CUT. T76. T2. 

That's the line for David Duval's 2010 PGA Tour season.  The fickle and streaky nature of David Duval's game - even at his most dominant in 1999 - was on full display this week at Pebble Beach.  He went off this week at 550/1 in gambling parlors to win the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.  Duval came awfully close to paying off a select few very lucky people.

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The runner-up finish yesterday was Duval's best since he came up one hole shy at the '09 US Open at Bethpage.  Heading into that runner-up, Duval had made four cuts all season and not finished better than 55th.  Curiously enough, that best finish came at Pebble.  Then, out of nowhere, Duval rekindled his game for a week and nearly stole a second major title.

After not taking the title, though, Duval made just one more cut all season.  He fired just one round in the 60s in that time period.  None of Duval's 36 hole totals bettered par and only one round was on the happy side.

Before the second place finish at the Open last year, Duval's best finish was T16 at the Open at Winged Foot.  Prior to that?  He finished fourteenth at the Deutsche Bank Championship in 2004.  In between these finishes are a lot of missed cuts.  Years worth of them.  Duval's last top ten before Bethpage was in '02 at Las Vegas, where he finished sixth.

That summary is the roundabout way of wondering if David Duval has finally recaptured more of his talent than perhaps he is consistently showing.  In the eight seasons following his 2001 Open Championship breakthrough, Duval had just one medal stand finish.  In the last eight months, he has two of them.  Seems like a huge improvement, doesn't it?

The problem with having faith in Duval's prospects going forward is what happened after Bethpage, which was a whole lot of nothing.  But Duval seemed more than encouraged by his performance.

"I'm just pleased to get out of my golf game over the course of four days again what I feel like I should be getting out of it. I feel very comfortable and very confident in what I'm doing," Duval said.  "And, you know, also, in a kind of strange way, it makes me proud."

He said something very similar after the Open last June.

"I was glad to come up here and hit the golf ball and control myself like I've been saying I've been doing, and how I've been talking about how I know I'm playing a lot better than my results have been showing."

Duval has now shown us on two different occasions that he can find the game to win for a week.  Now, the question is if he can find the motivation to be great each week, leading to consistency, and - eventually - victory.