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How it works: Each week, our experts from PGATOUR.COM will make their selections in PGA TOUR Fantasy Golf. Each lineup consists of four starters and two bench players that can be rotated after each round. Adding to the challenge is that every golfer can be used only three times per each of four Segments. The first fantasy golf game to utilize live ShotLink data, PGA TOUR Fantasy Golf allows you to see scores update live during competition. Aside from the experts below, Fantasy Insider Rob Bolton breaks down the field at this year’s Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in his edition of the Power Rankings. For more fantasy, check out Rookie Watch, Qualifiers and Reshuffle. THINK YOU’RE BETTER THAN OUR EXPERTS? The PGA TOUR Experts league is once again open to the public. You can play our free fantasy game and see how you measure up against our experts below. Joining the league is simple. Just click here to sign up or log in. Once you create your team, click the “Leagues” tab and search for “PGA TOUR Experts.” After that? Pick your players and start talking smack. Want to represent the fans against our experts? SEASON SEGMENT

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The lights simply could not be explained. Billy Horschel was in a car with his mother and his younger brother that evening, driving down U.S. 1 along the Indian River lagoon in central Florida. The arched lights glowed yellow above the water as if to outline a bridge. Only, there was no bridge on the horizon. “I was like that’s weird, the Melbourne Causeway looks so nice and then it hit us that we had passed the Melbourne Causeway and there’s no other bridge for the next 40 or 50 miles,â€� Horschel recalled. “So it was just weird that there were six perfect lights that were hovering over the Indian River in a perfect little arch that looked like a bridge.â€� Horschel, his mom and brother weren’t the only ones who had seen the lights, either. In fact, so many people called the police to inquire about them that Florida Today ran an article the following day. “I can’t remember if they were still there when we passed them and then they disappeared or they disappeared when we were driving by,â€� Horschel said. “But the newspaper ran a story there were like mysterious lights on Melbourne Beach-type of deal. “I can’t remember how they phrased it but a lot of people called in.â€� We’re talking UFOs here, folks. At least that’s what many people thought — and in retrospect, Horschel agrees. “I believed in UFOs before that but that sort of sparked my interest,â€� he explained. “I just think that to think we’re the only people in this universe that are alive or living or anything like that is sort of naive in my opinion.â€� Horschel is in good company. In fact, an article earlier this year noted that Florida ranks second to California in sightings, according to the National UFO Reporting Center in Davenport, Washington. Horschel, who will defend his AT&T Byron Nelson title this week, said he first became interested in the UFO phenomenon when he was a teenager. The 2014 FedExCup champion loves to watch shows about the paranormal on the Discovery Channel and National Geographic. His grandfather and an uncle worked at NASA, too, which might have fanned the flame. “I’m not big on reading books, but I’ll sit there in front of the TV and watch stuff like that all the time, or anything to deal with  history,â€� he said. “So I don’t know why I believe, but obviously watching those shows (made me think more about it).â€� Horschel is also well-acquainted with the conspiracy theories about a potential sighting in Roswell, New Mexico, back in 1947. The United States military first reported it was a weather balloon that crashed, but reversed course in the 1990s and said it was a nuclear test surveillance balloon from Project Mogul. Others aren’t so sure, though, insisting there was a cover-up. The local newspaper ran a story on July 8, 1947, with the headline: RAAF Captures Flying Saucer on Ranch in Roswell Region. The legend continues to this day, and Horschel is intrigued. “I’m sort of into that era, 1951, and all that secretive stuff,â€� Horschel said. “I like knowing stuff, stuff that people don’t know about or people keep hidden-type deal.â€� Horschel also thinks the Bigfoot phenomenon might be more than just folklore. But he acknowledges that of the two — UFOs or Sasquatch — having a giant hairy ape walking upright in the forest might be the least believable. “But when you think about every day new species and new things are being discovered in this world it sort of makes you think is this Bigfoot thing really real,â€� he said. “… So who knows?â€� Horschel said few of his peers know he believes in UFOs and Bigfoot. He’s prepared for the teasing that may follow this article — but at the same time, he knows he’s not alone in his beliefs. “Millions of people have seen UFOs and have video recordings,â€� Horschel said. “And when you think about pilots — these guys are in the skies hours and hours and they know what a plane is and  they know stuff and when they talk about their experiences and what they’ve seen and they can’t justify what they’ve seen, it sort of makes you think a little bit.â€� It does, indeed.

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HOUSTON - "My health is good. The state of my game is undetermined." Those were Dustin Johnson's opening words in his pre-tournament press conference at this week's Vivint Houston Open, his first start since testing positive for COVID-19. Johnson tested positive for the virus before the CJ CUP @ SHADOW CREEK. He also withdrew from the following week's ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP @ SHERWOOD, missing an opportunity to play a course that he knows well and where he holds the course record. Johnson's bout with coronavirus was mild, he said. "I felt like I had a cold for a few days, ... so I was pretty much asymptomatic," Johnson said Wednesday. "A little fatigue and things like that, but I couldn’t really figure out if that was because I was stuck in a hotel room for like 11 days not doing anything or it was COVID that made me feel that way." Johnson, the reigning FedExCup champion, last competed at the U.S. Open, where he finished sixth. It was his fifth consecutive finish of sixth or better, a stretch that included his dominant win at THE NORTHERN TRUST, victory in the TOUR Championship and runners-up at the PGA Championship and BMW Championship. He compared this recent run to his stretch in 2017 when he won three consecutive starts leading into the Masters. Johnson was unable to compete at Augusta National, however, after injuring himself in a fall at his rental house. This year, his pre-Masters prep was interrupted by his positive COVID test. "The most movement I made was to the shower and then I had a little outside area, so I would go sit outside for a little bit. That was it," Johnson said about his time in isolation. He binge-watched television shows, declaring "Yellowstone" as his favorite. He started hitting balls last Monday but had to cut the session short because of fatigue. "It was ... just over two weeks before I started practicing again. But then obviously not playing or doing anything for two weeks, the first day I didn’t hit balls for very long because I got kind of tired," Johnson said. "Then (I) practiced a little bit more each day. It's been going pretty well so far." Now we'll see if Johnson can pick up where he left off.

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