Golf Tournaments & Event Coverage
Last February, with his 50th birthday on the near horizon, O'Meara didn't do something he'd done for 26 years — play in the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.
In its six decades, under six different different names and on five different course, no one has had more than success at the AT&T than O'Meara. His five victories span 12 years and date to 1985 when tournament founder Bing Crosby's name was still in the title.
But O'Meara opted to play in Dubai and then make his Champions
Tour debut in Florida last February. Consequently, his AT&T
tournament streak, which began when he was 24, stopped. But now he's back.
Like he's done in 11 other Champions Tour events this season, O'Meara will make his debut at the Wal-Mart First Tee Open beginning Friday at Pebble Beach Golf Links and Del Monte Golf Course.
It's had six official names. It's been played on five courses. And it has endured five decades of however nature and man have behaved.
Winds gusting to more than 45 mph and heavy rain halted the tournament and resulted in third one-day suspension in tournament history. The winner's purse increase by $5,000 with Nicklaus earning $16,000 with his sterling final round. He birdied five of the final seven holes, needed only 13 putts on the back nine en route to a 31 and shot a 68 to defeat Billy Casper by five shots and Arnold Palmer by seven shots.