Golf might just be okay without Tiger Woods.
2017 Pebble Beach Pro-Am leaderboard: Jordan Spieth, Jason Day tied at the top heading into 3rd round
Golf seems fine without Tiger, as we’re set for a can’t-miss weekend duel at a major championship venue starting today.
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Just a couple days after Big Cat announced the suspension of his return by withdrawing from the upcoming Genesis Open & Honda Classic, the world’s top ranked player & America’s most compelling young star have set themselves up to battle over the weekend at one of golf’s most revered venues.
Jason Day’s early Saturday morning finish to his second round at Spyglass Hill vaulted him up to the top of the leaderboard to match Jordan Spieth & Derek Fathauer at 10-under-par through two rounds at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Now, the two will turn to the center-stage of the professional/celebrity event on the Monterey Peninsula — Pebble Beach Golf Links -- and it could set up the best star-on-star weekend duel of the young 2016-2017 season to date. The three are four-shots clear of the next closest competitors, with Patrick Reed headlining a handful of players at 6-under through the opening two rounds.
While Spieth battled early morning foggy-conditions en route to firing his second-round 65 on Friday at Spyglass, Day had a 4:30am wake-up call this morning to return to the course to complete the second round after rains halted play on Thursday and sat the massive 156-professional, 156-celebrity event back from the intended schedule. A bogey-birdie-birdie start to Saturday on the 13th, 14th, and 15th put him even with Spieth heading into the weekend with a second-round 64.
Jason Day! Jordan Spieth! At Pebble Beach! Sounds fun, right?
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Well, maybe not today. Don’t count on seeing too much of it on the CBS broadcast this afternoon. Saturday is the final day of celebrity play at the event -- and the broadcast is often dominated by Belichick, Brady, Bill Murray, and Co. rather than the world’s top players. Instead of what could be a great duel between Day & Spieth, we’ll like get Toby Keith scuffing it around one of America’s best tracks.
It is, bar none, the worst day of the year to watch golf on television if you’re a serious fan.
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