“But I’m definitely feeling a lot better”. He has a task this week but he is the world number one and might again confirm the reason why. “I grew up living half a mile from him, and he was my sports hero growing up in Dallas. I had never met the guy”, Spieth explained.
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“To go around these golf courses with only making one bogey was a testament to how well I fought, how well I was able to execute my game plan”.
“I always thought there would be this moment, this sense of clarity – I’ve done all I needed to do”, he added.
“I’m still not over it if you can tell”, he said with a smile. If it wasn’t for tremendous years from Spieth and Jason Day, Koepka would have been in the discussion for player of the year last year.
Points and Murray won the pro-am competition in 2011, the same year Points won the tournament, his first of PGA Tour titles. “Our team heard about this a while ago and there’s been some pretty cool little kind of commercial spiffs around it. I’ve been kind of re-tweeting them, and they will continue to come”.
With Rickie Fowler closing in, Jason Day is itching to get back into competition and resume his push up golf’s world rankings this week. “The ball was actually flying further than it normally does that time of year”. “I think that the biggest thing for me is to really kind of stay mentally sharp and make sure that I don’t make silly errors out there, because it’s very easy to take a long break, feel like everything’s good and then you come out and make silly mental errors”. “In the tournament you hit 8-iron”. He also knows from experience how quickly it can change, which is why this talk about a “Big Three” makes him uncomfortable. One of the more poignant memories of that trip was seeing the Champions Locker Room (he shares a locker with four-time champion Arnold Palmer) and the Masters trophy.
You won’t find any celebrities in your DraftKings options, though, except for the people who are famous for being golfers. This year, the two teams split the first four holes and then rookie George Kontos and his teammate, Matt Cain, had two putts for the win and the Giants took the crown. I’ve seen these two ocean holes pictured hundreds of times over the years, but not like this.
He and hid dad had dinner at the club a couple of nights and enjoyed the display that recapped what happened in the 2015 Masters, which he found motivating for 2016.
“I believe it’s the best tournament in the world”.
“And I don’t know what it is about this place out here, but I love being in San Diego, I love the golf course, and obviously Pebble’s been great to me, too”.
That would be the NCAA Championship, when Texas beat his Crimson Tide and Thomas lost his match to Jordan Spieth, who holed out for eagle from the 15th fairway. He and his amateur partner, country singer Jake Owen, got a chuckle out of the mini-likeness, which sat on a table in front of them during Wednesday morning’s news conference at Pebble.
He said the one shot he remembers is when Tiger Woods holed out at the 16 hole in 2005. That’s the greatest clutch shot chip.
These days, being the title sponsor of a sporting event means doing more than just pinning one’s name to a tournament; it helps to do something fun. It was when there was rough there. Well, you picked right time to join. “I don’t really have to worry about that until the end of March or the beginning of April”.
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Defending champion Brandt Snedeker and Jordan Spieth headline a strong field at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, which starts on Thursday.
