Snedeker eager to play first tournament as two-time champion

Love said his first “team meeting” would be in two week at the Honda Classic for at least 20 players, maybe twice that many, depending on who is playing. “Any time we get on this, I’m in a good frame of mind”.

It’s been even longer for Lott, who nevertheless looked like he could strap on a uniform today and make an impact for the 49ers.

“We are aware of the ruling made in our favour regarding the lawsuit filed past year by caddies and are pleased by the court’s decision”, its statement said.

The outdoor golf show will include free golf clinics by PGA pros, a trick shot exhibition, a long drive clinic and a variety of vendors featuring the latest in golf clothing, shoes, accessories and equipment. “If you’re going to say “Big Three”… you’re using a term for three of the greatest five or six players of all time”.

No, it’s not a major story that Spieth ate dinner in public.

“Attitude on a week like this is huge”, Snedeker said. “They have the winners and they have the runner-ups on the trophy”. “It’s going to be OK to know that I’ve got a game plan and I’ve done this before and what to expect over the course of four rounds and not feel like I need to panic or get pressured into doing something I shouldn’t be doing. And that was really cool”.

World number one Jordan Spieth and third-ranked Jason Day are battling just as hard to avoid being changed by success as they are to win this week’s PGA Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

Jason Day falls into that category too as the Australian returns to the fray after a missed cut a fortnight ago at Torrey Pines having been struck down by a bout of man ‘flu in the build-up. “It’s unbelievable what a solid week back (in Dallas), of kind of rest and regeneration will do”, Spieth said.

“Rickie and Jordan don’t have kids and stuff like that yet”, Day said. It’s already been a dramatic and action-packed start to 2016, and I look forward to what this week has in store as well. “Typically we make our trips overseas in the fall, but I had a lot of fun”.

His wife gave birth to their second child in November.

“By the way”, Owen told him with a laugh, “it was good for my Twitter feed, because it was reposted many thousands of times”.

What hasn’t escaped him is the desire to get back to playing good golf and the work ethic for which he became famous.

Lanny Wadkins was his captain at Oak Hill, and Love recalled an era when both teams have a dinner after the matches.

“But a couple holes later, we’re in the middle of the fairway, he’s 98 yards out, there’s about a hundred people behind us in the fairway, it was kind of really cool and reminiscent of those old Shell’s Wonderful World Of Golf where people would follow you in the fairway because there weren’t ropes or anything”. Also in recent years, the wealth of scoring by the field has caused a logjam near the top of the leaderboard and the margin of victory has been two or fewer shots in six of the past eight installments.

“Tiger and Justin and I were playing so well, and we went over there and none of us played well”, he said. Two-time Masters victor Bubba Watson plays alongside actor Mark Wahlberg while actor Bill Murray joins D.A. Points, who once helped Murray win the title, and J.B. Holmes in paired with actor Chris O’Donnell. And it certainly shouldn’t be a big deal that when recognized after sitting down, he didn’t scoff at being approached, but instead smiled and blurted, “Can you believe I haven’t been here before?”

“But I’m definitely feeling a lot better”.