Price picks up where he left off after long summer break
As he has done for the past five years, Nick Price put his clubs down for the entire summer. They gathered dust for seven weeks. Price didn't even touch them.
Instead, he spent the whole summer with his wife and three kids. They hung out for a while in the Bahamas, went to the west coast of Florida for a week with friends and vacationed in Mexico for three and a half weeks.
"They are growing up so fast now I just feel like I'm going to miss out on so much if I don't at least get to spend the summer with them," Price said of his 17-year-old son, 15-year-old daughter and soon-to-be 12-year-old daughter.
"All of them are at very impressionable ages. That 13 to 17 age range is a time you really need both parents to be around," Price added. "I don't spend a lot of time away from home, not as much as I used to. It's an important time.
Irwin shares lead at fog-delayed Walmart First Tee Open
Hale Irwin shot a 6-under 66 at Del Monte on Friday for a share of the lead in the suspended first round of the Walmart First Tee Open at Pebble Beach.
Co-leader Hale Irwin was bogey-free on Friday. (Gibbons/Getty Images)
Fuzzy Zoeller, Loren Roberts and Chip Beck also opened with 66s at Del Monte, and Andy Bean had a 66 at Pebble Beach. After three fog delays at Pebble Beach, tournament officials stopped the first round with 19 players still on the course.
The 63-year-old Irwin, the Champion Tour's career leader with 45 victories, had a bogey-free round in sunny conditions at Del Monte.
"It wasn't the kind of ball-striking I would have liked to have had," said Irwin, the 2005 winner. "There were a few fakeouts, but it's good not to get too exasperated. It's a relatively short course with a few silly shots."
Tall Texan Blackmar towering over competition at Pebble Beach
A lone bogey could have kept Phil Blackmar out of the field for the 2008 Walmart First Tee Open at Pebble Beach.
He had to qualify on Tuesday at San Juan Oaks Golf Club in Hollister, Calif., for the event. There were 13 spots for 47 players and Blackmar ended up in an eight-man tie for eighth. Two of those men wouldn't make it.
Blackmar grabbed the last spot in a playoff and earned his first trip into this Champions Tour event. After a first-round 67 at Del Monte and a second-round 68 at Pebble Beach on Saturday, Blackmar was at the top of the leaderboard.
Four share lead after Day 2 of Walmart First Tee Open
Jeff Sluman shot a 6-under 66 at Pebble Beach on Saturday for a share of the second-round lead in the Walmart First Tee Open with Loren Roberts, Phil Blackmar and John Harris.
Sluman, a six-time PGA TOUR winner in his first full season on the Champions Tour rookie, had six birdies and a bogey en route to a 9-under 135 total. He opened with a 69 on Friday at Del Monte.
"Essentially, I hit every green and every fairway," said Sluman, the Bank of America Championship winner in June. "I drove the ball well and I was never in a position to cause any angst or anxiety."
Wal-Mart First Tee Open at Pebble Beach Aug. 29 - 31
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