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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Global Golf Post: Tiger Not The Only Needle Mover At Pebble

By Art Spander
For GlobalGolfPost.com

The AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am is the tournament where a one-liner becomes as important as a one-putt and no swing, not even one as enticing as Sam Snead's, could ever be as beautiful as the view across Carmel Bay to Point Lobos.

It's played right after the Super Bowl, when most of the country is ankle-deep in winter misery — and sometimes the AT&T courses on the Monterey Peninsula are ankle-deep in mud.

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Global Golf Post: Tiger Gets The Buzz Back

By Art Spander
For GlobalGolfPost.com

THOUSAND OAKS, CALIFORNIA — Golf is whole again, and let us ignore what the skeptics and doubters might say. They'll argue that when Tiger Woods finally ended the silence, at last gave that full-voiced shout of victory on an 18th green, it came not in The Masters or U.S. Open, or even in a regular full-field PGA Tour event, but in what amounts to his own invitational, the Chevron World Challenge.

But a tournament is a tournament...

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