He ultimately settled for an 8-under 64 on Thursday in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, leaving him two behind Ryo Hisatsune<\/a> on a day of gorgeous weather and low scores for practically everyone — an exception being Scottie Scheffler<\/a>, who shot an even-par 72.<\/p>\n Gotterup, who already has two wins this year, made three straight birdies to finish off his victory in the Phoenix Open last week, the last one in a playoff. From desert warmth to the California coastal chill, from carpet greens to poa annua, there was no change in his game.<\/p>\n A short birdie putt on No. 1, a 10-footer on the par-5 second, nearly jarring a wedge on the third, and on it went. Six holes into the round, he had six birdies.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks 1 Related<\/p>\n “I was kind of just coasting along,” Gotterup said. “You don’t really realize it in the moment, and then when you look up you’re like, ‘Wow, I’m 6 under through six.’ That’s nice.”<\/p>\n He became the first golfer in the last 25 years to open a PGA Tour event with six straight birdies after winning his previous start. Overall, he’s the eighth golfer over the last 25 years to open a tour event with at least six straight birdies or better.<\/p>\n But it still wasn’t enough to surpass Hisatsune, who is coming off two good weeks, including a runner-up at Torrey Pines to qualify for this $20 million signature event. He had three straight birdies early in his round, made the only birdie on the par-4 ninth and finished with three straight for a 62 at Pebble Beach.<\/p>\n He was one shot ahead of Keegan Bradley<\/a> and Sam Burns<\/a>. Bradley played at Spyglass Hill, where the course average was about one-and-a-half shots higher that Pebble Beach.<\/p>\n Defending champion Rory McIlroy<\/a>, in his first PGA Tour start of the year, had a pair of three-putt double bogeys on the par 5s at Spyglass that caused him to settle for a 68.<\/p>\n Bradley chipped in from just off the green on No. 8 at Spyglass for a birdie-eagle-birdie burst, and he kept a clean card the rest of the way for the best score on the course that typically plays the hardest in calm conditions.<\/p>\n “It’s about as nice of a day as I’ve ever seen out here,” Bradley said. “The greens are soft but that gets them a little bumpy, too. So some of the putts are a little dicey, but definitely scoring is good.”<\/p>\n Pebble Beach can be a pushover with no wind, particularly the opening seven holes. That’s where Hisatsune (five birdies) and Gotterup (six) made hay.<\/p>\n Scheffler, not so much.<\/p>\n It started with a clump of mud on his ball in the fairway on the par-5 second that sent his shot some 30 yards left of the green. He picked up only one birdie during that opening stretch, and then a strong breeze was largely into him on the way back in. And he wasn’t particularly sharp.<\/p>\n He hit only two approach shots inside 10 feet (and missed them both), and he didn’t make a putt longer than 8 feet for his round.<\/p>\n “I guess the challenge is making a bunch of birdies. That was a challenge for me today,” Scheffler said. “I’m looking at the leaderboard right now and it looks like 7 under gets you in the top 10, so scores are pretty low.”<\/p>\n Scheffler also struggled in Round 1 of the Phoenix Open, shooting a 2-over 73 before rallying to contend on the weekend.<\/p>\n This is the first time he’s shot even or worse in the first round of consecutive starts on tour since May 2021 at the PGA Championship and Charles Schwab Challenge.<\/p>\n Burns didn’t take advantage of the early holes, either. And then he birdied No. 8 over the ocean with a bold approach that settled 12 feet away between the back pin and the right bunker. And with the wind picking up a little strength, he had five birdies in a six-hole stretch to start the back nine. That included pitching in from just under 30 yards on the 13th.<\/p>\n Burns led the field in putting — it helps making from 45 feet on No. 10 and 30 feet on No. 17 — and kept bogeys off his card.<\/p>\n “I made a significant amount of putts and feel like I was hitting it pretty nice. It was a good combination for today,” Burns said.<\/p>\n Tony Finau<\/a> and Patrick Rodgers<\/a> each had 64 at Spyglass to join Gotterup in a tie for fourth. A pair of former Pebble champions, Nick Taylor<\/a> and Tom Hoge<\/a>, were in the group at 65. Another shot back was Jordan Spieth<\/a>, who holed out a full wedge for eagle at Spyglass.<\/p>\n Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb 12, 2026, 08:18 PM ET PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Chris Gotterup extended his streak to nine straight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-465407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/r1613935_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&w=130&h=130&scale=crop&location=center.jpeg\")
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<\/a><\/p>\nChris Gotterup took advantage of ideal conditions in Pebble Beach to shoot an 8-under 64 on Thursday.\u00a0Orlando Ramirez\/Getty Images<\/p>\n