AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro Am commentary & podcast: Jones and Snedeker leading the way on the boards weather conditions permitting big time

by Jeff Hall & Jeremy Harness

PEBBLE BEACH–The thing about the course at Pebble Beach Spyglass Hill it rained here with the big storm one week ago Friday the greens are a little wet and the ball is sticking on the greens and the players are taking advantage of it. Matt Jones who led the leaderboard with -12 mentioned on Friday that the conditions at Spyglass was the best he ever has seen in the seven years that he’s played here.

Brandt Snedeker said that he enjoyed the conditions and no wind it gave him a great chance to not play the weather but play the game good enough to get him in a two way tie with Jones with a -12, “There’s no hitting toward the middle of the greens the rest of the week. You’ve got to keep your foot on the gas pedal and keep going low” Snedeker said.

Pebble has the smallest greens, the greens start to harden up that golf course becomes more and more difficult, so we’ll see how that plays out because you have the leaders there today. “last year, I remember playing the Monterey Penninsula in 35 MPH wind and rain blowing sideways. It was not very much fun at all. It’s a far cry from that this year, 75 degrees and sweating out there. When the weather’s like this, there’s no better place to be on the planet” said Snedeker.

Working the course we had to find a place to plant ourselves and watch some golf and get a good view of the action out there. There’s nothing like seeing the best in the world playing golf. It’s a thing of beauty of course, the golf course itself is gorgeous and you can’t get any better weather than what were getting right now out here and Snedeker used that to his advantage of be on the top with Jones on the leaderboard “I haven’t been competitive in a while. I just need to get myself some chances to win, and all that stuff will take care of itself” said Snedeker.

John Daly struggled on Friday with a bogey on the first hole at the Monterey Peninsula Course Daly finished Friday with a one over within six shots of the lead and plays Spyglass on Saturday. It was the best round he’s had in ten years even though he struggled with that bogey on that first round he battled on the first night and came back on the second night.

Charlie Beljan had and an 8 under day and finished -10 for the tournament he did have an amazing Friday and he got a little bit aggressive in the last hole he couldn’t even believe the score he shot yesterday. He ended up with a Bogey on the last hole he just overplayed it. That was the only hole that he struggled with other than that it was a great day. If someone told him he was going to shoot that well going into the day he would have been happy.

Jeff Hall and Jeremy Harness are covering the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro Am for http://www.sportsradioservice.com

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