AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am

When: Thursday through Sunday

Where: Pebble Beach, Spyglass

Hill and Monterey Peninsula

Country Club (Shore Course) Who: 156 pros and 156 amateurs Purse: $7.8 million ($1.4 million to the winner) TV: Noon to 3 p.m. Thursday and Friday (Golf Channel); 10 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Saturday and

Sunday (Golf Channel); noon to 3 p.m. Saturday and noon to 3:30 p.m. Sunday 5#z Notable pros: The field includes six of the top 30 players in this week’s world ranking in twotime AT&T champion Dustin

Johnson (No. 5), Patrick Cantlay (8), Paul Casey (20), Matt Kuchar (21), Matthew Fitzpatrick (25) and Kevin Na (28). Other big names slated to tee off: two-time winner Brandt Snedeker

(now ranked No. 43), Jason

Day (46), 2017 champ Jordan

Spieth (55) and five-time winner

Phil Mickelson (72).

Celebrities the are country amateurs music to playing watch: singers this Among week Jake

Owen and Toby Keith; actors/ entertainers Bill Murray and

Alfonso Ribeiro; 2015 Miss

America Kira K. Dixon (formerly

Kazantsev); and rapper Macklemore, who will make his Pro-Am debut. The amateur field also includes six current or former

NFL quarterbacks: Eli and Peyton Manning, Aaron Rodgers,

Matt Ryan, Tony Romo and

Steve Young. Last fifth AT&T year: title, Mickelson matching won Mark his

O’Meara for most in tournament history. Mickelson shot a bogeyfree, weather-delayed, finalround 65 to surge past Casey (71). The event was suspended

by darkness Sunday, forcing

Mickelson and Casey to play the final two-plus holes Monday morning. Harding on horizon: This week’s event counts as an appetizer on the 2020 Northern California golf calendar. Barely more than three months from now (May 14-17), San Francisco’s

Harding Park will host the PGA

Championship, the first major in the municipal course’s long, rich history.

NorCal roots: Sacramento native Cameron Champ, one of the longest hitters on the PGA

Tour, will try to win again in

Northern California; he took the

Safeway Open in Napa in September. Other pros with NorCal ties include Ricky Barnes, Joseph

Bramlett, Brandon Hagy, James

Hahn, Max Homa, Mark Hubbard, Maverick McNealy, Patrick

Rodgers, Isaiah Salinda, Justin

Suh, Martin Trainer, Nick Watney and Brandon Wu.

Homa’s ascent: At this time last year, Homa, the 2013 NCAA individual champion at Cal, was ranked outside the world’s top 300 players and had about 22,000 followers on Twitter. Now, after pocketing his first PGA Tour victory last May in Charlotte, Homa is ranked No. 95 and many more people see his social-media wit and humor. Homa now has nearly 120,000 Twitter followers.

Forecast: No Crosby weather this year, according to weather. com. The forecast calls for mostly sunny skies and temperatures in the high 50s throughout the tournament, with only a 10% chance of rain each day.

Tickets: attpbgolf.com

Parking: Free parking is located at Cal State Monterey Bay in Marina. Spectators can take shuttles to the main gate at Pebble Beach.