No offense, but Padraig Harrington wouldn't mind a little chaos this weekend. You know, one of those windy days when anything can happen. Think 1992. Tom Kite. Harrington, the only player who has won three majors since 2007, threw out his second 73 this week and is sitting at 4-over 146 -- seven shots behind leader Graeme McDowell. Tied for 25th with, oh, Tiger Woods, Vijay Singh, David Toms, Scott Verplank and a few others. "From my own perspective, I'd love to see one of the rounds absolutely to be chaos,'' Harrington said. "When you're seven shots behind, seven shots can go very quickly on a golf course - a bit like 1992 which Tom Kite won. It doesn't take very much for seven shots to disappear on a windy, fair day out there. "Not saying I'll enjoy it myself, but it will give me the best opportunity.'' He knows he needs a weekend like he had at Oakland Hills when he won the 2008 PGA Championship. A pair of 66s. Good enough to edge Sergio Garcia. The kind of day playing partner Phil Mickelson had Friday at Pebble Beach -- one that pushed him 64 places up the leader board and into a tie for second. "I've got to go out and play well two consecutive rounds,'' Harrington said. "I've got a bit of work to do from where I'm at.'' He was a little disappointed that he gave himself a little more work to do at the end of the day. "I  failed to play 17 well and didn't get up and down on 18 either,'' he said of his bogey-par finish. "If I would've got home at level par, i would have felt really good going into the weekend.'' As it is, he knows the low rounds are out there. He watched every shot of Mickelson's Friday. He knows it can be done. "He was spectacular all day,'' Harrington said. "I got to see it first hand. He didn't miss a shot all day. He had the ball well under control. Best I've ever seen him play. It was as easy a 66 as you'll ever see.'' And if someone guaranteed Harrington a closing 66? Chaos or not. "I wouldn't turn it down'' he grinned. -- Melanie Hauser

Did you know that the previous four U.S. Open winners at Pebble Beach also won an AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am?

Jack Nicklaus, who won the 1972 Open here, won the the AT&T in 1967, 1972 and 1973. Tom Watson, the 1982 winner, won the AT&T in 1977 and 1978. Tom Kite, the '92 champ, won the AT&T in 1983, while Tiger Woods ('00) won the AT&T earlier in 2000.

Of the current top 10 only Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson have won an AT&T (1998, 2005 and 2007). - - Melanie Hauser