The player pictured above is back on the PGA Tour - however temporarily - in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am beginning Thursday, along with a group of former winners of the event who are also no longer on the exempt list.

    Ted Potter is eligible for the $8.7 million event at Pebble Beach via his status as a past champion, due to his last Tour victory in 2018 for which he earned a check for $1,332,000 and a two-year exemption. Others in the same category as Ted and making this return are Peter Jacobsen (1995), Davis Love III (2003, 2009), Vaughn Taylor (2016), Brandt Snedeker (2013, 2015), Jimmy Walker (2014) and D. A. Points (2011). 

    Ted made Pebble Beach his second Tour victory with rounds of 68-71-62-69-270, winning by three strokes over a star-studded quartet - Jason Day, Dustin Johnson, Chez Reavie and Phil Mickelson. 

    However, a disappointing 2020-2021 season has relegated Ted to the Korn Ferry Tour, where he has already missed his first two cuts. He can right the ship with a victory this week, or at least a top 10 which would qualify him for the next event. 

    There are two Gators playing at Pebble Beach - Camilo Villegas and Brian Gay - and one Seminole, steady Daniel Berger, who is the defending champ and headed home with $1,404,000 last year. Also entered is Champions Tour stalwart Tom Lehman, architect of Marion County's course on highway 27 that used to be called Trilogy and is now Ocala Preserve.  

    

      

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