Tiger-Phil Pairing Set For Sunday To Help Nation Recover From Annual Saturday Pro-Am Debacle

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As longtime readers know, my medical team has strictly forbidden me from watching the Saturday CBS telecast from the AT&T National Pro-Am for fear that I may break out in hives at the first CEO/blantant shill (hello friend Cindy Davis!).  And especially when my beloved Shackleford is running at Gulfstream (sixth, after a layoff).
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Golf Gods Work Quickly Sometimes: Stanley Wins!

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A week after collapsing at Torrey Pines, Kyle Stanley was the beneficiary of Spencer Levin's Sunday struggles. John Strege explains:

Levin's bid for a first PGA Tour victory was undone by the toxic mix of sand, water and jumping cholla.

It was no less painful to watch than Stanley's implosion in his own bid for victory No. 1 a week earlier, when he needed no worse than a seven at the 72nd hole to win the Farmers Insurance Open, made eight, and lost in a playoff.

"That's golf," Stanley said, attempting to explain the inexplicable.

The upshot was that the Waste Management Phoenix Open was a tournament lost instead of won, notwithstanding the six-under par 65 registered by its winner by default, Stanley, who might have clinched the 2012 PGA Tour comeback player of the year award. He overcame an eight-shot deficit in a single round only a week after his own devasting loss.

Levin graciously sat in the press center and took questions after the round.

Here are the highlights, in case you were distracted by Super Bowl pre-game entertainment Lenny Kravitz and The Fray...

"'You're going to put a what?'"

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Adam Schupak with a fun flashback story of Deane Beman asking Gary McCord his thoughts on the future TPC Scottsdale site, home to the in-progress Waste Management Open.

"I remember I was at Phoenix Country Club," McCord said, "and I got a phone call from Deane Beman and he goes, 'Gary, I need a board member to go out and look at some land we're looking at.' So Ed Sneed and I go out and we're sitting on the burn out there where the driving range is for the East Golf Course and there's the Scottsdale Airport. There were a few buildings around a few hangars and nothing else. There's nothing. I turn and look at Pinnacle Peak. There's a few homes, I think Desert Highlands (Golf Club) had opened and then there's nothing. I look north and I don't see anything.  I turn to Ed and I said, 'What the hell is this?' He said, 'I don't know.'