Steve Palmer's Pebble Beach Pro-Am day-four tips and best bets

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Sky Sports Golf, 6pm Sunday

Best bets

Kurt Kitayama to win Pebble Beach Pro-Am
1pt each-way 10-1 Betfair, Power

Advised on February 4

Kevin Yu to win Pebble Beach Pro-Am
1pt each-way 28-1 general

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Story so far

Bad weather has ruined the Pebble Beach Pro-Am, with the players getting battered by strong winds in round three, which was abandoned for the day with some players having completed only seven holes.

The third round is due to resume at 8am local time on Sunday (4pm UK and Ireland), with tournament organisers hoping to start round four at approximately 12.30pm local (8.30pm UK). The event will conclude on Monday.

PGA Tour bigwigs have been left stunned by the severity of the weather, which was not expected, and they have reacted by changing the format. Only the amateurs who are in contention for the pro-am team prize will be invited back for Sunday, with the pro-am ending after 54 holes. The top 65 and tied professionals will make the cut, with round four being a pro-only affair.

A windy and wet Sunday is forecast, so there could be further suspensions in play, meaning even more golf is required on Monday. A sunny, calm Monday is forecast.

Leaderboard
-12 Peter Malnati (through 48 holes)
-10 Joseph Bramlett (49), Keith Mitchell (46)
-9 Hank Lebioda (47), Kurt Kitayama (45)
-8 Beau Hossler (51), Andrew Novak (49), Brandon Wu (49), Brent Grant (45), Viktor Hovland (45)

Best prices
7-2 K Mitchell, 4 P Malnati, 5 V Hovland, 7 J Bramlett, 10 K Kitayama, 20 B Hossler, J Rose, 30 D McCarthy, 33 H Lebioda, 35 R Shelton, 40 bar

Final-round preview

The Pebble Beach Pro-Am has been a bookies' benefit through three days of scrappy golf in unsettled California – and Viktor Hovland is the only one of the pre-tournament market principals still hanging tough.

Hovland has been thrilled with his ball-striking form and has found the fairway at the par-four tenth at Pebble Beach. The Norwegian will return facing an approach from 177 yards. Given the lack of star quality on the leaderboard, Hovland may be a bit miffed to not be favourite at this stage.

Peter Malnati has always been a supreme putter who struggles from tee to green, so it is reasonable to expect the frontrunner to fade. Joseph Bramlett is a Californian enjoying the battle in his home state, but the PGA Tour maiden has blasted his second shot through the green at the par-five 14th at Pebble and seems unlikely to make gains from there.

Keith Mitchell, with a wedge in his hand from 58 yards for his approach to the 11th at Pebble on his return, is right in the thick of things. Mitchell has won only once though – the 2019 Honda Classic – and is much more comfortable in Florida conditions.

Kevin Yu was added to the stable after round two – and the youngster is well in the hunt from seven under par with 11 holes to play at Monterey – but this may be a prudent time to back Kurt Kitayama. The 10-1 Kitayama appeals as the best value option going into the final two days of action.

Kitayama is a California man who must be sensing an opportunity for a maiden PGA Tour title. He has twice triumphed on the DP World Tour – both in breezy assignments – and can hang tough with nine holes to play at Spyglass Hill in round three.

Spyglass Hill is more protected from the wind than the other two courses being employed this week, so Kitayama may be able to scrap his way home there to set up a winning chance. He starts Sunday only three shots behind a vulnerable leader.

Kitayama was runner-up to Rory McIlroy in the CJ Cup at the end of October, beaten by only a shot. Kitayama, Hovland, and Yu could emerge as the main Pebble Beach title contenders.

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