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Pebble Beach, California…. Top-ranked Scot Russell Knox brought all but one of the four Pebble Beach par-5s to its knees on day three of the AT & T Pebble Beach Pro-Am Knox snatched four-birdies, three of them of the par-5s at this year’s US Open host venue, in a bogey-free round of 68 for a nine-under tally and endthe day brilliantly sharing seventh place in the rain-affected £Stg  5.87m event. Knox trails six strokes adrift of England’s Paul Casey who added a 67 to Friday’s ...

Spyglass Hill GC …….. Phil Mickelson continued to set-up a possible 50th pro career victory moving into a share of the lead through two rounds of the storm-affected AT & T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. The 48-year old added a four-under par 68 at the Spyglass Hills course, and one of three host venues, to his opening 65 at Monterey Peninsula to move to 10-under par. Mickelson shares the lead in the $US 7.6m event with fellow Americans Lucas Glover (66), Scott Langley (69) and England’s Paul Casey ...

Monterey Peninsula GC, California … Phil Mickelson set-up a possible 50th pro career victory with a blistering 65 on day one of the AT & T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. The 48-year didn’t miss a fairway in managing seven birdies on the Monterey Peninsula course and again, one of three courses hosting the event. Mickelson, and a four-time winner of the event, ended the round sharing third place at six-under par and just a shot back of the leading duo of fellow Americans Scott Langley and Brian ...

Pebble Beach, California …. Graeme McDowell, and with his left wrist still strapped, was just delighted to be back competing after a six-week injury absence than agonise over bogeying his final hole on day one of the AT & T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. McDowell was lying at five-under par in his very first event since contesting last December’s QBE Shootout in playing the final hole at the Pebble Beach course. All the way around this famed course laid out along the Pacific Ocean McDowell was reminded ...

Four-time Major winning Jordan Spieth reckons his game is heading in all the right directions ahead of teeing-up in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Spieth has not tasted victory since his sensational, and very dramatic, victory in the 2017 Open Championship at Royal Birkdale and the newly-engaged Texan would dearly love to get another win on the board each in this 2019 season. Indeed, Spieth has not had a top-10 finish since last year’s Open at Carnoustie ad with the former World No. currently ...

Pebble Beach, California ….. Among the biggest spectator followings in the lead-up to this week’s AT & T Pebble Beach Pro-Am has been Hu Sung Choi. Choi does not speak fluent English but it’s not his talking that has created most interest but more his theatre on the tee. The 45-year old South Korean enjoys a huge worldwide following for his ‘fisherman’s swing’ and to use a fishing term, Choi has reeled-in plenty more fans already this week including a former Pebble Beach champion. “It ...

World No. 3 Dustin Johnson created a career double first in capturing the inaugural Saudi International. ‘DJ’ birdied his closing two holes in a final round 69 to win by two shots with a 19-under par tally on the host Royal Greens course laid out along the Red Sea. China’s in-form Li Haotong was runner-up in producing a fighting final round 67 to finish the week on 17 under par. Not only has Johnson etched his name into golf’s history books becoming the first to win in ...