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Jordan Spieth is returning to where it all began as he seeks to regain his FedExCup-winning form. The Farmers Insurance Open announced Wednesday that Spieth has committed to their tournament, which will be played Jan. 24-27 at Torrey Pines Golf Course in La Jolla, California. Spieth made his pro debut at the 2013 Farmers Insurance Open but has not played the event since 2015. That was the year that he won two majors and the FedExCup. Spieth, an 11-time winner on the PGA TOUR, has not won since the Open Championship in July 2017. He finished a career-worst 31st in last season’s FedExCup to miss the TOUR Championship for the first time. He is 191st in this season’s FedExCup standings after finishing T55 at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open and missing the cut at the Mayakoba Golf Classic. He is playing his first event of the calendar year at this week’s Sony Open in Hawaii. Spieth has missed the cut in two of three starts at Torrey Pines. The exception came in 2014, when he shot 71-63 in the first two rounds while playing alongside Tiger Woods. Spieth received the Rookie of the Year Award that week while Woods accepted the Player of the Year honor. After holding the 36-hole lead, Spieth shot back-to-back 75s to finish T19. He’s broken par just twice in eight rounds at Torrey Pines.

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Top-ranked Jon Rahm shot 3-over 74 through the second round, finishing with a share of 99th place and 14 strokes off the lead of Romain Langasque.

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LAS VEGAS - Sergio Garcia was putting with his eyes closed on the way to victory last week at the Sanderson Farms Championship but they were wide open when he holed out for a timely eagle on Friday at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. The veteran Spaniard connected from 111 yards with his lob wedge on the par-4 6th hole at TPC Summerlin to reinvigorate his charge up the leaderboard and put him in position for back-to-back wins on TOUR. After a first round 5-under 66 had him sitting four shots off the pace, Garcia made an early second-round climb with four birdies in his opening seven holes only to then stall with seven straight pars. RELATED: Full leaderboard | Fowler makes putter switch But his magical eagle boosted him to double digits under par and a closing birdie helped him to a 64 and 12 under total, just two back of early pace-setters Patrick Cantlay and Martin Laird. "I hit a really nice shot just right of the hole a with a tiny little draw. Obviously saw the ball bounce just right of the hole and spun," Garcia said of the hole-out. "From where I was you couldn’t quite see it, so I saw a little bit and I thought it hit the hole or hit the flag and I thought it stayed next to it. Obviously the little amount of people that were there, they kind of went crazy. It was nice to know that it was in." Garcia's win in Jackson last week was his first on the PGA TOUR since the 2017 Masters and first anywhere in over a year. The 40-year-old knows when opportunities come you need to take advantage so he doesn't intend to step off the gas this weekend. "When you have one of those good moments, you try to enjoy it as much as possible and hopefully make the most out of it," he said. Joining him at 12 under is another veteran who recently arrested a form slide. Stewart Cink won the Safeway Open last month for his first victory since 2009. The renewed purple patch continued with a T12 last week and now he is once again in the mix. Cink was dropping putts from everywhere and had two eagles during his 8-under 63 on Friday. All up he made 133 feet, seven inches of putts Friday which had him gaining four shots on the morning wave in Strokes Gained: Putting. "It wasn’t like it was a ton of bombs, but I hit it 15 feet a lot and a lot of those went in," the 47-year-old Cink said. "I’ve made some changes in my game the last month or so and it's paid off really quickly with a win, and now it’s just fun to get out there and wail on the driver and see the shots. Golf is a fun game when you got things going right, and hopefully let it last a long time."

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