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Spieth wants a trophy for himself

Austin Connelly will make his second start of the season when he tees it up at this week’s AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

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The San Francisco Giants have bragging rights over the San Francisco 49ers after winning the 2016 Chevron Shootout Tuesday at Pebble Beach.

“I don’t think I have to go out of my way to change who I am or what I’m doing. Whether I push it right in the trees or hook it or whatever, it’s not going to have an impact on the amount of fun I’m going to have today”. “And they will get there one day and they will probably go through the same things that I’m feeling and going through as well”. “I’m trying to find a ideal explanation for people to understand what actually “wanting it” means”, he said.

Spieth can do it all. “So I’ve got to kind of pick up the slack here and start playing a little bit better”.

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“Honestly, it’s something I have not gotten used to”, Spieth said.

“I think the addition of Monterrey in the last few years has been fantastic, talking to all the players, and it’s just a tournament I really wanted to support”.

When you throw in the world numbers one and two, both of whom have played well in the event previously, in addition to a host of other good performers in the event, the recipe is in place for an outstanding tournament.

“Heck, yeah, I kept reminding him yesterday, too, every time I was asking him for shots, ‘you’re the best in the world.’ He kept saying, ‘you can’t say that every time.’ I said, well, if I was best in the world I’d want people saying that to me”.

The field is one of the strongest thus far in the new season, but the amount of scoring that will be put up this week should allow for some names lower in the odds to catch lightning in a bottle and come out firing for the entire weekend.

He expected a slow start to the year given his time off. But it’s the time off, he says, that sets him apart from Spieth, Rory McIlroy and Rickie Fowler.

They were in the middle of the 13th fairway, 98 yards from the pin, about 100 fans following along in the fairway and 1,000 waiting behind the green to see the No. 1 player in Vero Beach. “And it’s important for me to be there and see them grow up”.

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“I saw with Lanny and…it was a very quiet dinner, ” he said. Golf is even more hard. Brandt Snedker, Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson have each won the event twice in the last ten years and each are playing well enough of late to be a genuine chance once again.

Pebble Beach is a favourite stop for the world's top two players