Sleepers: AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am

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The PGA TOUR heads north up the California coast for the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. Here's who the PGATOUR.COM experts selected as sleeper picks:

SLEEPER PICKS How it works: Our 10 experts from PGATOUR.COM select any player who isn't ranked in the top 20 of the FedExCup rankings, the top 30 of the Official World Golf Rankings and hasn't won that season. By using a draft process, no two picks can be the same. EXPERT PICKS Who do our experts think will capture the Buick Invitational title? Here's who they've picked to win. Click here

Sleeper picks: AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am

Expert   Pick order Player selected   Brian Wacker TOM PERNICE JR. Another of trainer Joey Diovisavli's guys, this 49-year-old is in great shape. He was T9 at the Bob Hope Classic a couple of weeks ago and has some good showings at Pebble Beach with a T7 in '04, a T15 in '03 and a runner-up finish in '98. Ceri Mobley JEFF KLAUK. This rookie is off to a solid start, with no missed cuts yet and two almost top 10s. Plus he's a Ponte Vedra guy, so let's give him some PGA TOUR HQ props. Mike McAllister KEVIN SUTHERLAND. He finished second to Phil Mickelson here in 2007 and has five other top 25s at Pebble Beach. Being from Sacramento (about 140 miles away), he should have plenty of support from the gallery. Helen Ross CHARLES WARREN. I picked up some FedExCup points several weeks ago with Lucas Glover as my sleeper. So this week I'm taking one of Glover's Clemson teammates, Charles Warren, who tied for 11th last week in his season debut at the Buick Invitational. Mark Spoor PAUL GOYDOS. He finished 18th last week at Torrey Pines, plus he had three consecutive top-15 finishes at Pebble Beach from 2002-05. A perfect storm may be brewing. Lauren Deason TIM CLARK. Our sleeper picks can't be in the top 20 in FedExCup points, so I started at No. 21 and worked my way up to compare who's playing well in '09 with past records at Pebble. Clark gets the nod since he's been inside the top 12 in three of five starts there. Win McMurry JOHN MALLINGER. He's the ultimate sleeper this week. The SoCal native has missed three of four cuts this year, but the one he made was at the Bob Hope Classic (similar pro-am set-up) where he was T25. He's also finished third here twice in a row. Ryan Smithson RETIEF GOOSEN. I need Brian Gay to take the next two months off so he'll fall out of the top 20 in FedExCup points - and back to sleeper status. John Swantek MATT JONES. There hasn't been much talk of his fifth last week, despite the best final round of the day at Torrey Pines -- a 64. He's a maturing player with big game potential. T.J. Auclair TOM LEHMAN. Pebble Beach has been kind to vets - see Steve Lowery, Peter Jacobsen and Mark O'Meara -- so why not the '06 U.S. Ryder Cup captain this time? After all, he does have six top 10s and was runner-up in '03 to another vet, Davis Love III.

LAST WEEK: Ryan Smithson's sleeper pick Hunter Mahan tied for 11th at the Buick Invitational, which continued his run toward the top of the standings. Each week, we'll update the standings based on the FedExCup points accumulated by the players selected by our experts. Here's how it stands after Week 4: