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Teeing it up: This week in golf
Updated: August 21, 2010, 9:33 AM
A capsule look at this week's professional golf events:
PGA Tour
Event: AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am
Site: Pebble Beach, Calif.
Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.
Courses: Pebble Beach Golf Links (6,816 yards, par 72), Monterey Peninsula Country
Club, Shore Course (6,900 yards, par 72) and Spyglass Hill Golf Club (6,833 yards, par 72).
Purse: $6.2 million. Winner's share: $1,116,000.
TV: Golf Channel (Thursday, 3-6 p.m., 8:30-11:30 p.m.; Friday, midnight-3 a.m., 3-6
p.m., 8:30-11:30 p.m.; Saturday, 2-5 a.m., 1-2:30 p.m., 9:30-11:30 p.m.; Sunday, 1-2:30 a.m.,
9:30-11:30 p.m.) and Ch. 4 (Saturday, 3-6 p.m.; Sunday, 3-6:30 p.m.).
Last year: Dustin Johnson won the rain-shortened tournament, finishing 54 holes at
15 under for a four-stroke victory over Mike Weir.
Last week: Steve Stricker won the Northern Trust Open to jump to No. 2 in the world,
beating Luke Donald by two strokes at Riviera. The 42-year-old Stricker has eight PGA Tour
victories, four in his last 15 starts.
Chip shots: The U.S. Open will be played at Pebble Beach in June. ... Phil Mickelson
won by five strokes in 2007, matching the tournament record of 20-under 268 set by Mark
O'Meara in 1997. Mickelson also won in 1998 and 2005. He's coming off a 45th-place tie at
Riviera. ... Monterey Peninsula's Shore Course also was used in 1965-66 and 1977. ... O'Meara,
making his first appearance in the event since 2006, won in 1985, 1989, 1990, 1992 and 1997,
and also won the 1979 California State Amateur at Pebble Beach. He has eight second-place
finishes in 53 winless Champions Tour starts. ... Retief Goosen, Padraig Harrington, Jim
Furyk, John Daly, Sergio Garcia and 2004 winner Vijay Singh are in the field. ... The final
round will be played at Pebble Beach. ... Johnson tied for third at Riviera. ... Mark Brooks
won the Callaway Golf Pebble Beach Invitational in November, his record third victory in the
unofficial event. ... The Accenture Match Play Championship is next week in Marana, Ariz. The
Mayakoba Golf Classic also is next week in Mexico.
On the net: www.pgatour.com
Champions Tour
Event: ACE Group Classic
Site: Naples, Fla. Schedule: Friday-Sunday.
Course: The Quarry (7,094 yards, par 72).
Purse: $1.6 million. Winner's share: $240,000.
TV: Golf Channel (Friday, 12:30-2:30 p.m.; Saturday, midnight-2 a.m., 6:30-9:30
p.m.; Sunday, midnight-2 a.m., 7-9:30 p.m.; Monday, midnight-2 a.m.).
Last year: Loren Roberts won the event for the second time in four years, birdieing
the final hole for a one-stroke victory over Gene Jones at TPC Treviso Bay.
Last event: Tom Watson won the season-opening Mitsubishi Electric Championship in
Hawaii on Jan. 24, birdieing the final two holes for a one-stroke victory over senior newcomer
Fred Couples.
Chip shots: Paul Azinger is making his Champions Tour debut. He turned 50 on Jan. 6.
... The tournament is the first full-field event of the year. ... The Allianz Championship is
next week in Boca Raton, Fla.
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