The (Self) Decider: What Would You Shoot at Pebble Beach?

For the third year now, the USGA and Golf Digest have teamed up for their US Open Challenge.  The challenge gives three celebrity hackers (with an affinity for quarterbacks) and one average Joe or Jane the opportunity to play that year's host course for the national championship under conditions similar to the pressure-cooker final round.

This year, New Orleans Saints QB Drew Brees, actor Mark Wahlberg, and the greatest hockey player ever Wayne Gretzky were the celebs.  51-year-old Peggy Ference was the amateur who got in through a Web vote.

Wahlberg - clearly feeling some Good Vibrations - shot 97.  Gretzky channeled his hockey jersey, but missed by 1 to hit 100 on the mark.  Brees, perhaps still distracted from saving birds in the Gulf, shot 102.  Ference shot 118.

Seeing as though Peggy had to play the course at its full 7040 yards ('cause that's what the players do on Sunday), Ference was screwed from the start.  Ironically, her caddy for the day was Ryder Cup captain Corey Pavin, who himself had his travails at the '02 Open when he couldn't reach some fairways at Bethpage Black.

Effectively, Peggy averaged a double bogey and change per hole.  Had she shot 107, she would have beaten the challenge considering the par raised to compensate for her length.

Now, this week, I want you to puff out your chest - and before wheezing back to reality - tell me what you think you would shoot in the challenge, and why.