Rose Ladies cancelled due to wildfire at Wentworth

He’s back on the course for the first time in two months. He has been busy with business and watching tennis. So the question looms again: Are his game and body up to this?

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While there will be no pro-am portion to this year's AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, the tournament will still feature 156 players and a field full of notable names, including reigning FedExCup champion Dustin Johnson. Nick Taylor returns to defend his 2020 title, while Phil Mickelson is gunning for his record sixth title at Pebble Beach. FIELD NOTES: Dustin Johnson, a two-time winner at Pebble Beach, returns to play his first event on the continental U.S. in 2021. He finished T11 at the Sentry Tournament of Champions to start the year... Kamaiu Johnson, who was set to make his PGA TOUR debut at the Farmers Insurance Open but was unable to due to a positive COVID-19 test, will instead tee it up at Pebble. Johnson's inspiring story — he was an eighth-grade dropout but found comfort in golf — caught the eyes of TOUR event organizers... Other sponsor exemptions include 19-year-old Akshay Bhatia, who finished T9 at this season's Safeway Open, and 2019 U.S. Amateur champion Andy Ogletree. Davis Riley, who sits third on the Korn Ferry Tour's Regular Season Points List, also is in the field on sponsor exemption. He made the cut at last week's Waste Management Phoenix Open... The Prince of Pebble Beach, Phil Mickelson, returns to the PGA TOUR this week and is looking for his record sixth victory at the event... The PGA TOUR Champions will be represented at Pebble Beach. Other than Mickelson, a trio of over-50 major winners - John Daly, Tom Lehman and Jim Furyk - will also be in the field... Past FedExCup winners including Jordan Spieth, Brandt Snedeker, and Bill Haas will also tee it up. Spieth and Snedeker are past winners at Pebble Beach. FEDEXCUP: Winner receives 500 FedExCup points. COURSE: This year, with no pro-am portion of the tournament, the 156 professionals will play only two courses instead of the usual three. The two courses that will be used are Pebble Beach Golf Links (Jack Neville/Douglas Grant, 1919) and Spyglass Hill Golf Course (Robert Trent Jones Sr., 1966). The cut will take place after 36 holes instead of 54. Pebble Beach Golf Links, par 72, 7,051 yards Spyglass Hill Golf Course, par 72, 7,041 yards STORYLINES: The first of three victories for Jordan Spieth in 2017 came at Pebble Beach. Spieth, who won the Travelers and The Open Championship that same year, hasn't won since. Spieth, who was T8 heading into the weekend in Phoenix, will keep that momentum going into Pebble Beach, a place he's comfortable... Matt Gogel - who hasn't played the PGA TOUR since 2007 - is in the field as a Sponsor Exemption. Gogel won at Pebble Beach in 2002 and was a key supporting actor in Tiger Woods' comeback win in 2000. It was Gogel, then a TOUR rookie, who had the seven-shot lead with seven holes left that Woods eventually overcame thanks in part to a hole-out eagle at the par-4 15th... Jason Day has done everything but win at Pebble Beach. His fourth-place finish in 2020 gives the Aussie six top-6 finishes at the event, but no victories... Nick Taylor's win in 2020 was the first by a non-American in 15 years. In fact, only four non-Americans have ever won at Pebble Beach (Taylor, Vijay Singh, Brett Ogle, and Bruce Crampton). 72-HOLE RECORD: 265, Brandt Snedeker (2015). 18-HOLE RECORD: 60, Sung Kang at Monterey Peninsula (2nd round, 2016). Pebble Beach record: 62, Tom Kite (3rd round, 1983), David Duval (3rd round, 1997). Spyglass Hill record: 62, Phil Mickelson (1st round, 2005), Luke Donald (1st round, 2006). LAST TIME: Nick Taylor held off a charging Kevin Streelman to win his second PGA TOUR title. Taylor, whose first TOUR win came at the 2014 Sanderson Farms Championship, was paired with Phil Mickelson for the final round, but Taylor's 2-under 70 proved to be enough as Mickelson fired a final-round 74. Taylor held on down the stretch making birdies on Nos. 15 and 17 after bogeys on Nos. 11 and 12, and a double bogey on the par-5 14th. Mickelson finished third, Jason Day finished fourth, and Maverick McNealy, Daniel Berger, Matt Jones, and Charl Schwartzel all finished T5. Taylor opened the tournament with a 63 and was in contention all week long before taking it across the finish line Sunday. HOW TO FOLLOW Television: Thursday-Friday, 3 p.m.-6 p.m. ET (Golf Channel). Saturday-Sunday, 1 p.m.-3 p.m. (Golf Channel). Saturday, 3 p.m.-6 p.m. (CBS). Sunday, 3 p.m.-6:30 p.m. (CBS). PGA TOUR LIVE: Thursday-Friday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. ET (Featured Groups). Saturday, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. (Featured Groups), 3 p.m.-6 p.m. (Featured Holes). Sunday, 10:20 a.m.-3 p.m. (Featured Groups), 3 p.m.-6:30 p.m. (Featured Holes). Radio: Thursday-Friday, 12 p.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, 1 p.m.-6 p.m. Sunday, 1 p.m.-6:30 p.m. (PGA TOUR Radio on SiriusXM and PGATOUR.com/liveaudio). 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IRVING, Texas – It was not the kind of send-off Jordan Spieth had in mind for his last PGA TOUR appearance at TPC Four Seasons Las Colinas. For the first time in his seven starts in his hometown event, Spieth missed the cut at the AT&T Byron Nelson. Friday’s second round 75 – which included a quadruple-bogey 9 at the 16th hole when he took two penalty strokes – left him at 3 over, one stroke off the cut line. “It didn’t need to happen,â€� Spieth said. “… Pretty disappointed at this point in time.â€� Starting next year, the tournament will move to Trinity Forest, a new links-style course south of downtown Dallas. Spieth is a member at the course and looking forward to the reboot. While TPC Four Seasons is a course Spieth never solved, he still has a fondness for it. His foundation hosts an annual event here. He attended the tournament during his childhood. And in 2010, he burst onto the scene at age 16, making his first TOUR start here and finishing tied for 16th. Earlier this week, he called TPC Four Seasons a “very special placeâ€� and said this year’s last call was “bittersweet.â€� That’s why he was pressing in hopes of making a big move Friday after his opening 68. His aggressiveness backfired on him, as he made five bogeys in his first 12 holes. “Just ridiculous out here,â€� he said. “… So, so many over-par holes and not necessary. Trying to do too much. Trying to move up the leaderboard instead of just letting it come to me on this course.â€� Even so, he balanced that with four birdies and was still safely inside the cut line with three holes to play. That’s when he reached the par-5 16th. Hoping to reach the green in two, he pressed on the accelerator. His first tee shot sailed right. He then hit a provisional tee shot. He ended up losing both shots into the residential area. “I’ve hit in those houses before, I think, a couple of times,â€� Spieth said. “… The wind flipped from being straight in to quartering off the left and I didn’t adjust. That made the difference obviously being out of play.â€� Finally on his third tee shot – now his fifth stroke — he found the primary rough. Two more shots left him pin high but on the edge of the green. He two putted from 52 feet for the quad. “It didn’t need to happen,â€� Spieth said. “… Just kind of a fluke couple shots.â€� Now outside the cut line, Spieth needed a birdie in one of his last two holes. But he missed a 14-1/2 foot birdie putt at the par-3 17th, then a 13-footer on the final hole. The 75 is more than eight strokes higher than his second-round scoring average here. The primary frustration for Spieth now is his play on the greens. His putting just isn’t where he wants it to be. He changed putters entering this tournament, going from a blade to a mallet putter that he’s used a couple of times previously, including the 2014 Open Championship. In addition, he and coach Cameron McCormick have spent extensive time on the practice green lately. Thus far the work has yet to pay off. Of the 156 players in the field, Spieth ranked 118th in Strokes Gained: Putting the first two rounds. On Friday, he ranked 137th in that category, losing nearly 2.2 strokes to the field. “Just got to figure out my putting and getting through the ball,â€� Spieth said. “I’m standing over it and I don’t feel like I’ve got a stroke that’s producing contact at the right time. … “I put in plenty of work. It’s kind of a thing in my head. I got to get a couple to go in.â€� Instead of playing in front of his adoring fans the next two days, Spieth will work on his game privately. The good news is that next week’s tournament across the Metroplex is on a course that’s been good to him. Spieth won last year at Colonial and will be a favorite again next Thursday when the DEAN & DELUCA Invitational cranks up. “I’ll put in some work this weekend and get over there early and put the right prep in to get ready,â€� Spieth said. No doubt the best way to ease the pain of his abrupt departure at TPC Four Seasons is to say hello to Colonial as quickly as possible.

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