A Few Instagrams As Pebble Beach Week Kicks Off, 2-5-18

The weather forecast is sublime for this week’s AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Apologies to those hoping America’s elite got rained on all week.

For reasons unclear, there is a sizable gold-brick of a flower bed off the 8th tee at Pebble Beach. Maybe it’s a placeholder for the restoration of Chandler Egan’s imitation sand dunes? Natural, it does not look.

Lee Westwood photographed one of the world’s most venomous snakes, a King Brown, when it appeared on the Lake Karrinyup CC range where he’s getting ready for the European Tour’s ISPS Hander World Super 6 in Perth.

For those still suffering a Super Bowl hangover, The Onion addresses the difficult conversation many football fathers are having with their sons...about what it means to control the ball long enough to be deemed a runner.

It's @attproam week! 🎉🙌 Joining us? Be sure to use #mypebblebeach so we can share your favorite photos! 📷 @shermanchuphotographer . . . . #pebblebeach #bucketlist #golf #golfphotography #attproam

A post shared by Pebble Beach Resorts (@pebblebeachresorts) on Feb 5, 2018 at 10:02am PST

Number 8 showing some color this year. #attpebblebeach @attproam

A post shared by chrisodonnell (@chrisodonnell) on Feb 5, 2018 at 12:37pm PST

🐍 a King Brown mooching about on the range 🏌🏽‍♂️ Think I’ll take a ☕️break! #4thdeadliest

A post shared by Lee Westwood (@westwood_lee) on Feb 5, 2018 at 7:12pm PST

“God, this so awkward, he was watching the Super Bowl last night, and now he has so many questions and I can’t describe how it works,” said local father Michael Dorgan, who admitted to stammering his way through an uncomfortable 10-minute explanation of what a football move is. “I tried bringing out a football to show him what maintaining possession means, but I think it just confused him more. And there was this painful silence after he asked about controlling the ball long enough to become a runner. How do you explain something as complicated and mysterious as that to your son? I wish he just asked his mother.” #TheOnion

A post shared by The Onion (@theonion) on Feb 5, 2018 at 1:10pm PST

Comments

[OB]

Pebble Beach needs a master plan or new owners or both.

[D. maculata]

When the Super had his crew using Roundup to establish the demarcation line for the hazard, he should have instructed them to keep going.

[In the grip of the game]

The irony of the rigmarole of when a receiver becomes a runner with different consequences when the ball was dislodged by the ground in the end zone is that it was all to clarify a "Touchdown". One scenario meant that touching down was not required and the other the way the ball touched the ground would have actually negated the score. I'm glad that golf is a simple game.

[Dick Mahoon]

Clement was channeling his inner rugby as he went into the endzone. And really, if he was classified a runner after catching that pass, it was a fumble that he recovered.

Well that's how I saw it.

Good thing Lee didn't step on that King Brown....

DM

[SportsDoc]

DM: a player cannot fumble in his scoring end zone. Once in possession and end zone plane is broke, it is a TD, play is over and anything that happens after has no consequence. Now, he could fumble the ball into the end zone prior to breaking the plane and that would be a live ball.

On Clement's catch, had it been ruled he did not possess (by NFL rule) the ball prior to breaking the end zone, it would have been ruled incomplete as the ball touched the ground prior to his acquiring possession (by NFL rule).

Conversely, both in NCAA and HS rule a catch is completed simply by gaining control of the ball with at least one foot down in the field of play. To extrapolate that out to NFL differences one would simply add that two feet down would be required. Why they don't simplify the rule that way I have no idea.

[FC]

Breaking the plane and Collinsworth bias was double sweet.

After Waste Heap, a beautiful week is assured. Just mute the talking heads and FF the clown shows.

[Lateral Hazard]

The ball never moved on those catches. It merely oscillated. All is good.

Amirite, Tiger?