International Team looms large at Augusta

Welcome to the PGA TOUR’s version of the play-in game. In the void of the annual NCAA basketball tournaments in 2020, sports fans will latch onto the twist at the Wyndham Championship, for it is the last tournament before the FedExCup Playoffs. It determines who gets into the annual series. RELATED: Featured Groups | The First Look | Inside the Field Of course, so much more also is at stake at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, North Carolina. Scroll past the projected contenders for a review of the Wyndham Rewards, secondary goals within reach, what’s different about the course and more. POWER RANKINGS: WYNDHAM CHAMPIONSHIP Defending champion J.T. Poston will be reviewed in Tuesday’s Fantasy Insider along with fellow champions at Sedgefield, Sergio Garcia (2012) and Brandt Snedeker (2018). Jordan Spieth, Tommy Fleetwood and Sungjae Im also will be included among the notables. The season-long Wyndham Rewards will conclude this week. The top 10 in the final standings earn bonus (unofficial) prize money. All but the No. 1 position (held by Justin Thomas) are undetermined. As of midday Monday, eight of the 29 who are mathematically alive to finish inside the top 10 are scheduled to compete in the Wyndham Championship. Meanwhile, as detailed on April 30, all jobs are safe for the 2020-21 season because of the pandemic, but qualifying for the Playoffs can elevate status for dozens of golfers who currently don’t carry status strong enough to have advanced to last season’s Playoffs. As a result, the action around the top-125 bubble is much more volatile than it is around the top 10. From Graeme McDowell at 108th in points through Rob Oppenheim at 145th, every golfer is committed to the Wyndham Championship. Many more beneath Oppenheim also are in play. For those who finish 126-200 in the FedExCup, they will secure eligibility in the 2021 Korn Ferry Tour Finals. With what hopes to be a full season on deck, and with all cards retained, that perk may not seem to be critical now, but it likely will matter for a handful. Sedgefield presents as a speed track to the finish line. Since it began hosting the Wyndham Championship in 2008, it’s been the easiest or second-easiest par 70 every season but one (2013). Last year’s scoring average of 68.175 was its record low. While there is value in splitting fairways, there’s just not enough to penalize wayward shots, so it’s a bomb-and-gouge opportunity even though the leaderboards don’t reflect that profile in the aggregate. Because scoring is so low, the objective is to hit as many of the Champion bermudagrass greens as possible and trust in the putter. Now, what’s sort of hilarious about believing in oneself to prevail and convert on the many benefits that go with winning is that J.T. Poston not only played video-game golf, it was cheat code kind of stuff. En route to his breakthrough victory in 2019, he ranked T2 in fairways hit (45 of 56), co-led in greens in regulation (62 of 72) and paced the field in Strokes Gained: Tee-to-Green. Most impressively, he got up and down all 10 times to complete the tournament in bogey-free, 22-under 258. (By comparison, Scott Stallings also was perfect in scrambling for the week – he went 14-for-14 – but he three-putted five times, each resulting in a bogey. He finished T31.) Sedgefield has a new overall yardage for the first time since 2012. It’s only a couple of paces longer at 7,131 yards, all four extra yards as a result of a new tee on the par-4 14th hole, which now tips at 505 yards. Greens are dialed to measure 12 feet on the Stimpmeter. The longest rough will top out at a customary two-and-a-half inches. It’s mid-August in the Triad, so it’d be a surprise only if rain wasn’t in the forecast. And, well, it is. Storms also could fire with daytime heating. Sticky conditions will be the constant. Wind will not be a factor. ROB BOLTON’S SCHEDULE PGATOUR.COM’s Fantasy Insider Rob Bolton recaps and previews every tournament from numerous angles. Look for his following contributions as scheduled. MONDAY: Rookie Ranking, Qualifiers, Reshuffle, Medical Extensions, Power Rankings TUESDAY*: Sleepers, Fantasy Insider * – Rob is a member of the panel for PGATOUR.COM’s Expert Picks for PGA TOUR Fantasy Golf, which also publishes on Tuesday.

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SAINT SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. — Veteran PGA TOUR caddie Kip Henley has seen his share of spectacular golf, but he said he’d never seen two stress-free, back-to-back rounds as those turned in by Austin Cook at The RSM Classic. In fact, Cook made it look so easy on Friday at the Seaside Course that Henley didn’t even realize Cook had signed for an 8-under 62. “I knew it was good, but I didn’t know it was that good,” Henley said. Cook hit 17 greens while carding eight birdies in the second round. He equaled the best 36-hole score at The RSM Classic, 14-under 128 and grabbed a 1-stroke lead over Brian Gay. Cook, who played his college golf at Arkansas, remembers playing in the Southeastern Conference Championship here, but never quite like this. He made four birdies in a row on the back nine beginning at No. 13, and said the 5-iron he stiffed from 179 yards at the 14th hole was his best shot of the day. “I never remember doing what I just did on that golf course,” he said, adding, “I was close to a 62 for nine in one SEC.” Cook, 26, is a PGA TOUR rookie after finishing 15th on the 2017 Web.com Tour money list. He solidified his spot in “The 25” with a runner-up finish at the Utah Championship. “It’s been a lifelong dream,” he said of earning his TOUR card. Next Tuesday, his hometown club, Jonesboro Country Club in Arkansas, is throwing a party for him in recognition of his achievement. When told he could have a lot more to celebrate if he were to become The RSM Classic’s fifth PGA TOUR first-time winner, Cook hesitated to look too far ahead. “Well, you know…” he said, taking a pregnant pause. “Yeah, we can have a lot to celebrate.” OBSERVATIONS GAY’S PUTTER HEATS UP. Brian Gay is regarded as one of the TOUR’s top putters and it keyed another vintage performance. Gay, 45, drained a 38-footer at the 6th hole for birdie, one of seven birdies in a round of 6-under 64 at the Seaside Course. He ranked third in strokes gained: putting (+3.538) on Friday, and heads into the weekend trailing Cook by one shot. Gay, who missed 18 months due to neck surgery and a thumb injury, regained his TOUR privileges last season on a major-medical exemption. Now he’s looking to get back into the winner’s circle. “It feels like it’s been a while,” said Gay, who last won at the 2013 CareerBuilder Challenge. “It really does.” WEEKEND PLANS FOR de JONGE. The putter case for Brendon de Jonge is a sun with shades and a smile and it matched its owner’s disposition after he shot a second-straight round of 67. That’s because de Jonge made his first PGA TOUR cut since the Shell Houston Open in April. “It feels really nice,” de Jonge said. “It’s a small monkey off my back.” Missing 16 of your last 17 starts, and finishing 221st in the FedEx Cup standings can lead to dark feelings. It has de Jonge contemplating a life after golf. He said he and his wife have started a company and invested in real estate. But he’d still like to get that elusive first TOUR win. De Jonge is fully-exempt on the Web.com Tour and plans to play out of the Veteran member category on the TOUR this season as much as he can. “The last few years have been a mental battle if whether this is what I want to keep doing,” he said. “I need to play one really good week and that’s how I’m going to figure out if that’s what I really want to do.” De Jonge, 37, wore a smile on his face as he described holing his second shot for eagle, a 9-iron from 138 yards on the 13th hole. He’s also enjoyed having childhood friend Bruce McDonald on the bag and staying with Sea Island teaching pro Mike Taylor this week. De Jonge and Taylor spent an hour on the putting green Wednesday, and it has paid quick dividends. “Sometimes you need a few to go into the hole to start believing,” McDonald said. KIRK USES AN OLDIE BUT A GOODIE. Chris Kirk blames a balky putter for his dip in performance last season. He slipped to a career-worst 125th in strokes gained: putting. But this week his short stick is behaving, and he credits a switch to a Scotty Cameron by Titleist center-shafted Laguna model that he used during the 2010 Web.com Tour. “That was one of the best putting seasons I’ve ever had,” he said. Kirk, a Georgia Bulldog alum, pulled the Laguna putter out of his storage closet last weekend while watching the Georgia-Auburn football game. “The game wasn’t going so well so I started messing around with it on my putting rug,” he said. It ended up in the bag this week. The 2013 RSM Classic champ took just 23 putts Thursday en route to a 9-under 63 at the Plantation Course, and though he needed 31 putts during Friday’s even-par-70 at Seaside Course, he said he rolled it “incredibly well.” Kirk, who is winless since 2015, enters the weekend at 9 under and in a share of third place. NCAA CHAMP IMPRESSES AGAIN. Amateur Braden Thornberry, a 20-year-old junior at Ole Miss, fired a 6-under 64 at the Seaside Course on Friday. Count veteran TOUR caddie Don Donatello, who is on the bag for the reigning NCAA champ this week, impressed. “He’s the youngest player I’ve ever caddied for, and he handles himself like he’s been playing this game for 30 years,” Donatello said of Thornberry. Thornberry, the Haskins Award winner as college golf’s best player, continues to show that his game can translate to the next level. He finished tied for fourth at the FedEx St. Jude Classic in June in his TOUR debut. After an opening-round 72 at the Plantation Course, Thornberry canned a 34-foot birdie putt at the first hole at Seaside Course and birdied five of his first 10 holes. He enters the weekend tied for 22nd. “I was surprised how comfortable I do feel out here,” he said. NOTABLES Brandt Snedeker – The eight-time TOUR winner used his 14-week layoff with a rib injury to good effect. He and instructor John Tillery changed his natural draw ball flight to a fade through a series of drills and exercises.” I was anxious to see how it would perform under pressure,” said Snedeker, who carded a second-straight 67 to improve to 8 under. “I hit a 4-iron from 220 into the wind today at the second and it never left the pin. Hit it straight to 5 feet and made birdie. I feel like my swing is starting to feel natural.” C.T. Pan – He finished in style, making eagle at the 18th hole en route to shooting 7-under 65, the low round on Plantation Course. Pan, 25, enters the third round at 9-under overall and in position to improve upon a T6 finish at The RSM Classic last season. Bud Cauley – Cauley, who grew up just across the Georgia border in Jacksonville, improved nine strokes on Friday. Cauley, 27, carded a bogey-free 7-under 63 on the Seaside Course. That was a stroke off Cauley’s personal-best on the TOUR — a 62 during round one of The 2012 RSM Classic. Cauley rallied on Friday to make his sixth consecutive cut dating back to last season. Bubba Watson – The nine-time TOUR winner made eight threes and a five on the par-5 seventh hole of the front nine at the more difficult Seaside Course and signed for a 6-under 64. Watson, who finished 75th in last season’s FedExCup and had intended to take a long layoff, is making his second start in the fall season. He improved to 7 under overall and T12 heading into the weekend. QUOTABLES “My mind kind of got off of golf. Being home and being with the family and everything, I realized how much I missed the game of golf and that’s why I wanted to come and play in these tournaments.”– Bubba Watson, who after a subpar year, decided to play in two fall events” He has the confidence on the greens like Jordan Spieth in that he thinks he can make anything.”– Caddie Don Donatello on reigning NCAA champion Braden Thornberry SUPERLATIVES Low round: 62. Austin Cook at the more difficult Seaside Course. Longest putt: Scott Brown went long distance at the par-4 14th hole, draining a putt from 69 feet, 4 inches. Longest drive: Trey Mullinax gripped it and ripped 357 yards on the ninth hole at Seaside Course. Fewest putts: Bubba Watson led the field with 13 one-putt greens and took just 23 putts in Round 2 at the Seaside Course. Hardest hole: The par-4 14th hole at Seaside played to a stroke average of 4.429. Only four birdies were recorded on the day. Easiest hole: The par-5 15th hole at Seaside played to a stroke average of 4.506. There was one eagle and 41 birdies in round two. CALL OF THE DAY

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Ryan Palmer had been checking his smart phone all day, sneaking glances between shots during the RBC Canadian Open Pro-Am last year to see if his wife Jennifer had called. She was back home in Texas, waiting for the results of a biopsy. A mammogram the previous week had uncovered an abnormality that doctors felt warranted a closer examination. Not until that evening, when Ryan was having dinner with his caddie James Edmondson and some friends, did Jennifer finally reach him. He stepped outside the restaurant to take the call. The news was not good. Jennifer had stage 2A invasive ductal carcinoma. “It just hits you in the gut,â€� Ryan recalls, the memory clearly still fresh. Ryan’s fellow PGA TOUR pro, Stewart Cink, also knows what it’s like to get that sucker punch. Only he was at home in Atlanta after forgetting to commit to the Zurich Classic last year, his first such gaffe in 20 years on TOUR. His wife Lisa delivered the news to him in person. “Absolutely, without a shadow of a doubt, that was God’s hand,â€� Lisa now says. She had gone in for a follow-up appointment early that week. She hadn’t felt a lump in her breast. She just thought something wasn’t “right.â€� The doctors agreed – in fact, Lisa had a mammogram, ultrasound and biopsy all in one day. “She told me afterwards that the mood in there was really serious and somber and not very upbeat at all,â€� Stewart said. The next day, the phone rang. Stewart and Lisa were meeting with the staff of their charitable foundation. This time, it was Lisa who stepped outside. Within seconds, Stewart followed her onto the front porch. Lisa had written some things in a notebook, and then she looked up at her husband, clutching the phone to her chest. “She said, I want to know my grandchildren,â€� Stewart recalls. “And there was not a lot more for her to say. I knew what that meant.â€� Lisa, who had led an extremely healthy lifestyle, has stage 4 invasive ductal carcinoma. The cancer had spread to her lymph nodes and was metastatic. With those two diagnoses, life for the Cinks and Palmers has changed forever. Stewart and Lisa met in high school. He was going out with a girl she played softball with – “He dated a lot of my friends, actually, which was interesting,â€� Lisa says – and the two eventually ended up in a class together where they became better acquainted. Their friendship blossomed into romance at Georgia Tech, and the two married at age 20. They have one son, Connor, who was born while the couple was still in college, and another Reagan, who is two years younger. Stewart and Lisa are empty nesters now. Connor graduated from Clemson last year while Reagan has followed in his parents’ footsteps and attends Georgia Tech. He’ll be a junior in the fall. “Do the math – we’ve been married over half our lives,â€� says Stewart, who’s now 43, as is his wife. “I feel like she’s been my soulmate before we ever met in 10th grade. She’s been part of me since birth, I feel like.â€� Ryan and Jennifer also met in high school in their hometown of Amarillo. But it wasn’t until the summer before her senior year at Texas A&M — Ryan was a year behind — that they began dating. “I saw him out at a party or something, and then he called me and said, hey, let’s go have dinner and play some golf,â€� Jennifer remembers. “I’m actually a terrible golfer, so I mainly just sat in the cart but that’s pretty much how it all began.â€� Jennifer was first attracted to Ryan’s smile – “He just lights up a room,â€� she says – and his positive attitude. He didn’t dwell on a bad round. He didn’t blame it on his clubs, either. Ryan was motivated, too. “It was never an option for him not to be a professional,â€� she says. “You know what I’m saying? That was his goal.â€� Jennifer had goals of her own, too, though. She graduated from A&M in 1998 and went to dental school, getting her degree in 2003. She practiced in Colleyville, a Dallas-Fort Worth suburb, for a while and still keeps her license current. Ryan finally got his TOUR card for the 2004 campaign, and he asked Jennifer to come to Pebble Beach with him. The couple married in June of that year. “After that week, he just said, ‘hey, do you want to try this full time?’â€� she remembers. “We didn’t really know what the future was going to hold golf-wise. So, we basically took a leap of faith.â€� Although they are similar in age, Stewart and Ryan were at different stages of life last year when their wives were diagnosed with cancer three months apart. While the Cinks’ boys are grown and living on their own, Jennifer and Ryan have two young children. Mason is 10, a huge hockey fan, while Madelyn turns 8 in August. After Ryan got that life-changing phone call from Jennifer, he wanted to come home immediately. She convinced him to stay in Canada, though. After all, there was nothing he could do; it wasn’t like she was having surgery the next day, and RBC, after all, is one of Ryan’s sponsors. It just hits you in the gut. The couple went to the PGA Championship where Ryan finished 42nd and then returned home where Jennifer had a lumpectomy. A week later, while Ryan was playing The Barclays (now called THE NORTHERN TRUST), they got the news that the cancer, already invasive in the breast, had spread into the lymph nodes. So Jennifer started chemotherapy on Sept. 19, the week after Ryan was eliminated from the FedExCup Playoffs at the BMW Championship despite a tie for fourth at Crooked Stick. It was also his 40th birthday. “He still got to have a fun little party the weekend before,â€� Jennifer says. “We had it in the works for several months so we went ahead and had the party.â€� Had Ryan made it to the TOUR Championship, Jennifer said she likely would have waited to start the chemo. At that point, though, Ryan announced on the Ryan Palmer Foundation Facebook page that he was taking time off to be with Jennifer and their kids. “He has a lot of family and friends and supporters who follow that so he just felt like that would be a good way for us to get prayer,â€� Jennifer says. Ryan did not play on TOUR again for four months, returning to competition at the Sony Open in Hawaii earlier this year. Mr. Mom did a “fabulousâ€� job, Jennifer says. He got the kids ready in the morning, often making Mason’s favorite, an omelet, for breakfast and took the kids to school. Although friends put together a meal train three nights a week, Ryan was more than happy to throw a few steaks on the grill, which is his specialty. While he did take time to play some golf, hoping to stay sharp for his return, Ryan also pitched in and did some light housework, helping Jennifer’s mom — who lives nearby — keep things tidy when the chemo took its toll. Turns out he’s a rare bird who actually likes to do laundry, too. “That’s what I needed to do,â€� Ryan says. “I was blessed that I was able to stay home the whole time.â€� “There were times when I said just go play this week, you should go get some competitive rounds in and he said, no, this is where I need to be, this is where I want to be,â€� adds Jennifer. “… It was something he really wanted to do for our family.â€� Stewart and Lisa had been looking forward to this time in their lives. With both sons essentially on their own, the couple was planning to travel the world as Stewart, the 2009 Open Championship winner, played golf. Turns out, that’s exactly what they’ve done, although always on Lisa’s schedule. “There’s not a lot I want to do without her,â€� Cink says. The first week of chemo – she had nine rounds administered through a port in her chest – is usually the worst. The second was a “maybe,â€� Stewart says, and by the third, Lisa usually felt like her old self. The first treatment was May 9, 2016. Three weeks later – “We kind of went to three-week months,â€� Stewart notes – he decided to play at the DEAN & DELUCA Invitational. Lisa had friends visiting in Atlanta and family, including the boys, nearby. So he went to Fort Worth by himself. He shot rounds of 72-75 and missed the cut. “I learned really fast that I wasn’t ready to be out there,â€� says Stewart, who purposely arrived on Wednesday so he could avoid some of the inevitable, albeit well-meaning, questions from his peers. He admits both he and Lisa were “emotionally wrecked.â€� Two weeks later, though, Lisa felt well enough to go with her husband to the FedEx St. Jude Classic. The change of scene was good for them both, and Lisa has made new friends as well as connected with the old. “I just don’t think the house would be a good place to be for a long, long time when you’re going through something like this,â€� Stewart says. “Those four walls start to close pretty fast.â€� In an interview with PGA TOUR Entertainment for a special on the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston where her doctors are based, Lisa said she wasn’t surprised her husband put his golf on hold to focus on her. “That’s who he is, and it’s the relationship we’ve been blessed with,â€� Lisa explained. “And of course, it meant everything to me. I don’t know how people do it alone.â€� The weeks at home allowed Stewart to go with Lisa to her various appointments and treatments. Understanding what is about to happen gives him some semblance of control. “Sometimes when she’s emotional, it’s hard to hear correctly, decipher what the doctor is saying,â€� Stewart explains. “So my role is to take down notes and ask questions and get facts straight so that later on, when she sort of takes deep breaths and can understand it, we can have a conversation and I can kind of spit it back the right way.â€� Lisa says her husband was a great “filterâ€� for what he calls a “firehose of information.â€� She was told not to Google treatments or symptoms, which she thinks is great advice. “But he was so good about hearing the information, researching the information, and giving it to me as I asked or he thought I needed it,â€� she says. Long walks through the old neighborhood near the Rice University campus helped the couple “sort through all this immense amount of terrible information we were getting,â€� Lisa says. Also helpful was mindless entertainment like the shows on HGTV that they both like to watch, and the family and friends who gathered in Houston to lend support. “We had every stool, bench, chair (occupied),â€� she says. A year later, as the couple lives with the disease, Stewart has become the de facto spokesman for the family. There are many times when he feels helpless — “Hence, the faith,â€� Stewart says, adding that he has a list of Bible verses to rely on – and he finds it therapeutic to talk about Lisa’s situation. “It makes me feel like you care about it, for one thing,â€� Stewart says. “That’s a good feeling. You find that when you’re discussing it, you’re not thinking about the future, you kind of talk about what you already know. “It kind of keeps me a little bit grounded in the present.â€� Like Lisa, Jennifer had chemo, six rounds in her case, once every three weeks. Ryan and her friend, Jennifer Hill, who came up from San Antonio, went to every treatment. They weren’t just there for moral support, though – the two had a mission. So that she wouldn’t lose her long dark hair, Jennifer opted to use cold caps to try to cool the scalp during the chemotherapy. It wasn’t that she was vain. She was worried about Mason. “Mason got a little upset thinking about it,â€� Ryan says. “She did the hair preservation for him. So, that was pretty special.â€� The caps are housed in dry ice and cooled to between minus-15 to minus-40 degrees below zero, measured by an infrared thermometer. The caps have to be handled with gloves and changed every 30 minutes – for eight hours straight. That’s where Ryan and Hill came in. “They had to knead them with their hands to make sure all the gel was evenly distributed, and get them to the right temperature,â€� Jennifer says. “Then they’d have a timer and they’d take that one off and put the new one on.â€� It worked. With the exception of a few bald spots under her hair, Jennifer says you’d never know she was a breast cancer survivor. Most importantly, Mason was reassured. No matter how weak or nauseous Jennifer felt while undergoing the chemo or radiation, she got up and got dressed every day. She even made sure she put makeup on. “If you can, you want to try and be as normal as possible for your kids,â€� she said. “You don’t want them to feel like you’re sick. It’s just a difficult subject for a 7-year-old and a 10-year-old to grasp. “My son wanted very concrete answers. He wanted it to be black and white, not gray, and so when we couldn’t give him an exact reason as to why I had it, it was very hard for him.â€� Ryan was amazed at his wife’s strength. “She did more things than I could imagine her doing,â€� he says. And he was glad he could be there to reassure the kids. “In case they had questions, we were there to talk about it together,â€� he adds. “Of course, their fears were the worst. Obviously, Mason’s was. But the main thing is just letting them know nothing is going to happen. “Don’t think the worst because it’s going to be OK.â€� Last fall, Jennifer was able to go with Ryan and their families to see him inducted into the Texas A&M Sports Hall of Fame. She also took a three-day trip to New York City after Christmas and before her final chemo treatment on January 3. “It was kind of like a let’s celebrate that we’re through this one step,â€� Jennifer says. “(It was) a lot of walking, but I kept up with it.â€� When Stewart didn’t qualify for the FedExCup Playoffs last year, he and Lisa went to Switzerland on a busman’s holiday of sorts when he played in a European Tour event. “And I could not believe that in the middle of chemo, I’m getting to go to Switzerland and see this beautiful, just breathtaking place,â€� Lisa said. “And meet these kind, wonderful people that we got to meet and it was such a blessing.â€� Stewart and Ryan played together at the CareerBuilder Challenge and picked each other’s brains about life with cancer. Their wives have been in contact, too, texting prayers and positive thoughts. “I think they’ve been great for each other,â€� Ryan said. And at times, the support the couples have felt from friends on the PGA TOUR has been overwhelming. Flowers, cards, texts and phone calls have helped make the journey easier. Meagan Laird, Martin’s wife, who lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, even arranged dinners for the Palmer’s meal train. “She’s doing all this from out of town,â€� Jennifer says. “Isn’t that crazy?â€� Zach Johnson’s wife, Kim, had a quilt made with a small pocket in the back where friends of Stewart and Lisa left spiritual messages. Lisa took the quilt with her to PET scans and was able to “know that these people have prayed for me.â€� And when Lisa went out to Memphis, her first tournament since being diagnosed, the PGA TOUR Wives Association had a special surprise at their annual event at the St. Jude Children’s Hospital. The kids at the hospital had made cards and posters for her. “I just couldn’t imagine why these children, there are having to suffer, they’re pouring out love on me,â€� Lisa says. “And it was such a gift and it was such an encouragement to know how strong these children were. “It gave me a lot of encouragement that I can do this, too.â€� There has been good news of late. Jennifer’s latest mammogram was clear, Ryan reported, and her treatments, which included radiation, will be done in August. Stewart wrote this in his blog on May 8: Amen! PET scan results looked good again today, basically unchanged from the past two, from November and February. Lisa is now in what the doctor called “sustained remission.â€� Cink and Palmer are in the field this week at Colonial. After an emotionally draining year for both men, their wives and their families, a few hours on the golf course each day now offers a chance to step back into their old lives. Their thoughts, however, will never stray far from Lisa and Jennifer and the battle against the toughest of foes.

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