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Five months after having hip replacement surgery, 52-year-old Peter Jacobsen is back on the golf course. But he's still not healthy. Jacobsen is having back problems, just as predicted by Mort Bertram, the Naples doctor who performed the surgery.
-- Naples News

PGA Tour officials say they likely will pick a city to host their July 5-8 tournament by the end of next week, and the Washington area remains a viable candidate. But several executives involved in past years with Washington's longtime professional golf event said this week they have doubts the tour will return to the nation's capital this year.
-- Washington Post

The California amateur championship, held at Pebble Beach every year but one since the seaside links opened in 1919 -- the course was built, in part, for the tournament -- is hitting the road. This year's 96th edition of the state amateur will be played at Monterey Peninsula Country Club. Not surprisingly, money was a driving factor behind the departure from Pebble. The Pebble Beach Company gave the California Golf Association a discount on green fees, but the price was still significant; after all, a standard round at Pebble now costs $450 (and will rise to $475 on April 1).
-- San Francisco Chronicle

Attendance for the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am was 128,592, a drop of 13 percent from last year's record total (148,238). Tournament director Ollie Nutt said advance ticket sales were slightly higher than in 2006; he attributed the decrease in gate sales to perpetually gloomy weather forecasts.
-- San Francisco Chronicle

On the 601-yard, par-5 17th hole at The Gallery yesterday, both Phil Mickelson and Justin Rose hit far enough down the fairway to try to reach the green in two shots. Rose hit his approach into a greenside bunker and Mickelson's rolled through the green to leave him with a downhill chip for eagle. He left it eight feet short, missed the birdie putt, and conceded the match.
-- New York Times

The loss for Phil Mickelson was his earliest exit at the Accenture Match Play Championship since 2002, when he was defeated in the first round. It also ended a streak in which he played six tournaments in a row, including a missed cut at the FBR Open, a five-shot victory at Pebble Beach, and an ill-timed bogey on the 18th hole that cost him a victory at the Nissan Open last Sunday. He is scheduled to play next at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, starting March 15.
-- New York Times

The PGA Tour is making its debut south of the border this week with the Mayakoba Golf Classic in an area known as the Riviera Maya. Fittingly enough, the Greg Norman-designed El Camaleon golf course playing host to the event was built for tourists. For all its natural beauty, the course might not challenge the pros too much, unless there's a stiff enough wind off the Caribbean Sea.
-- PGA.com

Julieta Granada needed her mother to caddie because she couldn't pay for a real one on the Futures Tour. Now, Granada can't afford to lose her. While a few LPGA Tour players occasionally have their fathers on the bag, the Granadas are the only regular mother-daughter combo. And they're a formidable team.
-- PGA.com

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