The TOUR's multiple-course tournament stars

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When the PGA TOUR heads to the Monterey Peninsula next week for the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, competitors will face a challenge they only see a handful of times each season -- adapting to multiple courses.

Multi-course pro, Phil Mickelson, searched for his ball at the 2007 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. (Jacobsohn/Getty Images)

With three courses in the rotation at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, players seldom have a chance to get completely familiar with each before the competition begins. Years of TOUR experience certainly helps, but each year brings different conditions, and it's the player who shows the ability to adapt the most quickly who succeeds.

There are currently four multiple course events on TOUR?the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic, the Buick Invitational, the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am and the Children's Miracle Network Classic presented by Wal-Mart.

Two long-standing multiple course events?the EDS Byron Nelson Championship and the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospital for Children Open?will become one-course tournaments this year.

For many years, before being replaced by the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship, the TOUR stop in Tucson was also a multiple course event.

Who has the best record in tournaments that feature more than one course? It would be Phil Mickelson, who has won 12 events in his career at tournaments at five different multiple course events. Mickelson has won three AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Ams, three Buick Invitationals, three Tucson Opens, two Bob Hope Chrysler Classics and one EDS Byron Nelson Championship.

Tiger Woods is next on the list with 11 such victories, also at five different events ? six Buick Invitationals, two Children's Miracle Network Classics, one AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, one EDS Byron Nelson Championship and one Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospital for Children Open.

Two players who currently compete on the Champions Tour but make occasional TOUR starts have the next best records. Mark O'Meara has seven titles in three different multiple course events while John Cook has five in four different events.

Davis Love III has four in three and Vijay Singh three in three. Jim Furyk has three wins, but in only one event. No one else has as many as three victories in multiple course tournaments.

This coming week at Pebble Beach, Mickelson, Love, Singh and Furyk will have the opportunity to add to their totals.