Lexi Thompson opens 3-stroke lead at Kingsmill

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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, FLORIDA – The PGA TOUR announced Monday the four featured groupings for Thursday-Friday at the RBC Heritage, to be contested at Harbour Town Golf Links in Hilton Head, South Carolina. The RBC Heritage, traditionally played the week following the Masters Tournament, was originally scheduled to be played April 13-19, and was announced as canceled on March 17 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, due to flexibility allowed by the postponement of 2020 major championships, the RBC Heritage returned to the PGA TOUR schedule. Full groupings and starting times for the first two rounds of the Charles Schwab Challenge will be released officially at approximately noon ET on Tuesday, June 16. HOW TO FOLLOW Television: Thursday-Friday, 3 p.m.-6 p.m. ET (Golf Channel). Saturday-Sunday, 1 p.m.-3 p.m. (Golf Channel), 3 p.m.-6 p.m. (CBS). PGA TOUR LIVE: Thursday-Friday 6:45 a.m.-6 p.m. (featured groups), Saturday-Sunday 7:45 a.m.-3 p.m. (featured groups). Saturday-Sunday 3 p.m.-6 p.m. (featured holes). Radio: Thursday-Friday, 12 p.m.-6 p.m. Saturday-Sunday 1 p.m.-6 p.m. (PGA TOUR Radio on SiriusXM and PGATOUR.com/liveaudio). Rory McIlroy, C.T. Pan, Rickie Fowler • McIlroy, who is making his first start at the RBC Heritage since 2009, snapped his streak of seven consecutive top-fives on TOUR with a T32 at last week’s Charles Schwab Challenge • Pan earned his first career PGA TOUR victory at the 2019 RBC Heritage, defeating Matt Kuchar by one stroke • Fowler has two top-10s in seven starts on the season (T5/Sentry Tournament of Champions, T10/The American Express); he missed the cut at last week’s Charles Schwab Challenge Daniel Berger, Brooks Koepka, Patrick Reed • Daniel Berger earned his third career PGA TOUR title at last week’s Charles Schwab Challenge and holds the PGA TOUR’s longest active streak of par-or-better scores (28) • Koepka, making his tournament debut, enters the week No. 204 in the FedExCup standings and has been limited to just six starts during the 2019-20 season due to injury • With five top-10s on the season, including a win at the World Golf Championships-Mexico Championship, Reed is No. 4 in the FedExCup standings Jon Rahm, Justin Rose, Justin Thomas • Rahm has four top-10s in six starts on the season, highlighted by a runner-up result at the Farmers Insurance Open; he will compete at the RBC Heritage for the first time • Rose, competing at the RBC Heritage for the first time since 2008, finished T3 at last week’s Charles Schwab Challenge, his best finish on TOUR since the 2019 U.S. Open (T3) • Thomas enters the week No. 2 in the FedExCup standings as one of two players with multiple wins on the season (THE CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES, Sentry Tournament of Champions) Dustin Johnson, Hideki Matsuyama, Gary Woodland • RBC ambassador and South Carolina native Johnson is currently No. 115 in the FedExCup standings and has not missed the TOUR Championship since 2008 (his rookie season) • Matsuyama will make his first start on TOUR since the season was suspended in March and has four top-10s on the season; he missed the cut in his lone start at the RBC Heritage (2014) • Woodland, the reigning U.S. Open champion, has five top-10s on the season, including a ninth-place result at last week’s Charles Schwab Challenge

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Here’s how the field qualified for the Masters Tournament as of 4/2/2021. Check here for updates. Abraham Ancer Daniel Berger Christiaan Bezuidenhout Patrick Cantlay Paul Casey Cameron Champ Stewart Cink Corey Conners Fred Couples Jason Day Bryson DeChambeau Harris English Tony Finau Matthew Fitzpatrick Tommy Fleetwood Dylan Frittelli Sergio Garcia Brian Gay Lanto Griffin Brian Harman Tyrrell Hatton Jim Herman Max Homa Billy Horschel Viktor Hovland Mackenzie Hughes Sungjae Im Dustin Johnson Zach Johnson Matt Jones Si Woo Kim Kevin Kisner Brooks Koepka Jason Kokrak Matt Kuchar Martin Laird Bernhard Langer Marc Leishman Joe Long (A) Shane Lowry Sandy Lyle Robert MacIntyre Hideki Matsuyama Rory McIlroy Phil Mickelson Larry Mize Francesco Molinari Collin Morikawa Sebastian Munoz Kevin Na Joaquin Niemann Jose Maria Olazabal Louis Oosthuizen Carlos Ortiz Charles Osborne (A) Ryan Palmer C.T. Pan Victor Perez Ian Poulter Jon Rahm Patrick Reed Justin Rose Xander Schauffele Scottie Scheffler Charl Schwartzel Adam Scott Webb Simpson Vijay Singh Cameron Smith Jordan Spieth Henrik Stenson Tyler Strafaci (A) Robert Streb Hudson Swafford Justin Thomas Michael Thompson Brendon Todd Jimmy Walker Matt Wallace Bubba Watson Mike Weir Lee Westwood Bernd Wiesberger Danny Willett Matthew Wolff Gary Woodland Ian Woosnam Will Zalatoris

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