Bill Murray Golfs At Pebble Beach Pro-Am, Steals The Show (PHOTOS)

It has been over thirty years since he featured as Carl Spackler in "Caddyshack," but Bill Murray still knows how to be a star on the golf course.

Murray, equal parts avid golfer and theatrical spectacle on the links, returns this week to the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, the annual star-studded tournament featuring the top names in golf and entertainment swinging clubs side-by-side. Always one of the biggest draws, the Oscar-nominated actor won last year's tournament with partner DA Points and his face plastered all over this year's event, including on the tickets.

Points, whose share of the victory marked his first PGA tournament win, was taken aback when he became aware of all the Murray-centric hoopla.

"I got the program, and I looked at the tickets, and I thought: 'Wait a minute. Didn't I win?'" Points told reporters on Tuesday (via the New York Times). "There are pictures of Bill everywhere. I'm like driving down the highway, I see a billboard, and there is Bill. There is Tiger [Woods]. I'm like, 'Where am I?'"

He was reportedly smiling as he spoke, but that didn't mean he was being entirely facetious.

"Honestly, it's a little disheartening because it was my first win (on the PGA Tour) and I've been around a while," he said [via the San Jose Mercury News]. "But the celebrities obviously make this a larger-than-life event sometimes. Yeah, I'm a little bummed I didn't get a picture somewhere, but at the same time, Bill also won (the Pro-Am), but he's been coming here a long time and is a well-deserving champion."

Unfortunately for Points, it doesn't sound like it's going to get much better; Woods is drawing attention for his partnership with Dallas Cowboys star quarterback Tony Romo, while Murray, who is partnering this year with rocker Darius Rucker (yes, formerly of Hootie and the Blowfish), has consolidated the support of the celebrity contingent at the event.

"No, we aren't going after [Murray]. We have to stick together," comedian George Lopez told the Miami Herald on Wednesday. "It's much better when a celebrity wins rather than a Fortune 500 guy. It's the slobs versus the snobs."

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[CelticLady51]

06:46 PM on 02/11/2012

I loved it when Bill Murray posed with the real soldiers! It was a wonderful moment for them all...right out of Stripes! It was Murray's way of honoring them! He's not a bad golfer either!

[maxfax]

02:01 PM on 02/11/2012

"On the course" with Bill Murray, he's one funny fella.

[Bryan Beecroft]

09:44 AM on 02/10/2012

You don't "golf" any more than you "tennis". You play golf

[ontariogirl]

09:23 AM on 02/10/2012

As it should be Bill. As it should be. :)

[Winthorpe]

05:09 AM on 02/10/2012

That's not a bad finish on his swing in that one pic. Nice backdrop, too. What's his handicap? Anyone, anyone?

As my grandpa said, my handicap is my swing.

[ontariogirl]

09:19 AM on 02/10/2012

7.5

[jayquintana]

09:42 PM on 02/09/2012

Golf desperatelly needs a Big Ern McCrackin.

[Francis 63]

07:56 PM on 02/09/2012

Please make more movies.

[arimoore]

08:09 AM on 02/19/2012

Yes!

[POTSman244]

06:59 PM on 02/09/2012

be the balllllll

[efell]

11:59 AM on 02/11/2012

nanananananan........

[Icleaks]

04:58 PM on 02/09/2012

Bill was great in zombieland

[Bolkonsky]

01:56 PM on 02/09/2012

Moonrise Kingdom - sold a ducat here.

[mjmjupiter]

01:17 PM on 02/09/2012

I love watching the proam and Bill is always great fun when golf is usually a bit more reserved. I love the game and this is plain and simple FUN. Go Bill!

[ZombieWolf]

01:15 PM on 02/09/2012

This is a hybrid. This is a cross, ah, of Bluegrass, Kentucky Bluegrass, Featherbed Bent, and Northern California Sensemilia. The amazing stuff about this is, that you can play 36 holes on it in the afternoon, take it home and just get stoned to the bejeezus-belt that night on this stuff.

[efell]

12:01 PM on 02/11/2012

'I don't think the heavy stuf is gonna' come down for a while.'

[Common Sense 69]

01:05 PM on 02/09/2012

To quote Caddyshack ..." Cinderella story, cinderella kid... a 400 yard drive, it's, it's , it's in the hole ... oooohhhh Mrs. Johnson, you animal, bark like a dog ... licensed by the United Nations to hunt gophers" ... LOL ... keep the Caddyshack quotes coming ...

[dingbateye]

12:57 PM on 02/09/2012

Ooh, look at me. I'm Bill Murray and in your face. One of the worst comedians of all time.

[Hopfarmer]

02:37 PM on 02/09/2012

Bill Murray---millions of fans. Dingbateye--- 0 fans.

[frank day]

02:57 PM on 02/09/2012

Must be a Republican.

[Lutheran Email-user]

11:44 AM on 02/09/2012

Bill Murray looks yellow. Why?

[Lutheran Email-user]

12:27 PM on 02/09/2012

There's something else I want to say. I know I will be hated for it, but people usually hate the truth. It needs to be spoken.

I am a fan of Bill Murray, but I do not believe he is above reproach. He is sadly, a standard example of what it means to waste your life. He has lived his life for himself, and he will die for himself. Had he come forward a long time ago to publicly admit his faults and what he's learned; if he had submitted to the teachings God gives us about how to live our lives (read 2 Timoth 3), just imagine how many lives his influence could save. A lot of people look up to Bill Murray, but the lives of the people who do have no value to him. He is too selfish, and he surrounds himself with selfish people who tell him it's ok to be that way (because they want to be that way).

[jl4141]

01:22 PM on 02/09/2012

Go away.

[Hopfarmer]

02:38 PM on 02/09/2012

I'll bet you're a lot of fun at parties.

[lightnessandjoy]

02:44 PM on 02/09/2012

Maybe it's those jaundiced eyes you're looking through.