sometimes a Giants game will spin late into the evening, and the radio will be my bedside companion. I almost never close my eyes without know- ing the result of a home sports team playing a night game. Gotta know the fi nal score be- fore bedtime! Constant trolling of the Internet and Twitter! The sports world never sleeps. Night Feedings for the Newest Murphy: It’s all about the sacrifi ces my beautiful bride, Candace, makes. She takes care of all the nighttime cries for pacifi ers, knowing I need whatever meager sleep I can get. She’s the best!
JOANN DOST Golf’s preeminent landscape photographer Aerial Photo Shoot Schedule around the Monterey Peninsula: I’m up before dawn checking weather conditions, the Pebble Beach and KSBW webcams (to see a live view
on the north and south sides of the Peninsula). No matter where I am, what I do is always weather- related. I’m out shooting one hour after sunrise, usually for 30 minutes. I use a fast helicopter that gets me to where I need to be quickly. Late morning and early afternoon I’m at the computer, downloading and backing up the images I shot to two hard drives. I’m also identifying and labeling each photo. After some processing work, where I’m editing photos and select- ing the best shots to ensure I’ve captured the ambiance of the property, I’ll take a quick nap before preparing for the evening shoot. I’m usually back up in the air an hour before dusk looking for different angles and to complement what I shot in the morning. I try to keep the sun over my shoulder or across my shoulder when shooting. Current Equipment of Choice: Nikon D800E for landscape shots; Nikon D3S for action photography
RANDY HAAG Six-time NCGA Player of the Year Tournament Day Schedule: I wake up 2–3 hours before my starting time depending on how early the time is. Then I stretch and get my body loose and visualize each hole I am going to play. Eat a light breakfast and head to the course to warm up. I don’t like to hit too many balls before I play, just warm up all parts of the game, a few short and long shots, bunker shots, chips, fl ops and putts. After the Round: My favorite time to work on my swing if possible. But during a long event I try to preserve my energy and save my back. I do stay connected to what- ever I have going on workwise usually in the evening, but I try to always get a good 7–8 hours of rest before I play.
ALAN SHIPNUCK The most exciting, satisfying and scariest part of my
job at Sports Illustrated is writing what we call the “game story” from golf’s major championships.
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hese 5- or 6-page narratives usually run about 2,500 words and strive to tell the whole story of the week. The focus is on the winner, of course, but I also touch on the tourna-
ment’s other protagonists, the setup and personality of the host course and any other rel- evant subplots. The deadline pressure is intense: most tournaments end around 7 p.m. on Sunday and my story is due at 8 a.m. Monday morning, Eastern Time. I’ve pulled plenty of all-nighters. There’s no more desolate feeling than being alone in a Marriott at 4 a.m., trying to summon the larger meaning of Webb Simpson. The biggest challenge of the game story is to entertain and educate readers with fresh
material. For four straight days the details of the tournament will have been chronicled endlessly on Twitter,
golf.com, the Golf Channel and a million other media outlets. When my story comes out—it usually posts online Tuesday morning after the tourney and arrives in mailboxes the next day—it has to be deeper, richer, more literary and more sharply observed than anything that has come before it. At least, that’s how I look at it. To make this happen I’m obsessive about having my own unique reporting. I almost
never use quotes from press conferences, because those will have already been widely dis- seminated. (Correspondingly, I haven’t asked a question in a presser in at least a decade; I don’t want other reporters to know what I’m thinking.) I start fi lling my notebook during
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CHRIS DALHAMER Superintendent,
Pebble Beach Golf Links 4:15 a.m. Wake up 5:00 a.m. Start work 6:00 a.m. Paperwork, make assignments 6:10 a.m. Tour golf course, working with the staff. The brunt of our work is done now, raking, mowing and watering. We work in chronological order begin- ning with the fi rst hole so that our guests never see us. 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. Lunch and crew meeting 11:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m. We mow rough and trim foliage on the periphery of the prop- erty, out of the way of play. 1:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Work on long-term projects, deter- mine the next day’s schedule 5:00 p.m. Finished for the day
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