PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Wyndham Clark took moving day seriously.
The reigning U.S. Open champion fired a course-record 12-under 60 at Pebble Beach Golf Links on Saturday to erase a six-stroke deficit and grab the 54-hole lead at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
Clark missed a 26-foot eagle putt at 18 for 59, but tapped in for a birdie and a total of 17-under 199, one stroke better than Ludvig Aberg.
With high winds and rain predicted for Sunday, the final round may be postponed until Monday and there’s a possibility that the tournament may be shortened to 54 holes.
For more on Clark’s record day and remarkable putting round, click here.
For more on the weather and how it could affect efforts to complete 72 holes, click here.
Here are four more things to know from the third round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
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.
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.
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.
Some big names in sports are teeing it up at the 2024 Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
The 2024 Pebble Beach Pro-Am is here, and that means we’ve got a bunch of big names who play golf on the side joining the field of PGA Tour stars.
Among that group are eight athletes — current and former pros in their respective sports — some of whom are REALLY good at the sport. Sometimes, their appearance results in a funny moment or two, like that time Aaron Rodgers told the world he wasn’t going to the San Francisco 49ers with just five words.
Take a look at the big names from sports in the field as we head into the weekend:
McIlroy was 6 under thru 14 holes before the sloppy finish.
At one point Thursday, Rory McIlroy held the lead alone during the first round of the 2024 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. However, at day’s end, his score is going to be a bit worse than it could have been thanks to a penalty.
Before signing his scorecard, McIlroy was assessed a two-shot penalty for an improper drop on the par-5 seventh hole at Spyglass Hill. McIlroy’s drive was wayward on the hole, and he had to take an unplayable. Where he dropped it was determined to be illegal, so what he thought was a bogey 6 turned into a triple bogey 8.
PGA Tour rules official Mark Dusbabek joined the Golf Channel telecast and said McIlroy “totally owned the mistake” when it was brought to his attention in the scoring area.
Rory McIlroy has been assessed a two-stroke penalty after this drop on the par-5 seventh hole. pic.twitter.com/7PtnytRc5t
The rule states a ball can roll up to a club length, whereas McIlroy dropped his ball a club length to the right off the original line, which is where the penalty came from.
“So I took an unplayable on 7 and I took it back on line,” McIlroy said after his round. “Then unbeknownst to me the rule changed in January 2023 where you used to be able to come back on line, take a club length either side. That was changed in 2019 to be able to do that. I wasn’t aware that that rule was changed again in 2023, so I took a drop thinking of the 2019 rules when everything was sort of changed not knowing that the rule was changed again in 2023, so got a two-stroke penalty there.”
McIlroy was 6 under thru 14 holes, then he went bogey-triple-bogey and signed for a 1-under 71 at Spyglass Hill.
It’s his first PGA Tour start this season. The last time he teed it up, he won the Dubai Desert Classic on the DP World Tour.
LIV will host four events the same week as PGA Tour signature events in 2024.
When LIV Golf held its debut, eight-event invitational series in 2022, the upstart circuit said it wouldn’t host events opposite the PGA Tour’s heritage tournaments like the Arnold Palmer Invitational and the Memorial. The same held true for its first 14-event LIV Golf League season in 2023.
As the league enters its 2024 season without a framework agreement deal, the gloves are off once again. Players like Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton have been poached and four LIV events will now run the same week as PGA Tour signature events, starting with this week’s LIV season opener at Mayakoba’s El Camaleón Golf Course in Mexico and the PGA Tour’s AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
LIV has yet to announce dates or a venue for its regular season finale, which will decide the season-long individual champion, and the same goes for its team championship event. Check out what 12 LIV Golf events will be held the same week as PGA Tour tournaments in 2024.
The second signature event of the PGA Tour’s 2024 season is here as a loaded field of 80 pros has descended upon Pebble Beach Golf Links and Spyglass Hill for the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am on the Monterey Peninsula.
The amateurs in the field will play alongside their partners for the first two rounds — one at Pebble Beach, one at Spyglass Hill — before it’s just the pros at Pebble Beach over the weekend.
Among the world’s best in the field are Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy, Viktor Hovland, Xander Schauffele, Patrick Cantlay, Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas and Collin Morikawa.
The pro-am competition will take place the first two days.
One of the best weeks of golf is here, even if it has been reduced a bit.
The 2024 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am is set to kick off Thursday as the first full-field signature event of the PGA Tour’s season. Unlike in year’s past, there are only 80 players in the field, but playing with them the first two rounds will be celebrities from all realms.
Bill Murray. Josh Allen. Aaron Rodgers. Buster Posey. And dozens of others will tee it up at Pebble Beach and Spyglass Hill the first two rounds before the competition switches to pros only at Pebble Beach over the weekend.
Here’s a look at the best photos of celebrities at the 2024 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
“Happy to be here, and it’s better than being in class.”
To say the past two weeks for Nick Dunlap have been a whirlwind would be an understatement.
First a trip from Alabama to La Quinta, California, where by week’s end he would make history, becoming the first amateur to win a PGA Tour event in 33 years. Then back to his home state and to the University of Alabama, where the 20-year-old was in the midst of his sophomore season. He had a big decision to make, whether to turn professional or remain an amateur and finish out the season.
“I would say I knew that I was probably going to turn pro just with the opportunity that had been presented, but also I wanted to go back and talk to my teammates and talk to my parents and my coach and get their opinion and their two cents worth before I did anything,” Dunlap said.
“I’ve dreamed about doing this my whole life and playing golf on the PGA Tour. To finally be here and to be able to do that as a 20-year-old is pretty cool.”
His first professional start will be Thursday when he tees it up alongside Xander Schauffele at the 2024 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, the first full-field signature event of the PGA Tour’s season. Although Dunlap didn’t receive the first-place prize money or FedEx Cup points from his win at the American Express, he did receive fully exempt Tour status through 2026 and entry into the remaining signature events of 2024.
Guaranteed money, job security and more were too much to pass up for the reigning U.S. Amateur champion.
“Hectic, but also really cool,” Dunlap said of his past couple weeks. “To kind of — I’ve had numerous moments where you just kind of have to take it all in, it’s overwhelming.”
Nick Dunlap celebrates sinking a putt on the 18th green to win the 2024 American Express at PGA West in La Quinta, California. (Photo: Andy Abeyta/The Desert Sun)
Instead of tracking due dates for homework and managing test schedules, Dunlap is tasked with developing a professional schedule on the whim, one that includes stops at the first three majors of the year.
During his pre-tournament press conference Wednesday, Dunlap said he hasn’t quite figured out his full schedule but is piecing it together.
Dunlap’s rise shouldn’t be a surprise. Last summer, he became the best amateur golfer in the world, capped with his U.S. Amateur victory at Cherry Hills Country Club outside of Denver. He became the second golfer ever to win a U.S. Junior and U.S. Amateur. The other? Some guy named Tiger Woods.
He played a practice round Tuesday with world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler and Sam Burns. He also is plenty familiar with Ludvig Aberg, who he played with in college a handful of times.
“Yeah, it’s been really cool, so it’s kind of come full circle in a short amount of time,” Dunlap said. “Scottie and Sam were awesome. I’ve reached out to them on numerous occasions the last week just seeing what their advice is on certain things and their opinions on some of the things I’m doing moving forward.”
Pebble Beach is definitely an upgrade over a college classroom. However, the learning has only started for Dunlap on learning to be a professional golfer.
“Happy to be here, and it’s better than being in class.”
The Monterey Peninsula always offers spectacular views.
The PGA Tour’s West Coast Swing heads up the California coast this week to the Monterey Peninsula.
The 2024 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am is set to begin Thursday, and it’s the second signature event of the PGA Tour season and the first with a full field of 80 players. Also included in the first two rounds are celebrities, with play being contested at Pebble Beach Golf Links and Spyglass Hill.
Come the weekend, the focus shifts to the pros, who will battle it out at Pebble Beach for a $20 million purse and $3.6 million first-place prize.
Here’s a look at the best photos from the 2024 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
