Like the Super Bowl, Olympics or soccer’s World’s Cup, U.S. Open Golf Championship sites are awarded years in advance.
As such, during the Walmart First Tee Open at Pebble Beach Golf Links (Aug. 29-31), the merchandise store for the 2010 U.S. Open on the famed Monterey Peninsula was open and doing a brisk business.
The spacious [...]

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Scott Simpson, the former U.S. Open winner on the PGA Tour who won the First Tee event in 2006, is playing with a new junior this year in the Walmart First Tee Open after two years of partnering with Robert Carter of Little Rock, Ark.
“Playing with the kids is really fun,” said Simpson. “I heard [...]

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It’s not often junior athletes get to experience what it’s like to be a professional athlete. But in the Walmart First Tee Open that’s exactly what happens.
It’s not quite playing in the National Basketball Association, National Hockey League or National Football League.
But for the fifth straight year, 78 junior players from around the country are [...]

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It’s almost two years away - the 2010 U.S. Open. But it will be in Pebble Beach. And, eat your heart out, that’s where I am sitting as I write this.
I am here at the invitation of a friend, James Raia, hanging out in the Media Press room.
I am a rookie golfer, more like a [...]

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