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PGA TOUR
LAST TOURNAMENT: Honda Classic (Sepp Straka)
THIS WEEK: Arnold Palmer Invitational, Bay Hill Club & Lodge,
Orlando, Fla., March 3-6
Course: Bay Hill Club & Lodge (Par 72, 7,466 yards)
Purse: $12M (Winner: $2.16M)
Defending Champion: Bryson DeChambeau
FedEx Cup Leader: Hideki Matsuyama
HOW TO FOLLOW
TV: Thursday-Friday, 2-6 p.m. ET (Golf Channel);
Saturday-Sunday, 12:30-2:30 p.m. (Golf Channel), 2:30-6 p.m.
(NBC).
PGA Tour Live: Four live feeds per day on ESPN+
Social Media: @APInv (Twitter)
NOTES: This is one of three PGA Tour events with elevated
status, providing a larger purse and a bigger allotment of FedEx
Cup points. The winner also receives a three-year tour
exemption. ... The 120-player field includes 10 of the top 25
players in the Official World Golf Ranking. ... DeChambeau will
not defend his title as he continues to recover from wrist and
hip injuries. ... The field hit only 56.84 percent of the greens
in regulation last year, the fifth-lowest mark on tour. ... The
top three finishers this week who are not otherwise exempt will
qualify for The Open Championship. ... Former Michigan State
star and 2021 U.S. Amateur winner James Piot will make his PGA
Tour debut. ... Notable sponsors exemptions include former FedEx
Cup champion Brandt Snedeker and former major winners Graeme
McDowell, Henrik Stenson, Padraig Harrington and Danny Willett.
... Last season's final-round scoring average of 75.49 was the
highest in a final round since 1980. ... Payne Stewart set the
tournament scoring record of 264 in 1987.
BEST BETS: Jon Rahm (+750 at DraftKings) will make his event
debut as he seeks his first win since last year's U.S. Open. ...
Rory McIlroy (+1000) has five consecutive top-10s at Bay Hill,
including a victory in 2018. ... Scottie Scheffler (+1600) has
three top-fives this season, including his first tour victory at
the Phoenix Open.... Viktor Hovland (+1800) leads the tour in
birdie average at 5.73 per round. He has not finished better
than T40 in three previous event starts but does have three wins
in his past seven worldwide starts.... Matsuyama (+2500) is the
only two-time winner on tour this season. His best finish in
seven previous event starts was a T6 in 2016.
NEXT TOURNAMENT: The Players Championship, Ponte Vedre Beach,
Fla., March 10-13
LPGA Tour
LAST TOURNAMENT: LPGA Drive On Championship (Leona Maguire)
THIS WEEK: HSBC Women's World Championship, Singapore, March 3-6
Course: Sentosa Golf Club, Tanjong Course (Par 72, 6,749 yards)
Purse: $1.7M
Defending Champion: Sung Hyun Park
Race to the CME Globe leader: Danielle Kang
HOW TO FOLLOW
TV: Wednesday-Thursday, 9:30 p.m.-2:30 a.m. ET; Friday-Saturday,
9:30-11 p.m. ET (All times Golf Channel)
Livestream: Friday-Saturday, 11 p.m.-2:30 a.m. (NBC Sports app)
Social Media: @HSBC_Sport, @HWWCGolf (Twitter)
NOTES: This is a 66-player, no-cut event. ... World No. 1 Jin
Young Ko will make her 2022 debut. She has five wins among nine
top-10s in her past 10 starts. ... Kang will make her eighth
start in the event. She is second on tour with 1.93 strokes
gained approach per round this year behind In Gee Gun at 1.97.
... Brooke Henderson has not finished lower than 15th in four
previous trips to Singapore.
NEXT TOURNAMENT: Honda LPGA Thailand, Chonburi, Thailand, March
10-13
Champions Tour
LAST TOURNAMENT: Cologuard Classic (Miguel Angel Jimenez)
THIS WEEK: Hoag Classic, Newport Beach, Calif., March 4-6
Course: Newport Beach Country Club (Par 71, 6,612 yards)
Defending champion: Ernie Els
Purse: $2M ($300,000)
Charles Schwab Cup leader: Jimenez
HOW TO FOLLOW
TV: Friday, 6-8 p.m. ET; Saturday, 5-7 p.m.; Sunday 4:30-7 p.m.
(All times Golf Channel)
Social Media: @HoagClassic (Twitter)
NOTES: The event returns after being canceled in 2021 due to the
COVID-19 pandemic. ... Jimenez is the first player since Loren
Roberts in 2006 to win two of the first three events of the
year. He recorded two hole-in-ones last week. ... Fred Couples
won the event in 2010 and '14. ... Els earned his first
Champions victory at Newport Beach in 2020.
NEXT TOURNAMENT: Rapiscan Systems Classic, Biloxi, Miss., April
1-3
--Field Level Media
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