By TERRY LYONS
PEBBLE BEACH - Scottie Scheffler is back today. The World No. 1 and 2024 FedExCup champion makes his season debut and first start since hand surgery after puncturing his right hand with broken glass on Christmas Day.
Scheffler won in his last competitive start at the 2024 Hero World Challenge
• He’s a 13-time PGA TOUR winner who won the last three Jack Nicklaus Awards as PGA TOUR Player of the Year, joining Tiger Woods as the only players to win the award in three consecutive seasons. (The award was established in 1990)
• Scheffler’s 2024 was highlighted by seven victories (the first on TOUR with seven or more wins in a season since Tiger Woods in 2007), and wins at the FedEx Cup and the gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics
Rasmus Højgaard of Denmark, a PGA TOUR rookie, will make his tournament debut as the leading finisher from the 2024 DP World Tour Race to Dubai. His twin brother, Nicolai, is playing his second year as a TOUR member.
The no-cut AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am will feature amateurs playing alongside professionals during the first two rounds at Pebble Beach and Spyglass Hill. All 80 professionals will then play on the weekend at Pebble Beach only.
Jordan Spieth is an “AT&T Athlete” and was the 2017 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am champion. He’s in the field as a sponsor exemption as he plays his final year of a tournament winner exemption. Spieth is making first appearance on TOUR since undergoing wrist surgery after his 2024 season ended. Today, he’s making his 13th start at the event, with six Top 10 finishes.
Remember 2024? - Due to dangerous weather conditions, the 2024 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am was reduced to 54 holes, with third round leader Wyndham Clark earning his third PGA TOUR victory by one stroke over Ludvig Åberg. The event concluded as the first 54-hole tournament on TOUR since the 2016 Zurich Classic of New Orleans. Looking back, the 2009 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am was shortened to 54 holes as well.
The field sizes for TOUR Signature Events are approximately 70-80 players (80 players for the 2025 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am due to format). New in 2025, fields will have a minimum of 72 players.
Pebble Beach Pro-Am | Tournament Facts
COURSE: Pebble Beach Golf Links & Spyglass Golf Course
YARDS/PAR: 6,972 yards/Par 72 - (No Cut)
ARCHITECTS: Jack Neville & Douglas Grant
PRIZE Money - Purse: $20,000,000/$3,600,000
DEFENDING CHAMPION: Wyndham Clark
TOURNAMENT OVERVIEW: (PGATourCom)
LAST YEAR AT PEBBLE BEACH: (PGATourCom)
PAST RESULTS: (link)
FEDEx CUP Points to Winner: 700
SOCIAL MEDIA: #PGATour #FedExCup
Pebble Beach | How to Watch
Thursday, January 30, 2025
11:45am-7:00pm (ET) ESPN+ Streaming
1:00pm-7:00pm (ET) SiriusXM PGA Tour radio
3:00pm-7:00pm (ET) Golf Channel
3:00pm - 7:00pm (ET) NBC Sports app
How to Watch: In case of changes, visit: (Golf Week)
Pebble Beach | The Basics
The Tee Times at Pebble Beach run from 12:10pm (ET) to 2:11pm (ET).
Weather: Thursday will be partly sunny with temperatures reaching 61-degrees. Winds at 6 mph. Only a 6% chance of rain. The weekend weather now calls for showers Friday-through-Sunday, a day after a more favorable forecast. Welcome to Pebble Beach, with the changing weather patterns.
Tournament Web Site: (link)
FedEx Cup Info: (link)
PGA Tour Brunch will post at 11:00am (ET) Friday.
Pebble Beach Field, Tee Times, Updates and Leaderboard
The Field: (link)
Tee Times: (link)
Updates:
Sunday
Keith Mitchell (in off of his own number from Fall points)
Harry Hall (in/sponsor exemption)
Tournament Leaderboard: (link)
What They’re Saying
Scottie Scheffler All Set after Freak Injury (PGATourCom)
Spieth Testing Surgically Repaired Wrist (PGATourCom)
“Horses for the Courses” of Pebble (PGATourCom)
Sports Gambling, Daily Fantasy and Golf Industry News
Rory McIlroy Thinks Too Much Golf has Diminished the Sport (Yahoo Sports)
Expert Picks for Pebble - (PGATourCom)
Sleepers for the Pebble - (PGATourCom)
Dottie Pepper on Pace of Play - (Yahoo Sports)
Rory’s Guy - McKibbin - Goes LIV Golf Way (ESPN.com)
On This Day in Golf History
January 30, 1977 - Tom Watson won for the second consecutive week and for his fifth victory on the PGA Tour when he shot a final round (69) at the Andy Williams San Diego Open at Torrey Pines. Watson won by five shots over Larry Nelson and John Schroeder. The previous week, Watson took the title at the Bing Crosby National Pro-Am. (Courtesy Randy Walker, Author of On This Day in Golf History, available via Amazon.com and by clicking HERE.)
Parting Putt
The Way Back Machine for Jordan Spieth
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