Pro golf may have missed a good thing when Tyler Clippard opted for baseball as a career.
Clippard, who has been playing golf “since I was 9,’’ used Thursday’s day off to head toward Monterey to give Pebble Beach a test. He shot an even-par 72, not bad for someone who basically just walked in off the street to one of the world’s great golf courses.
“I always thought about being a golfer,’’ Clippard said. “In high school, I only played baseball for a year and a half. I played golf all four years.’’
So what happened?