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PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. Cary Williams Jersey . —Twenty months
later, Dustin Johnson finally hit the drive he wanted at Pebble Beach. Ten years
later, Tiger Woods must have wondered what kept him away from the Pebble Beach
National Pro-Am. On a spectacular day of scenery and scoring, Johnson blasted a
tee shot on the third hole at Pebble Beach and then pitched in for eagle from 41
yards in front of the green. He added another eagle on his way to a 9-under 63
and a three-way tie atop the leaderboard Thursday. Woods was five shots to par
out of the lead, a solid start to his PGA Tour season. He had six birdies in a
4-under 68 at Spyglass Hill, the fourth-best score on that course. Spyglass was
hardest of the three courses, though not by much. The weather was so pure that
all three courses played about one shot under par. Charlie Wi was over at
Monterey Peninsula and had a shot at 59 without ever knowing it. Wi was 8 under
after a tap-in birdie on the 13th hole, and needed only three birdies in the
last five holes. Trouble is, he had no idea the Shore Course was a 70. He made
one more birdie and had a 9-under 61. “I was looking at the scorecard like,
Whats the par here? I did not know it was a par 70,” Wi said. “That 59 never
crossed my mind. Not once.” Joining them was former U.S. amateur Danny Lee, who
holed a bunker shot for eagle at No. 2 and holed out from the 11th fairway with
a wedge for another eagle to match Johnson at 9-under 63. Graham DeLaet of
Weyburn, Sask., is three shots back after a 6-under 66 at Pebble Beach.
Mike Weir of Brights Grove, Ont., shot an even-par 70 on Monterey Peninsula in
his first start on the PGA Tour since undergoing surgery for a tendon tear in
his right elbow in August. Weir has essentially lost the last two seasons due to
injury. Matt McQuillan of Kingston, Ont,. opened with a 1-over 71 at Spyglass
Hill. Johnson is turning into his generations “Prince of Pebble.” He won the
AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am in consecutive years, and then had a
three-shot lead at Pebble in the U.S. Open two years ago until he shot 82 in the
final round. On the third hole of that round, he hit driver left into the bushes
for a lost ball and made double bogey. On Thursday, he smashed a driver nearly
340 yards over the trees to just short of the green, setting up eagle. Even now,
he still thinks about that tee shot in the U.S. Open. Walking off the tee, he
said to caddie Bobby Brown, “I could have used that in the U.S. Open.” “Walking
off that hole, I told Bob, This hole owes me a few more than just that one.”
Johnson overpowered the par 5s at Pebble Beach, the secret to playing that
course well. He had a 6-iron for his second shot at the par-5 second for an easy
birdie, holed a 65-foot eagle putt on the sixth hole, got up and down from the
bunker just short of the 14th for birdie, then cringed when his 40-foot eagle
attempt on the 18th just turned away. “I thought it was going in,” Johnson said.
“I was laughing. I made plenty of putts today.” Woods made his share, too. He
opened with consecutive birdies, stuffing his approach on No. 10 and two-putting
for birdie on the par-5 11th. He also holed a downhill, 8-foot birdie putt on
the 17th that was good enough to elicit a small fist pump, and from behind the
par-5 opening hole, hit a flop shot to 7 feet and made that. One of his two
bogeys was sloppy. It came on the short par-4 fourth, with a shallow green set
among sand dunes and ice plant at a diagonal angle. Instead of going toward the
middle of the green and letting the slope take the ball to the hole, Woods went
at the flag. The ball bounced hard over the green and into a sandy patch of
dunes, in a foot print. He did well to blast a wedge some 30 feet past the hole
and had a good two-putt from there for bogey. Woods picked up another birdie on
the par-5 seventh for his 68. He played the par 5s in a 3 under. “I dont know if
its a good sign or a bad sign,” Woods said about his 68. “With the scores the
way they are, I thought I could have it lower than I did. The guys are just
tearing this place apart with no wind. Im not too far away from posting a good
number out here.” His partner, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, contributed
pars on the holes where Woods made bogey, and Romo had a birdie on the par-5
14th when Woods missed the fairway and had to settle for par. As a team, they
were tied for 25th. Romo gets to play a forward tee, but he doesnt get any shots
with a scratch handicap. Phil Mickelson always entertains at No. 4 at Spyglass,
a tee shot that gives him so much stress each year. He is determined to hit
driver, and did again Thursday, this time relieved to at least be able to find
it. And while he missed a 7-foot birdie putt after a splendid flop out of deep
rough that ran 100 feet across the green, Mickelson was glad the hole was behind
him. As for his 2-under 70? “The greens were perfect,” Mickelson said. “They
rolled so good, and thats why it was disappointing to let some of those go. Ive
been putting really well lately, and I expected to make some of those. Shot a
couple under par, but it could have been a lot better.” Johnsons lone mistake
came from a poor tee shot on the par-3 12th into a bunker. His start was tough
to beat, though. With a four-foot birdie putt on the fourth, he made it through
six holes in 6 under, and then played solidly from there. “Ive been working
really hard the last three days on the putter and the driver, and it paid off,”
Johnson said. “Im starting to roll the ball like I usually do.” Ken Duke shot a
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