Attractive young professional golfers Rickie Fowler and Ryo Ishikawa, will be joined by attractive young actors Chris O'Donell and Lucas Black tomorrow morning for a round of golf at Monterrey Peninsula Country Club. The fetching foursome has an 8:33 tee time for the first round of 2010 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. To find them you'll probably want to look for an ambulating mix of teenage girls and Japanese photographers. It'll be quite interesting to see how the two future stars interact, as they'll almost certainly be playing together for years to come.
But Rickie and Ryo aren't the only ones who'll attract attention, in fact there are quite a number of provocative pairings. Sergio Garcia will be playing with Josh Duhamel who happens to be a friend of his... and who's own "he cheated with a stripper" adventure has been giving Tiger Woods some competition in the tabloids of late. Then there'll be Cowboys uber-fan John Daly and Tony Romo. They'll attract a crowd even if they don't wear matching Loudmouths.
Some lamented a lack of big name celebrities, longing for the legendary days of Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Jack Lemmon... and Jack Daniels. Clearly "stars" were "stars" back then... in a way they just aren't these days. The popularity of reality shows and cable series has seen to that. But the golf course on the shores of Pebble Beach is still as incredibly beautiful as ever and it'll be fun to watch young golfers Ryo and Rickie play there for the first of what will certainly be many times.
This morning an awesome Japanese reader sent me this link to a clip showing Ryo playing a practice round on the misty seaside course with a rainbow overhead. The young champion looked tired, almost jaded as he walked the wet fairways. But then his group comes to a clearing and discovers a small herd of deer... and a few seconds later a hawk suddenly takes wing in front of them. And that short clip perfectly illustrates the lasting beauty of golf at Pebble Beach.
I would definitely be following that group. It's so true that the beauty of great courses like Pebble is eternal.
ReplyDeleteI always enjoy your website, so I'm glad that you could find the movie link of the beautiful rainbow & Ryo!
ReplyDeleteThere is no golf course like pebble beach in japan.... it's really plenty of beauty of the big wave of the ocsian, strong see wind, or beautiful wild animals.... I'm looking forward to watch the game tonight!
I will report you if I find another interesting articles.
By the way, Ryo said that Rickie and him played in US 4 years ago (when they are really kids!) and they had strong impression each other....
Very interesting pairing.... !
I wish Jack Lemmon was still alive and still trying to make his first cut there.
ReplyDeleteI've read a lot of blogs complaining about the washed-up celebrities but I get the feeling they'd be complaining just a vigorously about Bing Crosby's guys if there were blogs back then. ;)
ReplyDeleteI guess it will be the most colorful foursome too. ;)
ReplyDeleteRyo will have to learn how to pace himself and plan around the travel even the very young can't play well when they're sleep deprived and when you arrive someplace after a 12 hour flight and can't sleep because your internal clock is set to a different time zone... it takes a toll.
ReplyDeleteJD's -1. Praying he has a strong showing this tourney. He's working so hard.
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