Hisatsune leads Pebble Beach on a gorgeous day with low scores. Scheffler didn't take advantage

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Chris Gotterup extended his streak to nine straight birdies over two rounds on two very different courses. He ultimately settled for an 8-under 64 on Thursday in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, leaving him two behind Ryo Hisatsune on a day of gorgeous weather and low scores for practically everyone.

Scottie Scheffler was the exception. He had to birdie the par-5 18th at Pebble Beach to avoid joining the short list — 12 players — who failed to break par.

“I feel like typically I'm good at scoring, and today I felt like I didn't score at all,” Scheffler said. “Anything that kind of went wrong seemed to be going that direction. I actually feel like I'm playing pretty well. Just one of those days.”

Hisatsune, coming off two good weeks including a runner-up at Torrey Pines to qualify for this $20 million signature event, 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.

He was one shot ahead of Keegan Bradley and Sam Burns. Bradley played at Spyglass Hill, where the course average was about one-and-a-half shots higher that Pebble Beach.

Defending champion Rory McIlroy, 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.

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.

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.

“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.”

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.

“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.”

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.

Scheffler, not so much.

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.

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.

“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,” he said.

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.

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.

“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.

Tony Finau and Patrick Rodgers each had 64 at Spyglass to join Gotterup in a tie for fourth. A pair of former Pebble champions, Nick Taylor and Tom Hoge, were in the group at 65. Another shot back was Jordan Spieth, who holed out a full wedge for eagle at Spyglass.

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Rory McIlroy, from Northern Ireland, hits from the 17th tee at Spyglass Hill Golf Course during the first round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am golf tournament in Pebble Beach, Calif., Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Sam Burns hits from the 18th fairway at Pebble Beach Golf Links during the first round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am golf tournament in Pebble Beach, Calif., Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Scottie Scheffler reacts before putting on the 18th green at Pebble Beach Golf Links during the first round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am golf tournament in Pebble Beach, Calif., Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Chris Gotterup hits from the 18th fairway at Pebble Beach Golf Links during the first round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am golf tournament in Pebble Beach, Calif., Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Ryo Hisatsune, of Japan, slams his club into the sand of a fairway bunker at the 10th hole after hitting a shot during the final round of the Phoenix Open golf tournament Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026, in Scottsdale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The families of victims of a shooting in a remote Canadian Rockies town grappled with unrelenting grief Thursday as details emerged about those killed in the country's deadliest mass shooting in years.

Authorities said the 18-year-old alleged shooter, identified as Jesse Van Rootselaar, killed her 39-year-old mother, Jennifer Jacobs, and 11-year-old stepbrother, Emmett Jacobs, in their northern British Columbia home on Tuesday before heading to the nearby Tumbler Ridge Secondary School and opening fire, killing five children and an educator before killing herself.

Twenty-five people were also injured in the attack. The motive remains unclear.

Among the dead was 12-year-old Kylie Smith, whose family remembered her as "the light in our family.”

“She loved her family, friends, and going to school," Kylie's family said in a statement. “She was a talented artist and had dreams of going to art school in the big city of Toronto. Rest in paradise, sweet girl, our family will never be the same without you.”

Kylie's father tearfully recounted the desperate hours spent trying to learn what happened to his daughter, only to find out from an older girl, not the authorities.

Lance Younge told CTV News that his son, Ethan, texted “I love you” shortly after 3 p.m. Tuesday and then called a short time later to say he was hiding in a utility room at his school in the small mountain community of Tumbler Ridge, but that he didn't know where his sister Kylie was.

The family would find out hours later that Kylie was among the dead.

While looking for Kylie, Younge said he walked around the local recreation center where students were reuniting with their families for about six hours, but that police wouldn't tell him anything.

“I went home not knowing where my daughter was until a high school kid ... came here and told us her story about trying to save my daughter’s life," he said. "The police didn’t tell us anything. We had to find out through the community and through kids and rumors.”

Authorities on Thursday identified the other victims as Abel Mwansa, Zoey Benoit and Ticaria Lampert, all age 12, as well as 13-year-old Ezekiel Schofield and assistant teacher Shannda Aviugana-Durand, 39.

In a statement, Zoey's family described her as “resilient, vibrant, smart, caring and the strongest little girl you could meet."

Peter Schofield, whose grandson, Ezekiel, was killed, shared his grief in a Facebook post, saying: “Everything feels so surreal. The tears just keep flowing.”

Trent Ernst, publisher of Tumbler RidgeLines, the town's biweekly newspaper, said he has been “randomly breaking down and weeping at inopportune times, usually when talking to people about what is happening.”

He said he knows Maya Gebala, 12, who was wounded in the head and neck, and Paige Hoekstra, 19, who also suffered bullet wounds. Both were hospitalized in Vancouver.

He said he spoke with Maya at a recent town winter carnival, describing her as “funky and vivacious” and “full of life.”

Ernst said one of the biggest frustrations in the community is the lack of medical support and in particular mental health services. Rootselaar had a history of police visits to her home to check on her mental health, authorities said.

“The majority of people that I’ve talked to are sad more at the fact that Tumbler Ridge doesn’t have the level of support for mental health and health services in general," he said.

“If this had happened three hours later, our clinic would have been closed and there would be no emergency room there," he said, adding that it would likely have reopened under such exceptional circumstances.

In particular, Ernst said there's a severe lack of mental health services in the Canadian Rockies town, which has roughly 2,700 residents and is more than 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) northeast of Vancouver, near the provincial border with Alberta.

“Right now, there are five mental health nurses in town. But this is the exception, and it’s an exceptional situation. There are times where we’ll go months, if not years, without having anybody in mental health services in town,” he said.

Rootselaar and her family led a “nomadic lifestyle” marked by multiple moves between at least three Canadian provinces, according to a 2015 British Columbia court ruling.

The court's decision in a dispute between the alleged shooter’s parents described her mother, Jennifer Jacobs, moving with her children between Newfoundland, Grand Cache in Alberta and Powell River, British Columbia, in the previous five years.

Her mother, also known as Jennifer Strang, was found to have engaged in “reprehensible conduct” by failing to give her children’s father enough notice that she was moving back to Newfoundland in August 2015.

Jacobs was ordered in the court ruling to return their children to British Columbia.

Mourners braved frigid cold Wednesday night to honor the victims, with Mayor Darryl Krakowka telling them, “It’s OK to cry.”

Krakowka described the town as “one big family,” and encouraged people to reach out and support each other, especially the families of those who died in the attack. The community must support victims’ families “forever,” not only in the days and weeks to come, he said.

Police recovered a long gun and a modified handgun at the school that they said Rootselaar used in the attack.

Dwayne McDonald, deputy commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in British Columbia, said Wednesday there was no information that anyone at the school was targeted. He said officers arrived at the school two minutes after the initial call and that shots were fired in their direction when they showed up.

“Parents, grandparents, sisters, brothers in Tumbler Ridge will wake up without someone they love. The nation mourns with you, and Canada stands by you,” an emotional Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday as he arrived in Parliament.

Carney, who said flags at government buildings will be flown at half-staff for seven days, planned to visit Tumbler Ridge on Friday.

The attack was Canada’s deadliest since 2020, when a gunman in Nova Scotia killed 13 people and set fires that left another nine dead.

School shootings are rare in Canada, which has strict gun-control laws. The government has responded to previous mass shootings with gun-control measures, including a recently broadened ban on all guns it considers assault weapons.

Gillies reported from Toronto. Associated Press reporter R.J. Rico in Atlanta contributed.

This undated photo provided by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police shows Emmett Jacobs, who was killed in a mass shooting, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026, in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada. (Royal Canadian Mounted Police via AP)

This undated photo provided by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police shows Zoey Benoit, who was killed in a school shooting, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026, in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada. (Royal Canadian Mounted Police via AP)

This undated photo provided by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police shows Kylie Smith, who was killed in a school shooting, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026, in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada. (Royal Canadian Mounted Police via AP)

This undated photo provided by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police shows Abel Mwansa, who was killed in a school shooting, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026, in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada. (Royal Canadian Mounted Police via AP)

This undated photo provided by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police shows Ezekiel Schofield, who was killed in a school shooting, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026, in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada. (Royal Canadian Mounted Police via AP)

Speaker of the B.C. Legislative Assembly Raj Chouhan speaks at a candle light vigil at the front steps of the legislature in Victoria, B.C., on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026 in honour of the victims of the school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. (Chad Hipolito/The Canadian Press via AP)

People console one another during a candle light vigil at the front steps of the legislature in Victoria, B.C., on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026 in honor of the victims of the school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. (Chad Hipolito/The Canadian Press via AP)

A welcome sign is seen entering the town of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada, on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026. (Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press via AP)

Police tape surrounds a school in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada, on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026, after Tuesday's mass shooting. (Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press via AP)

Residents hug as they place flowers at a memorial for the victims of Tuesday's mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada, on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026. (Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press via AP)