Alexandre Rocha is likely the world’s most experienced golfer with the least PGA Tour experience. As Brazil’s lone pro golfer, the Sao Paolo native has won nine pro tournaments from Canada to Chile. But this season, Rocha is among 35 PGA Tour rookies from seven countries. The AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am is only Rocha’s [...]
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Phil Mickelson, strong international field set for AT&T
The AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am is now into its sixth decade and still thriving. As the sixth event of the 2011 season, the mystique and history of golf on the Monterey Peninsula help attract among the PGA Tour’s most diverse fields. Fresh with fully exempt playing status, rookies are simultaneously anxious but can’t wait [...]
John Daly: Booze, (No) Birdies & Hypocrisy On The PGA Tour
(Originally pubilshed on iGolf.com, 3/18/08.) The most unique moment I’ve ever seen in a golf tournament wasn’t a monster Tiger Woods’ shot or a missed short putt prohibiting a win. The most unique thing I’ve ever seen was also viewed by millions of others on national television, and it was something you may not want [...]
Bill Murray+Scott Simpson: A Marriage At Pebble Beach
Late one early week afternoon several years ago, the scene at AT&T Pebble Beach Golf Links was a chamber of commerce freeze frame. The temperature was dropping quickly and the setting sun provided an ideal backdrop. A few spectators drifted in and out of the upscale retail shops that parallel the practice green. No one [...]