PGA Tour: Real Contenders Absent from Pebble Beach This Week

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Published: February 10, 2010

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While most of the PGA Tour will be spending this week out on the beautiful Monterey Peninsula at the site of the 2010 US Open, many of the real contenders are sitting 7,000 miles away.

It has long been said that Tiger Woods owns Pebble Beach.

This view is based primary on his record setting victory at the 2000 US Open.

However, Woods has only won twice at Pebble Beach—the 2000 Pebble Beach Pro-Am and the 2000 US Open.

Two wins during the best year of his, and possible anyone else’s, career hardly constitutes “owning” a golf course.

Woods could have been playing on the moon in 2000 and he would have had no problem demolishing the field by 15 strokes.

Needless to say, we don’t know which Tiger Woods will show up at Pebble Beach in June, or whether he will show up at all.

So Tiger aside, which players are likely to contend for the 2010 US Open title? 

Despite Pebble Beach’s parkland appearance, the natural elements present more of a links feel.

There’s the wind, the rain, the cold, the fog and the tall, thick fescue.

It’s more or less a parkland version of St. Andrews.

What type of player typically plays well in the wind, rain and cold?

Well, you’ll have to look across the ocean for the answer to that question.

It’s been 30 years since a European last won the US Open (Tony Jacklin in 1970), but that could very well change this June.

Eight out of the top-15 players in the world originally hale from Europe.

Furthermore, four out of the top-10 players in the world grew up playing on the links courses of England and Ireland.

How much experience do the likes of Phil Mickelson, Steve Stricker, and Jim Furyk have playing in the wind and rain?

Attending the British Open each July doesn’t exactly make one an...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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