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Commissioner Jay Monahan: Now is not the time to think of a PGA Tour without Tiger Woods

PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan said Wednesday now is not the time to think about life on Tour without Tiger Woods following his accident.

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BRADENTON, Fla. – PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan from time to time has given thought to what the PGA Tour would be like without Tiger Woods.

Now, however, is not the time to give thought to such matters.

“I think that the only thing that really matters now is his well-being, his recovery, his family, the level of support that we provide to him,” Monahan said Wednesday from The Concession Golf Club, home to this week’s World Golf Championships-Workday Champion, which has attracted 48 of the top 50 players in the world.

“When Tiger wants to talk about golf, we’ll talk about golf, but I think right now the entirety of our efforts needs to be around the support,” Monahan continued. “When you’re going to overcome what he needs to overcome, I think the love of all of our players and everybody out here, it’s going to come forward in a big way and across the entire sporting world.

“I think he’ll feel that energy and I think that’s what we should all focus on. We’ll all be talking about (the PGA Tour without Woods) at some point down the road, but right now that’s not what we should be talking about.”

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Woods was involved in a single-car rollover crash early Tuesday morning in the Los Angeles area. Woods was transported by ambulance to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, where surgery was performed in the afternoon.

Woods shattered the tibia and fibula in his right leg and suffered significant injuries to his right foot and ankle. A rod was inserted to stabilize his tibia and a combination of screws and pins were used to stabilize the ankle and foot.

Woods, 45, was awake and responsive following the surgery, his team said in a statement Tuesday night.

Monahan was in his office Tuesday in the organization’s spanking new headquarters in northeast Florida when his video conference was interrupted by a phone call. It wasn’t good news, for the other end of the line told him about the crash. All his other duties took a back seat.

“I was shocked,” Monahan said. “I kind of had to sit down and ask the same question I had asked a second time because I wasn’t sure I completely heard what I was being told.

“I was up all night last night and I couldn’t really focus on anything else.”

Monahan, 50, said he talked with members of Woods’ team, including his agent Mark Steinberg.

Tiger Woods and the United States Presidents Cup team pose with PGA Commissioner Jay Monahan after the 2019 Presidents Cup at Royal Melbourne. (Daniel Pockett/Getty Images)

“It was early on in the process when there was still a lot of unknowns,” Monahan said. “All I knew was that he had had a really bad car accident, which the time frame from that to when we started to understand that, No. 1, most important, he was going to be OK and it was non-life‑threatening, and two, he had serious injuries that needed to be attended to.

“That’s where for me and I think for a lot of us there was a period where we didn’t know; you’re thinking a lot of different things and some of them are pretty scary to think about. His life was in jeopardy. That was a hard. You never want to see anybody in that spot obviously.”

Monahan’s relationship goes back some 30 years and really took hold when he was the tournament director of the Deutsche Bank Championship at TPC Boston, which benefited Woods’ foundation. Monahan joined the PGA Tour in 2008 and became commissioner on Jan. 1, 2017.

“I think that experience of building an event for his foundation with Tiger, with Greg McLaughlin, with Mark Steinberg, with the whole team there, I was the Bostonian, was an awesome experience,” Monahan said. “And it was awesome not just because of the event, but you start to really understand that foundation and what Tiger puts into it personally both in terms of his time, his treasure. It’s extraordinary. And sometimes it’s hard to articulate how impactful someone’s work is or how you see their work impacting young people.

“You just go to the Learning Center in Anaheim and it will blow your mind to think that he’s accomplished everything he’s accomplished in the field of play and then he’s accomplishing everything like that in life.”

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If the wind blows at WGC-Workday Championship, Concession course could create concussions

If the wind blows at the WGC-Workday Championship, The Concession course could create concussions for players.

BRADENTON, Fla. – Three weeks ago, former Ryder Cup captain and major winner Paul Azinger turned into a 10-eyed monster.

The NBC analyst, who is an honorary member at The Concession, home to this week’s World Golf Championships-Workday Championship, was with producer Tommy Roy and co-producer Thomas Randolph as they surveyed the course to decide where to put cameras for the broadcast. Now, Azinger has played The Concession for more than a decade but on this occasion, he looked at the layout through the eyes of Dustin Johnson, Jon Rahm, Rory McIlroy, and Bryson DeChambeau, a foursome of bashers who can overpower most any golf track.

“I saw what they are going to see and I turned into a 10-eyed creature and I saw a different golf course,” Azinger said. “I saw water that wasn’t in play where it was in play for everyone else. If you have great carry distance, you can make a mockery of it. If you don’t have great carry distance, it’s tough.

“You have to get past the first five holes if you want to post a good score, but with their length, it’s very possible.”

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Still, Azinger doesn’t think the course will be a pushover, especially if the wind blows.

“When the wind blows, it’s a two-man game out there,” Azinger said. “You better have a good caddie.”

That’s because of the many hazards and treacherous greens. The course, ranked No. 9 on Golfweek’s Best Private Courses list in Florida, was inspired by Jack Nicklaus’ concession of a three-foot putt to Tony Jacklin in the 1969 Ryder Cup, the gesture meaning the matches ended in a tie and the U.S. retained the Cup.

With Jacklin’s consultation Nicklaus designed the course, which can play out to 7,564 yards with a par of 72. Some said he made the greens too difficult, leading to a nickname for the course – The Concussion. The greens have softened over the years but remain challenging.

“They greens are broken into segments and they are severe. Some are tilted, some are very specifically shelved. There are specific areas that are small greens onto themselves,” Azinger said. “There are a lot of raised flats. It will be a tricky course. They will have to control their spins into the greens if they are soft. If the greens are firm and the wind is blowing at all, it’s a where-not-to-miss-it course.

“It’s not a super treacherous driving course, except for the water holes, and there are several of them, especially 5, 10, 13, 15 and 16. But I think the players will hit six sand wedges into greens every day.

“It’s going to be a great test, especially if the wind blows.”

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The players agree.

“It’s a good track. It’s all right in front of you,” world No. 3 Justin Thomas said. “I think there’s the opportunity to challenge some holes off the tee and you can play a little bit more aggressively. A lot of water, very typical Florida course in that aspect. It definitely seems like an amateur golfer’s nightmare. It’s very difficult and grainy around the greens and a lot of elevated greens.

“It’s a lot of holes that we’ve had a hard time finding four pin placements because the greens are so severe. The greens are very elevated, it’s very grainy, the grass is tight. You can hit it in a lot of spots around the greens where you’re just kind of chipping it back and forth and having a hard time.

“If the greens were firm, it would be challenging I think is an understatement, but I think it’s going to still be a good test considering how the course will evolve over the course of the week. They’re very tough. I mean, like I said, I think this is an amateur golfer’s nightmare.”

Defending champion Patrick Reed felt after his practice round that putting the greens was OK. Chipping on to them, well, that’s another story.

“The problem is when you miss the green,” Reed said. “It’s really grainy, it’s really tight and the banks are really steep where some of those chips that you think you can bump and run the ball just don’t bounce and they come back to your feet. At the same time, if I hit a foot too far, it goes over the green and down another hill.

“It’s definitely going to take some patience and creativity around the greens this week, but hopefully you’re able to hit the ball well enough where you’re not having to focus too much on having to chip around this place.”

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WGC-Workday Championship matchups and prop bet predictions

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The strongest field of the 2020-21 PGA Tour season to date is at The Concession Golf Club in Bradenton, Florida, this week for the World Golf Championships-Workday Championship. Below, we’ll look for the best value bets in the 2021 WGC Workday Championship odds, with tournament matchups, placings and other PGA Tour prop bet predictions.

The exclusive 73-man field includes each of the top-15 golfers in the Golfweek/Sagarin world rankings. It’s a no-cut tournament with a guaranteed check for all who hit at least their opening tee shot. The Puerto Rico Open hosts an alternate field in Rio Grande.

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Bryson DeChambeau (-115) vs. Tony Finau

We took Finau at plus-money in this head-to-head matchup for The Genesis Invitational and were nicely rewarded as DeChambeau missed the cut and Finau lost in the playoff to Max Homa. Take DeChambeau with equal odds on both sides this week.

DeChambeau is the lone member of this field with meaningful experience at The Concession, having won the 2015 NCAA Championship at this venue. He’s also likely to have a better putting performance on the Bermudagrass greens after losing 1.12 strokes per round with the putter on Poa Annua putting surfaces last week.

Daniel Berger vs. Patrick Reed (-110)

Reed tees it up in North America for the first time since winning the Farmers Insurance Open, while Berger plays his first event since winning the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

Reed is technically the defending champion, although the event has been renamed and relocated from Mexico. He’ll still be facing the same level of competition and his last win came against a much stronger field than Berger’s.

Dustin Johnson vs. Jon Rahm (-105)

The No. 1 and 3 golfers in the Golfweek rankings, respectively, are pitted together in this week’s marquee matchup. Back the third-ranked Rahm, who won last year’s Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio.

Both Muirfield Village GC and The Concession were designed by Jack Nicklaus and have many similarities despite the different locales.

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Top 5: Will Zalatoris (+750)

The PGA Tour rookie tied for sixth at the 2020 U.S. Open against most of this week’s top names. He also tied for seventh in a strong field at the Farmers Insurance Open.

He’s averaging 0.95 Strokes Gained: Approach for the 2020-21 season and should fit a Nicklaus course well.

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Top 10: Christiaan Bezuidenhout (+700)

Golfweek’s 49th-ranked golfer has yet to win on the PGA Tour, but he has three wins on the European Tour and will go up against a lot of the top international competition from those events in Bradenton. He tied for 20th in the WGC FedEx St. Jude Invitational last summer.

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Patrick Reed (+3300)

Reed is a value bet to win this event at +2500, but his odds rise even higher for the opening 18-hole lead. He shares just the 12th-best odds with Brooks Koepka.

The 2020 WGC-Mexico Championship winner leads the Tour with a first-round scoring average of 67.17 through six rounds. He has shot at least 2-under in each of those six rounds and opened the Farmers with a 64.

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Bryson DeChambeau has slimmed down, ready for WGC-Workday Championship at a fond golf course

Bryson DeChambeau has slimmed down and is ready for the WGC-Workday Championship, held at the same course he won an NCAA title.

BRADENTON, Fla. – Bryson DeChambeau is looking rather slim these days.

No, really, he is.

Well, compared to what he looked like at the Sentry Tournament of Champions in January. Back then, he was the Incredible Bulk, going about 250 pounds. But at this week’s World Golf Championships-Workday Championship at The Concession, DeChambeau is tipping the scales at 230.

There’s nothing wrong with him, mind you. It’s just the big basher was carrying a bit too much weight around the PGA Tour.

“Not eating as much, that’s it,” the reigning U.S. Open champion and seven-time PGA Tour winner said with a smile when asked how he lost the lbs.

You’ll remember that when he started bulking up in the fall of 2019 in search of swing speed, ball speed and distance, he eventually reached a calorie intake per day in the range of 6,000-7,000. He said he just “had at it” at the dinner table and was inhaling five to six meals a day and drinking about 6-8 protein shakes per day.

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“I’ll still do two, three shakes a day, but then I just don’t eat as much,” DeChambeau said. “A little more protein. The portions are smaller, that’s all.

“I have the same strength. I haven’t tried to push strength levels because it makes me really fatigued and tired. I’ll do it in the offseason. That’s why at Sentry, I was a lot bigger, I looked bigger. I’m just going to keep trying to gain muscle, size and strength and pushing the same tolerance levels throughout the week. I won’t try to stress anything because I’ve got to play golf.”

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This week he’s playing on the course where he won the NCAA individual title in 2015. The memories remain vivid, the vibes still fresh. By the way, back then he weighed 195 and could generate ball speed of 170 mph. Now he can cruise and hit 190-195 mph on Trackman.

In winning the NCAA individual title, DeChambeau birdied the 71^st hole and parred the final hole with a two-putt from 60 feet. The victory gave him the confidence he was searching for to make a run at the PGA Tour.

“That was the moment that I knew I could play golf under pressure,” DeChambeau said if his final-round heroics. “I didn’t even know if I was going to be playing golf for the rest of my life before the NCAAs. I had no idea. I was really good and I would have tried to play on Tour, but a lot of things got expedited when I won the NCAAs and the U.S. Amateur.

“I would not have expected this type of path, and albeit I’m glad for a lot of the things and very blessed for a lot of the things that have happened to me, I didn’t know that there would be a lot of struggles along the way as well. I have to appreciate those tough moments because last week, very, very difficult moment for me. I was swinging really well and the ball just wasn’t doing what it should have done. I felt like I held myself together really well.”

Last week he missed the cut in the Genesis Invitational at Riviera Country Club north of Los Angeles. DeChambeau said he immediately put the missed cut behind him and headed east to start working to get ready for the Workday.

“It’s one of those things that I’m swinging so fast now that we just don’t know what’s going to happen yet,” DeChambeau said.

But he’s gathering information as he works with World Long Drive champion Kyle Berkshire.

“The physics aren’t understood at that speed yet. I mean, his mis‑hits when he barely mis‑hits it, talking about variable gear effect, hit it in the same place on the toe and the ball can have two completely reactions,” DeChambeau said. “We don’t know why that is yet and that’s sort of the stuff I’m working on to try to figure out.

“Now, at the lower speeds I was using a year ago and even there were times that I just didn’t drive it that well. The U.S. Open I didn’t drive it well, so this has been going on for a long time and I knew we were going to come to this point at some point in time, but once we figure it out, it’s going to be very, very nice.

“So if I can keep it in play and gain some of the confidence I had at the U.S. Open last year, I’ll be fine. I’m putting really well.”

He knows he has to keep it in play this week at The Concession.

“If you’re not hitting it well and straight off the tee, it’s a concussion for a reason,” he said, referring to the nickname some have given the course. “But I like the place and we’ll be ready come Thursday.”

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Mood sours at WGC-Workday Championship as players react to news of Tiger Woods crash

Players at the WGC-Workday Championship reacted to the shocking news of Tiger Woods crash on Tuesday.

BRADENTON, Fla. – Word of Tiger Woods being in a single-car accident Tuesday quickly spread over The Concession Golf Club as players geared up for the World Golf Championships-Workday Championship.

The mood on the sun-splashed day quickly soured.

“I’m sick to my stomach,” an emotional, teary-eyed Justin Thomas said during a video conference with reporters. “You know, it hurts to see one of your, now one of my closest friends, get in an accident. Man, I just hope he’s all right. Just worry for his kids, you know. I’m sure they’re struggling.”

Woods, 45, was transported by ambulance to a hospital with multiple leg injuries and was in surgery Tuesday afternoon, according to his agent, Mark Steinberg. In a statement, the L.A. County Sherriff’s Department said police responded to a “roll-over traffic collision” at approximately 7:12 a.m. local time on Hawthorne Boulevard in Rancho Palos Verdes. Later, the Sherriff’s Department confirmed the injuries were not life threatening.

Woods, recovering from his fifth back surgery, a microdiscectomy procedure Dec. 23 that removed disc fragments causing nerve damage, was in California as the tournament host for the Genesis Invitational at Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades. On Sunday, he told CBS’ Jim Nantz that he was going to having an MRI soon that would determine his next steps in the recovery when he got the results.

On Monday, Woods started a two-day content shoot for Golf Digest and GolfTV at Rolling Hills Country Club. Woods gave on-course lessons to a number of celebrities, including David Spade and former NBA star Dwayne Wade. Woods, however, did not show up for Tuesday’s shoot.

Here’s how players at The Concession reacted to the news:

Mood sours at WGC-Workday Championship as players react to news of Tiger Woods crash

Players at the WGC-Workday Championship reacted to the shocking news of Tiger Woods crash on Tuesday.

BRADENTON, Fla. – Word of Tiger Woods being in a single-car accident Tuesday quickly spread over The Concession Golf Club as players geared up for the World Golf Championships-Workday Championship.

The mood on the sun-splashed day quickly soured.

Here’s how players at The Concession reacted to the news:

Justin Thomas: ‘I’m sick to my stomach,’ can only think of Tiger Woods during press conference

Justin Thomas counts Tiger Woods as one of his close friends and was understandably upset at news that Woods was involved in a car accident.

Justin Thomas didn’t want to talk about missed cuts, his mastery of match play or even the story behind the naming of The Concession Golf Club, which he said he’d never heard before.

Thomas was more concerned about Tiger Woods, his Presidents Cup captain, his mentor and one of his closest friends. Just 10-15 minutes earlier he’d learned that Woods was involved in a single-car accident in California.

“I’m sick to my stomach,” he said as his eyes began to water. “You know, it hurts to see one of your – now one of my closest friends get in an accident. Man, I just hope he’s all right. Just worry for his kids, you know. I’m sure they’re struggling.”

Thomas, who is set to play the WGC-Workday Championship this week, did his best to maintain his composure and answer the remaining handful of questions, but it was clear his head was elsewhere. He’s already endured being embroiled in controversy after using a homophobic slur at a golf tournament in Hawaii in January and learned of the death of his grandfather, Paul Thomas, 89, while competing in Phoenix. The World No. 3 has missed the cut in two of his last three starts worldwide.

“It’s been a tough year. I mean, self-inflicted, but yeah, it’s been tough,” he said. “It’s a part of life, stuff happens. I’ve been working on myself and I’ve made great strides, I feel like, in becoming a better, stronger man with the mistakes that I made.

“It’s unfortunate what happened with my grandpa and yeah, just like I said, I hope Tiger’s all right. I’ve just got to get back to worry about playing golf and try to do as good as I can because that’s the only thing that I can control.”

At the moment, Thomas was more concerned with what he couldn’t control and that was the status of his good friend Woods.

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WGC-Workday Championship field by the rankings

The entire WGC-Workday Championship field is broken down here according to the Golfweek/Sagarins and the OWGR.

As the PGA Tour heads east to begin its Florida Swing this week at The Concession Golf Club in Bradenton, Florida, a top-level field is turning up. Only two of the top 20 players in the Golfweek/Sagarin Pro Rankings are absent this week: Russell Henley at No. 19 and Cameron Tringale at No. 20.

The entire WGC-Workday Championship field is broken down below according to the Golfweek/Sagarins and the OWGR.

So far in the 2020-21 Tour season, the average ranking of the winner heading into the week in which he won a PGA Tour event has been 110.84 in the Golfweek/Sagarins and 122.63 in the OWGR.

Player	GW/Sagarin	OWGR
Dustin Johnson	1	1
Xander Schauffele	2	4
Jon Rahm	3	2
Patrick Cantlay	4	7
Webb Simpson	5	9
Viktor Hovland	6	14
Daniel Berger	7	15
Tony Finau	8	13
Will Zalatoris	9	48
Justin Thomas	10	3
Bryson DeChambeau	11	10
Rory McIlroy	12	8
Tyrrell Hatton	13	5
Harris English	14	20
Patrick Reed	15	11
Adam Scott	17	22
Joaquin Niemann	18	29
Ryan Palmer	22	24
Louis Oosthuizen	23	26
Sungjae Im	24	17
Abraham Ancer	25	28
Collin Morikawa	29	6
Matthew Wolff	31	19
Mackenzie Hughes	32	54
Hideki Matsuyama	34	23
Cameron Smith	36	27
Billy Horschel	38	40
Scottie Scheffler	39	31
Matthew Fitzpatrick	40	16
Tommy Fleetwood	42	21
Kevin Na	43	25
Kevin Kisner	44	34
Christiaan Bezuidenhout	49	36
Sergio Garcia	50	42
Brendon Todd	54	49
Lanto Griffin	56	51
Robert MacIntyre	57	43
Bernd Wiesberger	58	41
Jason Kokrak	59	33
Max Homa	68	38
Brooks Koepka	72	12
Jason Day	82	45
Carlos Ortiz	84	46
Shane Lowry	85	39
Matt Kuchar	86	47
Bubba Watson	87	52
Andy Sullivan	88	56
Lee Westwood	97	37
Justin Rose	98	35
Sebastián Muñoz	101	62
Gary Woodland	112	44
Thomas Detry	117	90
Rasmus Hojgaard	123	73
Marc Leishman	124	32
Erik van Rooyen	130	63
Lucas Herbert	134	66
David Lipsky	139	188
Chan Kim	148	88
Cameron Champ	151	75
Laurie Canter	174	98
Rafa Cabrera Bello	179	94
Victor Perez	223	30
Aaron Rai	234	79
Jason Scrivener	255	117
Sami Valimaki	276	76
Wade Ormsby	359	177
Min Woo Lee	611	202
JC Ritchie	637	211
Yuki Inamori	N/R	166
Brad Kennedy	N/R	155
Trevor Simsby	N/R	416
Danie van Tonder	N/R	154

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WGC-Workday Championship field by the rankings

The entire WGC-Workday Championship field is broken down here according to the Golfweek/Sagarins and the OWGR.

The entire WGC-Workday Championship field is broken down below according to the Golfweek/Sagarins and the OWGR.

So far in the 2020-21 Tour season, the average ranking of the winner heading into the week in which he won a PGA Tour event has been 110.84 in the Golfweek/Sagarins and 122.63 in the OWGR.

Player	GW/Sagarin	OWGR
Dustin Johnson	1	1
Xander Schauffele	2	4
Jon Rahm	3	2
Patrick Cantlay	4	7
Webb Simpson	5	9
Viktor Hovland	6	14
Daniel Berger	7	15
Tony Finau	8	13
Will Zalatoris	9	48
Justin Thomas	10	3
Bryson DeChambeau	11	10
Rory McIlroy	12	8
Tyrrell Hatton	13	5
Harris English	14	20
Patrick Reed	15	11
Adam Scott	17	22
Joaquin Niemann	18	29
Ryan Palmer	22	24
Louis Oosthuizen	23	26
Sungjae Im	24	17
Abraham Ancer	25	28
Collin Morikawa	29	6
Matthew Wolff	31	19
Mackenzie Hughes	32	54
Hideki Matsuyama	34	23
Cameron Smith	36	27
Billy Horschel	38	40
Scottie Scheffler	39	31
Matthew Fitzpatrick	40	16
Tommy Fleetwood	42	21
Kevin Na	43	25
Kevin Kisner	44	34
Christiaan Bezuidenhout	49	36
Sergio Garcia	50	42
Brendon Todd	54	49
Lanto Griffin	56	51
Robert MacIntyre	57	43
Bernd Wiesberger	58	41
Jason Kokrak	59	33
Max Homa	68	38
Brooks Koepka	72	12
Jason Day	82	45
Carlos Ortiz	84	46
Shane Lowry	85	39
Matt Kuchar	86	47
Bubba Watson	87	52
Andy Sullivan	88	56
Lee Westwood	97	37
Justin Rose	98	35
Sebastián Muñoz	101	62
Gary Woodland	112	44
Thomas Detry	117	90
Rasmus Hojgaard	123	73
Marc Leishman	124	32
Erik van Rooyen	130	63
Lucas Herbert	134	66
David Lipsky	139	188
Chan Kim	148	88
Cameron Champ	151	75
Laurie Canter	174	98
Rafa Cabrera Bello	179	94
Victor Perez	223	30
Aaron Rai	234	79
Jason Scrivener	255	117
Sami Valimaki	276	76
Wade Ormsby	359	177
Min Woo Lee	611	202
JC Ritchie	637	211
Yuki Inamori	N/R	166
Brad Kennedy	N/R	155
Trevor Simsby	N/R	416
Danie van Tonder	N/R	154

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Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau, Rory McIlroy highlight commits to WGC-Workday Championship at The Concession

Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau and Rory McIlroy highlight early commits to the WGC-Workday Championship at The Concession.

Officials of the 2021 World Golf Championships-Workday Championship, scheduled for Feb. 25-28 at The Concession Golf Club in Bradenton, Florida, have announced that several of the world’s top-ranked players have committed to play in the season’s first World Golf Championship event.

Workday, Inc., a provider of enterprise applications for finance and human resources, will be the title sponsor of the newly-named Workday Championship. COVID-19 forced the relocation of the tournament formerly known as the Mexico Championship to The Concession. In December, Workday signed a 10-year agreement to become the new presenting sponsor of the Memorial Tournament in Dublin, Ohio.

Among the top players from the PGA, Asian, European, Japan Golf and PGA Tour of Australasia tours who will be at The Concession include: world No. 1 and 2020 FedExCup champion Dustin Johnson, No. 2 Jon Rahm, No. 3 and 2017 FedExCup champion Justin Thomas, No. 4 Xander Schauffele, two-time FedExCup champion Rory Mcllroy, 2020 U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau, 2020 PGA Championship winner Collin Morikawa and defending champion Patrick Reed.

Players have until Friday at 5 p.m. ET to commit to the field. Those players not currently qualified can still join the field at The Concession by either moving inside the top 50 in the Official World Golf Ranking, or being among the top 10 in the FedExCup standings as of Monday, Feb. 22.

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