Bill Murray Helps D.A. Points to PGA Tour Pro-Am Victory at Pebble Beach

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Published: February 14, 2011

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Golf writer Andy Reistetter was on site at Pebble Beach to witness the modern Cinderella story of D.A. Points' first victory on the PGA Tour and the triumph of Bill Murray, a.k.a. Carl Spackler, a.k.a. the regular golfer like all of us, in the granddaddy of all Pro-Ams at America's home course Pebble Beach.

"Da Bears" didn't win this year, but D.A. Points and another guy from Illinois, a comedian-turned-dramatic-actor who kept him loose, surely did win.

Two guys from the Prairie State dressed in blue and orange walked the fairways and putted the greens of famed Pebble Beach Golf Links on another glorious day on the Monterey Peninsula.

These were the same fairways where Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson and last year Graeme McDowell won U.S. Opens.

It was fate, pure and simple.

The stage was the difficult, slightly uphill dogleg right 573-yard par-5 14th hole.

The stage of a tilted, tiny and tempest of a green where last year from the fairway Paul Goydos watched Bryce Molder made a quadruple bogey 9 and then did the same thing.

Points holed the improbable shot—a gap wedge from 107 yards—and then for added measure, made a putt of nearly 30 feet on the next.

The golf gods kept his tee shot in bounds on the 16th, and then the "Murray Magic" kicked in on the green to save the victory for self and team.

Though this time, the roles were reversed, and it was Points using Murray's tactics to urge his partner on.

"Go ahead and make the putt, the crowd will enjoy that."

Of course, Murray didn't make his putt, though the still loose Points did.

Points got the point and made the knee knocker from six feet to seal the victories for the kid from central Illinois, and the no longer young in age man from the chick is in the car and the car won't go "Chicago."

As Murray would say, "Done, it was over after 14, 15 and 16."
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Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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