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FEBRUARY 2-10, 2008 ATAT&&TTPPEBBLEEBBLE BBEACHEACH NATIONAL PRO-AM PPEEBBBBLLEE BBEEAACCHH ■■ PPOOPPPPYY HHIILLLLSS ■■ SSPPYYGGLLAASSSS ■ Tickets, tee times, parking and shuttles ■ PGA Shoot-Out benefits charities ■ How the AT&T Pro-Am supports local arts ■ Profiles of all the top celebrities ■ Grand tour of Peninsula golf courses A special section of The Carmel Pine Cone February 1, 2008 ImageImage usedused byby permissionpermission ofof PebblePebble BeachBeach Company.Company. All All rightsrights reserved.reserved. PhotoPhoto byby PaulPaul MillerMiller 2 ATT AT&T Week February 1, 2008 2008 SCHEDULE, TICKETS & PARKING February 2 - 1 0 The 7th Tee at Pebble Beach - Spyglass - Poppy Hills Pebble Beach pro- Purse: $6,000,000 vides an ideal viewing point for Saturday, February 2 AT&T fans. 2 p.m. • Payne Stewart Youth Golf Exhibition — Pebble Beach Driving Range (free) Monday, February 4 8 a.m. • Practice rounds — all three courses Tuesday, February 5 - Charity Day 8 a.m. • Practice rounds — all three courses 1:30 p.m. • GoGirlGo.com Charity Shoot-out — Pebble Beach Golf Links. Top PGA Tour profes- PHOTO/PAUL MILLER sionals play holes #1, 2, 3, 17 and 18, with prize money donated to player’s designated charity Wednesday, February 6 - Military Day • Law enforcement, firefighters and military plus one accompanied guest admitted free 8 a.m. • Practice rounds, all three courses 11 a.m. • 3M Celebrity Challenge — Pebble Beach Golf Links. Celebrity amateurs play holes #1, 2, 3, 17 and 18, with prize money donated to player’s designated charity 3:30 p.m. • Payne Stewart Youth Clinic, present- ed by AT&T — Pebble Beach driving range (free) Thursday, February 7 8 a.m. • First round — all three courses TV coverage: The Golf Channel, noon - 3 p.m. Ticket Information forget that military, firefighters and police officers are and 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. Most attendees buy their tickets well in advance, admitted free on Feb. 6. including high rollers who pay thousands for admis- ■ $60 for each tournament round. Friday, February 8 sion to all tournament events and exclusive clubs. 8 a.m. • Second round — all three courses Also, ticket packages, such as the Executive Booster Any-Day ticket book • $600 TV coverage: The Golf Channel, noon - 3 p.m. Package ($2,400), the Champions Club Member ■ Each book contains 10 coupons which can be and 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. ($1,600 weekly, $450 daily), the Partners Package exchanged at the gate for daily tickets. ($350) and the Charity Patron Badge ($150). Had to Saturday, February 9 be purchased by Jan. 15. (Start planning for next ■ 12 and under admitted free if accompanied by 8 a.m. • Third round — all three courses (cut year!) But there are still several options: an adult. made after play) TV coverage: CBS, noon - 3 p.m. Season Badge • $150 Where to buy: On line at www.attpbgolf.com. By ■ Entrance to all events, practice rounds and all telephone at (800) 541-9091, and by fax to (831) 649- tournament rounds at all three courses. 1763. Daily tickets will also be sold at the Carmel Sunday, February 10 shuttle stop in front of Carmel Plaza shopping center, 7:30 a.m. • Final round — Pebble Beach Golf at the Carmel Chamber of Commerce visitors center Links (60 low pros and 25 low teams) Daily Ticket ■ $60 for the three days of practice rounds. Don’t on San Carlos Street, at the Pacific Grove admission TV coverage: CBS, noon - 3 p.m. trailer (17 Mile Drive at the P.G. Gate) and at the CSUMB parking area (follow signs from Highway 1 exit to CSUMB, approximately 10 miles north of Pebble Beach). Parking: During early practice rounds (Mon.- Tues.), parking is available inside Pebble Beach. Wednesday and during tournament rounds, compli- mentary spectator parking is available on the CSUMB campus at the former Fort Ord, about 10 miles north of Pebble Beach on Highway 1, with fre- quent shuttle buses to deliver spectators to the com- petition courses, where other shuttle buses will also take them between courses. Handicapped parking is available throughout the practice and tournament rounds inside Pebble Beach. There are also convenient shuttle buses available from Carmel, Pacific Grove and Monterey to the pro-am tournament. For details about these shuttles, please see page 5ATT. Prohibited items: The following items are specifi- cally prohibited inside the entrance gate of the AT&T Thursday through Sunday of tournament week: Cell phones and PDA’s; distracting or noise producing devices; cameras (except during practice round days Mon-Wed); bags, backpacks, food container or cool- er or any other carrying device larger than 8” inches in height, width or depth; signs, banners or posters (except for autographs); televisions and radios; alco- hol, except on site sales or businesses; pets (except service animals), bicycles and ladders; metal spiked golf shoes; weapons of any sort, whether licensed or permitted, and any other item deemed potentially injurious, unlawful or dangerous to staff, volunteers or participants as determined by the PGA Tour, tour- nament security personnel or law enforcement offi- cials. Plastic water bottles and food capable of fitting into an 8”-by-8”-by-8” container or pockets are acceptable for entry. February 1, 2008 AT&T Week 3 ATT Velvet Milly Lacoste Diane Von Furstenberg Rozae Nichols Rebecca Taylor Theory BCBG Nanette LePore Chaiken Seven Jeans TSE Cashmere Trina Turk Catherine Development MARC by Marc Jacobs Paper Denim & Cloth Joie Tracey Reese Michael Stars James Perse Citizens of Humanity AG Jeans Tocca Shoes Miu Miu Sigerson Morrison Handbags Marc Jacobs Collection Miu Miu GBGIRL BOY GGIRL Open Daily 10-6 Mission & 7th Avenue Carmel I 626-3368 4 ATT AT&T Week February 1, 2008 2008 CHARITIES Golf tournament offers boost to local arts groups By CHRIS COUNTS ment to explore creativity. The Youth Arts Collective, a nonprofit based in OR LOCAL non profit Monterey, hopes to change that. groups striving — and at The Youth Arts Collective offers Ftimes struggling — to bring studio space and a mentoring program art to their communities, an affiliation for artists 14 to 22. with the AT&T Pebble Beach “We provide a safe, nurturing and National Pro-Am golf tournament is inspiring place for young artists to as good as a hole-in-one. A portion of develop their skills,” explained execu- the proceeds from this year’s tourna- tive director Marcia Perry. ment — Feb. 4-10 — will benefit the Perry and Meg Biddle founded the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, the the Youth Arts Collective in 2000. The Monterey Museum of Art, Arts studio, which is located at 472 Calle Habitat and the Youth Arts Collective. Principal, is open to young artists four hours a day, five days a week. “Almost all of our students go on to ■ Affordable housing, college,” Perry said. “We’ve watched studios for artists kids with a lot of problems feel a lot better about themselves as a result of Arts Habitat is seeking to create 65 their participation in the program.” low cost living and work spaces for The Youth Arts Collective received local artists at the former Ft. Ord. $10,000 last year from the AT&T golf “Arts Habitat was created 17 years tournament. The money will go ago by a group of people who decided toward the group’s operating expenses. there was a crucial need on the “All of us appreciate the generosity Monterey Peninsula for low income of this community to make this possi- housing for artists,” explained ble,” Perry added. “There are few pro- Shirmaine Jones, an administrator jects like this in the country, and noth- who became the group’s first staff per- ing like it around here.” son just six months ago. “A lot of For more information, call (831) artists have had to leave here because 375-9922 or visit www.yacstudios.org. of the high cost of living. We wanted to do something about it.” ■ Bringing poetry to By providing low-cost housing and work space for artists, the for-profit local kids builders were able to convince the While some nonprofit arts groups county to approve the project. use the money they receive from the “We helped them get approved,” AT&T golf tournament for general Jones said. operating expenses, Carmel’s Cherry (Top) A young local artist, Niko Sanchez, proudly displays his work at the Youth Arts The 65 units represent the third Center for the Arts dedicates all of its phase of a 1,400-unit mixed housing gift to fund its annual Robert Campbell Collective, which is supported in part by the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. (Above) project. Jones said the units could 2008 Monterey High School Poetry TThe Monterey Museum of art also receives a annual grant. become available by 2011. The units Awards competition. will feature living spaces on top of art As part of the program, Carmel in the community by doing programs and research. studios and will rent for below market poet Elliot Roberts visits local high that fill a need that’s not being met by “It’s a wonderful investment in value. schools and offers talks about poetry. other curriculum.” building our audience,” Venuti said. Jones envisions a bustling art com- “The program really impacts kids The Cherry Center is located on the “We’re really grateful to the AT&T for munity at the former Ft. Ord. from all over the county,” explained corner of 4th and Guadalupe. For helping us in a really significant way.” “It can be an artistic hub where Robert Reese, executive director. more information about the poetry The museum collects, preserves and everyone can rub elbows and all the “Every high school in Monterey competition or the center, call (831) interprets the art of California.