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By Greg Beacham
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. —
Davis Love HI was right: Staying
ahead is even tougher than com
ing from behind at the Pebble
Beach National Pro-Am.
Fortunately for Love, he’s
capable of doing both.
Love surrendered a three-
stroke lead over Tom Lehman
with six holes to play on Sunday,
bin made a short birdie putt on the
18th hole for a one-stroke victory
- his first win since his first
Pebble Beach triumph in 2001.
On the fourth straight day of
perfect weather on the Monterey
Peninsula, two veterans, whose
careers have lagged recently, bat-
fled down the stretch of an enter-
laining final round in the popular
pro-am.
Love, who made up a seven-
stroke deficit to win at Pebble
Beach in 2001, took advantage of
Ihe conditions with an extraordi
nary string of birdies, but Lehman
caught him down the stretch, set
ting up a dramatic finish.
After beginning the day with a
two-stroke lead. Love made six
Hies in the eight holes around
flie turn. Lehman charged back
with three straight birdies on the
back nine and another on the
17th, but Love made a 4-foot
birdie putt on the 18th —
moments after Lehman missed a
similar putt.
“A win for me after two years
of coming close and not being
100 percent physically, that’s
great for me,” said Love, who got
his 15th PGA Tour victory with a
final-round 68 to finish at 14-
under 274 for the tournament. “It
feels like a great start.”
Love thrust his hands into the
air shortly after the last shot. His
share of the $5 million purse was
$900,000 — the biggest pay-
check in 18 years on tour for the
third-leading money winner in
PGA history.
Before his victory at Pebble
Beach in 2001, Love had gone 62
events and 34 months between
victories. This time, he had been
without a win in 44 official events
over 24 months while playing a
slightly reduced schedule becaifc?
of neck and back problems.
A win for me
after two years of
coming close... that’s
great for me..
— Davis Love III
PGA Tour Professional
Lehman finished with a 5-
under 67 to go 13-under for the
tournament. It was his best finish
since the 2001 Sony Open in
Hawaii — and a thrilling result
for Lehman, whose wife,
Melissa, is nearly ready to deliver
their fourth child. He doesn’t plan
to go back East with the tour fol
lowing the West Coast swing.
Tim Herron — who shot a
final-round 66 — and Mike Weir
finished third at 276, two strokes
behind Love. Weir, off to the best
start of his career, won last
week’s Bob Hope Classic and
held the lead over playing partner
Love on the front nine.
Love said the win was even
tougher than his triumph in
2001, when he made up seven
strokes against Weir, Phil
Mickelson and the rest of the
field. Maybe that’s because the
conditions were gorgeous — and
decidedly out of the ordinary at
the normally soggy course.
Love fell behind Weir with
two early bogeys. He made up the
deficit with a phenomenal string
of birdies — including the par-3
12th, where Love’s tee shot took
a serendipitous bounce off a
greenside photographer to within
feet of the cup.
Love led by three strokes after
another birdie on the 13th, but
Lehman kept the same steady
pace he maintained through all
four days — and then made his
move with three straight birdies
midway through the back nine.
Lehman hit an 18-footer for a
dramatic birdie on the par-3 17th
hole to go 13-under — just
moments before Love, playing
cautiously for the first time all
day, hit into the sand and the
rough before missing a short
downhill putt for bogey on the
16th, pulling him back into a tie
with Lehman.
After Love saved par on the
17th with a tricky 8-foot putt that
hung on the lip for an instant,
Lehman made an outstanding
chip from the rough around the
famous 18th green. But Lehman
missed the birdie attempt with his
long putter, leaving the door open
for Love’s outstanding iron shot
to the green and a two-putt finish.
Mickelson shot an 80 on
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“The task force has a broad mandate and a lot
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chair the task force with fellow vice president
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“We have a unique chance in the history of our
organization to create real change that we have
needed to make for a very long time.”
And frankly, the USOC doesn’t have much
choice. Congress has the authority to revoke the
USOC’s charter, and it has very little patience
with the group these days. One senator, Ben
Nighthorse Campbell, even said chief executive
officer Lloyd Ward should resign because of his
role in the recent scandals.
A second Congressional hearing is scheduled for
Thursday, and senators have asked witnesses for
suggestions on fixing the USOC’s unwieldy operat
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“This gives us the opportunity to show Congress
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said Jim McCarthy, a member of the USOC’s exec
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“We’ve had reports with these suggestions
before,” he added. “The advantage now is we’re
getting a big push.”
Political intrigue and power struggles between
volunteers and paid staffers are nothing new to the
USOC. But the recent turmoil has been bad — even
by USOC standards.
Since Ward was accused in December of trying
to steer Olympic business to his brother’s company,
five USOC members have quit, president Marty
Mankamyer resigned and the organization’s leaders
have been called before Congress.
The group has now had three presidents in the
last 11 months, and three CEOs since 2000.
“The USOC needs to take decisive action to
get our house in order,” interim president Bill
Martin said. “... The time for action, change and
improvement is now.”
Martin said he would name the rest of the reform
task force early this week. The group will then focus
on six areas: ethical behavior; governance and orga
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sure; and fundraising efficiency.
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the USOC’s ethics process, which has been under
fire for the way conflict-of-interest allegations
against Ward were handled. The executive commit
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five USOC members — including ethics compli
ance officer Pat Rodgers — to resign in protest.
The USOC’s compensation committee ruled
Ward had committed two ethical violations, and he
was stripped of his $ 184,800 bonus Saturday.
“There are no specific recommendations yet,
but we need to have an ethics process that is in line
with the best practices of Fortune 100 compa
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model that won’t be reviewed or any idea that
won’t be considered.”
The size of the USOC’s board of directors will
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members, and almost everyone agrees it’s too big.
But where can it be trimmed?
“In some form, we have to be a big tent, and
have to provide an opportunity for all amateur
organizations to have a voice,” Martin said. “We
don’t know how we’re going to do it.”
But they’re determined to try.
“I don’t think you change the world over the
weekend. I think that it is a continuum,” Ward said.
“I think ultimately what blunts any criticism is not
what occurs in a meeting, but what occurs in per
formance.
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won’t be one that has no history,” he added. “But I
think it will be one now where this weekend will
create a little bit of air cover and a little bit of a run
way so that we can do some good, and I’m excited
about that.”
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