Here is a complete list of the clubs that Dustin Johnson used to win his second consecutive AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am:

DRIVER: TaylorMade R9 (10.5°) with Fujikura Motore F1 shaft
FAIRWAY WOOD: TaylorMade R9 (15°) with Aldila RIP 90 shaft
HYBRID: TaylorMade Rescue TP (22°) with a Matrix Ozik Altus shaft
IRONS: TaylorMade R9 (3-9) with True Temper Dynamic Gold shafts
WEDGES: TaylorMade RAC (48°, 54°), Cleveland 588 Chrome (60°) with True Temper Dynamic Gold shafts
PUTTER: Scotty Cameron for Titleist Newport 2 prototype
BALL: TaylorMade Penta

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MARANA, Ariz. — Last week at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, TaylorMade tour reps showed a new prototype rescue club to a few PGA Tour players in hopes of getting some feedback. Jim Furyk, Charles Howell, Rory Sabbatini and Dustin Johnson all tried it.

The new club has not officially been named, but will likely be called the Rescue TP ’10. Cosmetically it is very similar to the current Rescue TP and features TaylorMade’s adjustable face angle technology, but it has a smaller head and deeper face in the toe area. The club also features an area in the rear of the sole that houses a weight plug.

Here are three photos of the club:

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PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — We may look back at Sunday’s ungainly conclusion of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, when U.S. Open-like calamity arrived four months early, as the beginning of the Dustin Johnson era.

We’ve seen Tiger Woods win ugly and then proclaim, “It’s good to get the W.”

Johnson won ugly (74 with a double and three bogeys) and said, “Got up-and-down to get the victory. Can’t beat that.”

At only 25, Johnson has won three times. He seems to have a huge upside. For the sake of the PGA Tour, let’s hope he keeps showing it. Because it would be very easy to view Sunday’s ugly action at beautiful Pebble as an indictment of the Tour without Tiger Woods — proof that in the U.S. the game is, for now, rudderless.

Granted, we in the media usually want things to be neater and cleaner than they are in real life. Very rarely can you sum up a sport in one concise cover line, such as this Sports Illustrated summation in 1999: “David Duval is on fire.”

But it’s cause for pause when Johnson shoots 74 and wins without even having to go to sudden death, just as it was when Ben Crane yanked a two-foot putt on the 71st hole of the Farmers Insurance Open and won in regulation two weeks earlier.

These are not the types of mistakes one can make with Woods on the scene, but then Sunday at Pebble was no ordinary day, as a Biblical plague of banana peels seemed to descend on the par-5 14th hole. That’s where four guys vying for the title went a collective 13 over par — three 9s (Alex Prugh, Bryce Molder and Paul Goydos, in that order) and a comparatively spiffy but still costly bogey 6 (David Duval).

Three 9s is a pretty decent poker hand or a leisurely workweek, but it’s not what you expect from the best golfers in the world.

“That’s the amateur’s shot,” a fan said as Molder’s lay-up second shot nestled into the rough right of the 14th fairway, because, of course, pros rarely lay up into trouble.

“No, it’s Molders,” the other fan said.

You could forgive the confusion. The amateurs and pros were playing the same game in more ways than one during Sunday’s five-hour-and-40-minute final round.

Pebble Beach has the tiniest greens on Tour, but we nonetheless witnessed some egregious mistakes. From the middle of the 11th fairway, after watching J.B. Holmes make bogey from behind the green, Goydos, too, found the back bunker and bogeyed.

Tour pros are usually great at identifying where you absolutely cannot hit the ball, and then avoiding that spot. On Sunday they seemed to be aiming for it, whether it was the back bunker on 11 or left of the green on 14, or over the cliff on nine.

Those sorts of mental mishaps once dogged Phil Mickelson, but after he won the Tour Championship and HSBC Champions to close out 2009, he came into this season riding a huge wave of confidence, especially in his newly revamped putting stroke.

He looked so good, in fact, that as the curtain went up on the PGA Tour this year, you could almost hear a voice intone, “Ladies and gentlemen, in tonight’s performance, the role usually played by Tiger Woods will be played by Phil Mickelson. Thank you.”

Alas, Mickelson did not seriously contend at the Farmers, the Northern Trust or the AT&T, and revealed that his putting woes had returned after carding a final-round 71 at Pebble (T8). Like Woods, he will not play the WGC-Accenture Match Play this week.

“They weren’t what I had hoped for,” Mickelson said of his first three weeks, in essence speaking for everyone with an interest in the Tour.

And so we are left with an assortment of 2010 winners who are somewhat random (Ryan Palmer, Bill Haas, Ben Crane) and somewhat not.

Geoff Ogilvy’s repeat victory at Kapalua gave us hope, but he disappeared to play overseas and take care of family obligations as he and his wife, Juli, await the birth of their third child. Steve Stricker, the top seed at the WGC-Accenture, claimed the No. 2 ranking with his victory at Riviera, but his climb back from the abyss is an old story even if it still makes him cry. How many times can we vote a man Comeback Player of the Year?

And so we’re left with Dustin Johnson, our best hope for the breakout star the game needs in Tiger’s absence. Johnson became the first player to go back-to-back at the AT&T since Mark O’Meara 20 years ago, and he is probably one bad round (his third-round 74 at Riviera) from winning in back-to-back weeks. He’s the first player since Woods to win in each of his first three seasons on Tour, and without Woods or Mickelson in the picture this week, the Tour would very much benefit from yet another Johnson triumph.

Could Johnson be a star? He could grow into it. The night before the AT&T began, he was brought onto a stage with fellow young phenom Rickie Fowler at a crowded party emceed by CBS golf mainstays Jim Nantz and Nick Faldo.

Although Fowler took to the spotlight with apparent ease, Johnson initially looked like he might be sick. But he rallied, giving Fowler some grief for his orange golf attire. (Johnson is from South Carolina, so orange means Florida.)

“I don’t like orange,” Johnson quipped.

It wasn’t much, but it was something, a bit of almost-trash talk for the partygoers to latch onto and laugh at. As much as Johnson’s titanic, 288-yard drive into the wind on 18 on Sunday, and his ensuing sand-save for birdie, it showed promise.

We like promise, and right now there’s a lot of it on Tour. Josh Teater (T5 at AT&T) is the fourth player to earn low-rookie honors in the season’s first five weeks.

On the global stage, Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy, Japan’s Ryo Ishikawa, Germany’s Martin Kaymer and Johnson are jockeying for the title of Most Promising.

Johnson and Kaymer have already won this year, and if there’s one thing we like more than promise, it’s young winners, especially young American winners who remind us of Woods, Mickelson or Duval. It’s all about the narrative.

Supposing Johnson goes 6-0 in Tucson this week, here’s a suggested headline: “Dustin Johnson is on fire.”

Golf Channel’s Jim Gray talks with AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am winner Dustin Johnson who held off David Duval and J.B. Holmes to defend his title.

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PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Dustin Johnson stood on the 18th tee as powerful waves crashed along the sea wall along the left side of the famous 18th hole at Pebble Beach. Then he turned to face what he considers the toughest drive on the golf course.

“It’s such a gorgeous hole,” Johnson said. “If you miss it a little left, it’s not so pretty.”

What followed was a tee shot as majestic as the scenery around him.

Johnson’s drive was long and pure, setting up a simple birdie from the greenside bunker Sunday. It gave him a one-shot victory over David Duval and J.B. Holmes, making him the first player in 20 years to win back-to-back in the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.

(Read what our experts have to say about Johnson’s win, Duval’s lost opportunity and more in PGA Tour Confidential, our weekly roundtable.)

Johnson closed with a 2-over 74, the highest final round by a Pebble Beach champion since Johnny Miller (74) in 1994. The 25-year-old Johnson is the first player since Tiger Woods to go straight from college and win in each of his first three years on the PGA Tour.

Johnson hit a 3-iron into the front right bunker, the best place to miss, and blasted out to 3 feet. He lightly pumped his fist when he made the putt, a mixture of celebration and relief from a long day in which four players had a share of the lead at some point.

“All you can ask for is a chance to win on the last hole,” Johnson said.

Paul Goydos didn’t get that opportunity. Leading by one shot with five holes to play, Goydos hit a chip that ran off the other side of the treacherous 14th green, another chip that came back down the slope toward his feet and three-putted for a quadruple-bogey 9.

He wound up with a 78 and tied for fifth.

Two other players – Bryce Molder and Alex Prugh – also made a 9 on the par-5 14th hole, the kind of carnage typically seen at the U.S. Open, which will be at Pebble in four months.

“It wasn’t like I didn’t try on all nine shots,” Goydos said. “The ninth one I really wasn’t all that excited about. Just everything I did on that hole didn’t work out.”

Johnson’s two victories were nothing alike.

He essentially won last year when he walked off Spyglass Hill on a Saturday with a four-shot lead. Johnson was declared the winner two days later when the tournament was shortened to 54 holes because of rain.

He had to work a lot longer – and harder – this time around.

Duval put together his best four rounds in years, closing with a 3-under 69 that he didn’t think would be enough until Johnson went over the green and made a pair of bogeys on the back nine.

Johnson’s power, and the shot he struck on the 18th, made all the difference.

Duval doesn’t have the length to get home in two at Pebble’s closing hole, not into the ocean breeze on soft fairways, so he played smartly to the right. His wedge came up just enough short to catch the slope and roll 30 feet away.

“I feel like I did most of the things I wanted to do today,” Duval said.

Holmes has the length, but he didn’t have the direction on the 18th. Playing in the group ahead of Johnson, he hit into the right rough and had to lay up, then missed a birdie putt just outside 12 feet.

“Would have liked it to end a little better for me, but I had a good week,” Holmes said after a 71. “Had my chances.”

Johnson made the most of his.

“The tee shot he hit on 18 was all world,” Goydos said. “I mean, that’s never straight and narrow where he’s hitting the ball, consider he has to make 4 to win the golf tournament. Pretty impressive.”

Johnson became the first player since Davis Love III in 2003 to win Pebble Beach with a birdie on the 72nd hole from the final group. He finished at 16-under 270 and moved to No. 2 in the Ryder Cup standings.

His future looks as bright as the sunshine that graced the Monterey Peninsula for so much of the week. Not since Mark O’Meara in 1990 has someone won back-to-back at Pebble Beach, and this can only help Johnson with the U.S. Open coming to Pebble this summer. The other back-to-back winners are all in the Hall of Fame – Sam Snead, Cary Middlecoff, Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson.

“That’s not a bad list,” Johnson said. “Anytime you’re on a list with those guys, you’re doing all right.”

Johnson joins Sean O’Hair as the only Americans in the their 20s with three PGA Tour victories.

Duval earned $545,600 and might be able to take some confidence to Mexico for the Mayakoba Classic. After he tied for second in the U.S. Open last summer, Duval took the next two weeks off and missed seven cuts over his last eight tournaments to lose his card.

The U.S. Open returns to Pebble Beach for the fifth time in June, although it will be far differently with firm greens and fast fairways. Even so, it doesn’t hurt Johnson to have won twice here, even if he had only two sub-par holes in the final round.

The other was his eagle on the par-5 sixth, when he pounded a tee shot and had only a 6-iron to the green, sticking it to 4 feet.

And while he treats his two victories equally, nothing tops walking off the 18th green in sunshine before thousands of fans, instead of last year when he got a phone call at breakfast on a rainy Monday morning with news he had won.

“Walking down that 18th hole with all the fans out there was just unbelievable, especially with the clear day,” Johnson said. “It’s one of the most beautiful holes in golf.”

By using his TaylorMade rac 10 wedge to hit his bunker shot on the final
hole to four feet, Dustin Johnson was left with an easy putt to win the AT&T
Pebble Beach National Pro-Am and become the first player since Tiger Woods
to win in each of his first three years on the PGA Tour. On the Champions
Tour, Fred Couples won the ACE Group Classic in just his second start on the
senior circuit, using Bridgestone’s J38 irons to lead the field in greens in
regulation. In his two senior starts, Couples is a combined 38 under par.

Dustin Johnson
Ball: TaylorMade Penta TP
Driver: TaylorMade R9, (Fujikura Motore F1), 10.5 degrees
3-wood: TaylorMade r9, 15 degrees
Hybrid club: TaylorMade Rescue TP FCT, 21 degrees
Irons (3-9): TaylorMade r9; (PW) TaylorMade rac 10 prototype
Wedges: TaylorMade rac 10 (54, 60 degrees)
Putter: Scotty Cameron by Titleist GSS

Fred Couples
Ball: Bridgestone B330
Driver: TaylorMade R9 460 (Fujikura Speeder 665), 8.5 degrees
3-wood: Callaway FT-i, 15 degrees
Irons (2): TaylorMade Tour Burner; (3-PW): Bridgestone J38
Wedges: Callaway X-Forged (54, 58 degrees)
Putter: TaylorMade Rossa Imola 6

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Dustin Johnson and Paul Goydos could not be any more different, which is why it was so odd to see them atop the leaderboard Saturday at the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am with identical scores.

On their birth certificates, Goydos is 20 years older. On the tee, Johnson is 48 yards longer.

Johnson is tall and athletic. Goydos is … not.

They played with the gifts they have, and they used them brilliantly on a gorgeous afternoon that gives Pebble Beach such iconic status as America’s most famous seaside course.

Johnson overpowered Spyglass Hill for an 8-under 64 that included two eagles. Goydos poked his way along the splendid coastline of Pebble Beach and birdied two of the last three holes for an 8-under 64.

Nothing separated them on the scoreboard, which is all that matters. They were at 18-under 196, four shots clear of anyone else heading into the final round.

“His game is a little different from mine,” said Johnson, who will try to become only the fifth back-to-back winner of the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, and the first in 20 years. “And he finds a way to get it done.”

Johnson began his round at Spyglass Hill with a 343-yard drive, leaving him a hybrid for his second shot on the 595-yard hole. It rolled past the pin, and he made a 20-foot eagle from the fringe.

Goydos ripped a 268-yard drive on the par-5 second hole at Pebble Beach, leaving him a 3-wood into the 513-yard hole that he hit to 8 feet for an eagle.

Two questions to each player spoke volumes about how different they play.

Goydos was asked if he will simply ignore how far Johnson hits the ball off the tee.

“No, I fully panic,” Goydos said. “You know, it is what it is. I don’t know if ‘ignore’ is the right word, but you appreciate. I’m going to appreciate his play, but you go out and play your game, too. I have do things differently than he does, and he’s got to do things differently than I do.”

Johnson was asked which course plays long for him. His answer came through a fixed smile.

“Not too many of ‘em,” he said.

Even so, the 25-year-old Johnson, emerging as one of the top young American stars, is not about to take Goydos lightly.

“It doesn’t matter how far you hit it or where you hit it,” Johnson said. “You’ve just got to find a way to get it in the hole. Whoever can get it in the hole tomorrow is going to come out with the victory.”

J.B. Holmes and Bryce Molder each had a 68 at Spyglass Hill, while Matt Jones had a 66 on the Shore Course at Monterey Peninsula. They were tied for third at 14-under 200.

David Duval had a 67 and was tied for seventh. Phil Mickelson had a 69 at Pebble Beach and was eight shots out of the lead.

The biggest star Saturday was the weather, some of the most spectacular conditions this tournament has seen in years. Along the coast of Pebble Beach, huge swells crashed against the rocks and the sea wall.

“The ocean was angry today,” Goydos said. “What they’ve got here is God’s gift to golf.”

Goydos’ game isn’t always so pretty, although there is no disputing how he reached the top of the leaderboard. On the par-5 sixth hole, his second shot from the rough barely cleared the hill and nearly went into a bunker. With an awkward stance, he did well to get it on the green. And after a two-putt par, he said to his partners, “That never looked like it was going to be better than a 5.”

One hole later, with a stiff ocean breeze at his back and a downhill shot to a green 97 yards away, he hit sand wedge to 2 feet.

Over at Spyglass, traditionally the toughest course on the rotation, Johnson was whaling away. The defending champion had two eagles and played the par 5s in 6 under, and he had a chance at the course record of 62 until charging his birdie putt past the hole and missing the comeback putt for par.

“Length is not an issue,” Johnson said. “Doesn’t play very long for me. If I’m hitting it in the fairway, then it definitely plays right into my hands, because I can get to all the par 5s there.”

On this glorious day with a stiff breeze, Spyglass was the place to be. Pebble Beach and the Shore Course at Monterey Peninsula, a par 70 and newcomer to the rotation, are exposed along the ocean. Except for five holes, Spyglass is sheltered by pines and cypress.

Johnson and Goydos couldn’t recall playing with each other before, and even if they did, it’s not like they would have been together given the difference in their tee shots.

Goydos paused when asked if he considered Johnson to be a better player.

“He’s won twice in two years. I’ve won twice in 18,” Goydos said. “‘Better’ is an interesting word. He’s definitely off to a much better start than I had. There’s a slight curve because I’ve been out so long. So if he’d won 10 times after 18 years, the answer is ‘yes.’ But right now? I don’t know.”

Then he paused once more before adding, “He’s definitely showing signs of it.”

Divots: Goydos and Hertz executive Bob Stuart had a one-shot lead in the pro-am competition. The top 25 teams advanced to the final round Sunday. … Johnson or Goydos only need to break par on Sunday to break the 72-hole scoring record of 268, first set by Mark O’Meara in 1997 and matched by Phil Mickelson in 2007. … Adam Scott made a hole-in-one at the par-3 seventh at Monterey Peninsula and shot 64.

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Dustin Johnson is powering his away around the Monterey Peninsula. Paul Goydos is poking along. Two golfers who couldn’t be any more different were tied for the lead Saturday in the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.

Johnson reached the 595-yard opening hole at Spyglass Hill with a hybrid and made a 20-foot eagle from the fringe to send him on his way to an 8-under 64, despite a three-putt bogey on his final hole.

Goydos reached the 513-yard second hole with a 3-wood and made an 8-foot eagle putt, then birdied two of the final three holes for a 64 at Pebble Beach.

They were at 18-under 196 and were four shots clear of anyone else.

Johnson is leading the field this week in driving distance at 310.7 yards. Goydos, who is averaging 262.7 yards off the tee, was asked if he would just ignore Johnson’s power off the tee.

“No, I fully panic,” Goydos said. “You know, it is what it is. I don’t know if ‘ignore’ is the right word, but you appreciate. I’m going to appreciate his play, but you go out and play your game, too. I have do things differently than he does, and he’s got to do things differently than I do.”

J.B. Holmes and Bryce Molder each had a 68 at Spyglass Hill, while Matt Jones had a 66 on the Shore Course at Monterey Peninsula. They were tied for third at 14-under 200.

David Duval had a 67 and was tied for seventh. Phil Mickelson had a 69 at Pebble Beach and was eight shots out of the lead.

The biggest star Saturday was the weather, some of the most spectacular conditions this tournament has seen in years. Along the coast of Pebble Beach, huge swells crashed against the rocks and the sea wall.

“The ocean was angry today,” Goydos said. “What they’ve got here is God’s gift to golf.”

Goydos’ game isn’t always so pretty, although there is no disputing how he reached the top of the leaderboard. On the par-5 sixth hole, his second shot from the rough barely cleared the hill and nearly went into a bunker. With an awkward stance, he did well to get it on the green. And after a two-putt par, he said to his partners, “That never looked like it was going to be better than a 5.”

One hole later, with a stiff ocean breeze at his back and a downhill shot to a green 97 yards away, he hit sand wedge to 2 feet.

Over at Spyglass, traditionally the toughest course on the rotation, Johnson was wailing away. The defending champion had two eagles and played the par 5s in 6 under, and he had a chance at the course record of 62 until charging his birdie putt past the hole and missing the comeback putt for par.

“Length is not an issue,” Johnson said. “Doesn’t play very long for me. If I’m hitting it in the fairway, then it definitely plays right into my hands, because I can get to all the par 5s there.”

Asked which courses plays long for him, Johnson said with a fixed smile, “Not too many of ‘em.”

On this glorious day with a stiff breeze, Spyglass was the place to be. Pebble Beach and the Shore Course at Monterey Peninsula, a par 70 and newcomer to the rotation, are exposed along the ocean. Except for five holes, Spyglass is sheltered by pines and cypress.

Johnson and Goydos couldn’t recall playing with each other before, and even if they did, it’s not like they would have been together given the difference in their tee shots.

But as much as Goydos appreciates the power, Johnson appreciates how Goydos can score.

“His game is definitely a little bit different than mind, and he finds a way to get it done,” Johnson said. “It doesn’t matter how far you hit it or where you hit it. You’ve just got to find a way to get it in the hole. Whoever can get it in the hole tomorrow is going to come out with the victory.”

Few players are more self-deprecating than Goydos, notable among other quotes for once saying, “Tiger is trying to win 18 majors. I’m trying to play in 18 majors.”

But he did well to hold his own when asked if Johnson was a better player as they head into the final round.

“He’s won twice in two years. I’ve won twice in 18,” Goydos said. “‘Better’ is an interesting word. He’s definitely off to a much better start than I had. There’s a slight curve because I’ve been out so long. So if he’d won 10 times after 18 years, the answer is ‘yes.’ But right now? I don’t know.”

Then he paused before adding, “He’s definitely showing signs of it.”

Divots: Goydos and Hertz executive Bob Stuart had a one-shot lead in the pro-am competition. The top 25 teams advanced to the final round Sunday. Johnson or Goydos only need to break par on Sunday to break the 72-hole scoring record of 268, first set by Mark O’Meara in 1997 and matched by Phil Mickelson in 2007.