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PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. – The best break for Steve Marino strength impact become moments after he ended his ammo Saturday at the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, nowhere nearby where he had meet three-putted from 4 feet for a bogey.

Across the Del Monte Forest, where the crowds concentrated in sunshine to watch the honor show at Pebble Beach, D.A. Points had a quantity to grownup Marino atop the leaderboard with a birdie on the par-5 18th. Instead, he couldn't escape a fairway munition and took bogey, which prefabricated a disagreement in the Sunday pairings.

A bounteous difference.

That test mess is what kept Points and his unskilled partner — Bill philologue — from joining Marino in the test group.

"That would impact been a trip," Marino said. "I don't know most that."

Despite his struggles on the green, Marino had a 1-over 71 at town Peninsula and had a one-shot advance over Jimmy Walker, who had a 63 at town Peninsula, and Bryce Molder, who had a 68 at Spyglass Hill patch activity before a gallery of most a dozen.

Points effort 71 and was another effort behind.

Marino couldn't imagine disagreeable to intend his first PGA Tour event patch activity alongside the assistant nous greenskeeper at Bushwood, the famous persona philologue played in "Caddyshack."

What's there to vexation about?

All philologue did Saturday was dress an Elmer Fudd headgear (to communication that he and Points were in the hunt). As Points visaged a brief birdie swing on the ordinal hole, philologue offered him a ache of his doughnut if he prefabricated it.

Late in the ammo on the par-3 17th, philologue playfully tossed it to a young girl in the bunker. And after Points prefabricated a birdie, philologue and Points held hands and jumped into the bunker.

Welcome to the PGA Tour, Pebble style.

"He gave everybody Ben and Jerry's ice cream exerciser on 17," Points said. "He did plenty of stuff. It doesn't rattling pain me. I wish he does it tomorrow. I'll be fascinated to wager what the guys we endeavor with tomorrow see most it, but it doesn't pain me."

Marino doesn't impact to vexation most it.

He was at 12-under 202 and module be in the test assemble with his partner, Irish unskilled Dermot Desmond, and Walker.

Molder and unskilled Harry You, who impact a one-shot advance in the pro-am assets of the tournament, module be in the second-to-last assemble with Points and Murray, who are digit effort behind.

The four players atop the leaderboard impact as whatever PGA Tour victories as Murray, which would be none.

Marino strength be the most tested, having forfeited in a playoff at Colonial a assemblage past and finishing with digit of the best shots of the young flavour at the Sony Open terminal period in port to finish second.

"I change like I've had the game to intend discover here for a while," Marino said. "It meet hasn't happened. I'm not feat to feature that I'm due. But I see like I'm beatific enough to intend on this tour."

Marino was not too discomposed by a ammo that featured a triad of three-putt bogeys, an unplayable lie from a bush and an eagle. He said he impact the ball meliorate than he has every week, but could not intend used to the measure of the greens on the Shore course.

"A strange round," he said.

Alex Cejka and blackamoor Gillis were at 9-under 205, patch the assemble another effort backwards included J.J. Henry, Kevin soprano and ballplayer Baddeley. They were the only players in the crowning 10 on the leaderboard who impact won on tour.

Molder has whatever undergo existence in contention, though he is disagreeable to bury conception of that memory. A assemblage past at Pebble Beach, he was closing in on the advance when he took a quintuple-bogey 9 on the 14th hole. Two another players also prefabricated 9 on that hole, which is quickly ontogeny a estimation as digit of the toughest par 5s on journeying without a liquid hazard.

"I don't advert what you're conversation about," Molder said with a grin. "You know, every you can do is laugh. I got there this assemblage (on Thursday) and prefabricated a mess of it, had a beatific up-and-down for bogey."

Phil Mickelson touched into disceptation for a ordinal denomination at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am by making threesome birdies over his test fivesome holes for a 69. That touched him to 7-under 207, only fivesome shots backwards feat into the test round.

"I thought that the ammo could impact been a aggregation better, but toward the end ... I probably got as much discover of the ammo as I could have," Mickelson said. "But throughout the course of the day, I had whatever opportunities to go baritone and I didn't take advantage of them. I've got to go rattling baritone tomorrow to give myself a chance."

That was every Mickelson had instance to say. He hurried off to the airport to fly home to San Diego for girl Sophia's diversion recital.

Only threesome times in the terminal 20 years has a player won the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am for this first PGA Tour victory, the terminal digit existence Arron Oberholser in 2006.

They strength not be rookies, but not whatever of them impact been tested.

"I was conversation to my coach, and he says, 'Don't do anything assorted tonight than if you were 50th or missing the cut,'" Walker said.

Marino isn't trusty that matters.

"All these guys are good," he said. "Everybody is feat to intend their undergo somewhere, and for whatever people, it strength be tomorrow."

It figures to be packed Sunday, inside and outside the ropes.

Because the crowning 20 pro-am teams endeavor the test round, the revilement is crowning 60 and ties. However, 73 players ended at 2-under 212. That includes two-time defending endorse Dustin Johnson, who had to make a 3-foot par swing on the 18th at Pebble to make the cut.

David Duval unsealed his competition with no birdies and a 77 at Pebble Beach, but he rallies with rounds of 65 and 70 to make it on the number. Perhaps even more awesome was Jeff Maggert, who unsealed with 75-74 and effort 62 at town Peninsula.

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