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With the tournament set to begin next week, Farmers Insurance® and the Farmers Insurance Open® will again host a group of players from the APGA (Advocates Professional Golf Association) Tour when a collection of the best players on the PGA TOUR come to Torrey Pines, January 28-31, 2021. In January 2020, the AGPA Tour worked with Farmers® to host its first-ever tournament in conjunction with a PGA TOUR event at the Farmers Insurance Open, an annual PGA TOUR stop at Torrey Pines Golf Course in San Diego, Calif. The 27-hole APGA Tour tournament, dubbed the Farmers Insurance Open Invitational, was held on Torrey Pines' North Course during Saturday’s third round of the Farmers Insurance Open, played simultaneously on the South Course. It was recently announced that the APGA Tour will return in 2021 to play again on the Saturday of tournament week with 17 players set to tee it up on Torrey Pines' North Course this year. “At Farmers we value diversity and are proud to help support the APGA Tour in its mission to level the playing field for many talented golfers,” said Jeff Dailey, CEO of Farmers. "We look forward to hosting the APGA during the Farmers Insurance Open with the second-annual APGA Tour Farmers Insurance Open Invitational on Saturday of tournament week." All 17 participants have unique paths to the APGA Tour as they chase their dream of playing on the PGA TOUR. In fact, two APGA Tour players– Kevin Hall and Willie Mack III—have recently been awarded with sponsors' exemptions to separate PGA TOUR events in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and The Genesis Invitational, respectively. The following contains biographical information on several players who will be available by request for media interviews. Mulbe Dillard, a senior at Florida A&M, debuts at No. 1 in a newly formed ranking created by the PGA TOUR and the APGA Tour aimed to help top Black college golfers' transition to the professional ranks by easing the financial burden of playing developmental tours and Korn Ferry Tour Q-School. Dillard leads this new college ranking for Black golfers in NCAA Division I, II and III, with the top five seniors each year receiving summer status on the APGA Tour and an exemption into the pre-qualifying stage for Korn Ferry Tour Q-School. Kevin Hall, 37, is deaf and trying to pave the way for both the deaf community and African Americans. He played high school golf for Winton Woods (Ohio) while he attended St. Rita School for the Deaf. He went on to play at Ohio State, where he won the Big Ten Conference individual championship in 2004 by 11 shots and turned pro the following year. He has played several PGA TOUR and Korn Ferry Tour events over the course of his career. In recent years, he has won three times on the APGA Tour. His father, Percy Hall, caddies and signs for him, and will be joining Kevin at the 2021 Farmers Insurance Open Invitational. Willie Mack III, a Farmers Insurance brand ambassador, is a native of Flint, Mich., who played collegiately at Bethune-Cookman (in 2006), where he won 11 collegiate events. Mack was also the first African American to win the Michigan Amateur Championship, in 2011. He won the APGA Tour's Lexus Cup as the Tour's top player in 2019. He won two events, finished runner-up twice and recorded six top-10 finishes that year. Mack has won nearly 20 professional tournaments and currently competes on the APGA Tour. While Joey Stills has carved his own path through his young golf career as a standout player at the University of West Florida, giving his time as a teacher and mentor at his local First Tee Chapter and now as a professional on the APGA Tour, he continues to chase not only his own dreams, but also the career of his father, Adrian Stills. Adrian is one of the pioneering African Americans to make it to the PGA TOUR through PGA TOUR Qualifying School and joins legendary figures helping to pave the way for African Americans in professional golf. He eventually joined APGA Tour CEO Ken Bentley to develop and co-found the APGA Tour. Joey joins other First Tee alumni in the field, the aforementioned Mulbe Dillard and Joseph Dent, son of 12-time PGA TOUR Champions winner, Jim Dent. Other APGA Tour players who will be at the event include: • Brad Adamonis • Jarred Garcia • Joe Hooks • Michael Herrera • Maurice Jeffries • Landon Lyons • Marcus Manley • Tim O'Neal • Tommy Schaff • JP Thornton • Davin White • Rovonta Young In addition to the APGA Tour Farmers Insurance Open Invitational, another APGA Tour member, Kamaiu Johnson, will be playing in the PGA TOUR competition next week after Farmers Insurance CEO Jeff Dailey surprised Johnson with the news that he had been awarded a sponsor's exemption into the Farmers Insurance Open in October. Johnson called the news "life changing" and will tee it up against the world's best players when he makes his PGA TOUR debut next week. With exemptions announced for Hall, Johnson and Mack, three players who have been an integral part of the APGA Tour schedule will tee it up on the PGA TOUR in the next four weeks. Kamaiu Johnson, also a Farmers Insurance brand ambassador, dropped out of school in the eighth grade. City golf superintendent Jan Auger spotted Johnson, then 13 years old, swinging a stick outside an apartment complex that bordered Hilaman Golf Course in Tallahassee, Fla. Auger told Johnson to head back to the clubhouse, where there would be a 9-iron and a bucket of balls waiting for him. This moment changed the course of his life. At 16, Johnson began competing in events and made history, winning the Tallahassee Open three times, the last of which came in 2017. In 2020, Johnson won twice on the APGA Tour, including a victory at the 2020 APGA Tour Lexus Cup Championship in Los Angeles, and finished second in the 2020 APGA Tour Lexus Cup Point Standings. A longtime supporter of the APGA, Farmers is deepening its commitment in 2021 by increasing its financial support for player access, working to provide professional and career development opportunities for athletes, and helping to bring the game to more athletes.

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With the new RadSpeed family of drivers, Cobra has produced an entire line aimed at maximizing performance for players of all skills through optimized weighting and an array of advanced technologies. "RadSpeed design is about taking aim at the tradeoff of distance versus forgiveness and attacking that trade-off in an unconventional way," says Tom Olsavsky, Vice President of R&D, Cobra Golf. To do this, Cobra relied on a design concept that originated from a popular formula in engineering called radius of gyration. In golf terms, with respect to the metal woods, this means the distance from the club's center of gravity to each weight or technology location. A forward center of gravity is better for distance by creating maximum ball speeds, but it also elevates spin and decreases stability, leading to a less forgiving driver. Conversely, a rear-ward center of gravity is better for stability and launch and is thus more forgiving, but ball speeds — and thus distance — suffer. Cobra's engineers discovered that by increasing the radius of gyration and the distance between the front and back weights, they could create the perfect blend of faster ball speeds, low spin, and forgiveness in one driver. The weight is strategically positioned in each of the three new driver models to create three distinct performance characteristics. RadSpeed: For faster swingers who want distance through faster ball speeds, low spin, and trajectory control RadSpeed XB: For players who want distance through faster ball speeds and consistency across the face in the form of forgiveness and stability. RadSpeed XD: For those who want distance while reducing their slice or creating a draw. Designed with a 460cc traditional shape, the RadSpeed driver contains forward-biased Radial Weighting to appeal to the better player seeking low spin, low launch and workability. Interestingly, the three profiles match up with three Cobra staffers. Bryson DeChambeau's key demand: lower spin without giving up anything on mishits. He's in the Rad Speed XB. Rickie Fowler was seeking performance, speed, and workability, and the ability to execute his butter cut safe shot. He's in the RadSpeed XB. Jason Dufner prefers the XD head and likes having more weight in the heel. "Our new RadSpeed drivers represent a true breakthrough in performance," Olsavsky said. "Our engineers have outdone themselves by pushing the radius of gyration to new levels and delivering three distinct drivers aimed at three different types of golfers. With the RadSpeed driver family, Cobra can truly offer optimized performance for everyone from TOUR players to weekend warriors and those who need help correcting a slice.” Returning to the idea of a balance of weight for speed and stability, Cobra positioned the chassis — which features 28 grams of weight (16 grams of fixed weight, 12 grams adjustable weight) — in the front, and an additional 10 grams in the back (8 grams fixed weight, 2 grams adjustable weight). Using a lighter T-Bar Speed Chassis and a thinner Carbon Fiber Wrap Crown, Cobra engineers were able to save 13 grams (7 grams in the chassis/6 grams in the carbon) that they could reposition forward to lower the center of gravity and produce more speed. Two adjustable weights in the front and back (12 grams, 2 grams) allow players to fine-tune their desired launch and spin performance. Cobra's CNC Milled Infinity Face — first introduced on the SpeedZone driver and 95% larger in this iteration — has again been employed to deliver thinner faces for maximum ball speed and ideal curvatures for forgiveness on off-center hits. For the RadSpeed XB (Xtreme Back), Cobra created a driver with an oversized address profile for players who want plenty of speed and distance but value forgiveness. The 460cc clubhead utilizes rear-biased radial weighting designed to deliver the fastest and straightest ball flight of the three models. Cobra engineers positioned 20 grams in the back (14 grams of fixed weight; 6 grams of interchangeable weight), and 8 grams of fixed weight in the front of the XB, for what the company is calling its fastest and most forgiving driver to date. The RadSpeed XD (Xtreme Draw) is Cobra’s answer for a draw-biased, straight-neck driver. Designed to provide maximum distance and slice-fighting power, the Xtreme Draw model features the same slightly oversized 460cc profile as the XB, but with heel-biased Radial Weighting. Ten grams of fixed internal weight is positioned in the heel to enable easier face closure for straighter, draw-biased drives. Another 14 grams is positioned in the back for greater forgiveness, while 8 grams is positioned in the front to increase speed. The RadSpeed, RadSpeed XB, and RadSpeed XD drivers come in 9 or 10.5 degrees, with the XB and XD also available in 12-degree lofts. A Tour Length offering, featuring a shorter shaft length (44.50-inches) than the standard 45.5-inches, is available with a choice of three premium aftermarket shafts. Retail price: $449 each Women's models are also available in both the RadSpeed XB and XD in a Gloss Black/Elderberry colorway.

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Jason Day shot a 2-under 69 on Sunday to win the Wells Fargo Championship by two strokes over Aaron Wise and Nick Watney, his second victory of the season.

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