The best in different worlds

Heidi Ueberroth, co-chairman of the Pebble Beach Company, plays St. Andrews' Old Course during the 2017 Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. Photo: Richard Heathcote, Getty Images Editor’s note: This story about Heidi Ueberroth, who as co-chairman of the Pebble Beach Company was instrumental in inducing the USGA to stage the 2023 U.S. Women’s Open at the California seaside resort, originally ran on GGPBiz on February 3, 2023. * * * Few people followed the action at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am earlier this year as closely as Heidi Ueberroth. In addition to being an avid golfer and a keen fan of the sport, she is co-chairman of the Pebble Beach Company, which owns the resort at which most tournament rounds are played. Ueberroth also has an interest in the event as a director of the Monterey Peninsula Foundation, the nonprofit organization that hosts the AT&T each year.     Those are high-level posts in a high-level competition, and just the sorts of things the 57-year-old Ueberroth has been doing for much of her business life. An...