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2019 The Honda Classic, End of Round 2: Top 10 win probabilities: Sungjae Im (T1, -6): 12.7% Brooks Koepka (T4, -4): 10.7% Lucas Glover (3, -5): 10.3% Keith Mitchell (T1, -6): 9.8% Sergio Garcia (T13, -3): 5.1% Danny Lee (T4, -4): 3.8% Adam Schenk (T4, -4): 3.1% Rickie Fowler (T32, -1): 2.8% Ryan Armour (T4, -4): 2.6% Sung Kang (T4, -4): 2.6% Best second round performances: SG: Total: Sungjae Im / Adam Svensson (+7.45) SG: Off-the-tee: Ryan Palmer (+1.66) SG: Approach: Grayson Murray (+3.91) SG: Around-the-green: Adam Svensson (+3.43) SG: Putting: Austin Cook (+3.94) NOTE: These reports are based off 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 10K simulations. To follow live finish probabilities throughout the remainder of The Honda Classic, 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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Nicholas Thompson was on daddy duty, playing with his two young children, when the text messages started arriving last Wednesday. Had he heard? Did he know there had been a shooting at his alma mater, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, that afternoon? Stunned, Thompson turned on the TV. The news video of those terrified teens running out of the buildings with their hands over their heads was haunting. The death toll was staggering. “I was beyond shocked,â€� Thompson recalls. The rest of the afternoon, Thompson and his wife, Christen, who, like her husband, is a 2001 MSD graduate, took turns watching the non-stop TV coverage or playing with the kids. They wanted to shield the oldest, who is 4, from the terrible news. “But pretty much everything that was published online, I read about it,â€� says Thompson, who grew up and lived about 5 miles from the school for nearly three decades. So once the children were asleep that night, Nicholas and Christen  finally were able to process what had happened. And they knew they had to do something. The Honda Classic, which is being played this week at PGA National in West Palm Beach just minutes from their home, offered the perfect opportunity. So the PGA TOUR veteran talked with executive director Ken Kennerly and a plan was hatched. The tournament is providing maroon ribbons for its 1,600 volunteers to wear to show support for the victims. Thompson and his wife bought another 500 — maroon and silver with the letters MSD on them – for the players, caddies and wives. On Thursday, less than 24 hours after the shooting, Thompson also ordered 3,100 maroon rubber bracelets with the words “Eagle Pride #MSD Strongâ€� written in silver. He plans to distribute them at the tournament in exchange for donations to help the victims and their families. Thompson has also set up a GoFundMe page – the Support MSD Shooting Victims’ Fund – that funnels any money raised into the Stoneman Douglas Victims Fund page. The Broward Educational Foundation fund already has raised more than $1.8 million. Stoneman Douglas graduates, like Thompson, nationwide have embarked on similar projects – not just to raise money but also to effect change. There’s even a private Facebook page called Mobilizing MSD Alumni that was created Wednesday after the shootings and already has more than 10,000 members. “There are people doing t-shirts, there are people doing decals for cars, other people doing different types of wristbands,â€� Thompson says. “Everybody’s just trying to help as much as they can. They’re doing a like town hall, things with CNN, a concert, just everything to help not only raise money and funds but to get awareness out of what occurred and how people feel and all of that.â€�  Thompson doubts many of his friends on TOUR know he graduated from Stoneman Douglas. (His sister, Lexi, a nine-time winner on the LPGA Tour, and brother, Curtis, who competes on the Web.com Tour, both were home-schooled.) He actually went to school with one of the shooting victims, football coach Aaron Feis. The 37-year-old Feis, who was one of 17 killed that afternoon, died trying to shield students from the gunman. “I didn’t 100 percent know him, but we had plenty of mutual friends,â€� says Thompson, who was two years behind Feis in high school. “And I knew of him.â€� The building, which housed the freshman class, where the shooting occurred wasn’t there when Thompson attended MSD. But he remembers when it was built, and the other views from campus broadcast nationwide over the past week brought back vivid memories. “I’m not much of a crier, but it was a very, very sad moment,â€� Thompson says. “To see on TV, the pictures of the school that I went through for four years and the area where it occurred was terrible.â€� Thompson now lives about 45 minutes away from Parkland where MSD is located. While he had hoped to be playing in The Honda Classic in his backyard this week – Thompson fell short in Monday qualifying – he has new purpose for the week. “Now I’ll be able to help out more with this,â€� Thompson says. The excitement in his voice is palpable and the sense of purpose strong. Just like all the teenagers at his alma mater who are trying to turn this tragedy into something positive, too.

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The first World Golf Championship of 2018 gets underway Thursday, and PGA TOUR LIVE will be there to provide extended coverage from Golf Club de Chapultepec. PGA TOUR LIVE’s broadcast from the WGC-Mexico Championship will include the threesome of the world’s top-ranked players – Dustin Johnson, Jon Rahm and Justin Thomas – as well as names like Jordan Spieth, Rickie Fowler, Sergio Garcia and Justin Rose. RELATED LINKS: Tee times | Power Rankings | Field | Course You can watch them all hit the long ball from the course with the highest elevation in PGA TOUR history. Chapultepec sits more than 7,600 feet above sea level, giving players like Johnson, the defending champion, even more length off the tee. PGA TOUR LIVE will begin at 12:15 p.m. Eastern on Thursday and Friday. LIVE will shift to Featured Hole coverage of the par-3 15th and 17th holes at 2 p.m. The broadcast will conclude at 7 p.m. PGA TOUR LIVE also can be viewed on Twitter from 12:15 p.m. until approximately 1:30 p.m. (Note: All times Eastern; FedExCup ranking in parentheses) THURSDAY Justin Thomas (1), Jon Rahm (4), Dustin Johnson (3) This group features the top three players in the Official World Golf Ranking. They all sit in the top four of the FedExCup standings, as well, and were high on the leaderboard here last year. Thomas leads the way after his win last week at The Honda Classic. It was his second victory of the season. He’s trying to become the first player to win back-to-back FedExCups. He held the 54-hole lead at last year’s Mexico Championship before fading to fifth place. Johnson, the WGC-Mexico’s defending champion, is third in the FedExCup standings after a victory at the Sentry Tournament of Champions and runners-up at the WGC-HSBC Champions and AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Rahm was runner-up at the Sentry and won the CareerBuilder Challenge in consecutive starts earlier this year. He finished third at last year’s Mexico Championship. Tee time: 12:51 p.m. off the 10th tee. Sergio Garcia (195), Alex Noren (19), Tommy Fleetwood (81) Fleetwood is one of the hottest players on the planet and should be a popular pick for fantasy players. He was runner-up to Johnson at last year’s Mexico Championship and is coming off a fourth-place finish at The Honda Classic. He’s finished in the top 6 in five of his past six worldwide starts, including a win in Abu Dhabi. Garcia, the reigning Masters champion, won earlier this year at the Singapore Open. Noren has posted four consecutive top-25s on the PGA TOUR, including a playoff loss to Jason Day at the Farmers Insurance Open and a third-place finish at The Honda Classic. These three players all could be teammates in Paris at this year’s Ryder Cup, as well. Tee time: 1:03 p.m. off the 10th tee. FRIDAY Justin Rose (14), Jordan Spieth (73), Rickie Fowler (25) Rose has finished in the top 10 in 11 of his past 12 worldwide starts, dating back to last year’s FedExCup Playoffs. He has three wins over that span, including the most recent World Golf Championship, the HSBC Champions. Rose is coming off an eighth-place finish in his most recent start, at the Farmers Insurance Open. Spieth struggled with the putter earlier this season but seemed headed in the right direction with a T9 at the Genesis Open. His 63 at last year’s Mexico Championship was the low round of the week. Fowler won the Hero World Challenge and finished fourth at Kapalua but has two missed cuts and a lost 54-hole lead in his past three starts. He sandwiched a T11 at the Waste Management Phoenix Open between MCs at the Farmers Insurance Open and Honda Classic. Tee time: 12:39 p.m. off the 10th tee. Marc Leishman (23), Paul Casey (55), Tyrrell Hatton (149) Leishman is coming off a two-win season that featured victories at the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard and BMW Championship. This season, he lost a playoff to Thomas at THE CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES. The consistent Casey has finished in the top 25 in four of five starts this season. Hatton finished 10th at last year’s Mexico Championship. Tee time: 12:51 p.m. off the 10th tee.

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