PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Different in so many ways from your weekly PGA Tour show, the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am takes some getting used to, and it easily tosses players out of their comfort zones.
But given that Phil Mickelson’s won it four times and has played in it on 19 occasions, one would have to suggest that he has the show figured out. If you didn’t think so before this year, Saturday was perhaps definitive proof that Lefty’s formula works, because while the afternoon winds and crowd frenzy created trying conditions on the back nine at Pebble Beach, he was going about his tidy work in solitude on the front.