On a weekend in which there was no (tackle) football to compete with for TV viewers, men's professional golf seemed to miss its chance.
Rain, wind and hail interrupted the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, which many of the PGA Tour's top players skipped ahead of this week's elevated WM Phoenix Open, which is offering a $20 million purse. Another 14 players withdrew from the tournament before it was over, which was the most in a PGA Tour event since 15 pulled out of the 2007 Stanford St. Jude Championship, according to Elias.
England's Justin Rose finally won on Monday to end a four-year drought and claim his 11th victory on the PGA Tour and an invitation to the Masters in April.