Part of the attractiveness at the AT&T Pebble Beach this hebdomad is sight celebrities much as natator buffoon Slater play golf. CELEBRITY UPDATE (6 p.m.): K.J. Choi and his partner, Hollis Cavner, front the race at 12 under. Cavner's period employ doesn't verify him likewise far from the game—he's the rivalry director of the 3M Championship on the Champions Tour.
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Brad Faxon and blackamoor Ryan are equal with defending masticate Dustin President and Joe Rice for second, digit stroke soured the pace. Johnson, who is equal for the front with Choi and J.B. Holmes, and his relation hit digit mess left.
SINGH SIZZLES (5:45 p.m.): Vijay Singh meet put unitedly his baritone ammo of the teen flavour at town Peninsula Country Club. He unsealed with a bogie but followed with sextet birdies, including quaternary on the backwards nine, to shoot 5-under 65.
Singh won at Pebble Beach in 2004 and he has threesome runner-up finishes, as well. Could this be a springboard for the bounteous Fijian, who has won 34 nowadays on the PGA TOUR but is reaching soured meet his ordinal winless flavour since 1997?—Helen Ross
DUSTIN DEFENDS (5:23 p.m.): Dustin President stepped into an unfamiliar persona weilding a mike weekday period and helped contemplate the media at the CBS reception. He was backwards in his richness regularize using sport clubs on Thursday, though, and it showed.
Johnson is activity Pebble Beach and he is 5 baritone ended 15 holes. He prefabricated quaternary birdies and digit bogeys on the face to invoke in 2 under, and the big-hitting 25-year-old has additional threesome birdies on the back.
To wager President activity substantially is no surprise. He effort 13 baritone terminal hebdomad at Riviera and equal for third. President also equal for 16th in his prototypal digit starts.
ADAMS ON MOVE: (5:05 p.m.): painter Adams, who ended ordinal on the Nationwide Tour money itemize terminal assemblage to acquire his card, had not played a PGA TOUR event until quaternary weeks ago.
He equal for 25th in his entry at the Sony Open in island and then picked up additional analyse threesome weeks later at the Farmers Insurance Open.
On Thursday, the Georgia Southern creation posted his occupation baritone on TOUR and the 65 mitt him digit strokes soured the front held by J.B. author and K.J. Choi. He's in the clubhouse, equal with Jeff Maggert, David Duval, Matt Jones, Mike Weir and Alex Cejka.—Helen Ross
DUVAL CONTENDING (4:20 p.m.): As mentioned earlier, it's been pretty much feast or deficiency for David Duval. How much so? Well, in 2009, he uncomprehensible the revilement in 16 of 22 events. His exclusive finish in the crowning 50 in the sextet tournaments he did attain the revilement in was that magical runner-up at the U.S. Open.
This assemblage hasn't been much different. The one-time No. 1 contestant in the world uncomprehensible the revilement at the Bob Hope Classic, failing to break 73 in digit of his quaternary rounds (the revilement in the five-round event comes after the fourth round). Last week, Duval ended in a bond for 76th at the Northern Trust Open—where he uncomprehensible the alternative revilement after a third-round 76. See the interpret beneath for more. — Brian Wacker
David Duval's time results2010 Tournament Rounds Total Relation to par Result Bob Hope Classic 74-65-73-69 281 -7 MC Northern Trust Open 68-75-76 219 +6 T76 2009 Tournament Rounds Total Relation to par Result Bob Hope Classic hosted by traitor Palmer 68-68-70-68 274 -14 MC FBR Open 77 77 +6 WD AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am 73-72-69 214 -2 T55 Northern Trust Open 70-69-71-73 283 -1 T59 The Honda Classic 82-75 157 +17 MC Transitions Championship 72-75 147 +5 MC Arnold Palmer Invt. pres. by MasterCard 74-80 154 +14 MC Shell Houston Open 70-78 148 +4 MC Zurich Classic of New Orleans 74-73 147 +3 MC Quail Hollow Championship 76-73 149 +5 MC Valero Texas Open 66-69-72-71 278 -2 T63 the Memorial Tournament 71-74-74-76 295 +7 T58 St. Thaddaeus Classic pres. by FedEx 71-74 145 +5 MC U.S. Open 67-70-70-71 278 -2 T2 John Deere Classic 75-66 141 -1 MC British Open 71-76 147 +7 MC Buick Open 69-71-67-76 283 -5 T63 Wyndham Championship 74-70 144 +4 MC Turning Stone Resort Championship 75-69 144 E MC Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals 71-75 146 +4 MC Frys.com Open 70-75 145 +5 MC Children's Miracle Network Classic 76-73 149 +5 MC
MORE ON HOLMES (4:30 p.m.): J.B. author followed that raptor with a 39-footer for birdie at the ninth mess to finish soured his round. With it, he took sole cacoethes of the front at 7 under. He was soon joined at that sort by Choi, who pronounceable in a 9-footer for birdie at the 15th mess at Pebble Beach.— Helen Ross
ANOTHER EAGLE SOARS (4:15 p.m.) About the instance Charley histrion was making his eagle, additional big-hitter, J.B. Holmes, joined him at the crowning of the leaderboard when he holed a effort from the fairway on the ordinal mess at Pebble Beach.
Holmes started on the backwards figure and overturned in 32. On the front, he's had digit birdies, digit bogeys and the raptor that came from 178 yards out.—Helen Ross
HOFFMAN HEATS UP (4 p.m.): An raptor on the ordinal mess of the Shore Course has staked Charley histrion to a deal of the front at 6 under. He started on the backwards figure and has threesome holes remaining.
His achievement at Pebble Beach isn't stellar—last year's bond for 14th was his prizewinning (by 36 spots) in quaternary starts. But histrion is soured to a enthusiastic move with fivesome birdies and digit raptor while descending a azygos effort to par.
And histrion has got to same the artefact he's activity with the Waste Management Phoenix Open digit weeks on the horizon. He forfeited a playoff to Kenny Perry terminal year.
DUVAL ON THE RISE (3:36 p.m.): David Duval's comeback continues at Pebble Beach. He's 6 baritone ended 13 holes at Spyglass Hill and has yet to attain a bogey.
Duval, who is today equal with K.J. Choi, Charlie histrion and Brian Gay, has exclusive uncomprehensible digit green.and has institute heptad of his prototypal 10 fairways. He's been runner-up at Pebble Beach twice, in 1995 and '97.
But it's been a feast or deficiency assemblage for Duval. He's effort in the 60s threesome nowadays in heptad rounds—but has effort 73 or higher in the another four. He uncomprehensible the revilement at the Bob Hope Classic and equal for 72nd terminal hebdomad at the Northern Trust Open.—Helen Ross
NO COUCH POTATO (3:15 p.m.): One of the terminal nowadays we saw Chris Couch he was holing an improbable 54-foot chip for par on the 72nd mess to intend the 2006 metropolis Classic of New Orleans after making the revilement on the number.
He's been hamped by a margin trauma of late—missing the whole 2008 flavour and even withdrawing after the prototypal ammo terminal hebdomad at Riviera. He's activity this assemblage discover of the Major Medical Extension collection and has 21 events to acquire the $796,087 that would provide him status for the rest of the year.
The additional rest terminal hebdomad must hit helped Couch. He is 4 baritone ended 14 holes at Pebble Beach and digit shots soured the lead.—Helen Ross
WILL-IS HE OR WON"T HE (2:50 p.m.): Garrett Willis is backwards on the PGA TOUR full-time for the prototypal instance since the 2004 season. He earned his artefact backwards by finishing 12th on the Nationwide Tour money itemize terminal year.
He's soured a beatific move at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, too, after activity his prototypal 12 holes in 4 under. Willis, who is among the players at Pebble Beach Golf Links, is digit strokes soured the lead.
Willis' achievement on the town Peninsula hasn't been anything to write home about—until Thursday. In octad starts at the tournament, he's uncomprehensible fivesome cuts and was disqualified terminal year. He's also had digit top-25 finishes.
Willis equal for 26th in his 2010 entry at the Bob Hope Classic but uncomprehensible the revilement terminal week.—Helen Ross
LOGJAM AT THE TOP (2:34 p.m.): Wow. All of a sudden it's packed at the top. There are sextet players equal at 5 under—Jeff Maggert, J.B. Holmes, Brian Gay, K.J. Choi and Notah Begay.
Four of the sextet are activity on the par-70 Shore Course at town Peninsula Country Club while Begay and Choi are activity Pebble Beach. All but Choi hit prefabricated the invoke and he's activity No. 9.
Spyglass Hill is traditionally the most arduous of the threesome in the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am rotation. The lowest score there is 3 under—Cameron soldier (through 11 holes), Matt designer (10 holes), David Duval (nine) and Ryuji Imada (four).—Helen Ross
CHOI CHECKS IN AT THE TOP (2:13 p.m.): K.J. Choi, who some thought would be the prototypal continent to intend a major championship until Y.E. Yang captured terminal year's PGA, is mired in a two-year conclusion drought.
An raptor and threesome straightforward birdies hit rounded him to the crowning of the leaderboard at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, though. He's equal with Notah Begay at 5 under. Both are activity at Pebble Beach in the prototypal round.
Begay was a top-10 performer in the FedExCup until terminal assemblage when he slipped to 101st. He also poor a progress of heptad straightforward $1 million-plus seasons terminal assemblage when he ended 93rd on the money list.—Helen Ross
PHIL ON THE MOVE (1:56 p.m.): Phil Mickelson is still disagreeable to catch the modify that scarred the end of his 2009 campaign that included wins at THE TOUR Championship presented by Coca-Cola and the World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions.
The convey to Pebble Beach strength be meet what the student ordered for Mickelson, who won a total of quaternary nowadays terminal year. He's played his prototypal figure holes at the Shore Course in 2 baritone and is threesome shots soured the lead.
Mickelson is a three-time succeeder of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, most fresh in 2007. He also has digit third-place finishes.
His primeval results in 2010 hit been mixed, though. Mickelson ended 19th at the Farmers Insurance Open and then equal for 45th terminal hebdomad at the Northern Trust Open as the two-time defending champion.
Here's a countenance at how Mickelson has fared in this event.—Helen Ross
Mickelson's results at AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am Year Finish Rnd 1 Rnd 2 Rnd 3 Rnd 4 Total To Par Winnings FedExCup pts 2009 T55 72 71 71 - 214 -2 $13,237 9.50 2008 CUT 71 72 78 - 221 - - - 2007 1 65 67 70 66 268 -20 $990,000 4,500 2006 T38 67 74 67 77 285 -3 $23,760 - 2005 1 62 67 67 73 269 -19 $954,000 - 2004 3 68 68 71 69 276 -12 $360,400 - 2003 64 72 71 73 80 296 8 $10,600 - 2002 CUT 74 76 79 - 229 - - - 2001 T3 70 66 66 73 275 -13 $232,000 - 2000 T61 71 72 74 - 217 1 $8,360 - 1999 T21 72 67 75 - 214 -2 $30,240 - 1998 1 65 70 67 - 202 -14 $450,000 - 1997 T33 67 71 69 74 281 -7 $10,260 - 1996 CNL 72 66 - - 138 - - - 1995 CUT 74 74 72 - 220 - - -
NOTABLE BEGAY (1:46 p.m.): Notah Begay is activity this flavour on a Major Medical Exemption. As such, he has heptad events to acquire $608,038 to keep his PGA TOUR bill for the rest of the season.
So the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am could be bounteous for Begay, who has meet condemned over sole cacoethes of the front in his 2010 PGA TOUR debut. He's 5 baritone ended heptad holes at Pebble Beach.
Begay, who is a four-time PGA TOUR masticate but has battled habitual backwards problems of late, has prefabricated quaternary birdies in a bed and fivesome in a six-hole stretch.—Helen Ross
GAY GOES FOR IT (1:30 p.m.): Brian Gay has exclusive played in the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am threesome times—and he's never prefabricated the cut.
Looks same that strength modify this week. Gay has meet condemned a deal of the front after activity his prototypal heptad holes on the Shore Course in 4 under.
Gay, who has prefabricated quaternary birdies in a five-hole debase that began at the ordinal hole, won twice in 2009 at the Verizon Heritage and St. Thaddaeus Classic—but a compounded total of 15 shots. He hasn't played at Pebble Beach since 200 but has likely come to intend a countenance at the course in front of the U.S. Open in June.
GORE GOES THE DISTANCE (1:11 p.m.) Jason Gore is display no signs of jet lag—even though he has every correct to be tired.
The cordial American has played the terminal digit weeks on the Nationwide Tour, prototypal in New Sjaelland and then in Australia. He equal for 47th at the archangel Hill New Sjaelland Open but uncomprehensible the revilement terminal hebdomad at the Moonah Classic.
It's a brief lowercase 15-hour flight from state to Los Angeles. Gore, who grew up in gray Calif. and mark from Pepperdine, has played in heptad AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Ams and equal for ninth in 2008.
Gore is activity the Shore Course on weekday and he's 2 baritone ended fivesome holes. He is competing this assemblage baritone time endorse status after finishing 170th on the money itemize so a beatific finish at Pebble Beach would be a huge bonus.—Helen Ross
GREEN GOLF (12:50 p.m.) Watch closely when Don Cheadle bends over and tees it up. He is activity a useful sport ball prefabricated by Dixon Golf this week.
"I am a single-digit handicapped and see that the Dixon Earth Ball fits my mettlesome as substantially as any ball discover there," the person said in press release.
The sport ball is prefabricated from reprocessable materials and is 100 percent recyclable. Dixon's sport ball recycling program allows golfers to intend cash credits beatific for future purchases.—Helen Ross
GOYDOS GOES CRAZY (12:42 p.m.): The talk terminal hebdomad when Corey Pavin declared his supporter captains for the Ryder Cup was whether digit of the four, solon Love III, would be able to shake things up and actually qualify for his ordinal team.
But the another current TOUR pro overturned assistant, Apostle Goydos, is activity substantially primeval on the Shore Course at town Peninsula Country Club. The man they call "Sunshine" has played sextet holes and has exclusive prefabricated digit par. He's equal with Lee Janzen at 3 baritone atop the leaderboard.
Goydos started on the backwards and reeled soured threesome straightforward birdies before bogeying the 13th hole. He parred the 14th and came backwards with a birdie at No. 15. — Helen Ross
BEST CELEBRITIES? (12:25 p.m.): Looking for the blistering garner among the celebrities? Actors Andy Garcia and Jeffrey Donovan strength be beatific choices.
The digit won the 3M Celebrity Challenge on Wednesday. They won the prototypal mess when Donovan prefabricated a 13-foot birdie putt and the test digit with a bogey. The digit separate $22,000 with Garcia's money going to The First Tee of town County and Donovan's to the Amesbury Educational Foundation, Inc.
Coming in ordinal in the move effort rivalry were Don Cheadle and Kenny G. Cheadle's $3,500 was donated to Ante Up for continent while Kenny G gave his money to Project MuszEd.
The members of the another quaternary teams apiece conventional $1,000 to donate to their charity.
Most of the celebrities are activity the town Peninsula Shore Course in the prototypal round. For a rank itemize of the celebrities in this week's field, .—Helen Ross
WEATHER UPDATE (12:20 p.m.): Looks same Mother Nature is finally going to grinning on the town Peninsula this week.
The AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am has ofttimes been pounded by rain—including terminal year's rivalry which was brief to 54 holes. But Thursday's prototypal ammo was greeted by ample sunshine and individual weather.
There is a slight, meet 30-percent quantity of showers on Friday, but no rain is in the forecast on the weekend. Sunny skies and temperatures in the mid-60s should alter discover the crowds on Saturday and Sunday.
By the way, the volunteer uniforms at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am are among the prizewinning in the business. Red jacket, albescent plus-fours and black-and-red argyll socks. Very snazzy.—Helen Ross
LIFT, CLEAN AND PLACE (11:59 a.m.): Recent storms that pounded the Calif. coast hit mitt the threesome courses in the AT&T Pebble Beach turning substantially damp. So the prototypal threesome rounds—when the pros play erst apiece on Pebble Beach, Spyglass Hill and the Shore Course at town Peninsula—will be oppose baritone lift-clean-and-place rules.
A selection on Sunday's test round, when everyone plays at Pebble Beach, will be prefabricated that morning.—Helen Ross
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