SF Examiner: Pebble Beach truly a golf paradise rich with history

By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner

PEBBLE BEACH — It is a week as much for nostalgia as for sport, a time to walk the fairways of the present and wake up echoes of the past, to watch Tiger Woods and Bill Murray and remember Arnold Palmer and Dean Martin.

Old ballparks come down, old athletes pass on. But the golf tournament Bing Crosby started in the late 1930s that became the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am in the 1980s continues on, tugging us backward as it pulls us forward.

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RealClearSports: Tiger's Past May Be in His Future

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. – He said he’s at peace, and why not? After what Tiger Woods has gone through the past two years plus – even if ultimately he was responsible for most of the problems – Woods has escaped to a future which could bring memories of the past.

Do we need once more to review the agony, Tiger’s, golf’s? The dark cloud through which the sun never shown, the car accident, the admissions of infidelity, the divorce, the all too frequent injuries, the media attacks, the winless months?

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SF Examiner: Heading into Pebble, Tiger Woods finally seems like Tiger Woods again

By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner

Somehow it all seemed natural, Tiger Woods back at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, upbeat, expansive. Maybe it’s because he feels comfortable in Northern California, having gone to school at Stanford.

Maybe it’s because he believes he’s back to being Tiger Woods.

He has changed. The sport has changed.

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