Former Augusta State golfer, Vaughn Taylor is coming home to Augusta play in this year’s Masters Tournament after winning at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro Am.
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Seeing Mickelson win his fifth AT&T at Pebble Beach Golf Links at age 45 after a 2½-year victory drought surely would have been something special.
Vaughn Taylor follows his shot from the 17th tee of the Pebble Beach Golf Links during the final round of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am golf tournament Sunday, Feb. 14, 2016, in Pebble Beach, Calif. Taylor won the tournament.
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On Sunday, Leot Taylor was supposed to catch a 4:15 p.m. flight with her son out of Monterey to visit her brother in Arizona. He didn’t know he had taken the lead, he said.
Phil Mickelson made it interesting, as usual.
Fifteen minutes after watching his title hopes carom off the left edge of the final hole he faced at Pebble Beach, Phil Mickelson could only smile and shake his head.
NAPLES, Fla. – German Bernhard Langer won the Chubb Classic for his 26th title on the 50-and-older PGA Tour Champions, closing with a 1-over 73 for a three-stroke victory over Seattle native Fred Couples (66).
Mickelson’s closest pursuer was Japanese veteran Hiroshi Iwata, who carded a three-under 69 on the par-72 Spyglass Hill course for 201.
Rose didn’t play in the 2010 U.S. Open, won by Graeme McDowell, because he didn’t get through qualifying.
The world No. 1 and pre-tournament favorite never really got things going this week until the final round.
But the cozy confines of Pebble Beach can accentuate even the smallest flaws.
“I’m not in contention”. “I just tried to put a good roll on it…” I didn’t think it was going to happen.
Mickelson got as much as he could out of his 66.
Even for a player blessed with perhaps the best short game of all time, it was simply too much scrambling to manage. He went on to make three more birdies on his front nine before registering two more on his back nine to climb up 33 spots on the leaderboard. “I made some good swings”.
Right when it looked as though he had shot himself out of it, he made a 10-foot par save with as tough an uphill putt as there is at Pebble Beach on the 16th hole.
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His second shot on No. 18 came about five feet from the green, leaving the possibility of chipping in for eagle and grabbing the win. It had been three years since he had a full PGA card. I always had the desire to get back. One by one, players fell by the wayside. The round included six birdies and no bogeys.
