Thomas clinches Ryder Cup spot; Tiger still 20th

There he was. Sprawled out on the couch. Again. The TV was always on. The remote control was never far away. And curled up next to Joel Dahmen, almost always, was Murphy, his black lab puppy. Meanwhile, the dirty dishes hadn’t been washed. The laundry was still sitting in a pile. Of course, Dahmen was probably wearing the same clothes he’d worn the day before. And the day before that. And the day before that. Shoot, he likely hadn’t taken a shower in days. Dahmen was moping around after a string of three-putts over the final nine holes – “I choked, basically, and crumbled under the pressure,â€� he says — ended his PGA TOUR dream at the second stage of q-school in 2013. He was feeling sorry for himself. I thought that this might’ve been it for me. “I was going to give myself five years. And that was year four and winding down. You wonder if you’re ever going to make it basically. …  And so, when it didn’t happen, I was crushed, and I didn’t really know how to respond. “I was so devastated. I wasn’t practicing for final stage. I had nothing really to plan, so I just shut it down.â€� For his girlfriend Lona Skutt, it was like Groundhog Day, the same depressing scene every day when she came home from work. And it was starting to affect their relationship. Skutt loved Dahmen, dearly. She’d known he was the one within months of meeting him, standing in line for pizza after a festive evening in Old Scottsdale in the winter of 2012. She believed in him – maybe more than he believed in himself. But she was working two, and sometimes three, jobs to support the couple. She helped manage a nationally known clothing store during the day and worked as a cocktail waitress at night. Double shifts three times a week were taking a toll. Skutt had had enough. “There was one defining day where I came home and I had had a hell of a day at work, you know, a long day at work, and I was like ‘I can’t do all of this.â€� Lona recalls. “I can’t support us, come home and do the dishes and cook for you while you just sit there and do nothing.’ “I didn’t sign up to be dating the bum on the couch who doesn’t move for 12 hours a day. I think I reached my limit where I was, like, you’ve got to do something. “That was definitely the defining conversation, because I came home, and I was like, ‘All right, get it together, man. You can’t keep doing this. I let you throw your pity party for a couple of weeks, now you’re good. Come on, like let’s get it together.’â€� The couple had had the conversation before. But this particular night was different. This time Dahmen, who had quit paying his cell phone bill because he liked the isolation, really listened. “The laundry wasn’t done. The dishes weren’t done. The place was a mess,â€� he recalls. “I was in the same clothes and she’s like, ‘This is disgusting. You’re gross, and you need to figure this out because this isn’t working for me. This is unfair.’ “I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her, and as soon as she turned it, like, ‘This isn’t fair to me,’ and that’s when it kind of switched for me and made sense.â€� Dahmen actually had thought about getting a job driving an Uber. He’d even considered swallowing his pride and working in the cart barn at some club. But he knew a 9-to-5 job wasn’t in his future. Instead, he borrowed $200 from Skutt and took a lesson. “And that was all I needed,â€� Dahmen said. “I just needed one little thing to kickstart me from there to where I’ve play pretty good golf.â€� Skutt remembers Dahmen being nervous when he asked her for the money. He didn’t need to be – she gave it willingly. She just wanted to see her boyfriend set a new goal for himself. Golf or no golf, she wanted him to find what was in his heart and made him happy. “That’s when he got back into the swing of things,â€� she says. “I think you always want the person you love to feel motivated and want to better themselves and all that stuff. “It was good to see him finally show interest again.â€� But this wasn’t the first time that Dahmen — who would earn his PGA TOUR card four years later and enters this week’s John Deere Classic in the midst of a career season — had to overcome adversity. Dahmen grew up in Clarkston, Washington, a town of about 7,500 situated on the Snake River across from Lewiston, Idaho. The two towns were named after the explorers Merriwether Lewis and William Clark, who led the first expedition to cross the western part of the United States in the early 1800s. Dahmen’s father Ed introduced him to the game of golf almost as soon as he could walk and coached him as a junior. His mother Jolyn taught school, so she had the summers off to travel with her son to tournaments, even caddying for him sometimes. “She was my best friend,â€� Dahmen says simply. In the fall of 2004, Jolyn was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and died the following spring. Dahmen, the self-proclaimed “mama’s boy,â€� was a junior in high school. He was devastated. In fact, he thinks it took him about five years before he properly grieved her death. “That was tough for me and tough for my family, obviously,â€� he says. “She was a rock. She held our whole family together.â€� Four years after Jolyn died, Dahmen’s older brother Zach discovered he had testicular cancer. Unlike with their mother’s cancer, though, there was a clear path of treatment and a successful outcome. “There was no like, ‘Oh, you’re diagnosed with cancer, but we don’t know what’s next,â€� Dahmen recalls. “Fortunately, they said, we can remove it. You won’t have to do chemo and you’re going to make a full recovery from that. So, there was no time to be scared really with that one.â€� Even so, it’s still cancer. And then it happened again. In March of 2011, when Dahmen was 23 years old and just starting to play golf professionally, he felt a lump in his scrotum. Here we go again, he thought. Dahmen called his brother, who told him that was the same thing that had sent him to the doctor. “And I’m like, no way,â€� Dahmen remembers. “Like, this can’t possibly happen to me. I was in denial for a couple of days. I mean, most people would run to the doctor. I was in denial about the whole thing and didn’t tell anybody, didn’t act any different … I was just hoping it would go away.â€� But it didn’t. And two weeks later, as the size of the lump increased, Dahmen finally went to see a doctor. Before the physician could open his mouth, Dahmen matter-of-factly told the doctor he had testicular cancer. “He just kind of laughed at me, but it turns out I was correct,â€� Dahmen says. Luckily, Dahmen, who had no health insurance, had a sponsor in Bob Yosaitis who paid for his treatment. The two had met the previous summer during a practice round at the Washington State Amateur. Dahmen was playing; Yosaitis — a successful jet-fuel trader who founded Bradley Pacific Aviation, an FBO based in the Hawaiian islands — was caddying for his son. They quickly became friends. “I was looking at Joel like another one of my kids,â€� Yosaitis said in the book, “Walking with Tigers.â€� “He called me one day on the phone and was crying. I thought he had some golf problems. I asked, ‘What’s wrong, and he said, ‘I have cancer.’ I told him, ‘Don’t worry. I’ll pay for the treatment. You’re getting the surgery.â€� Doctors removed his testicle, and Dahmen spent several weeks undergoing roughly eight hours a day of chemotherapy. He was weak and nauseous but eager to play golf again. He returned to the Mackenzie Tour-PGA TOUR Canada later that year. “So, for me, it was important to get it removed, to have the chemo and just get healthy again to where they said I was going to be OK,â€� Dahmen says. “And I truly believe that. I think there’s two stories — there is, the doctor tells you, but then truly believing in yourself. “So, my motivation was to just to get healthy and to play golf again for sure.â€� Skutt met her future husband the following January. Dahmen had the gift of gab, and she thought he was cute, particularly the “really curly froâ€� he had when his hair first grew back after the chemo. She gave him her phone number – never expecting to hear from him – but he called several days later to asked her out. Two months later, the couple shocked each other with their first “I love yous.â€� When Skutt realized a job in New York City wasn’t going to be in her future, she returned to Scottsdale … and the two moved in together. After a seven-year courtship, they were married in January of this year. Skutt didn’t know Dahmen when he was undergoing his cancer treatment. But she thinks it has affected his outlook on life that – with the exception of that month or so where he vegetated on their couch – is overwhelmingly positive. “He had to endure things that are unimaginable to me,â€� Skutt says. “I still have both of my grandparents and nobody in my family has been sick. My great grandma lived until she was 95. So, for me, when I met him, I was like holy hell, I can’t complain to this kid about anything because he’s already been through so much that people shouldn’t have to go through. “I think in hindsight it’s something that’s pushed him further in the sense that I can have fun doing this, and I can actually enjoy my career, because this isn’t all that life’s about. It doesn’t have to consume me, but it can be just a fun kind of what I’m doing, and I think he takes that outlook. “If anything, it has guided him in a positive and it’s allowed him to be able to have fun and allow him to not take it as life or death. Because there is actual life or death.â€� Skutt is one of several people Dahmen has leaned on in the years since his mother died. His family, of course, and Yosaitis. Then there’s Jon Reehoorn, who was an assistant coach at Washington during Dahmen’s brief Huskies career and now guides the program at Oregon State. “He’s a great life coach,â€� says Dahmen, who admits he lacked direction in college and dropped out after a year of going to too many parties and not enough classes. “He would nudge me in the right direction. He always says he wishes he were more firm with me back then, but Horn always helped me.â€� The same goes for another former Huskie, Rob Rashell, the director of instruction at TPC Scottsdale, who Dahmen says “took me in like a little brother and taught me everything he’s ever known.â€� Dahmen sought him out because the man who gave him the $200 tip – telling him to clear his left hip – seemed more interested in making money than making him a better player. “I needed the support. I didn’t need any lessons,â€� Dahmen explains. “I didn’t need any help. I needed something to get me off the couch. I needed something to look forward to. I needed something to work on because I didn’t know. “I knew I was good, but I obviously had flaws. … I just needed refining and understanding and some growing up to do, obviously.â€� Enter Dahmen’s long-time friend and caddie, Geno Bonnalie, who let his buddy live at his house after he dropped out of the University of Washington. Bonnalie even officiated at the wedding of Dahmen and Skutt in January. “They let me make mistakes, but they’d beat me up pretty good too about it,â€� Dahmen recalls. “And so that was huge. Just let me take over their spare room and find my way there. That was big. “Geno — he’s been here every step of the way. And Geno’s always believed in me. He’s always seen the golf talent, and he’s always known I was going to do it and he’s believed in me way more than I have.â€� Dahmen goes into the John Deere Classic ranked 48th in the FedExCup standings. In the last 17 months, he’s moved from 570th in the world rankings to his current position at 81st. He’s made more than $3.6 million in three seasons on the PGA TOUR, yet, as Dahmen puts it “we don’t have fancy.â€� The couple owns one car, a used Ford Explorer, and live with Murphy in a home they remodeled from top-to-bottom. “I don’t know if I’ve had as much fun as being at home with my wife and my dog and realizing what we’ve built and what we’ve accomplished,â€� a satisfied Dahmen says after a recent two-week break. “And I know it’s not, we don’t have wins yet. “We don’t have retirement money, but it’s really fun to look up because we worked really hard for what we have.â€� Dahmen has also become acutely aware of the platform he has as a member of the PGA TOUR. So, it was no surprise to find him last week in Minneapolis filming a public service announcement about preventing skin cancer for MD Anderson – doling out sunglasses and that distinctive wide-brimmed white bucket hat he wears to unsuspecting players at a local municipal course.  “Cancer in young people is a real thing,â€� Dahmen says, explaining his motivation. “We think we’re invisible. We think it only happens to my grandparents and only happens to my parents. But cancer affects everybody.â€� Dahmen knows that better than most, of course. But he also knows what it means to overcome loss, reassess your life and realize your dream.   The 31-year-old will tell you that he’s tougher than he ever believed he could be because “I’ve picked myself up off the floor a couple of times.â€� Dahmen thinks he’s a better friend now, and certainly a better husband, and he has no doubt that he has a better outlook on life. “If you told that kid sitting there on the couch with the dog doing nothing, if you told me I’d be doing this, I’d have said, ‘Well, who kidnapped me and put me back on the golf course?” Dahmen says with a smile. “I necessarily wouldn’t be stunned, maybe physically on golf sense that I could do it, but I was nowhere mentally. I didn’t believe in myself at the time. I was pretty down, so physically, I always thought I could get it done. “I always had the belief, but it takes a lot more than that to get out of here and be successful. I think I’d be pretty proud of myself that the guy now back then would be pretty excited about the whole thing.â€�

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The final stop in Florida of the 2017-18 PGA TOUR season is 45th edition of THE PLAYERS Championship. THE PLAYERS Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass has hosted this event since 1982 and during the month of May since 2007. TPC Sawgrass will host this event for the last time in May this week as it will switch back to its original calendar position of March in 2018-19. Si Woo Kim posted 10-under-par 278 to win by three shots last year and become the youngest winner in history. TPC Sawgrass, which underwent multiple changes before last year’s event, will welcome 144 of the world’s best players including all of the top 50 in the OWGR. The top 70 and ties will play the weekend and the winner this year will pocket $1.98 million, 600 FedExCup points and a five-year exemption on TOUR. The argument continues as to whether or not this is the “fifth major” on the calendar. From a gaming standpoint, the purse ($11 million), first-place money and the FedExCup points to the winner (600) answers that question quite easily. This is not the week to “save” players for down the road in any format. TALES OF THE TAPE Si Woo Kim became the youngest winner at 21 years and 10 months surpassing Adam Scott in 2004. Fred Funk is the oldest winner at 48 in 2005. He’s also the last Jacksonville-area resident to win if that’s an angle you were checking. Kim’s final round was a bogey-free 69 that saw him come from three-shots off the lead of 54-hole leaders J.B Holmes and Kyle Stanley. Dating back to 2007, 54-hole leader(s) have won exactly twice with Martin Kaymer (2014) and Jason Day (2016) turning the trick. Holmes fired 84 to finish T41 and Stanley 74 to cash T4. Day shot 80 in the final round last year proving again that this course can reward and ruin players all in the same round. Day had the last laugh in 2016 as his wire-to-wire victory was only the fifth occurrence in history and first since Hal Sutton in 2000. He tied the course record of 63 in Round 1 and never looked back eventually winning by four shots. The interesting part of 2016 to me was Ken Duke, Colt Knost and Matt Kuchar all sharing a piece of T3 along with Justin Thomas. Day, runner-up Kevin Chappell and Thomas obliterate the golf ball off the tee while Duke, Knost and Kuchar don’t. Fred Funk has also never been accused of teeing it high and letting it fly! Other known bomber Graeme McDowell was T9. The first and second rounds were the easiest played in the history of the tournament. Day didn’t come close to scaring the tournament record of 264 set by Greg Norman in 1994 as the weather on Saturday didn’t cooperate. Day’s four-shot victory is the largest since the move to May. Fowler’s unbelievable finish in 2015 included the lowest four-hole score in history as he closed birdie-eagle-birdie-birdie TO FORCE A PLAYOFF. The three-hole playoff saw Sergio Garcia eliminated but Kevin Kisner had one more chance to knock Fowler out in sudden death. Fowler held his nerve again on No. 17 and stuck it to less than five feet for the winning birdie. Kisner had a noble showing for his first PLAYERS reinforcing that course history isn’t a requirement at TPC Sawgrass. Justin Thomas also made his debut and was T24 and co-led the field with 21 birdies. He also made 10 in one round. Fowler’s comeback was so entertaining folks forgot 54-hole leader Chris Kirk shot 75 to finish T13. Day shot 81 in the second round. The last three winners, as shown above have added to the complexity of cracking the code this week. This reinforces the belief that there is more than one way to solve Dye’s riddles at TPC Sawgrass. I’ve have reached back into the winning trends from the ShotLink Era (2004-now) to see the what parts of the game were essential to the May winners. Since 2004, 13 of the 15 winners have finished in the top 24 GIR. The only two that haven’t have won two of the last three trophies! I’m leaning on the longer trend this week. The trend I like even better is eight of the last 15 winners have finished in the top three in GIR. Similarly, eight of the last 15 winners have finished first or second in SG: tee to green. Of those 15, only two (Tim Clark, 2010 and K.J. Choi, 2011) finished outside T11. Players that don’t hit GIR better be able to get up-and-down. Of the last nine winners, eight were in the top 10 in scrambling. Since the Par-5 holes aren’t 660 yards most will score well and make hay. It will be the Par-4 scoring that separates the field as eight of the last 15 winners have been either first or second in this category. NOTE: Golfers inside the top 20-ish in each statistic on the 2017-18 PGA TOUR are listed only if they are scheduled to compete this week. * – Finished inside the top 10 at THE PLAYERS since 2013 or is a former winner. Greens in Regulation Rank  Golfer 1  *Henrik Stenson 2  *Kyle Stanley 3  *Jordan Spieth 4  Pat Perez 5  Gary Woodland 6  *Brendan Steele 6  *Kevin Streelman 8  Bubba Watson 9  *Rafael Cabrera Bello 10 *Rickie Fowler 12 Emiliano Grillo 13 Dustin Johnson 14 *Brian Harman 14 *Justin Thomas 16 Charles Howell III 17 Keegan Bradley 18 Chez Reavie 19 Patrick Cantlay 20 Scott Piercy SG: Tee to Green Rank  Golfer 1  Dustin Johnson 2  *Jordan Spieth 3  *Sergio Garcia 4  Luke List 5  *Justin Thomas 6  *Henrik Stenson 7  *Francesco Molinari 8  Paul Casey 9  Tommy Fleetwood 10 Keegan Bradley 11 Scott Piercy 12 *Brendan Steele 13 Patrick Cantlay 14 Bryson DeChambeau 15 Tony Finau 16 *Hideki Matsuyama 17 *Tiger Woods 18 *Kevin Chappell 19 *Kevin Streelman 20 Byeong-Hun An Scrambling Rank  Golfer 1  *Jordan Spieth 2  Webb Simpson 3  *Louis Oosthuizen 4  *Henrik Stenson 5  *Rickie Fowler 6  *Kevin Na 7  *Brandt Snedeker 9  Cameron Smith 10 *Kevin Streelman 12 *Justin Thomas 13 *Jason Day 15 Brian Gay 16 *Phil Mickelson 17 *Justin Rose 18 *Ben Crane 19 Chez Reavie 20 Chris Kirk Bogey Avoidance Rank  Golfer 1  *Henrik Stenson 2  *Jordan Spieth 3  *Rickie Fowler 4  *Kevin Streelman 5  Dustin Johnson 6  Webb Simpson 7  Cameron Smith 7  *Justin Rose 9  Chez Reavie 10 Charles Howell III 11 *Brandt Snedeker 12 *Justin Thomas 13 Zach Johnson 15 Emiliano Grillo 16 William McGirt 17 Bubba Watson 18 *Matt Kuchar 19 *Phil Mickelson 20 *Hideki Matsuyama Par-4 Scoring Rank  Golfer 1  *Henrik Stenson 2  *Justin Thomas 3  Dustin Johnson 3  Jon Rahm 5  *Rickie Fowler 5  *Jason Day 5  *Jordan Spieth 8  *Justin Rose 9  *Phil Mickelson 9  Chez Reavie 9  *Marc Leishman 14 Patrick Reed 14 Bubba Watson 14 *Brian Harman 14 Cameron Smith 14 Scott Piercy 14 Zach Johnson 20 Webb Simpson 20 *Matt Kuchar 20 *Brandt Snedeker 20 Emiliano Grillo 20 Pat Perez 20 *Kevin Chappell There is nowhere for the bombers to miss as the two-and-a-half inches of Bermuda rough doesn’t allow accurate recovery. There aren’t many places to easily get up-and-down for the inaccurate as the greens are just 5,500 square feet on average. The TifEagle Bermuda greens, not even two years old, will probably fluster and frustrate the best putters. The way to crack the code this week is impossibly simple: miss it in the right spot or hit it in the perfect spot. Great shots are rewarded while marginal shots suggest anything can happen. Target golf combined with indecision, weather, false visual clues and the pressure of dealing with the world’s best field will also be part of the examination. Pete Dye’s design will test every club in the bag and every will in the soul of the world’s best. This is one of the most challenging tournaments to win for golfers and gamers alike. The pedigree of winners here has varied greatly over the years as have the contenders. In the 36 previous years as host, no player has repeated and frankly, nobody has been close. Before last year Pete Dye expanded four greens to add extra pin placements that had never been seen before and also had all of the surfaces regrassed. Once the guys think they have it figured out around here, something else changes. Holes No. 12 was turned into a drivable Par-4 and has even more changes this year. Players will have their second test at navigating the pond between Holes Nos. 6 and 7 this year as well. Even though it has four Par-5 holes (Par-72) and plays to only 7,189 yards it is one of the toughest tests on TOUR as Dye challenges the players to work the ball both ways off the tees and both ways off the fairways and sometimes on the same hole. Don’t forget the weather is an important factor as well as no two holes play consecutively in the same direction. The wind is always being calculated and re-calculated and is part of the Dye master plan. As with one of the most difficult courses anywhere, I will lean on the best-of-the-best to handle my fantasy business this week. I’ve learned over the years that TPC Sawgrass rewards GREAT golf. Guys who are in current form and are in the categories above will populate my rosters across all formats. As you’ll see below, some are just getting things figured out here while others haven’t figured it out in a while. Gamers are going to be faced with some difficult decisions because the talent pool is deep, the course is Dye-ian and the stakes are massively high. Good luck! Rob Bolton’s Power Rankings will give you more juice for the week so make sure you stop by. It’s also who I trust with the weather each week so pay attention! NOTE: The groups below are comprehensive to assist in data mining. Inclusion doesn’t imply automatic endorsement in every fantasy game as all decisions are specific to your situation. CONFIDENCE MEN BUILDING CONFIDENCE OTHER SIGNS OF CONFIDENCE

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Volunteers agree not to seek autographs of players in order to sell such autographs and not to pay another person to obtain an autograph. For security purposes, no bags larger than six inches will be permitted onto the golf course, including purses, chair bags, and camera cases. Volunteers hereby consent to the reasonable inspection of their person and property before entering the Tournament, which inspection may include, without limitation, metal detection. No food, coolers, ladders, signs, banners, radios, televisions, firearms, explosive devices, etc. will be permitted on the grounds. All mobile devices, PDAs, and pagers must be on silent or vibrate and must be used in accordance with the posted Mobile Device Policy. No cameras or camcorders are allowed during Tournament rounds. No alcoholic beverages may be brought onto or taken from the grounds of the Tournament. Volunteers agree to abide by all rules and regulations established by the PGA TOUR and the Tournament, and a violation of such rules and regulations, including failure to appear for a scheduled volunteer shift, can be a cause for termination of the license granted herein, forfeiture of the volunteer credential and removal from the Tournament. Volunteers agree to comply with the PGA TOUR golf cart policy. The volunteer credential cannot be used in a promotion or offered as a prize without permission from PGA TOUR. Resale of the volunteer credential is not permitted. It is unlawful to reproduce the volunteer credential. PGA TOUR reserves the right to revoke any volunteer credential and cancel all privileges connected therein. Integrity Program: The PGA TOUR Integrity Program is intended to maintain integrity and prevent betting-related corruption in PGA TOUR competitions. Volunteers acknowledge and agree that they are subject to the terms of the PGA TOUR Integrity Program Manual (the “Integrity Program Manual”). The Integrity Program Manual, among other things, prohibits volunteers from betting on the Tournament and providing inside information to third parties for purposes of betting on the Tournament, and requires volunteers to report any violations of the Integrity Program Manual to the TOUR. A violation of the Integrity Program may result in dismissal from volunteering for the Tournament, among other consequences. CONSENT & RELEASE (Name & Likeness) Volunteers consent to the nonexclusive use by PGA TOUR, Inc. (“TOUR”), TOUR’s subsidiaries, affiliates and designees, including third party commercial sponsors selected by TOUR, of the volunteer’s name, image, voice, likeness, and/or other distinctive or identifying characteristics (collectively, the “Representation”), as captured during a professional golf tournament sanctioned by TOUR (and related TOUR-sanctioned events), in any and all media, in support of TOUR and its products, services and initiatives, including sponsored products, services and initiatives, provided that the Representation will be used in a conscientious manner that is consistent with the sportsmanship and integrity of the PGA TOUR and its tournaments. Volunteers hereby disclaim and release TOUR and TOUR’s subsidiaries, affiliates and designees from any and all claims, damages or causes of action arising in connection with the use of the Representation in accordance with the terms herein. The rights granted in this Consent and Release shall extend in perpetuity throughout the entire world. Volunteers retain all rights in and to their Representation and nothing in this Consent and Release shall be construed to prevent volunteers from using, permitting or licensing others to use the Representation in any manner. RELEASE OF LIABILITY In connection with Tournament volunteer activities, including the activities of an underage volunteer (“Minor”) for whom consent is given as such Minor’s legal guardian, volunteers and applicable legal guardians agree and understand that presence during the Tournament at the Tournament location (the “Facility”) and any volunteer work or services performed for the Tournament, the Facility, PGA TOUR, the title sponsor of the Tournament (if any), the host organization, and their affiliates and subsidiaries as well as their respective officers, directors, agents, members, employees and officials as well as any other volunteer (collectively, “Indemnified Parties”) may expose volunteers to unknown and unanticipated risks of harm or injury. In particular, volunteers acknowledge that they have received and read the Specific Notice Regarding COVID-19 hereinabove. In consideration of and as a prerequisite to participation as a volunteer, volunteers and legal guardians on behalf of Minors acknowledge that such risks exist, assume all such risks including all risks related to COVID-19, and release and discharge the Indemnified Parties from any and all claims for liability for personal injury (including death) or property damage that such volunteers or Minors may suffer while performing the volunteer work or service, whether or not on the premises of the Facility, including, without limitation, any claim arising out of any condition of the premises owned by the Facility or used by PGA TOUR for, or conduct of any person during preparation, supervision or conduct of, the Tournament or any practice round or activity related to it. Volunteers accept full responsibility for the costs of treatment for any injury or damages suffered while volunteering in connection with the Tournament. Volunteers acknowledge having read this release and agree to be bound by the terms set forth herein in consideration for performing volunteer services.

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