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A strong field includes 26 of the top 50 players in the Official
World Golf Rankings. No. 8 Louis Oosthuizen and No. 9 Brooks
Koepka are among those making their season debuts this week.
SHRINERS CHILDREN'S OPEN
Las Vegas, Oct. 7-10
Course: TPC Summerlin (Par 71, 7,255 yards)
Purse: $7M (Winner: $1.26M)
Defending Champion: Martin Laird
FedEx Cup Leader: Sam Burns & Max Homa
TV: Thursday-Sunday, 5-8 p.m. ET (Golf Channel)
NOTES
--Six players will tee it up for the first time since competing
in the Ryder Cup last month: Koepka, Harris English and Scottie
Scheffler from Team USA and Paul Casey, Viktor Hovland and Ian
Poulter from Team Europe.
--This week marks the 25th anniversary of Tiger Woods' first PGA
Tour victory, which came in Las Vegas in a playoff against Davis
Love III.
--The Shriners Children's Open leads the PGA Tour with three
sudden-death playoffs in the past four years. Laird beat Austin
Cook and Matthew Wolff in last year's playoff.
--Shriners Children's has extended its sponsorship of the event
through 2026.
BEST BETS
--Koepka (+1600 at DraftKings) has two top-5s in five previous
starts at TPC Summerlin as he makes his season debut.
--Oosthuizen (+1800) finished 19th in his first event appearance
last year. He's competing for the first time since the Tour
Championship.
--Abraham Ancer (+1800), also making his season debut, finished
fourth in the event last year.
--Burns (+2500) is coming off his second career victory on tour.
He led the field in strokes gained off the tee and tee-to-green.
--English (+2500) is already a two-time winner in 2021.
--Si Woo Kim (+4500) won The American Express earlier this year
and is coming off a T11 and T8 in the first two events this
season.
--Field Level Media
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