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How Vaughn Taylor, winner at Pebble Beach, found perspective from harrowing boating mishap
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Two years ago, Vaughn Taylor was in a boating mishap that he thought might end his life. “When he was finally safe, he called his wife, Leot, who remembers him being ‘in hysterics.’ She remembers him thinking he would never make it back home to her and their young son Locklyn again. ‘It taught him,’ she says now, ‘that life is precious.’ That might have been a lesson that Taylor needed. He admits these days that he once took too much for granted. His career, his life -- all of it,” ESPN’s Jason Sobel writes in this story on Taylor, who won the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am on Sunday.
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“Scientists, take note. This is what it sounds like when the best potential comeback golf story of 2016 leaks out of a giant Pebble Beach anticipation balloon and instantly dies: ‘Ahhhhhhh ... OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHH.’ That would be a simulated reconstruction of the noise made by more than 10,000 people at the No. 18 green late Sunday afternoon as Phil Mickelson stroked his birdie putt ... and barely missed a 5-footer that would have sent the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am into extra holes,” columnist Mark Purdy of the San Jose Mercury News writes, recounting Mickelson’s fail bid to end his victory drought.