Golf is BACK! Sort of!
The TaylorMade Driving Relief skins match is happening on Sunday afternoon. The event is a charity match featuring four of the biggest names on the TaylorMade roster: Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy, Rickie Fowler, and Matthew Wolff.
The purse for the event is $3 million, all of which will go to the the American Nurses Foundation and CDC Foundation for their efforts in COVID-19 relief. There will be an additional $1 million up for grabs in a birdies and eagles pool, which will go to Off Their Plate, a World Central Kitchen initiative that helps COVID-19 healthcare workers.
Here’s everything you need to know about the event:
Time, TV details, live stream
Time: 2 p.m. ET
TV: NBC
Live stream: The event is streaming live on PGA Tour Live, GOLFTV, fuboTV, GolfChannel.com and Golfpass.
Rules of the 4-ball skins game
There are two teams: Dustin Johnson and Rory McIlroy vs. Rickie Fowler and Matthew Wolff.
It’s best-ball skins, meaning the best score on an individual hole will win it for your team. (If three other golfers par and Dustin Johnson birdies, DJ + Rory would win the hole.)
Each hole has a certain amount of cash tied to it: The first six holes will be worth $50,000 each. Holes 7-16 will be worth $100,000 each. Finally, the 17th hole will be worth $200,000 and the 18th hole worth $500,000.
A fun wrinkle, via Golf Digest:
If the 18th hole is tied, players will return to the 17th hole and play from 125 yards. If that is also tied, the skin will be decided by a closest-to-the-pin competition from the same 125-yard distance on the 17th. If regulation play ends after 5:45 p.m. and it’s tied, only the closest-to-the-pin competition will be employed to ensure the event finishes before dark.
That’s how it’ll work.
Odds
BetMGM has Rory and DJ as favorites at -223, but there are all sorts of fun prop bets you can get in on, if you are into such things.
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