By Art Spander
Global Golf Post
PEBBLE BEACH, CALIFORNIA — Such an appropriate nickname. "The Big Easy." Golf, however, is nothing but easy, even for the man with the relaxed, easy swing, Ernie Els.
"I've been to the dark side a couple of times," said Els.
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The Sports Xchange
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — He previously was No. 4 in the World Golf Rankings. Not just the U.S. PGA Tour, which uses the FedExCup standings. The world. Before he mysteriously lost it.
As happens in golf, where livelihoods, prestige and success are all too dependent on putts that miss by inches or drives that take weird bounces, in a matter of months, Brandt Snedeker was No. 63 as he entered the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
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The Sports Xchange
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — The promotional slogan for the PGA Tour was and is, "These guys are good." And when the sun shines and the winds quiet at Pebble Beach, those guys are phenomenal.
The Monterey Peninsula Chamber of Commerce absolutely loved Saturday. The temperature along Carmel Bay soared to the upper 70s. The guys swatting golf balls the third round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am loved it too.
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San Francisco Examiner
PEBBLE BEACH — The golf almost is secondary. Bing Crosby understood that. People make the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am what it is as much as pars or birdies.
As through the decades people, personalities, made the tournament we once knew as the Bing Crosby National Pro-Am what it was — Northern California’s annual winter party of occasional wild weather and constant enjoyment.
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PEBBLE BEACH, CALIFORNIA -- It's part tournament, part lunacy and all delight, birdies and laughter in equal proportion, held at a place so beautiful you don't have to know a sand wedge from a sandwich to be enthralled. And from the reaction at times, many in the gallery don't.
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