Florida swing in full force with PGA Tour and LPGA Tour
By The Associated PressMarch 2, 2021 GMT
PGA TOUR
Prize money: $9.3 million. Winner’s share: $1.67 million.
Television: Thursday-Friday, 2-6 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday-Sunday, 12:30-2:30 p.m. (Golf Channel), 2:30-6 p.m. (NBC).
Defending champion: Tyrrell Hatton.
FedEx Cup leader: Patrick Cantlay.
Last week: Collin Morikawa won the WGC-Workday Championship and Branden Grace won the Puerto Rico Open.
Notes: Bay Hill was the last PGA Tour event with full fans before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down golf for three months. The tournament is allowing 25% capacity this year. . This is the second PGA Tour event in three weeks with elite status that offers a three-year exemption to the winner. The other was the Genesis Invitational at Riviera. Still to come is the Memorial in June. . Bay Hill was supposed to start the Florida swing until the World Golf Championship last week was moved from Mexico City to Bradenton. . None of
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On the PGA Tour, the stars come out in Los Angeles
By The Associated PressFebruary 16, 2021 GMT
PGA TOUR
Prize money: $9.3 million. Winner’s share: $1.67 million.
Television: Thursday-Friday, 2-6 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday-Sunday, 1-3 p.m. (Golf Channel), 3-6 p.m. (CBS).
Defending champion: Adam Scott.
Last week: Daniel Berger won the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
Notes: The tournament again promises to be the strongest of any regular PGA Tour event, with eight players from the top 10 in the world. . Tiger Woods is the tournament host and will not be playing as he recovers from a fifth back surgery. Riviera is the course Woods has played the most times (11) without ever winning. . Dustin Johnson has won or been runner-up in seven of his last nine tournaments worldwide. . Tyrrell Hatton of England and Webb Simpson are the only players from the top 10 not playing. Hatton has a World Golf Championship next week in Florida, followed by his title defense at Bay Hill and then The P