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PGA Tour pros talk about meeting Arnold Palmer for the first time

The first encounter with the Arnold Palmer Invitational’s namesake had a way of leaving a lasting impression.

They say never meet your heroes.

The implication is that doing so will fail to live up to your expectations and the resulting bad experience will negate what they meant to you. While there may be some truth in that adage, they should’ve added one caveat – unless your hero happens to be Arnold Palmer.

Any time spent with Palmer was time well spent, but the first encounter with the Arnold Palmer Invitational’s namesake had a way of leaving a lasting impression.

Here are the remembrances of more than a half-dozen PGA Tour pros past and present, who enjoyed that privilege before his passing in September 2016, and never forgot their first encounter with Mr. Palmer – and for good reason.

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Korn Ferry Challenge field adds three more PGA Tour winners

There are now 16 PGA Tour winners who have combined for 36 titles who will tee it up in this week’s Korn Ferry Tour re-start event.

There have been five withdrawals from the Korn Ferry Challenge at TPC Sawgrass, which resulted in three more past PGA Tour winners added to the field, including one Gator and one Bulldog.

Camilo Villegas, who has won four PGA Tour titles, Hudson Swafford, who has one, and D.A. Points, who has three, will be among the 156 players who will start at Dye’s Valley on Thursday.

That brings the list to 16 past Tour winners who have combined for 36 titles in the field. The group is led by 2003 Masters champion Mike Weir (eight victories) and Robert Allenby and Sean O’Hair (four each).

Villegas, who played on the University of Florida’s 2001 national championship team, won the BMW Championship and the Tour Championship in 2008. His last victory was in 2014 at the Wyndham Championship.

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Swafford, a St. Simons Island, Georgia, resident, left Georgia after the 2011 season and won the PGA Tour’s event in Palm Springs, California, in 2017.

The highlight for Points in his career was winning in 2011 at Pebble Beach.

A total of five players have withdrawn since the field was finalized late last week: Joshua Creel, Bo Hoag, James Hahn, Derek Lamely and John Oda. The players are not required to make a reason for their withdrawal public.

For medical privacy reasons, the PGA Tour has said it will not release the names of any player on any of its tours who are forced to withdraw because of a positive coronavirus test.

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