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Matt Kuchar fired his second consecutive 63 to get to 14 under and lead by one shot at the Sony Open in Hawaii. The 14-under total matches Kuchar’s career-best 36-hole score. Andrew Putnam followed up his 62 on Thursday with a 65 in the second round to take solo second into the weekend.  Chez Reavie and Marc Leishman are tied for third and four shots back. Here’s everything you need to know to follow the third round from Honolulu. Round 3 tee times Round 3 leaderboard HOW TO WATCH/LISTEN (ALL TIMES ET) TELEVISION: Saturday, 7-10:30 p.m. (GC) RADIO: Saturday, 5-10:30 p.m. (PGA TOUR Radio on SiriusXM and PGATOUR.COM). NOTABLE PAIRINGS (ALL TIMES ET) 6:00 PM: Matt Kuchar, Andrew Putnam, Chez Reavie 5:50 PM: Stewart Cink, Ted Potter Jr., Marc Leishman 5:30 PM: Hudson Swafford, Shugo Imahira, Keith Mitchell MUST READS Kuchar renaissance continues at Sony Open Cink looking to end drought Reavie dials up three long range eagles Spieth finds fight but misses cut at Sony Open

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Rahm on a Roll Incredibly, Tuesday marks seven full months since the last time Jon Rahm recorded an over-par round on TOUR. That came in the first round of the 2021 Open Championship, and he still tied for third place. Rahm’s run of 33 consecutive rounds of par or better is the longest active streak on TOUR, with Patrick Cantlay close behind at 31. With an opening 71 or lower on Thursday, Rahm will be the first player in nearly 20 years to have a streak of 34 or longer in this statistic, the last being Charles Howell III in 2002-03. It would also tie the mark for longest such streak by an international player, matching Vijay Singh’s streak of 34 straight from 2000 to 2001. Since 1983, the only player with a streak longer than 38 rounds is – who else – Tiger Woods, who rattled off 52 consecutive rounds at par or better from the 2000 AT&T Byron Nelson to the WM Phoenix Open in February of the following year. Woods had six TOUR wins, including three majors, in that unbelievable stretch. Days removed from hosting a thrilling Super Bowl, Los Angeles is the site of another star-studded competition this week at The Riviera Country Club. For the first time in the history of The Genesis Invitational, the top 10 players in the Official World Golf Ranking will tee it up. It’s the first time since last year’s TOUR Championship that all 10 in the OWGR will compete in the same PGA TOUR event. One of the marquee events on the TOUR schedule, The Genesis Invitational has boasted some extremely strong fields in recent years: 9 of that week’s top 10 played in both 2017 and 2020. Still, it’s rare when all of the world’s best are in the mix at an event that isn’t a major championship, FedExCup Playoffs event, World Golf Championships event, or THE PLAYERS Championship. Historically Speaking To find another field like this on TOUR, you have to go back to the 2007 Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow Club, the last time 10 of the top 10 played in a tournament that wasn’t a major, Playoffs event, WGC, or THE PLAYERS. Tiger Woods would earn his 57th official TOUR title that week, which happened to be the week before THE PLAYERS. The Wells Fargo was the second victory in what would turn out to be a seven-win season for Woods. Another 10-of-10 field happened the week before THE PLAYERS in 1995, when every one of the top 23 players in the world played the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard. That week at Bay Hill had an incredibly strong international contingent, including a rare stateside, non-major start for Japanese star Jumbo Ozaki, the 9th-ranked player in the world. Loren Roberts would go on to successfully defend his title that week at Arnie’s place. As for Riviera, it last hosted a major in 1995, when Steve Elkington won the PGA Championship. Not even that week could boast the entire top 10: Bernhard Langer, No. 4, missed the tournament with a back injury. Since 2010, about 12% of all events on TOUR (including the majors, PLAYERS, WGCs and FedExCup Playoffs) have had every member of the world top 10 in the field. But to see it at this particular spot on the schedule – at one of the best venues all year on TOUR – is a rare treat for golf fans. Short Game Significance Riviera has some of the most difficult greens to hit on TOUR. Last season, only Winged Foot (52.1%) and Kiawah Island (53.8%), both major championship venues, yielded a lower G.I.R. percentage than Riviera (54.2%). And while this statistic does highlight the need for precision approach play, it also hints that everyone in the field will, sooner or later, need to get up-and-down to make a key par save. Because of this, Strokes Gained: Around the Green is a more impactful statistic than usual in determining a winner at Riviera. Since 2010, TOUR winners have averaged 0.42 Strokes Gained: Around the Green per round. At Riviera, that number is significantly higher – 0.79 per round for players who take home the trophy. For winners of The Genesis Invitational, shots around the green have accounted for 22.1% of all Strokes Gained since 2010. That is nearly double the TOUR average for winners in that span, 11.6%. Nine of the previous 14 winners at Riviera ranked in the top 10 that week in Strokes Gained: Around the Green, including Max Homa in 2021.

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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. - The PGA TOUR announced today the four featured groupings for the opening rounds of the 2020 Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. For the first time in tournament history, the event will offer full FedExCup points (500), after being postponed to September as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The event will be featured twice in the 2020-21 PGA TOUR Season, with the tournament being played again in March. To watch the featured groupings on Thursday-Friday, fans in the United States can tune into the Golf Channel telecast (3-6 p.m. ET). Live audio coverage is also available on SiriusXM PGA TOUR Radio (Sirius 208, XM 92), and streams free via PGATOUR.COM (pgatour.com/liveaudio) as well as the TOUR's official iPhone, iPad and Android apps. Featured Groups Graeme McDowell, Henrik Stenson, Corey Conners • McDowell seeks to successfully defend his title, having collected his fourth career PGA TOUR victory at the 2019 Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship (first win on TOUR since 2015) • Stenson, winner of the FedExCup in 2013, will make his tournament debut in Punta Cana and is the highest-ranked player in the field at No. 43 in the Official World Golf Ranking • In 2019-20, Conners advanced to the BMW Championship for the second consecutive season and finished No. 53 in the FedExCup standings with 10 top-25 finishes Mackenzie Hughes, Adam Long, Keith Mitchell • Hughes, who finished runner-up at the event in 2019, advanced to the TOUR Championship last season for the first time in his career after making a five-foot putt on the 72nd hole of the BMW Championship; had the best finish in the 2019-20 FedExCup standings of any player in the field (No. 14) • On the strength of two runner-up finishes in the 2019-20 season, Long advanced to the BMW Championship and finished No. 31 in the FedExCup standings, less than three points out of the TOUR Championship • Mitchell finished solo-second at the 2018 Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship, which is among eight top-ten finishes in his 77 career starts on the PGA TOUR Emiliano Grillo, Jhonattan Vegas, Charley Hoffman • 2016 PGA TOUR Rookie of the Year and Puntacana Resort & Club ambassador Grillo finished the 2019-20 season No. 93 in the FedExCup standings, advancing to the FedExCup Playoffs for the fifth time in as many seasons as a member • A three-time PGA TOUR winner, Vegas is set to make his second tournament start (T26/2019) after concluding the 2019-20 season No. 139 in the standings • Making his second start of the 2020-21 PGA TOUR Season, Hoffman is one of ten players in the field with four or more TOUR victories Pat Perez, Kevin Chappell, Charles Howell III Notable: Combining for seven PGA TOUR victories, all three players are set to make their tournament debuts at the Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship • Perez opened the 2020-21 season with a T9 showing at the Safeway Open, carding four rounds in the 60s for the first time since the 2019 Mayakoba Golf Classic • Chappell became the 10th player in TOUR history (11th instance) with a sub-60 round after carding a 59 in the second round of A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier in 2019 • Playing in his 12th U.S. Open, Howell finished 30th at Winged Foot Golf Club last week for his ninth made cut in the event

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