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Pebble Beach: A Sanctuary for Super Bowl Losers


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A new 10th tee box at Pebble Beach was restored next to the ninth green.


New 10th Tee at Pebble Beach Catches Eyes of Pros


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new tee box just right of the ninth green would make the 10th hole at Pebble Beach a devilish/potentially drivable (it usually plays downwind) 349-yard par 4.


A relic of that tee box used to exist, but it had since been buried in


fescue grass. When the Pebble Beach Company rebuilt and softened the contours of the ninth green last summer, it also restored that 10th tee box after studying old photos. Pros playing in the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am noticed


the recently restored tee box while putting on the ninth green. The new 10th tee box was not in play during the AT&T, and it


is only used on rare occasions throughout the year. But it could see some tournament action with the U.S. Amateur coming to Pebble Beach in 2018, and the U.S. Open returning in 2019. “Mike Davis knows that it’s there,” Pebble Beach’s RJ Harper said of the USGA’s executive director. “He’s coming out in the next few months.” The new/old tee certainly caught the attention of 20-year-old


Jordan Spieth. “It looked really cool,” Spieth said. “Doesn’t look like it’s going to be


used because it’s a lot shorter hole from there. But if it was up another 30 yards, it makes it almost drivable. And that would be a really cool hole if No. 10 was drivable with the water sticking in there, and the way the green is shaped. That would be a pretty awesome hole.” Does that mean Spieth would be tempted to go for the green at, say, the 2019 U.S. Open? “If I’m under 30 years old, I’ll go for it,” Spieth said. “If I grow up


and I’m smart, I’ll probably lay up.” Spieth will be just 25 in 2019.


–K.M.


ll the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am needs is a commercial that runs right after the Super Bowl: Voice over: Peyton Manning, you and


the Denver Broncos just lost the Super Bowl in traumatic fashion. What are you going to do next? Peyton (in Eeyore voice with head


down): I’m going to Pebble Beach. In what is developing into a peculiar


trend, losers from the last three Super Bowls have teed it up just four days later at the AT&T: New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick in 2012, San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh in 2013, and Manning this year. Seems like a strange move, right? It’s


much easier to imagine these hyper- competitive football types sulking in a dark fi lm room replaying what-ifs obsessively. What makes them want to jet out to Pebble Beach to ham it up with celebrities and autograph-hungry fans while trotting out a rusty golf game? Here is the picture


Washington Gov. Jay Inslee painted after seeing Manning in the bowels of MetLife Stadium after the Broncos were crushed 43-8 by the Seattle Seahawks: “I wish I had a


camera. It was like the picture of defeat— head down, slow. I felt bad for the guy. “He gave it his all


and he’s obviously a tremendous competitor, and I’ve lost a few in my life, too. So I just went up to him and introduced myself as


Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning at the AT&T


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