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**truebluefan** · 12-06-2007, 10:12 PM

The AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am is a 72-hole PGA TOUR golf championship dating back to the 1930’s when Bing Crosby gathered a ‘few friends’ to raise money for charity... and have a little fun.

Top TOUR professionals team with Hollywood celebrities, world renowned musicians and the captains of industry as they compete for a $5.6 million purse. Foursomes rotate to Poppy Hills, Spyglass Hill and Pebble Beach Golf Links Thursday through Saturday. The infamous ‘cut’ is made on Saturday night and the leading 60 professionals and 25 pro-am teams play Pebble Beach on Sunday for the championship.

Phil Mickelson won the 2007 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am and will be back to defend the week of February 4 – 10, 2008.

**truebluefan** · 02-04-2008, 09:26 PM

On the previous 20 occasions that Phil Mickelson finished second in a PGA TOUR event, he twice was able to win in his next start. Can he do it a third time, and for the first time after a playoff loss?

That's the question for the defending champion of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, who returns to the Monterey Peninsula for his 13th start in the glitzy PGA TOUR event contested in one of the most celebrated golfing corners in the world, Pebble Beach, Calif.

Mickelson, who has won three times at Pebble, is the top-ranked player and top draw in golf's largest field -- 180 players -- but he must find a way to gather himself quickly after falling to J.B. Holmes in sudden death Sunday at the FBR Open. The No. 2 player in the world suffered just his third setback in extra holes against seven victories, but he has lost his last two playoffs; Charles Howell III got by him last year at the Northern Trust Open at Riviera Country Club.

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6789 · 02-06-2008, 04:09 AM

This Pro-Am is one if my favorites to watch each and every year. Great spectacle to see some of the top celbrities to perform, but if i was a player (wishing) you would hope that your partner was controlled and so was your group. otherwise it may be hard to perform, then again some of my best golf has come from relaxed play. What can you do to perform.

**truebluefan** · 02-11-2008, 08:14 AM

Craig Stadler was not amused. The Walrus was walwrought. This was around noon Thursday. Stadler, in pursuit of a birdie, had just drawn back his putter on the 11th green at Poppy Hills Golf Club.

And right then, right at that precise instant, a gallery marshal on the nearby 12th green decided to open an aluminum beverage can from his box lunch.

"Crrrrrrrrrrrack!" cut the noise through the otherwise silent air.

Stadler twitched. He jabbed the six-foot putt wide of the hole. Then he turned and glared at the marshal, about 60 feet away. You could almost see Stadler's stare burn a hole through the ocean air.

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**truebluefan** · 02-11-2008, 08:15 AM

On a picture-postcard Moving Day at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, the marquee names finally moved. Vijay Singh soared to the top of the leaderboard, Phil Mickelson imploded and Padraig Harrington surged into contention before abruptly falling away.

By day's end, with the Monterey Peninsula draped in warm sunshine, Singh stood in ideal position to chase his 32nd PGA Tour victory. His 67 at rugged Spyglass Hill on Saturday gave him a share of the third-round lead with Dudley Hart, who shot a bogey-free 68 at Spyglass.

Singh and Hart will enter today's final round at 9-under-par, two strokes ahead of Michael Allen (71) and Dustin Johnson (68). Jason Day (71) highlighted an unheralded group at 6-under, three shots back, with second-round leader Tim Herron (74) headlining the pack at 5-under.

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**truebluefan** · 02-11-2008, 08:16 AM

PEBBLE BEACH -- It's game that knocks you down, that gnaws at the confidence, destroys the psyche. It's a game where a good shot sometimes turns into a bad break, which is what happened to Steve Lowery.

Before he made his own breaks.

Lowery is a champion. Again. After 199 tournaments. After a season in which he felt a wrist snap and his hopes fall. After two double bogeys in the same round.

That was Saturday, Day 3 of the $6 million AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. That was roughly 24 hours before 47-year-old Steve Lowery, beating the great Vijay Singh in a playoff, won the AT&T.

Of all the qualities a person needs to be a success in golf, arguably the most important is perseverance. There are going to bad bounces. There are going to be competitors shooting remarkable scores. So you have to push yourself onward and onward.

Lowery did that. Through the years. Through this AT&T.

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