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Round 2 of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am begins today. Here’s everything you need to know to follow the action. Round 2 pro leaderboard Round 2 amateur leaderboard Round 2 tee times HOW TO FOLLOW Television: Thursday-Friday, 3 p.m.-6 p.m. ET (Golf Channel). Saturday-Sunday, 1 p.m.-2:45 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-Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday, 10:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m. (Featured Groups and Featured Holes) Radio: Thursday-Saturday, 12 p.m.-6 p.m. Sunday, 1 p.m.-6:30 p.m. (PGA TOUR Radio on SiriusXM and PGATOUR.com/liveaudio). FEATURED GROUPS (ALL TIMES ET) Jordan Spieth, Dustin Johnson Friday: 12:06 p.m. ET (Monterey Peninsula, No. 10 tee) Phil Mickelson, Brandt Snedeker Friday: 1:01 p.m. ET (Monterey Peninsula, No. 10 tee) Harold Varner III, Scott Brown Friday: 12:39 p.m ET (Spyglass Hill, No. 10 tee) Matt Kuchar, Matthew Fitzpatrick Friday: 12:06 p.m. ET (Spyglass Hill No. 10 tee) Padraig Harrington, Rafael Cabrera-Bello Friday: 11:33 a.m. ET (Pebble Beach, No. 1 tee) Jason Day, Jim Herman Friday: 12:06 p.m. ET (Pebble Beach, No. 1 tee) MUST READS Taylor cards 63 to take Round 1 lead Power Rankings Expert Picks Five wins and Phil’s lucky silver dollar Inside the prank battle between Mickelson and Mitchell History-making high school golf team set for defense TOUR surpasses $3 billion in charitable giving Eleven up-and-comers for the 2020s The First Look: Notes on AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am CALL OF THE DAY

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Two-time PGA TOUR winner Sangmoon Bae took three swings at the par-5 18th in Thursday’s first round of the 3M Open. Two of his shots found the water. He holed the third one from 250 yards … for par. RELATED: Full leaderboard | Finau parts ways with caddie, shoots first-round 65 | Dustin Johnson withdraws citing back injury Consider it one of the greatest par saves in the history of golf. Certainly no player in the ShotLink Era (since 2003) has ever holed a longer shot for par on the PGA TOUR. The previous longest par save was by Steven Bowditch at the 2011 RBC Heritage, as he holed out from 176 yards on the fourth hole in the opening round. Fred Couples had a memorable par save in the first round of THE PLAYERS Championship in 1999 when he found the water with his tee shot at the island-green 17th at TPC Sawgrass, then holed out after he re-teed. But that shot was more than 100 yards shorter than Bae’s hole-out with a hybrid at TPC Twin Cities. Bae’s initial tee shot at the 599-yard 18th found the water running along the right side of the fairway. He then took his drop, leaving him with a third shot 249 yards to the pin – all across water on the dogleg-right hole. That third shot also found the water, 63 feet short of the green. So Bae then dropped again from his same spot, now 250 yards away for his fifth shot … and proceeded to find the bottom of the cup to close out his round of 4-over 75. It was a water-filled day for the 34-year-old from South Korea, as he also found the water with his tee shot at the par-4 seventh (bogey) and his second shot at the par-4 ninth (triple bogey). Longest hole-outs for par (ShotLink Era)

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The golf competition at the Olympic Games gets underway Wednesday in the Eastern Time Zone. The United States is the only country that had four players qualify for the 60-man field. It includes PLAYERS champion Justin Thomas and The Open champion Collin Morikawa. With Xander Schauffele also on the squad, Team USA features three of the top five players in the Official World Golf Ranking. Rory McIlroy will represent Ireland alongside 2019 Open Championship winner Shane Lowry. Great Britain will be represented by Paul Casey and Tommy Fleetwood as they look to match countryman Justin Rose’s gold-medal winning performance from 2016. Australia is represented by the same pair that teamed up to win this year’s Zurich Classic of New Orleans, Marc Leishman and Cameron Smith. Here’s everything you need to know to follow the action. Leaderboard, tee times HOW TO FOLLOW (All times ET) Television: Wednesday-Saturday, 6:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m. ET (Golf Channel). Live streaming: Visit NBCOlympics.com. MUST READS The First Look Looking back at the 2016 Olympics Five things to know: Olympic Games golf course A virus threat took Marc Leishman’s Olympic dream once, but not this time From childhood friends to medal contenders?

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