Schauffele in contention after driver ruled non-conforming

Field for the RBC Heritage (How they qualified) Past champions of the RBC Heritage Wesley Bryan Glen Day Jim Furyk Branden Grace Matt Kuchar Davis Love III Graeme McDowell Winner – U.S. Open or PGA Championship playing 15 events last yr. Vijay Singh Winner – U.S. Open/PGA Championship (starting with 2005 winners) Jason Dufner Dustin Johnson Martin Kaymer Winner – THE PLAYERS Championship (Last 5 Years) Si Woo Kim Winner – The Open Championship (last 5 years) Zach Johnson Winner – THE TOUR Championship (last 3 years) Xander Schauffele Winner – HSBC Champions – Last 3 years Russell Knox Winners of the Arnold Palmer Inv. & the Memorial (Last 3 Years) Marc Leishman David Lingmerth William McGirt Winner – Prior Year U.S. Amateur Championship Doc Redman Winner – FedEx Cup – Last Five Years Billy Horschel Member of Last Named U.S. Ryder Cup Team Ryan Moore Brandt Snedeker Member of Last Named U.S. Presidents Cup Team Kevin Chappell Charley Hoffman Kevin Kisner Member of Last Named International Presidents Cup Team Emiliano Grillo Adam Hadwin Anirban Lahiri Charl Schwartzel Top 50 – World Golf Ranking – Graduate Decline System Paul Casey Tyrrell Hatton Brian Harman Francesco Molinari Patrick Cantlay Ross Fisher Matthew Fitzpatrick Webb Simpson Cameron Smith Satoshi Kodaira Dylan Frittelli Sponsors Exemptions – Web.com Tour Finals Jonathan Byrd Corey Conners Sponsors Exemptions – Members not otherwise exempt Darren Clarke Carl Pettersson Sponsors Exemptions – Unrestricted David Hearn Philip Knowles Dru Love Sam Saunders PGA Section Champ/Player of the Year Steve Scott Career Money Exemption K.J. Choi Top 125 on Prior Year’s FedExCup Points List Bill Haas Mackenzie Hughes Hudson Swafford Charles Howell III Lucas Glover Kevin Na Bryson DeChambeau Luke List Ian Poulter Stewart Cink Scott Brown Martin Laird Sung Kang Ollie Schniederjans Sean O’Hair Robert Streb Bud Cauley Grayson Murray James Hahn Kevin Tway Danny Lee Kelly Kraft Rod Pampling Jason Kokrak Jonas Blixt Chad Campbell Chris Stroud Kevin Streelman Cody Gribble Cheng Tsung Pan Whee Kim Harold Varner III Chris Kirk Nick Taylor Camilo Villegas J.J. Spaun Scott Piercy Patton Kizzire Michael Kim Scott Stallings Byeong Hun An Martin Flores D.A. Points Luke Donald Richy Werenski Ryan Blaum Geoff Ogilvy Robert Garrigus Brian Gay Vaughn Taylor Steve Stricker Derek Fathauer Tyrone Van Aswegen Harris English Dominic Bozzelli Nick Watney John Huh Blayne Barber Ben Martin Rory Sabbatini J.J. Henry Top 125 (Medical) Ryan Palmer Michael Thompson Current Tournament Winners Ryan Armour Aaron Baddeley Greg Chalmers Austin Cook Matt Every Brice Garnett Fabián Gómez Billy Hurley III Peter Malnati Ted Potter, Jr. Brian Stuard FedExCup Points – 5 players not otherwise eligible Chesson Hadley Beau Hossler Andrew Landry Tom Hoge Brandon Harkins Major Medical Extension John Senden Jon Curran Bob Estes

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Tiger Woods has undergone a fifth back surgery. He recently had a microdiscectomy to remove a pressurized disc fragment that gave him nerve pain during last month's PNC Championship, his TGR Foundation announced Tuesday. "I look forward to begin training and am focused on getting back out on TOUR," Woods said in the statement in which his doctors deemed the operation successful and predicted a full recovery. Woods' quest for a record 83rd PGA TOUR victory has been put on hold. He announced that he will miss next week's Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines and his own The Genesis Invitational, which he will host at Riviera Country Club on Feb. 18-21. Woods and Sam Snead are tied with 82 career wins, the most in PGA TOUR history. Woods has won eight times at Torrey Pines - seven times in the Farmers, and at the 2008 U.S. Open - but remains winless at Riviera, where he played his first PGA TOUR event. Woods will be at Riviera next month to serve as tournament host, according to Tuesday's release. Woods underwent his fourth back surgery, a spinal fusion, in early 2017. He returned in 2018, contending for multiple titles before winning the TOUR Championship at East Lake. He won The Masters Tournament and ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP in 2019, when he was also the playing captain of the U.S. Presidents Cup Team, leading a dozen of the best American players to victory at Royal Melbourne while also going 3-0-0 himself. Since then, however, he's gone largely quiet. His 45th birthday last month was an occasion to step back and appreciate not only his 82 victories, but also his 31 seconds, 19 thirds, and 199 top-10 finishes in 368 starts. He has an 11-1 career playoff record, and earnings of nearly $121 million. But his 1,322 rounds on TOUR have taken a toll. Woods, who has also endured multiple operations on his left knee, had but one top-10 finish in the 2020 calendar year - a T9 at the Farmers Insurance Open. Worn out by 2019, and experiencing stiffness in his back, he skipped the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard, which he's won eight times; The Honda Classic, his hometown tournament; and THE PLAYERS Championship (two-time champion). Then came the pandemic. Returning at the Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide in July, he finished T40 and did not contend elsewhere, either. His T72 at the ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP @ SHERWOOD, a course where he'd won the Hero World Challenge five times, said it all. "I haven’t put all the pieces together at the same time," he said before the Masters in November. He didn't put the pieces together at Augusta, either. Tied for 10th after an opening-round 68, he faded to the finish, and his 10 at the 12th hole in the final round - where he hit three balls in the water — was the highest score of his career. Although he bounced back with birdies on five of the last six holes, he still shot 76 and finished T38 to cap a largely forgettable year. At the PNC Championship last month, he opted not to hit a tee shot on a handful of holes where his partner, 11-year-old son Charlie, was already in play well down the fairway. "He's a very young man, but he is predisposed to a few injuries, too, and we've seen that," Padraig Harrington, 49, said then. "Some weeks he doesn't look like he could be competitive, but the weeks that he does come out and is walking that bit better, he's a big contender." What he'll have left after stepping aside to heal once more remains to be seen.

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