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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. - The PGA TOUR today announced the complete schedule for the 2020-21 PGA TOUR Season, featuring 50 official FedExCup tournaments - including 14 tournaments that were postponed or canceled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic - culminating with the crowning of the FedExCup champion Labor Day weekend in 2021. The schedule, which reflects a net increase of one tournament over the original 2019-20 schedule, features the most tournaments in a season since 1975 (51). Three events postponed in 2020 - U.S. Open, Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship and Masters Tournament - will be played in the fall portion of the 2020-21 season and again in their traditional dates during the 2021 calendar year, along with 11 tournaments that were canceled and not rescheduled as a result of the pandemic, including THE PLAYERS Championship. In addition, with the postponement of the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2020, the men's Olympic Golf competition will take place July 26-August 1, 2021, as a standalone event for the first time. "We are excited to present the full 2020-21 PGA TOUR schedule - a ‘super season' of 50 fully sponsored events and capped off by the 15th edition of the FedExCup Playoffs," said PGA TOUR Commissioner Jay Monahan. "If you're a golf fan, this is a dream season with more significant events than ever before, including the Olympic Games. Building our schedule is always complicated, but never more so as over the past several months as we continue to navigate challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. We appreciate the extensive collaboration with our title sponsors, tournament organizations and golf's governing bodies that has brought us here - to the exciting conclusion of an extraordinary 2019-20 season this week, and on the brink of a season of 50 events, beginning next week." RELATED: Click here to print the 2020-21 PGA TOUR schedule As previously announced, the 2020-21 season will begin September 7-13 at the Safeway Open in Napa, California, which will serve as the season-opening tournament for the sixth time in seven years since the TOUR went to a wraparound schedule. The U.S. Open (September 14-20) at Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, New York, follows, being played in the month of September for the first time since 1913, as well as the rescheduled Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship (September 21-27), which will award full FedExCup points (500) for the first time. The Sanderson Farms Championship (September 28-October 4) will precede a three-event swing on the West Coast with the relocation of two of the TOUR's Asia Swing events. Following the TOUR's annual stop in Las Vegas for the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open (October 5-11), THE CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES, annually played in Jeju Island, Korea, will be played at Shadow Creek Golf Course in Las Vegas, and will be renamed THE CJ CUP @ SHADOW CREEK (October 12-18) for 2020. The following week, Japan's ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP will be played at Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, California, and renamed the ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP @ SHERWOOD (October 19-25) for 2020. The final event of the traditional Asia Swing and the season's first World Golf Championships event, the WGC-HSBC Champions has been canceled, with the Bermuda Championship (October 26-November 1) occupying the week on its own and awarding full FedExCup points. The Houston Open moves a month later on the 2020-21 schedule (November 2-8) and precedes the Masters (November 9-15). The fall portion of the schedule concludes with The RSM Classic (November 16-22), the week prior to the Thanksgiving holiday, and the Mayakoba Golf Classic (November 30-December 6) the week after. The TOUR returns at the Sentry Tournament of Champions (January 4-10) with the same sequencing as the 2019-20 season until March, as there have been adjustments made to a number of Florida-based tournaments. The Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard (March 1-7) and THE PLAYERS Championship (March 8-14) will follow the WGC-Mexico Championship and Puerto Rico Open (both February 22-28), while The Honda Classic (March 15-21) moves to the week after THE PLAYERS. The Valspar Championship (April 26-May 2), traditionally played the week after THE PLAYERS, will now conclude on May 2, between the Zurich Classic of New Orleans (April 19-25) and the Wells Fargo Championship (May 3-9). After the 40th playing of The Honda Classic, the TOUR's longest-running title sponsored event dating back to 1982 - an eight-week stretch begins that includes six tournaments that were canceled and not rescheduled during the 2019-20 season prior to the PGA Championship, beginning with the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play (March 22-28) through the AT&T Byron Nelson (May 10-16), set to be contested for the first time at TPC Craig Ranch in McKinney, Texas. Additional tournaments that return to the schedule include the RBC Canadian Open (June 7-13), John Deere Classic (July 5-11), The Open Championship and the Barbasol Championship (both July 12-18). The men's Olympic Golf competition (July 26-August 1) will be played the week after the 3M Open (July 19-25) as a standalone event for the first time and will be followed by the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational and Barracuda Championship (both August 2-8), before the FedExCup Regular Season concludes at the Wyndham Championship (August 9-15). The FedExCup Playoffs will consist of three events: THE NORTHERN TRUST returns to Liberty National Golf Club in Jersey City, New Jersey, which will host the event for the fourth time; the BMW Championship will be played for the first time at Caves Valley Golf Club in Owings Mills, Maryland, outside of Baltimore; and the season-ending TOUR Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta will conclude on September 5, the Sunday of Labor Day weekend. In addition to Caves Valley Golf Club, host of the 2021 BMW Championship, the 2020-21 season features several new or familiar venues. As previously announced, Shadow Creek Golf Course in Las Vegas and Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, California, will host tournaments for one year only. For the first time, the Houston Open will be played at Memorial Park Golf Course in downtown Houston; TPC Craig Ranch in McKinney, Texas, will host the AT&T Byron Nelson for the first time; and St. George's Golf and Country Club in Toronto, Canada, will return as host of the RBC Canadian Open for the first time since 2010. Rotating major championship venues in 2021 include The Ocean Course at Kiawah Island Golf Resort at Kiawah Island, South Carolina (PGA Championship), Torrey Pines Golf Course in San Diego, California (U.S. Open), and Royal St. George's Golf Club in Sandwich, Kent, England (Open Championship). Kasumigaseki Country Club in Japan will host the men's Olympic Golf competition. 2020-21 FedExCup Regular Season (50 events)

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2021 Masters Tournament, Round 2 Top 10 win probabilities: 1. Justin Rose (1, -7, 15.7%) 2. Will Zalatoris (T2, -6, 12.5%) 3. Justin Thomas (T6, -4, 11.0%) 4. Jordan Spieth (T4, -5, 9.9%) 5. Brian Harman (T2, -6, 8.6%) 6. Tony Finau (T6, -4, 7.0%) 7. Xander Schauffele (12, -3, 5.4%) 8. Hideki Matsuyama (T6, -4, 5.3%) 9. Marc Leishman (T4, -5, 3.7%) 10. Si Woo Kim (T6, -4, 3.3%) NOTE: These reports are based off of the live predictive model run by @DataGolf. The model provides live “Make Cut”, “Top 20”, “Top 5”, and “Win” probabilities every 5 minutes from the opening tee shot to the final putt of every PGA TOUR event. Briefly, the model takes account of the current form of each golfer as well as the difficulty of their remaining holes, and probabilities are calculated from 20K simulations. To follow live finish probabilities throughout the remainder of the Masters Tournament, or to see how each golfer’s probabilities have evolved from the start of the event to the current time, click here for the model’s home page.

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The helicopter ride was actually what made him nervous. Not the 8- or 10-foot drop out of the chopper on his skis down to the pristine, snow-covered slope. Mark Hubbard admittedly isn’t a big fan of heights, and this was just his third helicopter ride. He’d never been heli-skiing before, but the chance to go with some buddies was just too good to pass up. “I’m terrified of helicopters,â€� Hubbard explains with a smile. “But the actual drop in wasn’t too bad. It’s kind of one of those things where you just kind of do it. You just kind of jump and go. “But the ride up there, it’s kind of like a roller coaster. Like, the worst part for me is the slow climb to the very top. Once you start going, it’s awesome.â€� Hubbard’s friends worked on the ski patrol and had been charged with clearing the fresh, loose snow so there wouldn’t be any avalanches. When everything was deemed safe, there was time for a little back-country skiing on slopes that had not been touched.   Hubbard felt the rush as soon as his skis hit the slope; the helicopter hovering overhead. “You’re dropping into a pretty steep grade,â€� Hubbard explains. “You kind of hit it and just start going. There’s not a whole lot of kind of drop and stop the way they angle it. … You just kind of smooth it out. “I’m a horrible surfer. But it’s got to be the same as, you know, kind of dropping into a big wave. Like there’s not a lot of hits and slap kind of thing. If you’re doing it right, you kind of just drop in and coast.â€� While heli-skiing is considered a bucket-list item for some adventure-seekers, Hubbard has only done it that one time – and he says, “that was probably enough for me.â€� After all, his appendages, fingers, arms and legs, are pretty important if he’s to be successful at his job on the PGA TOUR. “I don’t take any risks anymore for me,â€� Hubbard says. “Like, I have a better chance of falling down the stairs than falling on most of the runs that we do. I stay away from the tough stuff now. It’s just a leisurely stroll down the mountain to me now. But back in the day, I wouldn’t say no to a whole lot.â€� Hubbard, who grew up in Denver, Colorado, has skied basically since he could walk. For several years, until he was about 15 years old, he participated in the DEVO Junior Alpine program at Vail and did some downhill racing. He soon realized he wasn’t going to be the next Bode Miller, though. “I’ve always been, and this is true, you know, of running, too — I don’t know if it actually translates or not, but I’ve always been kind of quick side-to-side, like have (a good) first step,â€� Hubbard says. “And so, I’ve always kind of been agile like that on skis. “So, I’m pretty good at moguls and I’m pretty good in the trees and stuff like that. But in terms of racing, I never, never was fast enough.â€� Still, until recently, Hubbard says he’d often joke that he was probably was as good a skier as he was a golfer. But he just put together his best season on the Korn Ferry Tour – winning once – and has finished 13th or better in three of his first five starts this fall in his return to the PGA TOUR.   Hubbard ranks 17th in the FedExCup, has earned more than $1 million – nearly as much as in his three previous TOUR seasons combined – and ranks ninth in the Birdies Fore Love competition that ends this week. So now the pendulum may have slanted toward golf. “I might’ve in the last month, I might have crossed that threshold,â€� Hubbard says. Hubbard, who posted a career-high tie for second last month at the Houston Open, says the most difficult skiing he’s ever done was at the top of Crested Butte in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. “It gets really steep,â€� he explains. “There’s lots of exposed kind of trees and rocks and stuff like that and it gets a little icy late in the day. So that’s probably the toughest — especially late in the day when the conditions are just so-so, I mean, you’ve really just got to commit. “That’s why I actually, I think that’s one of the reasons I really like skiing things. You can overthink it. I know as soon as you start thinking like that’s when you’re in trouble. You’ve just kind of got to plan you route like you do, you know, the game-planning you think about. “You visualize where you’re going to go, but then once you’re going and you just kind of have got to go. … I like stuff that puts you kind of in the moment where you can’t overthink things.â€� Hubbard says his wife Meghan, whom he proposed to on the 18th green during the final round of the 2015 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, has also become an avid skier. Soon after this week’s The RSM Classic is over, the two are taking a bucket-list trip to Europe where they plan to ski in the Alps. One of the places likely on the itinerary is Zermatt, Switzerland, which is in the shadow of the famous Matterhorn. But skiing isn’t the only thing on the agenda for the month-long trip – they also plan to hit the famous Christmas markets in places like Austria and Germany. “It’s been our dream to do it,â€� Hubbard says. “And we both turned 30 this year, so our clock’s ticking a little bit. It’s been a good year, so yeah.â€�

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