Nice. How'd he get into that?

Sponsor exemption (article's definitely about this year despite being misdated as 2014 at the top):

http://www.ncga.org/2015/01/28/cal-a...to-att-pro-am/

gl this week

BUMP of the year

i was on the fence about attending this year but with michael and nick taylor and some other canadians i think i'll head down.

not a huge amount of star power. quick scan saw patrick reed and horschell.

ok, further analysis of field showed els, duval, harrington, singh, john daly, mahan, walker, watney, garrigus, delaet and of course michael weaver.... yes, THAT MICHAEL WEAVER

he is $3200 on DK for daily fantasy golf, same price as Mike Weir

Its great to see he got in. Hopefully he plays well and can get into some more tournaments. I'm not a big fan of pro-am tournaments, so this gives me a reason to be interested.

I'm starting him!

i was upset that i have family obligations thursday and friday... but i just realized it's a saturday night (end of round 3) cut..... so i will be able to see all my guys no matter what.

if michael reads this, do you know your 3 course split for thursday, friday and saturday.

a few things:

when i went in 2012 it was funny that i didn't see one fan get on the non-tiger/phil/pebble bus in the staging area at fort ord parking lot. and i was probably there 15-20 minutes. every fan went for tiger/phil/pebble on the saturday.

i swear tony romo was a lot longer than any pro's i saw. matt cain maybe too. on #2 tony took phil mickelson by 70-80 yards on the drive (although there would have been 30 yard difference in tees)... of course, tony pulls a 6 or 7 iron really badly and phil puts a 3 wood (or 5w) about 10 feet from the flag.

one neat thing on sunday is that you see pro's without celebs in 4somes and pro's with celebs but the pros score doesn't count for the main tourney... i.e. player and team made/missed cut..... 4somes of pros you see a lot more golf. they seem to play a lot faster. might be mental

yep I will be as well, good value for anyone who made the cut at the US Open as an amateur.

When you look at the alternates listed it brings home how fickle golf is. Some guys that would not have surprised us to be ranked 30th in the world at one point in their career are sitting and waiting as an alternate.

Tough game, this golf.

Check out some of the names on Web.com. Not that he was a world beater, but Steve Marino was certainly on a lot of leaderboards, including at Major Championships, I believe..

Actually, just checked it out, not as many as I thought there would be. Tommy Gainey, some others. Maybe cause the tournament is down in Colombia.

steve marino was so hot for awhile, maybe 10 years back. but could never close and then fell apart....... not sure if too many saw it but a washington post reporter took him to a patchy municipal to see what he'd shoot. i think it was only 68 or 69. said the greens were hard to make putts. probably no stop on greens too.

would have thought tommy gainey still had status......

michael starts on pebble. then monterey then spyglass

Who is the 'Farrell' he is playing with?

i wondered the same thing... will? .... probably not (sp? anyway). most of the amateurs are not celebrities.

mike starts at 10:12 am pacific time on pebble.

i'm pretty sure i'm going down on saturday. as i said saturday night cut so no risk of missing anyone.

my problem is that i have two main guys on 2 courses and then pebble (which neither will be on)...

anyone know if there are shuttles between courses. or could you walk? i realize that there are shuttles from central parking but i'm thinking doing that for 3 different courses will take way too long. maybe not though

Stads with an eagle on 18 at pebble. Following on shot link - anyone know if it made the telecast?

not sure, but unfortunately i'm guessing with 2 doubles and 3 bogies and finishing +5 the cameras might not have been following.

I may be misunderstanding your question, but there is no way you can walk from one course to another. From what I can remember, there is a central parking lot in Monterey from which you can take a shuttle to one of the three golf courses.

Don't know if that helps or not.

I birdied 18 at pebble to break 90. My greatest achievement.

FYI I was checking on a young man I know on the Swing Thought Tour (used o be hooters) and found Stads there.
http://www.swingthought.com/leaderbo.../#.VPC__2M3Njo

He's doing pretty well in the Latam tour event in Mexico this week. T7 right now at -5 with six holes left today.

http://www.pgatour.com/la/en/leaderboard.html

I nominate this as BUMP of the year