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Pebble Beach more than a meeting of land and sea
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PEBBLE BEACH (AP) — Pebble Beach is renowned as the most felicitous meeting of land and sea.The tournament is a meeting of a different variety.For some, it’s an acquired taste.The AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am is a confluence of some of the most important elements on the PGA Tour — corporate support and entertainment value, amateur involvement and professional performance, on a golf course that fans and television viewers would all want to play.That’s what brought Peter Jacobsen back inside the ropes.Jacobsen, who turns 64 next month, is playing Pebble for the first time in 10 years. He is exempt as a past champion. Never mind that his two-shot victory was 23 years ago when he closed with a 65 to hold off a PGA Tour rookie named David Duval.“I was old back then,” Jacobsen said Tuesday as he headed out for a practice round.Why play now?It was simply a matter of one request turning into another, along with his deep passion for what he considers the best event on the PGA Tour.The executive director of the Monterey Peninsula Foundation is retiring, and Jacobsen was asked to be at the dinner in her honor Tuesday night.