The sport of golf, the saying goes, reveals a lot.
Consider the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am one of the prime exhibits of evidence.
It's shown us rockers masquerading as golfers (Kid Rock), golfers masquerading as rockers (see also the Clambake volunteer benefit) and actors masquerading as singers—on the 18th at Pebble (Anthony Anderson serenading Michael Bolton with "When a Man Loves a Woman").
Which serves as a hint of the richness contained herein with a collection of stories aimed as much, if not significantly more, at the human interest element of what the best pro-am in the land brings to Del Monte Forest.
It includes everything from Kelly Slater confronting environmental degradation to Tiger Woods confronting the degradation of his game and his name.
Tee it up and take a swing.
After all, it all benefits charity.
“What’s the coolest thing that’s happened to you off the board,” ESPN Sportcenter’s Neil Everett asked Kelly Slater, “because of your celebrit…
Things got real interesting – and flat-out real – for Clay Walker in 1996.
Before he sold more than 25 million albums – and more than any other male solo act in the 2000s – he was picking apples on his family’s ranch.…
Before San Jose’s Brandi Chastain made the most famous goal in women’s soccer history, she was unceremoniously cut from the team. Before she m…
At the AT&T National Pro-Am 2005 Tee Off Party on Wednesday, Feb. 9, George Lopez was one of a number of top shelf celebrities to take the…
There have been a ton of photos I've gathered over eight years watching both celebrities and pro golfers take their best swing at the famous g…
Like Jesus, most essentially know him by his first name. Like Jesus, he’s inspired millions of believers with his gift from God – and had just…
Of late, drama-comedy double-threat Anthony Anderson has grown used to visualizing success – and finding it – in his rise from “bright-eyed ki…
The gallery surrounding the 15th tee is quiet—too quiet for George Lopez. So instead of addressing his ball, Lopez motions the silent gallery …
Tiger’s neck is wrecked. His driver and his wife have left him – and at least one absence looks lasting. He’s been on the receiving end of so …
Sometimes you’re hot, sometimes you’re not. We all face it.
Humility and great golf go together. Just ask any golfer who’s tried to bridge the cliffs at Pebble’s eighth hole without the right club or co…
She’ll forever be remembered for what she took off, but the two-time gold medalist deserves far more credit for what she takes on. Sure, the n…
Soaring new grandstands around the 18th fairway and green, new pedestrian walkthroughs and catwalks traversing Del Monte Forest and a breathta…
The biggest question leading into the ’08 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am was not the one posed by comedian Gary Mule Deer hours before …
People say a lot of things about standup comedian Tom Dreesen. That’s how it goes when you’ve been in the entertainment game long enough to sp…
John Daly likes to walk up and smack it. He does precisely that on page one of his best-selling autobiography.
Pro-Am virgin Peyton Manning is the best in the country at what he does – commercials – and, on the side, might be the best quarterback in his…
Everybody loves Raymond but me. I hate Raymond. Well, it’s not that I hate Ray Romano, star of the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond. I don’t rea…
Rains and wind whipped through the back 9 at the Monterey Peninsula Country Club, but that didn't keep fans away.
Every golfer’s got one. For Kevin Costner’s character in Tin Cup, it’s the 7. (“I hit the 7-iron the way John Daly hits the 3,” he says.) For …
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Off-duty caddies surf in Stillwater Cove, a comedian crowd-surfs between shots and a seven-time world-champion surfer pauses his round to sign…
Despite the absence of Pro-Am regulars Bill Murray and George Lopez, the crowds still packed in to the historic Pebble Beach Golf Links today …
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