a plaque that pays respect to those whose architectural brilliance created this masterpiece. Jack Neville and Douglas Grant were amateur golfers who designed the routing that takes advantage of majestic property along the Pacific.

But a list of others who contributed architecturally includes the names of Alister MacKenzie, Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer.

The pleasure of studying the wall shines forth when you see that Neville is also listed on the plaque for winners of the California State Amateur Championship. That tournament was held continuously at Pebble Beach up until 2006 but if you back up to 1929 – exactly 10 years after the resort opened – you’ll discover “Jack Neville.”

But how can you not be impressed by the list of California State Amateur winners – Ken Venturi (twice), Gene Littler, Johnny Miller, John Cook, Bobby Clampett (twice), Mark O’Meara, Jason Gore, and Spencer Levine.

The notable names keep coming when you push your gaze over to the right side of the wall. A list of AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am winners dating back to debut at this resort in 1947 is a “Who’s Who” of the PGA Tour’s greatest players. Those Texas legends named Ben Hogan, Byron Nelson, Jimmy Demaret, Lloyd Mangrum and Jack Burke Jr. all won here and so, too, did Sam Snead, Cary Middlecoff, Billy Casper, Nicklaus, Miller, Tom Watson, Hale Irwin, Tom Kite, Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson and Jordan Spieth.

Ah, but you’re there to “study” the wall, to see all the nuances of this wonderful tournament. The winning team in the pro-am competition in 1955? It was Eddie Lowery and his great friend, the incomparable Lord Byron. You want a true piece of Pebble Beach history, look for the name Gene Littler. He shows up as the amateur on the winning team in 1954 and then again as the leading professional in 1975.

Quite a player, that Gene Littler.

Once you’ve scanned the left wall and the right wall, there remains those individual plaques in the middle that pay tribute to winners of major championships at Pebble Beach. Relatively late to be mixed into the U.S. Open equation, Pebble Beach made a massive splash in its debut when Nicklaus won there in 1972. Watson produced an indelible moment in winning the 1982 U.S. Open and the U.S. Amateur champions receive recognition, too, including the most recent one, Viktor Hovland in 2018.

But as proof that we have entered a new and exciting era, placeholders are on the wall for the winner of this summer’s first-ever U.S. Women’s Open at Pebble Beach, and it is duly noted that that championship will return in 2035, 2040, and 2048.

“It’s a lot of history, but we wanted to display it proudly,” said Sawin, who acknowledged that he and his Pebble Beach resort officials appreciate how many people stop and take time to study the wall.

In creating the current wall, officials studied photos from the archives that showed that as recently as 1991 there were a few plaques, but no bust of Morse, nor was there any mention of the architectural contributors. Sawin said the consensus was to include more history and also to have plaques noting what championships are on the horizon.

“We thought it was important to remind people what’s coming up,” he said.

A wonderful sentiment. That it goes hand-in-hand with re-learning what already happened is a marvelous stop on your Pebble Beach journey.