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The Farmers Insurance Open astatine Torrey Pines had an perfect spot connected the West Coast Swing arsenic the play betwixt the NFL league title games and the Super Bowl. That changed erstwhile the NFL added a crippled to its regular season.
That led the circuit to accommodate by starting the tourney a time earlier, connected Wednesday, and giving CBS a prime-time decorativeness for astir of the state connected Saturday, a time up of the NFC and AFC rubric games.
The Farmers Insurance Open present volition beryllium Jan. 26-29.
CBS has the AFC title connected Jan. 30. The circuit said Golf Channel would broadcast the Wednesday and Thursday rounds, portion CBS would broadcast the tourney connected Friday and Saturday, with some rounds scheduled for an 8 p.m. EST finish.
The past PGA Tour scheduled for a Saturday decorativeness was the 1996 Phoenix Open, the twelvemonth the Super Bowl was played successful Tempe, Arizona.
Now the Waste Management Phoenix Open embraces Super Bowl weekend, adjacent erstwhile the NFL title is played down the roadworthy from the TPC Scottsdale.
The 17-game NFL docket already led to 1 change. The West Coast Swing typically goes from Phoenix to Pebble Beach to Los Angeles. The other crippled means the circuit volition spell from Torrey Pines to Pebble Beach to Phoenix to Los Angeles.
“We admit Farmers Insurance’s collaboration and innovative reasoning with this displacement successful contention days,” said Tyler Dennis, president of the PGA Tour. ”The PGA Tour’s archetypal web lawsuit of 2022 wrapping up connected Saturday, combined with shot games the pursuing day, volition make an action-packed play for sports fans.”
There inactive volition beryllium play astatine Torrey connected Sunday.
The diversity-focused Advocates Pro Golf Association Tour volition beryllium expanded to 36 holes. The archetypal circular volition beryllium connected the North Course connected Saturday, portion the last circular volition determination to the South Course connected Sunday and beryllium televised unrecorded connected Golf Channel.
It volition beryllium the archetypal clip an APGA lawsuit is shown connected unrecorded TV.
STRICKER’S REIGN
One of the much important conversations Steve Stricker had with Paul Azinger was astir creating a bully environment. Azinger, who reshaped Ryder Cup qualifying for the Americans and won arsenic skipper successful 2008, told him it was important to find the temper that works best.
Stricker is much astir mentation than inspiration. In fact, excessively overmuch inspiration tin pb to excessively overmuch pressure.
Whatever he’s doing, it’s working. Stricker was astatine the helm of the Presidents Cup squad successful 2017 that played truthful good it astir clinched the cupful earlier the last session. And past helium got the champion players to present apical performances successful a grounds triumph implicit Europe astatine the Ryder Cup.
If the Americans cared astir winning, they would see bringing him backmost for Italy successful 2023.
“It was a precise akin presumption arsenic acold arsenic the dominance goes,” Jordan Spieth said successful comparing Stricker’s 2 times arsenic U.S. captain.
The Ryder Cup is the lone squad lawsuit that doesn’t person repetition captains.
Jack Nicklaus and Fred Couples, Gary Player and Nick Price, they each were skipper for successive years successful the Presidents Cup. Juli Inkster did it 3 times successful a enactment astatine the Solheim Cup (going 2-1) and Catriona Matthew conscionable won her 2nd straight.
At the amateur level, the Walker Cup and Curtis Cup person a past of captains serving consecutive times.
The Ryder Cup hasn’t had that hap since Bernhard Gallacher successful 1995. Davis Love III did it doubly successful 3 Ryder Cups.
“I don’t deliberation it’s going to happen. It’s mapped retired and there’s guys successful positions to beryllium the adjacent captains,” Stricker said. “It was an unbelievable experience, don’t get maine wrong. I’m gladsome it’s over.”
FILLING THE FIELD
Olympic golden medalist Xander Schauffele and Collin Morikawa, who narrowly missed retired connected the bronze, are headed backmost to Japan adjacent month.
Schauffele, Morikawa and Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama of Japan are among 5 players who person committed to play the Zozo Championship connected Oct. 21-24 astatine Accordia Golf Narashino extracurricular Tokyo.
Rickie Fowler and Tommy Fleetwood besides are playing connected sponsor exemptions.
The PGA Tour wanted to get retired connection arsenic further affirmation the tourney is taking place.
COVID-19 forced 2 events connected the Asia Swing to relocate past twelvemonth — the Zozo Championship went to Sherwood Country Club successful California and the CJ Cup of South Korea went to Shadow Creek northbound of Las Vegas.
The Zozo Championship returns to Japan — defending champion Patrick Cantlay has not indicated if helium volition beryllium going — portion the CJ Cup returns to a antithetic play nine successful Las Vegas.
The trouble of Japan is that the PGA Tour has consecutive tournaments successful Las Vegas earlier going to Japan, and the pursuing week it is successful Bermuda.
Matsuyama was ever going to play successful his autochthonal country. He was successful the last radical astatine the Olympics and missed retired connected the 7-for-1 playoff for the bronze medal.
Schauffele returning was not a surprise, either.
“Everybody knows of the adjacent affinity that my household and I person with Japan owed to our practice and the information that my grandparents unrecorded implicit there,” helium said. “Winning the golden medal successful Tokyo successful July has lone reinforced my emotion for Japan and I look guardant to coming back.”
The Zozo Championship has a 78-man tract and a $9.95 cardinal purse.
NICKLAUS-JACKLIN AWARD
Dustin Johnson and Sergio Garcia came distant with idiosyncratic honors successful the eventual squad lawsuit astatine the Ryder Cup. They were selected to person the inaugural Nicklaus-Jacklin Award.
The grant is for players who champion embody the tone of erstwhile Jack Nicklaus conceded a abbreviated putt to Tony Jacklin to reason the 1969 Ryder Cup successful a necktie (the Americans retained the cupful arsenic defending champions).
Johnson teamed with Collin Morikawa 3 times and Xander Schauffele erstwhile and past won his singles lucifer to spell 5-0, the archetypal American to triumph each 5 matches since Larry Nelson successful 1979.
Garcia won 3 matches with Jon Rahm and mislaid successful singles to Bryson DeChambeau. He was selected arsenic overmuch for his teamwork and sportsmanship, 2 attributes identified by sponsor Aon, for encouraging Rory McIlroy aft the four-time large champion was 0-3 successful squad play.
“I emotion the Ryder Cup,” Garcia said. “We each cognize astir the beauteous infinitesimal that happened much than 50 years agone betwixt Nicklaus and Jacklin. I’m arrogant to beryllium the archetypal to triumph this grant and thankful to Aon. I enjoyed this week and I thought we played with bully energy, which is important to amusement the young players that you tin play with respect and person fun, adjacent successful defeat. I emotion my team. I’m truthful arrogant of each of them.”
The seven-member enactment committee included Nicklaus and Jacklin, on with erstwhile winning captains Paul McGinley and Paul Azinger.
DIVOTS
Rocket Mortgage is extending its PGA Tour rubric sponsorship successful Detroit done 2027. Cam Davis of Australia won this year’s Rocket Mortgage Classic astatine Detroit Golf Club. … Steve Stricker and Padraig Harrington adjacent duel arsenic players erstwhile Harrington makes his PGA Tour Champions debut adjacent week astatine Timuquana Country Club successful Jacksonville, Florida. … The Americans didn’t suffer a league successful the Ryder Cup for the archetypal clip since 1967. … Ian Poulter joined Colin Montgomerie arsenic the lone players to ne'er suffer successful singles astatine the Ryder Cup successful astatine slightest 7 appearances.
STAT OF THE WEEK
The Ryder Cup featured the apical 7 players successful the satellite ranking. They combined for a 21-3-4 grounds astatine Whistling Straits.
FINAL WORD
“If you privation to person these glorious moments, you’ve got to enactment your caput retired there, and sometimes it doesn’t spell right. You get your caput knocked off. That’s conscionable the world of sport.” — European skipper Padraig Harrington aft a 19-9 nonaccomplishment successful the Ryder Cup.
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