Rory McIlroy, Jon Rahm and Brooks Koepka will tee it up at Colonial Country Club when the PGA Tour gets back in action in a short 10 days.
The countdown in Fort Worth is on, the PGA Tour returns to action at the Charles Schwab event and this field will be unlike any other in recent memory.
There’s an All-Star lineup with seven of the world’s top 10 there in addition to McIlroy, Rahm and Koepka, numbers one through three, No. 4 Justin Thomas will be playing as will No. 5 Dustin Johnson. You can also add Mr. Wonderful, Patrick Reed, whose tied in the seventh position with Patrick Cantlay. Cantlay is not in the field but world’s No. 9 Webb Simpson will be there.
Xander Schauffele is in the field as is No. 16 Tony Finau.
Adam Scott currently checks in at No. 6. Scott has said he isn’t going to play as he’s not comfortable with the tour’s testing protocols. No. 10 Tommy Fleetwood is staying in Europe for the time being, not wanting to travel to the U.S. and spend two weeks in quarantine.
Defending champion is Kevin Na. He’ll be there.
Players have until 5 p.m. on Friday to commit to the event.
Vijay Singh Withdraws From Korn-Ferry Event:
Seems that Hall of Famer Vijay Singh has changed his mind.
The 57-year-old Veej was signed up to play in the Korn Ferry Tour event that starts next week at the Dye Valley Course at TPC Sawgrass.
When the 34-time winner announced that, social media lit up and he took some heat for it.
Now Singh has quietly changed his mind and won’t play in the event next Thursday.
Singh was eligible to play. The PGA Tour allows a lifetime member (players with 20 or more wins) to enter any Korn Ferry event if that player is not eligible for that week’s PGA Tour event.
The PGA Tour has confirmed the withdrawal but Singh has yet to say anything.
Imagine that.
6 Comments
baxter cepeda
Can’t wait to see the Shwab.
But I can cross that Korn Ferry event off the list of must see tv now that VJ isn’t there to provide interest. Hope all the Twits out there are happy.
Tom Edrington
I think deep down inside Vijay discerned there was no upside for him there….supposed he missed the cut, the abuse would have been non-stop; He can simply go to Hilton Head the following week and quietly miss the cut there and it won’t matter, will it?
baxter cepeda
I agree Vijay realized there was no upside for him but not for the shame of missing the cut.
There would be no shame in missing the cut. VJ knows these Ferry boys are no push overs.
The Singh critics are too shortsighted to see there was more upside for the Korn Tour and its players by Vijay playing than for Singh himself.
It wasn’t worth it for him. I imagine he was hurt by it. But he isnt the type to go on every media possible to talk about it.
What the golf boys coming up should realize is Any big name PGA Tour player should be welcome with open arms by the developmental tours. Not only do stars help with ratings; Maybe developing players learn something. Isn’t that the point of a developmental tour?
I would like to hear the commissioner address this specific issue.
Tom Edrington
Korn Ferry telecasts aren’t there for ratings, if they were, they wouldn’t make it; It’s content for The Golf Channel and nowhere else….as for the Veej, he didn’t need to be out on a developmental tour….he’s a Hall of Fame player, either go Seniors or regular tour events ….. simple as that…
baxter cepeda
He has a right to play T; It’s as simple as that.
But the real reaction is to your ratings comments. Of course Korn ferry very much so cares about its ratings. Everyone cares about ratings; even teenage girls with their own social media’s care about ‘ratings’ of sorts.
Tom Edrington
Will be the first to admit I’ve never watched an entire broadcast for any round of a Korn-Ferry event, and Craig Perks is an old buddy of mine.