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Weather update: Final round postponed until Monday. PGA Tour Chief Referee Gary Young is ‘hopeful’ that 2024 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am will be 72 holes

“Our regulations say we need to make every effort to play 72 holes, which includes playing on Monday,” Young said.

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. – Whether Wyndham Clark already is the winner of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am or he’ll have to play 18 more holes to earn it rests on the shoulders of Mother Nature.

The final round of the tournament is in doubt due to high winds and rain forecasted for Sunday.

UPDATE: The final round, originally scheduled to begin at 7:45 a.m. PT, has been postponed due to inclement weather conditions at Pebble Beach Golf Links. The final round is scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. PT. Full story here.

On Saturday, PGA Tour Chief Referee Gary Young said he’s “hopeful” that the tournament will be able to complete 72 holes, but there is a possibility that Clark, who shot a course-record 60 on Saturday to grab a one-stroke lead after 54 holes, could be declared the winner. One decision already has been made: out of an abundance of caution, no spectators will be allowed on property for the final round if it is played on Sunday. (If the final round is pushed to Monday, spectators would be admitted.)

“Our regulations say we need to make every effort to play 72 holes, which includes playing on Monday,” Young said. “We would not start play on Monday if we knew we couldn’t finish the round on Monday. So, the drop-dead time on that would mean we would have to start play on Monday by 10:15 a.m. at the latest in order to complete play.”

Young said that his staff would be on site at Pebble Beach Golf Links on Sunday at 5 a.m. local time, to assess the situation and message players at 5:15 to provide an update on the status of the tournament and let them know whether there’s going to be a delay to tee times. The final round was scheduled to start at 7:45 a.m.

Pebble Pro-Am: Monday tee times

“We have really high winds forecasted, it hasn’t come down at all. (Our weatherman) is talking about gusts of 60 (miles per hour) and even above that range, so sustained winds 35 to 40 miles per hour in the morning,” Young said, noting that between one and three inches of rain also is expected.

Asked the chances that 72 holes would be completed, Young said, “I’m hopeful right now. I mean, we have been playing a pretty soggy golf course. Obviously if we get upwards of two to three inches on the high side right now, then that makes that a little more doubtful.”

The forecast Monday is for showers in the morning too. The course already is waterlogged from a collection of on-and-off rain throughout the week.

“We just want to make sure that on Monday, if we get to that point, that the golf course is such that we are conducting a good quality championship, the conditions are of professional standards,” Young said. “We want to make sure that the golf course is of the quality on Monday that we would not want golf balls disappearing into the fairways and losing golf balls.”

The AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am required a Monday finish last year; this would be the third Monday finish in the last year six year, the other being 2019. The AT&T was shortened to 54 holes in 2009; the last time a Tour event was shortened to 54 holes was at the 2016 Zurich Classic of New Orleans.

There also is a scenario where play could extend to Tuesday.

“Our regulation states that we can’t start play on Monday without knowing that we could finish play on Monday. If we did that and then for some reason weather rolled in on us that caused us to delay again, if more than half the field has finished play, then we would extend play into Tuesday,” he explained. “But we would need more than half of them to have completed their round on Monday.”

2024 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am Monday tee times, how to watch PGA Tour

It’s the second straight Monday finish at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

Thanks to a historic course-record 60, 2023 U.S. Open winner Wyndham Clark holds the 54-hole lead at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

He’ll have to wait an extra day to try to fend off the field and claim the trophy.

Clark, who holed nearly 200 feet of putts Saturday, made two eagles, nine birdies and a bogey around Pebble Beach Golf Links.

But high winds and rain postponed the action Sunday, leading to a second straight unscheduled Monday finish on the Monterey Peninsula.

Ludvig Aberg is one shot back at 16 under after a third-round 5-under 67. Matthieu Pavon is alone in third at 15 under, while a large group consisting of Justin Thomas, Jason Day and Scottie Scheffler is tied for sixth at 13 under.

The 80-player field is competing for a $20 million purse and $3.6 million first-place prize.

Pebble Beach Golf Links ranks No. 10 on Golfweek’s Best list of classic courses in the U.S., and it is No. 1 in California on Golfweek’s Best list of public-access layouts in each state. It is also No. 1 on Golfweek’s Best list of all public-access courses in the U.S.

Pebble Beach Pro-Am: Best celeb photos

Sunday’s final round was scheduled to start at 7:45 a.m. local time but Mother Nature had other ideas.

The golfers will go off split tees Monday starting at 8 a.m. local time.

1st tee

Tee time Players
11 a.m.
Jordan Spieth, Taylor Montgomery
11:11 a.m.
Tom Kim, Sam Ryder, Adam Hadwin
11:22 a.m.
Corey Conners, Ben An, Nicolai Hojgaard
11:33 a.m.
Seamus Power, Tommy Fleetwood, S.H. Kim
11:44 a.m.
Luke List, Alex Noren, Denny McCarthy
11:55 a.m.
J.T. Poston, Chris Kirk, Sepp Straka
12:04 a.m.
Erik van Rooyen, Cam Davis, Sahith Theegala
12:15 p.m.
Emiliano Grillo, Adam Scott, Christiaan Bezuidenhout
12:26 p.m.
Peter Malnati, Collin Morikawa, Beau Hossler
12:37 p.m.
Patrick Cantlay, Eric Cole, Si Woo Kim
12:48 p.m.
Sam Burns, Justin Rose, Keegan Bradley
12:59 p.m.
Tom Hoge, Justin Thomas, Scottie Scheffler
1:10 p.m.
Mark Hubbard, Thomas Detry, Jason Day
1:21 p.m.
Wyndham Clark, Ludvig Aberg, Matthieu Pavon

10th tee

Tee time Players
11 a.m.
Maverick McNealy, Webb Simpson, Matt Kuchar
11:11 a.m.
Kurt Kitayama, Taylor Moore, Adam Svensson
11:22 a.m.
Brandon Wu, Nick Hardy, Tony Finau
11:33 a.m.
Rickie Fowler, Adam Schenk, Keith Mitchell
11:44 a.m.
Brian Harman, Xander Schauffele, J.J. Spaun
11:55 a.m.
Kevin Yu, Ben Griffin, Viktor Hovland
12:04  a.m.
Brendon Todd, Russell Henley, Lee Hodges
12:15 p.m.
Matt Fitzpatrick, Lucas Glover, Greyson Murrary
12:26 p.m.
Max Homa, Rory McIlroy, Sungjae Im
12:37 p.m.
Cameron Young, Hideki Matsuyama, Mackenzie Hughes
12:48 p.m.
Stephan Jaeger, Nick Taylor, Alex Smalley
12:59 p.m.
Harris English, Hayden Buckley, Davis Riley
1:10 p.m.
Patrick Rodgers, Nick Dunlap

How to watch, listen

ESPN+ is the exclusive home of PGA Tour Live. You can also watch the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am on Golf Channel free on Fubo. All times ET.

Sunday, Feb. 4

Golf Channel/Peacock: 1-3 p.m.

CBS: 3-6:30 p.m.

Sirius XM: 1-6:30 p.m

ESPN+: 11 a.m.-6:30 p.m.

Editor’s note: TV and streaming information will be updated at a later time.

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Wyndham Clark shoots 60, breaks Pebble Beach course record at AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am

No one has done what Wyndham Clark did Saturday.

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. – Beset with putting woes since June, Wyndham Clark flew in early on Sunday and laid out nine different putters on the practice green at Pebble Beach Golf Links in hopes of finding some magic. Did he ever.

No player has ever had a better round of golf at Pebble Beach than Clark. The reigning U.S. Open champion made nearly everything he looked at and shot a course-record 12-under 60 at Pebble Beach Golf Links on Saturday to take the lead after the third round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

“I think in the past I would have kind of coasted in and shot a nice 8, 9 under,” he said. “To keep the pedal down and to stay aggressive mentally was the most impressive thing to myself. And then obviously making all those putts was, you know, out of the ordinary, it was pretty awesome.”

Preferred lies were in effect, but nevertheless, on some of the bumpiest poa annua greens the PGA Tour plays all year, he made 189 feet, 9 inches of putts, the most made by a competitor in a round at Pebble since they started tracking the stat in 2003, and three strokes better than the next-best round by Jason Day. When John Ellis, Clark’s caddie was asked if that’s the best he’s seen his boss putt, he answered, “I’ve never seen a human putt better let alone my own guy.”

Clark, who had shot 67 at Pebble a day earlier, his previous round on the famed links on the Monterey Peninsula, canned a 40-foot eagle putt at the par-5 second hole to get the party started. He made his first of nine birdies on the day at the fourth hole and when he rolled in a 42-foot eagle at the par-5 sixth, he joked to Ellis, “just give me eagle putts, I’ll make them.”

He wedged inside three feet at the famous par-3 seventh, which played just 99 yards downhill in the third round. He tacked on birdies on Nos. eight and nine to tour the front in 8-under 28, one of just four players ever to sign for that total. He had already made 150 feet, 10 inches in putts, nearly 25 feet better than the next best putting performance on the front nine dating to 2003 (Charley Hoffman, 126 feet, 3 inches, in the second round in 2021), and only 6 feet less than his 18-hole personal best of 156 feet, 6 inches in the third round of the 2020 Shriners Children’s Open.

The nerves kicked in at 10 as did the #59Watch, but he kept making birdies at Nos. 10 and 11.

“It was legit,” said Matt Kuchar, who played in Clark’s threesome. “When he birdied 10, it was like, wow, this is for real and then he dribbled it in at 11 and it was like, Wow.”

“The hole looked huge,” Clark said.

It’s hard to believe but Clark has struggled with his putting since winning the U.S. Open in June. He had asked putting guru Phil Kenyon for help, but his lesson book already is filled with the likes of Max Homa, Scottie Scheffler and Matt Fitzpatrick. He recommended his colleague Mike Kanski, who flew in to meet with Clark for the first time on Sunday. The big change? He removed the alignment aid, shortened the putter a bit and switched from a conventional grip to putting cross-handed.

“A lot of big changes, but when you’re in a spot where I was mentally in putting you kind of needed a change, just something totally different so you couldn’t complain or have those same feels that I had in previous tournaments,” Clark explained.

Clark began working with mental coach Julie Elion last year and her advice this week was to eliminate any goals associated with putting.

“We’re putting too much emphasis on the putting. We were trying to have the best attitude we could possibly have, especially coming into greens like this where they are really bumpy, so slopey and it makes it really hard to make putts,” he said.

Clark’s round of 60 included one bogey, at the par-3 12th, where his tee shot caught the bunker fronting the green and he had a fried egg lie. He hacked it out but ended up with a precarious lie and if he stood in the greenside bunker to play his third shot right-handed, the ball would’ve been so far above his feet that he worried he would hit the hosel. So, he elected to play it left-handed, advancing the ball to the fringe 26 feet from the hole and then made the most unlikely of bogeys – “a round saver,” he said — as he poured in yet another putt.

“Of any of the putts today that I was not really trying to make was that one,” he added. “I really was just focused on my speed and just trying to get it down there, two-putt, get the double, go to the next hole and move on. For that to go in, it was like all right, man, I’m hot.”

Hot enough to make birdies at Nos. 13 and 14 to improve to 11-under for the day and two shots clear of the field. He caught a good break when he tugged his tee shot into the left rough at 16. He was granted a free drop from a burrowing animal hole. But left his 10-foot birdie putt short. He had another good look from 14 feet at No. 17 and was short again. Standing on the 18th tee, he said he thought to himself, “My gosh, it would have been really nice to have one of those last two because then I only have to birdie 18.”

Could he make a third eagle of the day at the par-5 18th?

“Once I hit the fairway on 18 I knew I was going to have a chance to hopefully try to shoot that special number,” he said of a 59.

From 230 yards, Clark drilled his second shot to 26 feet. He backed off the putt and went through his routine a second time.

“I thought I had maybe like a little sand on it,” he explained. “I was like, all right, I’m gonna make sure if I’m hitting this putt I’m completely committed.”

It was all for naught. He missed short on the right, tapping in for one final birdie to shatter the tournament record by two and the old men’s record of 61 held by Texas Tech golfer Hurly Long in the 2017 Carmel Cup, a men’s collegiate event. (Rose Zhang set the women’s course record in 2022 at the same tournament, shooting 63.) He had started the round six back and leapfrogged one stroke ahead of Ludvig Aberg (67). With high winds and rain in the forecast, there’s a chance that Clark will be declared the winner and the signature event shortened to 54 holes. Clark said he factored that into his approach on Moving Day.

“You’ve got to have that mentality that today’s the last day so try to go for broke,” he said.

With a sheepish grin, he waved to the spectators and gave a thumbs up as he walked off the green, knowing how close he was from joining an exclusive group to break the sub-60 club in Tour history. But Clark still was proud of his slice of Pebble Beach history, which was also the 54th 60 in PGA Tour history.

“I haven’t shot 59, but I would say even if I had shot 59 somewhere, I don’t think it would compare to shooting a score like this at one of the most historic golf courses in the world,” Clark said.

The words inscribed on his caddie’s cap read “Have A Day,” and that Clark most definitely did.

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Watch: Tom Brady topping his opening tee shot at Pebble Beach may be the most relatable thing he has ever done

Josh Allen of the Buffalo Bills finally got the better of Tom Brady at something.

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Tom Brady may have seven Super Bowl rings, MVP trophies hanging around his house, been married to a super model and made gobs of money, but when it comes to golf he’s one of us.

Not since he ripped his pants in The Match has Brady, an eight handicap, been humbled by the game as publicly as topping his opening tee shot at the first hole at Pebble Beach Golf Links on Friday. Video cameras were rolling as Brady hit one of golf’s more embarrassing shots.

Brady was whisked away in a waiting vehicle after signing his scorecard so he didn’t have to face any questions but really, what is there to say about a shot like that?

In the battle of NFL quarterbacks, Josh Allen of the Buffalo Bills finally got the better of Tom Brady at something.

Allen said he’d never beaten him in anything – winless against Brady at the helm of the New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers as well as competing in golf in The Match (Brady and Aaron Rodgers knocked off Allen and Patrick Mahomes) and in the AT&T Pro-Am previously.

It took going low on Friday at Pebble Beach but Allen edged Brady in the 36-hole pro-am portion of the tournament.

Allen and his pro partner Keith Mitchell shot 11-under 61 to tie for sixth at 14-under, two strokes better than Brady and his pro partner Keegan Bradley, who shot a pair of 66s.

“It feels pretty good,” Allen said, breaking into a wide smile as he acknowledged he also won a bet with Brady.

“Not monetary but some good pride and some other things. Felt good to beat him. Wish I would have had that happen on the football field, but we’ll take it where we can get it with him,” he said.

Asked about the wager, Allen said, “I can’t tell you that, I can’t tell you all my secrets. It’s something cool, it’s something you can put in your house.”

In a video posted by the PGA Tour, Allen can be heard saying to Brady, “You know what I want? Can I … what I want is a signed jersey.”

Allen said he contributed on about five holes, but failed to make a natural birdie on Friday.

“I had a few pars when I popped. I didn’t play up to my best, I don’t think, but I give myself some grace, haven’t played in about five or six months,” he said.

At 17-under, Rory McIlroy and Jeff Rhodes, a nine-handicap and co-chairman of TPG Capital, won the pro-am portion of the event by one stroke over Matt Fitzpatrick/George Still, Matthieu Pavon/Pascal Grizot and Patrick Cantlay/Egon Durban.

Josh Allen, Keith Mitchell have strong finish at 2024 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am

How Josh Allen’s latest golf outing went:

A huge second round for Josh Allen and his partner, PGA pro Keith Mitchell, got the two into the top 10 on the leaderboard at the 2024 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

And they beat Tom Brady, too.

Allen and Brady ended up being in the same foursome (along with PGA pro Keegan Bradley) throughout the two-day event on Thursday and Friday.

When their scorecards were turned in, it was Allen on top for the first time against Brady.

In the first round, Allen and Mitchell shot a three-under par. Then on Day 2, they went on a tear. Their 11-under put the duo at 14-under for the tournament. Allen and Mitchell ended up finishing in a tie for sixth place.

The Allen-Mitchell score ended up besting Brady and Bradley by two strokes.

Allen told Golf Digest the two QBs had a wager on the head-to-head matchup that he won. However, he declined to reveal what it was.

Rory McIlroy and Jeff Rhodes took the top spot at 17-under.

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Scottie Scheffler goes low, Ludvig Aberg making bombs among 5 things to know at AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am

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PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. – Ludvig Aberg’s putter was hot from the get-go on Friday at Pebble Beach Golf Links.

The 24-year-old Swede sank a 42-foot birdie putt at the first and rolled in a 36-foot eagle putt from off the green at the second and hardly slowed down – he drained a 28-footer at the fourth – en route to carding a bogey-free 7-under 65 in the second round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

“I don’t remember the last time I did that,” he said of draining two bombs to start a round. “So, obviously that’s a little bonus.”

Aberg improved to 11-under 133 and tied for the 36-hole lead with world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler (64) and first-round leader Thomas Detry, who shot 2-under 70 at Spyglass Hill Golf Course.

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Aberg, who had a four-putt from four feet a week ago at the Farmers Insurance Open and finished T-9, led the field in Strokes Gained: Putting on Friday, holing more than 120 feet of putts.

“I felt like over these last couple of weeks it’s been quite streaky,” he said of his putting. “It’s been a little bit a lot of good and a lot of bad. We just checked a little bit of alignment, a little bit of setup yesterday and try to keep it inside the frame.”

It paid quick dividends as he added a nine-foot uphill birdie at 11 and a tap-in two-putt birdie from long range at the par-5 14th. Aberg is making his debut in this event, but he played here twice in college for Texas Tech in the Carmel Cup.

“I never played well here actually,” he said with a smile. “I never did.”

Apparently, he’s a quick learner.

Here are four more things to know at the midway point of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

2024 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am Saturday tee times, how to watch PGA Tour

Everything you need to know ahead of the third round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

After the first 36 holes of the 2024 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, there’s a three-way tie for the lead. Thomas Detry, Ludvig Aberg and world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler all sit at 11 under.

Patrick Cantlay is alone in fourth at 10 under, while Justin Thomas, Emiliano Grillo and last week’s winner Matthieu Pavon are tied for fifth.

The 80-player field is competing for a $20 million purse and $3.6 million first-place prize. There is no cut after 36 holes.

For the weekend, all play shifts to Pebble Beach Golf Links, and the pro-am portion is complete.

Pebble Beach Golf Links ranks No. 10 on Golfweek’s Best list of classic courses in the U.S., and it is No. 1 in California on Golfweek’s Best list of public-access layouts in each state. It is also No. 1 on Golfweek’s Best list of all public-access courses in the U.S.

Pebble Beach Pro-Am: Best celeb photos

From tee times to TV and streaming info, here’s everything you need to know for the third round of the 2024 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. All times listed are ET.

Saturday tee times

1st tee

Tee time Players
11:12 a.m.
Chris Kirk, Adam Hadwin, Sepp Straka
11:23 a.m.
Keith Mitchell, Jason Day, Taylor Montgomery
11:34 a.m.
S.H. Kim, Taylor Moore, Corey Conners
11:45 a.m.
Justin Rose, Adam Scott, Luke List
11:56 a.m.
Alex Noren, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Eric Cole
12:07 p.m.
Matt Kuchar, Wyndham Clark, Nicolai Hojgaard
12:18 p.m.
Tom Kim, Erik van Rooyen, Cam Davis
12:29 p.m.
Rickie Fowler, Denny McCarthy, Sam Ryder
12:40 p.m.
Sahith Theegala, Mark Hubbard, J.T. Poston
12:51 p.m.
Si Woo Kim, Peter Malnati, Sam Burns
1:02 p.m.
Collin Morikawa, Tom Hoge, Matt Fitzpatrick
1:13 p.m.
Matthieu Pavon, Keegan Bradley, Beau Hossler
1:24 p.m.
Patrick Cantlay, Justin Thomas, Emiliano Grillo
1:35 p.m.
Thomas Detry, Ludvig Aberg, Scottie Scheffler

10th tee

Tee time Players
11:12 a.m.
Kevin Yu, Seamus Power, Jordan Spieth
11:23 a.m.
Andrew Putnam, Ben Griffin, Tommy Fleetwood
11:34 a.m.
Viktor Hovland, Maverick McNealy, Alex Smalley
11:45 a.m.
Webb Simpson, Davis Riley, Byeong Hun An
11:56 a.m.
Grayson Murray, Brian Harman, Max Homa
12:07 p.m.
Adam Svensson, Brandon Wu, Brendon Todd
12:18 p.m.
Kurt Kitayama, Nick Hardy, Tony Finau
12:29 p.m.
Adam Schenk, Xander Schauffele, Rory McIlroy
12:40 p.m.
Cameron Young, Russell Henley, Lee Hodges
12:51 p.m.
Hideki Matsuyama, Mackenzie Hughes, J.J. Spaun
1:02 p.m.
Lucas Glover, Stephan Jaeger, Sungjae Im
1:13 p.m.
Nick Taylor Harris English, Patrick Rodgers
1:24 p.m.
Nick Dunlap, Hayden Buckley

How to watch, listen

ESPN+ is the exclusive home of PGA Tour Live. You can also watch the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am on Golf Channel free on Fubo. All times ET.

Saturday, Feb. 3

Golf Channel/Peacock: 1-3 p.m.

CBS: 3-7 p.m.

Sirius XM: 2-7 p.m

ESPN+: 11:30 a.m.-7 p.m

Sunday, Feb. 4

Golf Channel/Peacock: 1-3 p.m.

CBS: 3-6:30 p.m.

Sirius XM: 1-6:30 p.m

ESPN+: 11 a.m.-6:30 p.m.

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AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am 2024 merch: Retro T’s, lone cypress logo in hot demand

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PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Pebble Beach Golf Links’s lone cypress logo is one of the best in the business.

The resort and the shops near the practice putting green are well aware that the logo is in hot demand and you have an endless array of options of logoed gear from just about any apparel maker you can think of. This is a well-stocked space and there’s also a pop-up AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am shop to go with a merchandise shop near the 17th hole.

The Lone Cypress Shop has just about everything, including the robe available in guest rooms at The Lodge and Pebble Beach spa products. I was digging some of the retro T-shirts, Vineyard Vines belts, the stuffed animal seal for my daughter and an old-school tournament pennant, which I haven’t seen for a long time.

Here’s a look at some of the merchandise on display this week at The Lone Cypress Shop and pop-up tournament shop at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

Peter Malnati defends being given sponsor exemption to AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am

“I don’t think there’s ever been an amateur play with me who didn’t have the time of their life.”

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Peter Malnati understands why some of his fellow competitors might take issue with three of the four sponsor exemptions into the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am being granted to members of the PGA Tour’s player directors on the Policy Board — namely Adam Scott, Webb Simpson and himself — who happened to be among the six players who voted unanimously to approve the Tour’s billion-dollar deal with Strategic Sports Group.

As Golfweek reported this week, multiple players described the choices for exemptions into the first-time signature event with a limited field of 80 and playing for $20 million with no cut as “shady,” “fishy” and “collusion.”

“You don’t even have to be looking at it to see that that could look bad,” Malnati said. “I get that.”

But Malnati also defended his selection as one of the four invites.

“I know why I felt worthy of writing a letter to get an exemption here.  It’s not because I’m on the board. It’s not because I vote. I felt worthy writing a letter because I come to this event every single year that I’ve been on Tour, and I don’t think there’s ever been an amateur play with me who didn’t have the time of their life. That’s why I felt comfortable writing a letter asking for an exemption,” he said. “If the reason I got that exemption is because I’m on the board, that’s not right. If the reason I got the exemption is because this is my 10th year, I would say six of the nine I’ve played with Don Colleran from FedEx, but those other three years I played with three different amateurs, and there’s always two amateurs in your group, not just one, and I take pride in making sure that those guys or gals have the time of their life. I think that gets back to Steve John and the Monterey Peninsula Foundation that if you come to this tournament, if you’ve never heard of Peter Malnati, he might be the guy that you want to play with.

“That’s why I felt comfortable asking for one. That’s why I feel comfortable having gotten one. If I got one because I’m a board member and that’s the only reason, I’ll fully admit that’s not right, but I don’t think that’s why I got one, and that’s certainly not why I asked for one.”

Dennis Roberson, who has been the longtime tournament manager of the Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial CC in Fort Worth, Texas, wrote on social media that the complaint by players over the AT&T exemptions is “way overblown by people with sour grapes.”

He continued, “If a player has supported your event for many years and proven himself to be a great pro-am partner, that is EXACTLY the kind of player you give an exemption to.”

Malnati finished T-4 at Pebble last year and opened with 3-under 69 on Thursday. Asked why he plays well at this event he said, “I play well here because I’m happy here.  Like I’m happy everywhere, but this is my favorite place, and the golf is almost secondary to just the most — this is the most amazing place. Then secondly, it’s fun for me to give to others, and we don’t get to do that during a PGA Tour event because nobody gives a shit about you during a PGA Tour event. This week there’s a partner that you’re playing with who only does this once a year. It’s fun for me to give to them. That takes pressure off me. If I fail at golf but I make them have a good time, it’s still a good day, whereas a normal week, if I fail at golf, it’s like, what am I doing? That helps me. I think attitude-wise, you get bumpy poa annua greens sometimes. You get bad weather sometimes. That stuff doesn’t bother me. I just love it here. And I’m also good at golf. I don’t always prove it, but I’m also good at golf. I’m going to play good anywhere, but here brings out the best in me.”

Clips of Bills QB Josh Allen taking in 2024 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am

Josh on the links:

Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen is again taking in the scenes at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in 2024.

It’s the third-straight offseason that Allen’s participated. He’s again paired with PGA pro Keith Mitchell… but their foursome is rounded out in an interesting way.

Also included: Tom Brady.

The two have hit the links together in the past, but considering both of their stardom, their grouping at the golf tournament is getting plenty of coverage.

Check out some early photos and video clips of Allen at the Pro-Am tournament this week: