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Scroll below for the Genesis Scottish Open field list as of Sunday, July 3: Check here for updates. Top 30 on prior season’s FedExCup Patrick Cantlay Jon Rahm Justin Thomas Xander Schauffele Viktor Hovland Billy Horschel Jason Kokrak Cameron Smith Sam Burns Harris English Jordan Spieth Sungjae Im Scottie Scheffler Corey Conners Erik van Rooyen Collin Morikawa Hideki Matsuyama Stewart Cink Joaquin Niemann Current leaders in FedExCup Will Zalatoris Max Homa Matt Fitzpatrick Tom Hoge Cameron Young Sepp Straka J.J. Spaun Luke List Mito Pereira Keegan Bradley Cameron Tringale K.H. Lee Sebastián Muñoz Keith Mitchell Maverick McNealy Mackenzie Hughes Lucas Herbert Matt Kuchar Marc Leishman Chris Kirk Si Woo Kim Harold Varner III Tyrrell Hatton Sahith Theegala Anirban Lahiri Troy Merritt Gary Woodland Joel Dahmen Matthew NeSmith Brian Harman Tommy Fleetwood Alex Smalley Kurt Kitayama Alex Noren Danny Lee Aaron Rai Patrick Rodgers Justin Rose Russell Knox David Lipsky Jhonattan Vegas Christiaan Bezuidenhout Andrew Putnam Brandon Wu Nick Watney Wyndham Clark Taylor Moore Lucas Glover Dylan Frittelli Nick Taylor Ryan Palmer Lee Hodges Players from DP World Tour Eligibility Ranking Francesco Molinari Henrik Stenson Danny Willett Min Woo Lee Brandon Stone Thorbjørn Olesen Chris Wood Haotong Li Kalle Samooja Victor Perez Adria Arnaus Ewen Ferguson Ashun Wu Ryan Fox Nicolai Hojgaard Rafa Cabrera Bello Rasmus Hojgaard Garrick Higgo Dean Burmester Jorge Campillo Sami Valimaki Steven Brown Sebastian Soderberg Andrea Pavan Marcus Kinhult Mikko Korhonen Stephen Gallacher Scott Hend Thriston Lawrence Joachim B Hansen Jeff Winther Kristoffer Broberg Johannes Veerman Grant Forrest Daniel Gavins Nacho Elvira Jonathan Caldwell Marcus Armitage John Catlin Daniel van Tonder Antoine Rozner Padraig Harrington Thomas Bjørn Luke Donald Robert MacIntyre Alexander Björk Guido Migliozzi Jason Scrivener Thomas Detry Jamie Donaldson Adrian Meronk Francesco Laporta Sean Crocker Masahiro Kawamura Joakim Lagergren Maximilian Kieffer Tapio Pulkkanen James Morrison Andy Sullivan Edoardo Molinari Fabrizio Zanotti Matthieu Pavon Shubhankar Sharma Jordan L Smith Kiradech Aphibarnrat Richie Ramsay Matthew Jordan Jazz Janewattananond David Horsey Jack Senior Matt Wallace Maverick Antcliff Rikard Karlberg Wil Besseling Three Korean Players from KPGA Bio Kim Joohyung Kim Jaekyeong Lee Sponsor’s exemption (restricted) Charley Hoffman Callum Tarren Alternate List Rickie Fowler Michael Thompson

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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Florida – Today the PGA TOUR introduced PGA TOUR AR, a brand new augmented reality (AR) app bringing live AR tournament coverage to life for fans around the world on their iPhone and iPad. Live AR coverage on PGA TOUR AR will begin in conjunction with the opening round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard on Thursday, March 15. The PGA TOUR AR app is available for free exclusively in the App Store. Mastercard is the Official Launch Partner of the PGA TOUR AR app that will feature exclusive branding within the AR app and will showcase the app in fan areas at Bay Hill Club. “Exploring unparalleled technologies like AR helps the PGA TOUR reach new audiences around the world,” said Rick Anderson, PGA TOUR Chief Media Officer. “Tapping into ARKit in iOS 11 allows us to showcase real-time data provided by ShotLink and CDW in a rich, visual way for fans. The PGA TOUR takes pride in bringing new technology to the sports world as a way of communicating to a large, diverse audience.” PGA TOUR AR puts augmented reality golf experiences into the hands of hundreds of millions of iPhone and iPad users, allowing fans to interact with 3D featured holes and live 3D shot trails on any flat surface right in front of them. On featured holes throughout the season, fans will be able to select their favorite player on the golf course, compare shot trails from each round and compare the shots of different players. Starting at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, the featured hole is the par-5 No. 6, while the par-3 seventh hole at Pebble Beach Golf Links will be available for fans to go back and review shot trails from this year’s AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. THE PLAYERS Championship will feature Nos. 16, 17 and 18 live and in AR, and at the season-ending TOUR Championship, East Lake Golf Club’s No. 18 will be highlighted. The PGA TOUR plans to add more holes from other tournaments leading up to the TOUR Championship and ultimately plans to feature at least one hole at every tournament on the PGA TOUR schedule. “We are thrilled to partner with the PGA TOUR in bringing live AR to fans this week at the Arnold Palmer Invitational,” said Raja Rajamannar, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Mastercard. “Mastercard shares a common bond with the PGA TOUR that revolves around innovation, and this technology aligns with our promise to our cardholders to provide Priceless experiences. We are excited about continued conversations on how the PGA TOUR’s AR app will rollout new enhancements and provide consumers from around the world a new way to engage with the game of golf.” An update to the PGA TOUR AR app later this year will enable an on-course AR experience where fans at a golf tournament can hold up their device in front of any hole and the technology will display shot trails for selected players live or during a past round of the user’s choosing. The development of the PGA TOUR AR app in collaboration with POSSIBLE Mobile, part of the creative agency POSSIBLE, was aided by existing data gathered by ShotLink powered by CDW, the TOUR’s longstanding state-of-the-art scoring system. ShotLink through CDW technology captures and reports real-time vital information on every shot, by every player, during tournament competition. Every shot is translated into thousands of statistics, changing the way fans watch – and now interact with – the PGA TOUR, bringing them closer to the action. ShotLink and CDW’s vision is to turn data into information, information into knowledge, and knowledge into entertainment. “This app empowers us to creatively display and share data captured by ShotLink and CDW with fans in an entirely new way,” said Devon Fox, PGA TOUR Director, Digital Platform Innovation, who was recently named as one of the Top Women in Digital by Cynopsis. “Utilizing the biggest AR platform in the world, we can instantly reach millions of new golf fans around the world in an exciting and fun style.” The PGA TOUR AR app was built using ARKit in iOS 11 to provide immersive AR experiences for the game of golf. ARKit helps app developers like the PGA TOUR blend digital objects and information with the environment, taking apps far beyond the screen and freeing them to interact with the real world in entirely new ways. For more information on ARKit visit: https://developer.apple.com/arkit/. The TOUR is considering several enhancements within the PGA TOUR AR app for fans who attend tournaments to help them locate their favorite venues, merchandise locations and concession stands, or finding their favorite player on the course. This allows the TOUR and its partners to develop creative ways to interact with fans to form a more enjoyable on course experience. As the technology progresses, the TOUR expects to work with sponsors to display their brands within the app in innovative ways. Possible enhancements include creating custom AR experiences such as displaying branded venues on each hole, video boards that show highlights from the event, or giving fans the opportunity to take full 360 views of a product. “New technologies are exciting, but only if they can add a new and valuable dimension to an experience,” said Ben Reubenstein, CEO, POSSIBLE Mobile. “Golf is a perfect fit for leveraging augmented reality by providing a cutting-edge way for fans to interact with the sport.”

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Collin Morikawa is finally getting a weekend off. After making his first 22 consecutive cuts as a pro, the second longest streak in the last 30 years (Tiger Woods, 25), the high-flying Morikawa came back to earth and will miss the weekend rounds at the Travelers Championship at TPC River Highlands. RELATED: Full leaderboard After shooting an opening-round 72, Morikawa could only manage one better Friday, finishing at 3 over for the tournament and well off the projected cut. “It was bound to happen at some point,” he said. “Who knows when that was going to be. But now I guess we’re going to stop talking about it and I can go and just go on to next week.” Morikawa said he will take a week off, then pick back up again for the two tournaments at Muirfield Village in Columbus, Ohio. Just two weeks ago Morikawa lost a playoff to Daniel Berger at the Charles Schwab Challenge, the first tournament back after a three-month hiatus on the PGA TOUR due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He faltered slightly with a final-round 74 and a T64 finish at the RBC Heritage, which he said led to his struggles at the Travelers, where “I just couldn’t get the ball in the hole.” Morikawa, 23, graduated from Cal Berkeley (Business Administration) in the spring of 2019, turned pro, and took off like a rocket. He was runner-up to friend Matthew Wolff at the 3M Open, finished T4 at the John Deere Classic, and won the Barracuda Championship. Along with Wolff and Puerto Rico Open winner Viktor Hovland, who is in contention at the Travelers, Morikawa is a key cog in of one of the most celebrated rookie classes in decades. He was 20th in the FedExCup and had climbed to 29th in the world heading into the Travelers. “I’m going to learn a lot from this week,” he said. “I missed the cut as an am at the Safeway Open in 2016, and I learned more then, in those two days, than I did in a lot of my events so far as a pro. I’m going to learn a lot from this week and just move forward.”

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