Global Golf Post: Pebble Beach Revealed as Beauty AND Beast

By Art Spander
For GlobalGolfPost.com

PEBBLE BEACH, CALIFORNIA -- It's a near-lethal combination, the U.S. Open and Pebble Beach, a tournament which can ruin your mind and wrench your wrists, and a course where the sun rarely shines and the putts hardly fall.

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SF Examiner: McDowell the last man standing

By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner

PEBBLE BEACH — The winner, of course, was the course, Pebble Beach. Graeme McDowell was the champion, the guy who finished first, but it was Pebble — tough, mystical Pebble — that proved the winner.

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SF Examiner: Woods misses opportunity to steal US Open win

By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner

PEBBLE BEACH — They’ll look at what happened to star-crossed Dustin Johnson, how he fell apart the first few holes, mentally as much as physically, and tossed the U.S. Open over the cliff into Carmel Bay with a final-round 82.

And certainly that was true.

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RealClearSports: Different Tiger? By Nine Strokes

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. -- He said it was different, and it certainly was. Ten years different. Nine strokes different. "Now what are we to get from Tiger Woods?'' different.

Tiger owned Pebble Beach, figuratively speaking, 10 years ago. Tiger owned the U.S. Open, starting with a 65 and ending up a cumulative 12-under par. Tiger owned golf.

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SF Examiner: U.S. Open will return to Pebble Beach in 2019

By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner

PEBBLE BEACH — It was a long time coming. “East Coast bias?” mused U.S. Golf Association official Mike Davis.

But once more it won’t be a long time before the U.S. Open returns to Pebble Beach.

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