PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. It's a wonder anyone noticed that Greg Kraft and Brett Quigley each posted a 6-under-par 66 to share the first-round lead in the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.

While everyone else watched David Duval shoot nothing close to a 59, while the masses witnessed ho-hum rounds by Tiger Woods and Mark O'Meara in their dream pairing with Kevin Costner and Ken Griffey Jr., a couple of guys who have never won on the PGA Tour got off to a nice, quiet start today.

Kraft and Quigley both started on No. 10 at Pebble Beach on a crisp day with a slight breeze. Both picked up most of their birdies on the more difficult back side and played bogey-free for a one-stroke lead over Peter Jacobsen.

"To shoot 66 at Pebble Beach, that's pretty good playing," Quigley said.

Pebble Beach is usually the toughest of three courses because it is more exposed to the winds blowing in off the Monterey Peninsula. The winds were relatively kind today, and it showed -- six of the top nine scores came on Pebble Beach.

Jacobsen made eagle on his ninth hole, one of five par-5s at Poppy Hills, in his round of 67. Charles Raulerson had the best score at Spyglass Hill, a 68 that left him tied with five others, including Jay Haas and Harrison Frazar.

The group at 69 included Paul Azinger, Corey Pavin, Payne Stewart, Jeff Sluman and PGA champion Vijay Singh.

Duval, whose ninth victory in the past 16 months came two weeks ago with a final-round 59 in the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic, had a good chance to be among the leaders at Spyglass Hill, his least favorite of the courses.

He hit a 3-wood from 245 yards into 12 feet for an eagle on No. 11, but bogeyed two of the next three holes and finished with a three-putt bogey for a 72.

"This one has got my number," he said. "I'm going to shoot 72 every time, and it's frustrating to play well enough to shoot below that. I'm tired of shooting 72 here."

That was the same number on the same course posted by Woods, who was paired with Costner for the second time in three years. Only Woods' round wasn't nearly exciting -- two birdies, two bogeys and 33 putts. O'Meara, playing with Ken Griffey Jr., finished with a 71.

For a tournament that has a history of weather problems -- it took seven months to complete last year's event -- the players had little to complain about. Temperatures were in the 50s with just enough wind to make it tricky, but not nearly enough to make it treacherous.

But accommodating conditions didn't make the Pebble Beach Pro-Am any more predictable. For all the stars in golf and all the celebrities from Hollywood, the guys getting the attention -- whatever was left -- were two players that few people know.

Quigley is the hard-luck player from 1998. He made a 35-foot par putt on the final hole of his final tournament, the Disney Classic, which he thought would be enough to finish in the top 125 on the money list. He wound up losing his card by a stroke. Then, he went to qualifying school where he failed to earn back his card, again by one stroke.

Quigley spent the past couple of months on the beach in south Florida because he wasn't eligible for any PGA Tour events. He got into Pebble because there was room in the field, and he'll also play Tucson when everyone else is at the Match Play Championship.

"Hopefully, I can make the best out of it when I get in tournaments, and then go from there," he said.

Kraft is also shaking off some of the rust. He didn't even touch a club the last two months of the year because of shoulder problems, and has been working out several hours a day, three times a week since October.

"It all seems to be paying off now," he said.

But Kraft and Quigley have been around long enough to know that the real payoff is still three days away.

DIVOTS: The "lift, clean and place" rule will be in effect the first three rounds in case of rain. ... Jim Furyk played one of the more unusual shots of the day. His drive on No. 4 at Spyglass Hill stopped on a cart path, but Furyk elected to play from the cement instead of taking a drop in thick grass on the side of a mound. No sparks flew and the ball wound up 20 feet from the hole for a two-putt par. ... Greg Kraft, who loves sports cars and high speeds, is still steamed about one ticket he got for going no faster than 30 mph -- in a players-only road leading into Sahalee Country Club for the PGA Championship. "They set up a speed trap for the players," he said. ...Corey Pavin left Orlando, Fla., in June after 11 years and moved back to California. "I was homesick," he said.