Bill Murray is typically the fan favorite at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am, hamming it up with the crowds and entertaining the masses, but a report has surfaced stating Murray threw fans’ cellphones over a restaurant’s second-floor rooftop this week. Playing on three different courses gives a tournament a new twist. I’ve struggled here on the Monterrey Peninsula the past few years.
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The courses are all unique, and thus their difficulty level is different. Ryan Moore (74 at Monterey) of Puyallup and Michael Putnam (75 at Spyglass) of University Place were among those tied at 124th at 4 over.
It’s that time of the year again – celebrities are hitting the links in droves for the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro Am.
American Reavie rebounded superbly from missed cuts in his last two PGA Tour starts to fire an eight-under-par 63 at Monterey and grab a one-shot lead in the opening round.
He needed to go 5-under-par his last 8 holes to achieve that magical number.
Mickelson briefly held a two-stroke lead before Kang and Iwata took to the course. He probably didn’t get to 11-under-par the way you might have thought. “I played the hardest holes on this golf course 4-under par, and then I played all the easy ones over par”.
Your other leader is Japan’s Hiroshi Iwata. If you are going to get Pebble Beach, you better get it early. Gillis bogeyed four holes on the front nine and parred everything else and shot a 76. That’s just what Iwata did, as he was 6-under on the front.
They play at Monterey Peninsula on Friday.
Pebble Beach The unheralded and inexperienced still reign, but Phil Mickelson emerged high on the leaderboard as the lone representative of the elite and experienced Friday at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Day matched Spieth’s 1-under 71, while Reed shot 72.
The common denominator between Spieth’s first two rounds is lousy play on the par 5s. “I’m not quite dialed in with my wedges or with the short game right now”. “So I’ll go back to my other driver and I’m looking forward to the next couple rounds”. Justin Rose is two off the pace on nine-under.
Dreher is a shot ahead of Pamela Pretswell (70) of Scotland and Denmark’s Emily Kristine Pedersen (66) and Nanna Koerstz Madsen (68), who are two strokes behind and tied for third.
The Palmerston North left-hander offset birdies at the 11th and 17th holes, with bogeys at the 2nd, 4th, 5th and 10th. The same fate faces defending champion Brandt Snedeker, who shot his second straight even-par round and was tied with Johnson.
“I feel great about my chances for a low score this weekend”, he said. He won the 2013 Wildfire Invitational while playing on the Canadian Tour, followed by a stink on the Web.com Tour before earning his PGA Tour card in 2014.
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THE PAR 5s: Jordan Spieth would love his position going into Pebble Beach if he could figure out how to play the par 5s.
