Snedeker out to overshadow Spieth at Pebble Beach

We’re talking holing shots. He has a reasonable week in his only other start this year at the Hyundai and did finish 4th in this event last year and was 6th two years earlier. He is driving the ball well and approaching the green very well right now.

All playing partner George Kontos needed was a 5-iron to get it up close to the putting surface, and the twosome played out a natural par to give the Giants the win.

“I’m here to win this golf tournament”, Spieth said.

“I’m like, ‘You’re like 98 yards out in the middle of the fairway and he just steps up and hits the shot”. If it goes on, great. “When you mix the two, you know, it’s a tough sport that we play”. The first five holes run along the Pacific with the bunkers spread throughout. On the third tee, he jerked his drive well left onto the adjoining fourth fairway. “Who knows how long it will take?”

“I think it needs time”, he said.

Tiger hasn’t been back since, and may never be back considering his myriad health issues and disappearance from the elite list – he’s 440th in the world rankings, largely the result of inactivity.

“I believe it’s the best tournament in the world”.

“And then since then, I’ve really regenerated, and I feel 100%”. And it definitely is an even year. “I’m trying to find a flawless explanation for people to understand what actually “wanting it” means”, he said. “And I thought that was really cool”. “I say that because of the pairings that I’ve had now the last four years”.

“Yeah, I dropped a few”, Bochy said. “I’ve got my guys here and there’s some intensity”. “But when it does, you get a good story out of it”. “It’s fantastic what a solid week back here of kind of rest and regeneration will do”. “When you’re at the top, there’s a bit of a difference”.

Wednesday: Practice rounds at all three courses.

Mickelson has won four times among those in the field this year.

On the sports side, Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald will make his first appearance, as will the MLB’s American League MVP Josh Donaldson.

It also helps that he has finished no worse than a tie for seventh in his last seven events dating to September, the longest such streak of his young career. A victor of 23 national writing awards, including 20 for golf coverage, Shedloski is now a contributing writer for Golf World and GolfDigest.com and serves as editorial director for The Memorial, the official magazine of the Memorial Tournament in Dublin, Ohio.

“She asked me if I wore leather helmets when I played”, said the 56-year-old Lott. San Francisco 49ers played San Francisco Giants players Tuesday for a full year of bragging rights; not in football or baseball, but golf.

Next up is the first critical chunk of the season, which starts at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

Rickie Fowler is off to his best start with a victory in Abu Dhabi and a playoff loss Sunday in the Phoenix Open, which was his tournament to win until he lost a two-shot lead with two holes to play. “That was the low point of my athletic career”.