First there was Eisenhower’s Tree at Augusta National.

Then just recently there was the overhanging branch just off the sixth tee at TPC Sawgrass.

Now golf is lamenting losing one of the distinctive cypress pine trees on the right side of the fairway down the final hole at Pebble Beach.

The smaller of the two pines came crashing down today (Thursday) in a storm that lashed the course that hosted the 2010 US Open, and where Graeme McDowell captured a first Major, and also each year plays host to the AT & T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

“I was standing on the 18th tee and conservatively the wind was blowing at least 40 miles an hour,” Ron Read, a longtime USGA official who lives in the area, told GolfDigest.com on Thursday.

Power was out in Pebble Beach and was not expected to be restored until to tomorrow (Friday), according to the Monterey Herald while the Pebble Beach area was closed to visitors and other non-essential vehicles.

The distinctive pair of Cypress pines down the right side of the 18th hole at Pebble Beach.

One of two Pebble Beach pine trees is uprooted in a storm on Thursday that lashed the region.

“I was just talking to Robert Trent Jones [Jr.] and said this reminds of 1967.

“I was a marshal on the sixth green at Pebble Beach [for the Bing Crosby National Pro-Am]. This was very similar to that. I remember Jack Nicklaus said he hit a 3-iron on the seventh hole. That’s what it reminded me of.”

According to GolfDigest.com, the cypress trees had replaced two diseased pine trees back in 2004.

However it is not known at this early stage whether Pebble Beach officials will replace the fallen pines.

The two cypress pines to the right of the fairway at the 18th hole at Pebble Beach and with one brought down in a storm.