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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 ...

Shane Lowry breathed a huge sigh of relief in finding the ‘side door’ with a closing round par putt on day one of the AT & T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Lowry was teeing-up at nearby Spyglass Hill, and named in honour of Treasure Island author Robert Louis Stevenson who was a regular visitor to the region. The Offlay golfer, who had teed-off first from the 10th hole at 8am local time, ended his round some five-hours and 15-minutes later with a one-under par 71. This week’s event is Lowry’s ...

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 ...

Padraig Harrington’s likely USA Ryder Cup rival captain and Wisconsin-native Steve Stricker joked Padraig Harrington will be in for a tough time when he leads his European Team into competition later next year in the Badger State. Stricker is widely-tipped to be handed the USA Captaincy reins possibly later this month when the PGA Tour’s Honda Classic returns to PGA National and where the PGA of America’s HQ is located. Like Harrington, Stricker ticks all the USA captaincy boxes and more. The ...

Graeme McDowell is doubly excited to be returning to Pebble Beach twice this year. McDowell has shaken off a wrist injury that forced him out of last fortnight’s Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines to commence his new season further north on the spectacular Pacific Ocean Californian shoreline at Pebble Beach. It is just the third occasion McDowell has competed at Pebble Beach since brilliantly capturing the 2010 U.S. Open championship. He returned to the course in 2014 to finish T7th in the ...

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 ...