In Pebble Beach, everyone hopes for a simple thing

Pebble Beach, Calif. – PGA Tour can use a victory.

Above all has been a strange start of the season. What has been your favorite story scene so far? World no. 1 Scottie Scheffler suffering a strange tied ravioli palm injury This kept it from its first two beginnings? World no. 2 Xander Schauffle that undergoes a rib injury that still has it on the shelf? How would it be a clumsy world no.9 Victor Hovland accidentally violating his frame in Hawaii, breaking a toe and limiting his return season?

Maybe it was last week’s flu, which passed the wild through the closet room on the farmers and led to a string of high profile wds? Or the discourse that began about the slow game? How will the discourse be about low ratings, which started a week ago?

I’m unfair, of course. There were scary tournaments like Nick Taylor with a blossom In Hawaii or Harris English In a slogan in San Diego. But many of what happened on the course are overwhelmed by what it does not have. Safa is sure to say that, while the football season ends, the professional golf action on the course has not gone enough in the main course.

This week, however, this is ready to change. Despite all its permutations in recent years, the Golf Professional for the better requires a very simple formula: his best players in his best courses in his most significant events. A Tuesday evening walk around Pebble Beach was enough to restore a sense of optimism about the whole operation.

There was Scheffler going out of the media room for the first time this season, a session in which he could make jokes for sure for the Ravioli cooking incident (“Even if you are like me and don’t drink wine, you have to be i Careful with summer glasses ”) after appearing on the other side of a quick recovery.

There were Ludwig Aberg, obviously some pounds lighter, but it was mainly relieved to be at up-up as he suffered through that Torrey Pines disease. He finished the competitor here last year. He finished the race in Augusta National, too. Safe to say that he is a large part of the future plans of this tournament.

There were others returning to play, as well as: Hovland (from the toe) and Jordan Spieth (from the wrist) and Collin Morikawa (from his illness) and Tommy Fleetwood (from Europe). You can arrange the bulk of a Ryder cup in the pros by making their relevant returns here this week.

He had shy sellers, the main CBS manufacturer, seeing with approval the chain raised that will hold some kind of cameras while sailing the Par-3 17 length, only one of the latest network toys. Golf fans have turned broadcast complaints into a recreational sport, but CBS mainly avoids their anger thanks to an obsession with innovation; Recently that obsession has focused on the emergence of the best places of the game from a raised perspective, from pebble rocks to Riviera valleys to crowds at TPC Scottsdale and beyond. Hello, drone trackers. And Hello, Zipline.

It was Keegan Bradley, running for the previous night TGL match, his first league experience, which was a victory even at a loss. No one is pretending that TGL is a kind of real golf replacement, but Monday’s show on Boston-Jupiter, Gropa Tiger Woods, Tom Kim and Kevin Kisner v. Rory Mcilroy, Bradley and Adam Scott and went all the way to extra holes. Tiger vs Rory (et al) in the arena does not guarantee an epic weekend of Pebble Beach more than a common dish of fried calamari guarantees a proper entry, of course. But in both cases we can appreciate a good start.

It was Rory Mcilroy, probably the most important member of the tournament, making its first start in the US since the tournament in last August. He was the last player in the course on Tuesday, taking quite late, volunteers apologized for removing snacks, competing the daylight in a round of solo practice, but hitting the bottom of each cup in an effort to improve the number – four under the par – set by Caddy Harry Diamond.

And it was Duttie Pepper, walking her dog along a trail of carts, moistening in the last rays of the day. Pepper is the newly mined Golf public champion after she made a stressed Comment on the slow game In last weekend broadcast – a comment that resonated with all those who play or watch this sport. This does not mean that golf is broken. But it can certainly speed up.

But Pepper was hit in another mood of the moment as she looked outside the 17th green, where the sun was minutes of meeting the Pacific Ocean.

“Some other days of this would be fine,” she said.

This was a common feeling. The tour has its best players in the country. They will do battle over what this magazine considers The best public course in the United States. It is the first event of the full signature of the season, Capital S, Capital E, which will be aired on the first weekend without football in five months. The only thing that can take the path of this year is the thing that took the way last year: weather. Pebble Beach is one of just a few dozen places in the SH.BA where locals say some version of: Don’t like the weather? Just wait five minutes! But in recent years we have seen rain, hail, rain, fog, unbearable rain, etc.

Last year’s event was a mess. The benefits played with favorite lies and then, after the storm began, they did not play at all. Wynham Clark set the course record and was hanged to win when the tournament was called after 54 holes. It was bad for spectators, bad for players, bad for a series of signature events that required a signature moment.

It was a vanguard of the disappointments that would come. Tour TV estimates decreased with change and never seemed to recover in the weeks that followed; A short -cut tour of the rain threatened to infect the entire list.

But this year? The clouds seem to be separated. On Tuesday, temperatures climbed in the mid -50s, barely wrapped the Beach weather, but more than quite nice for a sweater and a walk. The weekend forecast, a joyful volunteer, has exceeded 80 percent of rain in less than 20. We can even see temperatures in the 1960s.

PGA Tour has returned. And professional golf is eager for some clear sky.

Dylan dethier welcomes your comments to Dylan_dethier@golf.com.

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