SF Examiner: Mickelson show he's still got it in victory at Pebble Beach

By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner

This is the way you conquer Pebble Beach: You go out in the final round on the opening holes, the ones historically the easiest, and make birdies and maybe an eagle. Which is exactly what Phil Mickelson did Sunday.

Phil the Mick, Lefty, the guy who a few months from his 42nd birthday seemed on the downside of his career, overtook Pebble, playing partner Tiger Woods, Charlie Wi and everything and everyone else.

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Newsday (N.Y.): Tiger, Phil near lead of AT&T

By Art Spander
Special to Newsday

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. -- Try these for a couple of names high on the leader board at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am heading into Sunday's final round: Tiger and Phil.

Throw in a historic course along the California coast and a journeyman who's never finished first, and the script couldn't be more appealing.

It's not a major, but...

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Newsday (N.Y.): Woods falls further behind despite good round

By Art Spander
Special to Newsday

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. -- Tiger Woods isn't playing badly. His problem halfway through the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am is that more than a dozen other golfers are playing better, particularly Charlie Wi, who faced Woods as an amateur.

Woods shifted to shorter Monterey Peninsula CC on Friday in this tournament which uses a three-course rotation. He shot 2-under-par 68 for a two-round total of 136.

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RealClearSports: Tiger 'Disliked' But Still Draws Fans

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — So according to the Forbes Magazine poll, Tiger Woods shares with Michael Vick the dishonor of being the most disliked athletes in America, one of those nonsensical judgmental ratings designed to draw attention.

How can the two even be linked, Tiger guilty of no crime except disillusionment and Vick, as we know, convicted of torturing animals?

If Tiger is so disliked...

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Newsday (N.Y.): Encouraging signs for Tiger at Pebble Beach

By Art Spander
Special to Newsday

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Tiger Woods' first tournament round of the year in the United States consisted of good tee shots, middling approach shots and a score that would have been satisfying if the scores of so many others in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am weren't outstanding.

On a windless, blue-sky day along the Central California coast, Woods shot a 4-under par 68 at Spyglass Hill, considered by most the most difficult of the three courses used the opening three rounds. But he was considerably back of the tri-leaders.

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