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By Ben Alberstadt
February 15, 2021
Good Monday morning, golf fans.
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1. Whataberger
The AP’s game story king, Doug Ferguson…”Daniel Berger got into the mix quickly with an eagle and finished it off with one even better, holing a 30-foot putt on the par-5 18th for a 7-under 65 and a two-shot victory Sunday in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.”
- “Berger won for the second time since the PGA Tour returned to golf from the COVID-19 pandemic, starting with a playoff victory at Colonial last June.”
- …”Spieth birdied the last two holes for a 70 to tie for third with Patrick Cantlay (68).”
- “Maverick McNealy…made five birdies over his last eight holes for a 66 and was tied for the lead after his eagle putt on the 18th stopped inches away.”
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2. Spieth’s B game nearly gets it done
That’s the glass-half-full reading of Jordan Spieth’s failure to hoist a trophy at Pebble Beach after sleeping on the 54-hole lead, at least…
- Golf Channel’s Brentley Romine…”What would Jordan Spieth have said that Friday night after missing the cut at Torrey Pines if someone would’ve told him that he’d follow with two straight weeks as the 54-hole leader?”
- “I would have said you’re crazy, to be honest,” Spieth said. “I was not in a great head space.”
- “I’m legitimately going around with maybe my B-game, and I know that stepping on the first tee,” Spieth said. “And being in the lead by two, you can look at it both ways. It’s pretty awesome that I feel that I’m still significantly far off of where I want to be and am able to be leading the tournament through 54. But at the same time, it’s very difficult to go out knowing that you don’t have your best stuff and to go out there with my own expectation that I’m going to win today.”
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3. Lynch: Appreciating Spieth
Golfweek’s Eamon Lynch…”Even in the effervescence of his youth, Spieth’s appeal lay in his imperfections: his antsiness over the ball, his shocking waywardness off the tee, his astonishing ability to get the ball in the hole when prettier swings couldn’t, his fascinating transparency in voicing aloud the internal agonies and ecstasies of elite competitive golf that made viewers feel like they were eavesdropping on a therapy session. Spieth is proof that vanilla can be both popular and flavorful, a blond-haired, blue-eyed Texan who married his high school sweetheart, who never puts a foot wrong in public, who treats people (and the rulebook) with respect, who can’t even cuss with gusto when he has to reload.”
- “The novelist James Lane Allen wrote that adversity does not build character but rather reveals it. The last few years have revealed a great deal about Spieth’s character in how he responded when the seemingly ever-upward trajectory of his career—three majors, 11 PGA Tour wins, a FedEx Cup—stalled and then spiraled. Whatever whining there was remained behind closed doors, or between him and his caddie. With every crushing disappointment, he stoically fielded questions and avoided blame games. He just put his head down and continued to plow the lonely furrow that is the life of a professional golfer.”
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4. Mav’s perspective
Golf Channel’s Brentley Romine…”And though he ended up making birdie and finishing two shots back of winner Daniel Berger, the 25-year-old Stanford grad proved yet again that he is mature beyond his years.”
- “I’ve always been a guy that has to earn my own confidence,” said McNealy, who is projected to climb to No. 126 in the world rankings after his best career finish on Tour. “I can’t stand there and just tell myself I’m good at something or I’m doing something right. I have to earn it with myself too. I feel like I earned a lot of confidence this week.”
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5. Why this year’s turnout a Pebble Beach is even worse than your thought
Larry Bohannon of the Desert Sun makes the point…”The AT&T and the American Express are the last events on the PGA Tour to have amateurs playing side by side with the professionals in rounds of golf that count for the tournament title. One theory on why the American Express field was stronger last month than in recent years was that the pro-am wasn’t played and pros felt more comfortable playing without the amateurs. Pebble Beach’s pro-am that is played over three courses often has led to six-hour rounds of golf, but with no amateurs playing this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, you might have expected a stronger field. It didn’t happen for the tournament. If the ams return next year, there’s no reason to think the field will get stronger.”
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6. A love letter to golf
Chris Garrett, special to USA Today Network..”Like all types of love, this love can deliver the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. Often minutes apart. And usually played out in front of an audience of strangers or, even worse, close friends.”
- “So rewarding one minute, so humbling the next.”
- “Yet, good or bad, strangely, it’s best when shared.”
- “Each encounter very different than the previous one, filled with new sights and sounds, challenges and obstacles (literally), hard truths and wonderful exaggerations.”
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7. ICYMI: Kang, Dahmen were paired together
Golf Channel’s Brentley Romine…”“My friends told me I should push you off a cliff,” Kang reportedly joked on the opening tee box.”
- “Bonnalie added: “Joel laughed. It was all good.”
- “It was a far cry from three Julys ago when Dahmen and Kang argued for nearly a half-hour after Kang hooked his second shot into a hazard during the final round at TPC Potomac and then took a drop some 170 yards closer to the hole than where Dahmen believed the ball last crossed into the hazard.”
- “Kang cheated,” Dahmen later tweeted. “He took a bad drop from a hazard. I argued until I was blue. I lost.”
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8. The story of Nickent Golf
Good one here from our Ryan Barath looking back at the rise and fall of a company that seemed poised to break into the tour equipment space…”The keys to any club’s performance starts with a great design ( shocking right?), and Nickent had a little secret weapon up its sleeve—John Hoeflich. I realize this name is unknown to many people, but John is an industry veteran and was the person behind the second most famous iron of all time: the Tommy Armour 845 (with number one being the Ping Eye2). John was also the designer behind another extremely popular iron, the TaylorMade RAC LT.”
- “John was brought aboard by Michael Lee, the founder, and owner of Nickent. The smaller team allowed them to be nimble in the market and also kept the cost low, which was passed down to the consumer. They had a small tour presence which helped to create buzz; Jim Furyk was among the early adopters, but beyond that, it was print media and word of mouth through retail channels that helped Nickent quickly grow.“
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9. Daniel Berger’s winning WITB
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Driver: TaylorMade SIM (9 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 6 X
3-wood: TaylorMade M6 (15 degrees)
Shaft: UST Mamiya Elements Chrome 8F5
Irons: Callaway Apex Forged ’16 (3), TaylorMade TP MC ’11 (4-PW)
Shafts: Project X 6.5
Wedges: Callaway Mack Daddy Forged (50-10, 56-10), Callaway Mack Daddy 4 (60-12C)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400
Putter: TaylorMade Spider Tour (Chalk)
Ball: Titleist Pro V1
Grips: Golf Pride Tour Wrap
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