Dustin Johnson describes what it was like cashing his first check as a pro golfer

The last FedExCup event of 2020 is here as PGA TOUR stars have taken over the beautiful Riviera Maya area of Mexico at El Camaleon Golf Club. Brendon Todd is the defending champ, but to win it all again he will need to take down quite a few big names including Justin Thomas and Brooks Koepka and a raft of Latin American players - spearheaded by Mexico's Abraham Ancer and Carlos Ortiz - who want to triumph close to home. Here's a closer look at the Featured Groups. FEATURED GROUPS Gary Woodland, Rickie Fowler, Abraham Ancer • Woodland, a former U.S. Open champion, was runner up at Mayakoba in the 2016-17 season. • Fowler has been making Mayakoba a stop in recent years and was runner up in the 2017-18 edition. • Ancer, fresh off finding his way into the final group on Sunday at the Masters, returns to the place he's had two top 10s in his last three tries and desperately would like to break his win drought at home. Justin Thomas, Viktor Hovland, Joaquin Niemann •Thomas is riding a T2-T8-T12-T2-4th run of results as he returns to Mayakoba for the first time in five years. The former FedExCup champ looks to cement his place in the top-10 before the break. • Hovland is a former U.S. Amateur champion looking for a second TOUR win. Already three top 15s this season and eight top 20s since June. • Niemann made his return from a COVID-19 positive at the RSM Classic for a solid T44. Prior he had four top 25s to open this season, including a sixth at THE CJ CUP @ SHADOW CREEK. Sebastian Munoz, Corey Conners, Tony Finau • Munoz looks to bounce back from his first missed cut in 11 starts. Prior the one-time TOUR winner had three straight top 20s • Canadian Conners has top-10s in his last two starts and has been threatening to grab a second TOUR title for some time. Will only take a half decent putting performance to be right up there. • Finau has six top-11s since July and has shown flashes at Mayakoba in the past with two top-20s. Can this be the place for a long-awaited second win? Brooks Koepka, Brendon Todd, Carlos Ortiz • Multiple major winner Koepka appears to be building back towards his best after some injury issues. Was T5 at the Vivint Houston Open and T7 at the Masters in his last starts. • Todd, the defending champion, dominated the fall a year ago. Now faces his last chance to get off to a similar hot start. • Ortiz was runner up at El Camaleon last season and now comes off his recent breakthrough win at the Vivint Houston Open. Primed to be the first Mexican winner in this home event.

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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – The PGA TOUR announced Tuesday the 2020 Korn Ferry Tour schedule, which features 28 tournaments played in 20 states and four countries outside the United States, with the season culminating with the Korn Ferry Tour Finals in August. The 28 total events are the most since 2010 and will include $18,850,000 in official prize money, the largest figure on the Korn Ferry Tour in over a decade.  In addition to announcing the 2020 schedule, a new host was announced on Tuesday for The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic. Due to the devastating effects of Hurricane Dorian on Great Abaco, the event will now be contested in Nassau at Baha Mar’s Royal Blue Golf Club. All proceeds from the newly named Bahamas Great Abaco Classic at Baha Mar will go towards Hurricane Dorian relief efforts in The Bahamas. The tournament will be held the week of January 16-22, a week after The Bahamas Great Exuma Classic at Sandals Emerald Bay opens the 2020 season. The Royal Blue Golf Club at Baha Mar is a 2017 Jack Nicklaus Signature design, his first layout in The Bahamas. The Baha Mar resort is a 1,000-acre resort complex on the island of New Providence, northwest of The Bahamas’ capital, Nassau.  The Korn Ferry Tour will welcome four new events to the 2020 calendar. “The Korn Ferry Tour has a track record, second-to-none, in developing the next wave of stars, and we’re excited to see that momentum continue with the unveiling of the 2020 schedule,� said PGA TOUR Commissioner Jay Monahan. “With an increased focus on growing our tournaments and purses, we remain confident in the Korn Ferry Tour’s ability to attract the game’s best young players.� The season-long chase for 50 available PGA TOUR cards encompasses a 25-event Regular Season that runs from The Bahamas Great Exuma Classic at Sandals Emerald Bay in January through the WinCo Foods Portland Open presented by KraftHeinz in August, before giving way to the eighth annual Korn Ferry Tour Finals, which will consist of the Albertsons Boise Open presented by Kraft Nabisco (Aug. 10-16), Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship (Aug. 17-23), and Korn Ferry Tour Championship presented by United Leasing & Finance (Aug. 24-30). Other 2020 season highlights include the return of the El Bosque Mexico Championship by INNOVA to the schedule in March and a new venue at the Visit Knoxville Open. The Visit Knoxville Open, one of the original four tournaments from the Korn Ferry Tour’s inaugural 1990 season, will move to Donald Ross-designed Holston Hills Country Club for the first time. “We are excited to launch our first full season with Korn Ferry as our umbrella partner,� said Korn Ferry Tour President Alex Baldwin. “Their dedication and investment in our players mirrors our efforts to continue growing the Korn Ferry Tour by offering a world-class tournament experience for our membership, partners and fans.� Seven events will air on GOLF Channel, including all three Korn Ferry Tour Finals events. Tournament programming is distributed in 80+ countries and territories via TV linear channels, with live broadcast available in 222 countries and territories via GOLFTV Powered by PGA TOUR. For more information on the 2020 Korn Ferry Tour season, please visit PGATOUR.com. Download the schedule here. 

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Hannah Green took a 3-shot lead into the weekend in the Palos Verdes Championship, rebounding from consecutive bogeys Thursday in gusting wind to birdie the two late par 5s in a 5-under 66.

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