Pebble Beach for pros only this year because of COVID spike
FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020, file photo, Bill Murray tosses his putter into a bunker after missing a birdie putt on the 18th green of the Pebble Beach Golf Links during the celebrity challenge event of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am golf tournament, in Pebble Beach, Calif. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)The only stars at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am this year will be the players and the golf course. The 156-man field on Feb. 11-14 will be held only at Pebble Beach and Spyglass Hill. The tournament will have a pro-am on Wednesday at Pebble Beach, as other PGA Tour events have done in recent months. Pebble Beach winners include Woods and Jack Nicklaus, and more recently Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth and five-time winner Phil Mickelson.
โLean On Me,โ โLovely Dayโ singer Bill Withers dies at 81
โLean on Me,โ a paean to friendship, was performed at the inaugurations of both Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. โAinโt No Sunshineโ and โLean on Meโ are among Rolling Stoneโs list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. โBill Withers is the closest thing black people have to a Bruce Springsteen.โHis death caused a torrent of appreciation on social media, including from former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, who said Withers' music has been a cherished part of her life. "Bill Withersโ songs are among the most treasured and profound in the American songbook โ universal in the way they touch people all over the world, transcending genre and generation. And Bill seemed to understand, intrinsically and instinctively, how to do that,โ Sting said in โStill Bill,โ a 2010 documentary of Withers.