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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Florida, and STEVENS POINT, Wisconsin (August 16, 2017) – The PGA TOUR and Sentry, one of the largest business-focused mutual insurance companies in the United States, today announced a five-year agreement making Sentry the new title sponsor of the exclusive winners-only Tournament of Champions at Kapalua Resort in Hawaii. The newly named Sentry Tournament of Champions will maintain its traditional spot as the first tournament in January 2018 when the 2017-18 PGA TOUR schedule resumes following the holiday break. The agreement extends through the 2021-22 season. “Sentry Insurance is proud to partner with the PGA TOUR to sponsor the Tournament of Champions, held on beautiful Maui,â€� said Pete McPartland, Sentry chairman of the board, president, and CEO. “This tournament and its champions format is the ideal way to more broadly introduce Sentry to the business insurance audience.â€� While this represents Sentry’s first major sports sponsorship, it has been involved with golf since 1984 when the company built SentryWorld, Wisconsin’s first destination golf course. Sponsoring the Sentry Tournament of Champions is considered a natural next step for Sentry, providing an opportunity to reach a wide business audience. “We are thrilled to welcome Sentry to the PGA TOUR and become its first major venture into sports sponsorship,â€� said Brian Oliver, PGA TOUR Senior Vice President of Sponsorship & Partnership. “Sentry is highly respected as a company that is dedicated to its employees, its customers and embraces the spirit of giving back. So, we view this as a relationship between two organizations that hold common values.â€� Sentry assumes sponsorship of a tournament that dates to 1953, when it was introduced at Las Vegas’ Desert Inn Country Club as an event for winners from the previous season. The Tournament of Champions remained at Desert Inn CC until 1967, when it moved to Stardust Country Club. The tournament moved from Las Vegas in 1969 to La Costa Country Club in Carlsbad, California, where it remained for 30 years before relocating to its current home at Kapalua Resort on the island of Maui. As might be expected with a winners-only format, the Sentry Tournament of Champions has a rich history of champions, from World Golf Hall of Fame members to modern-day stars, as represented by just the past five winners: defending champion Justin Thomas, a four-time winner this season, including at Sunday’s PGA Championship; Jordan Spieth (2016); Patrick Reed (2015); Zach Johnson (2014); and Dustin Johnson (2013). About Sentry: Sentry Insurance is one of the largest and most financially secure mutual insurance companies in the United States, holding an A+ (superior) rating from A.M. Best. Sentry and its subsidiaries sell property and casualty insurance, life insurance, annuities, and retirement programs for business and individuals throughout the country. Headquartered in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, Sentry employs more than 4,000 associates in 41 states. See a complete list of underwriting companies at sentry.com. About PGA TOUR: The PGA TOUR is the leading global platform in professional golf, showcasing the highest expression of excellence, both on and off the course. The PGA TOUR’s mission is to entertain and inspire its fans, deliver substantial value to its partners, create outlets for volunteers to give back, generate significant charitable and economic impact in the communities in which it plays, grow and protect the game of golf and provide financial opportunities for TOUR players. The PGA TOUR co-sanctions more than 130 tournaments on the PGA TOUR, PGA TOUR Champions, Web.com Tour, PGA TOUR Latinoamérica, Mackenzie Tour-PGA TOUR Canada and PGA TOUR China. Its members represent the world’s best players, hailing from 24 countries (89 members are from outside the United States). Worldwide, PGA TOUR tournaments are broadcast to more than 1.1 billion households in 227 countries and territories in 23 languages. Virtually all tournaments are organized as non-profit organizations in order to maximize charitable giving. In 2016, tournaments across all Tours generated a record of more than $166 million for local and national charitable organizations, bringing the all-time total to $2.46 billion. The PGA TOUR’s web site is PGATOUR.COM, the No. 1 site in golf, and the organization is headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.

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2020 The RSM Classic, Round 2. Top 10 win probabilities: Tyler Duncan (1, -14, 18.2%) Sebastian Munoz (T2, -12, 12.7%) Webb Simpson (T11, -9, 9.2%) D.J. Trahan (T2, -12, 8.2%) Fabian Gomez (T5, -11, 5.9%) Rhein Gibson (T2, -12, 4.8%) Denny McCarthy (T11, -9, 3.3%) Brian Harman (T11, -9, 3.2%) Alex Noren (T11, -9, 3%) Brendon Todd (T7, -10, 2.9%) Top Strokes-Gained Performers from Round 2: Putting: Rhein Gibson +4.9 Around the Green: Will Gordon +1.96 Approach the Green: Seamus Power +3.55 Off-the-tee: Cameron Davis +1.71 Total: Tyler Dunca +6.71 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 20K simulations. To follow live finish probabilities throughout the remainder of The RSM 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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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Lee Westwood clinched the Race to Dubai title to end a season as the European Tour's No. 1 player for the third time, at the age of 47, after a crazy finish to the DP World Tour Championship won in dramatic circumstances by Matt Fitzpatrick on Sunday. Westwood finished in second place outright on 14 under par after a 4-under 68 in his final round, which was enough to jump to the top of the Race to Dubai standings — but only after meltdowns by his rivals in the final holes at Jumeirah Golf Estates. Patrick Reed, seeking to become the first American to be Europe's top player, bogeyed Nos. 16 and 17 to drop out of contention for the Race to Dubai title. Then Laurie Canter double-bogeyed No. 17 and could only par the last, leaving Westwood alone in second. Fitzpatrick made par at No. 18 for a one-shot victory to win the Tour's season-ending event for the second time, after 2016, but Westwood was already celebrating a bigger prize after watching the final holes in the scoring hut with his girlfriend, who caddied for him as well. "It was a great finish," Westwood said. “I sat there watching it — it's always exciting this tournament, coming down the stretch and there’s always thrills and spills. "There was the Race to Dubai up for the grabs, the tournament. It was an exciting end to the year. It's hard to quantify." Westwood won what was formerly known as the Order of Merit title for the first time 20 years ago at Valderrama, and again in 2009 in Dubai. A former top-ranked player, Westwood is renowned for being one of the greatest golfers never to win a major but there’s no doubting his status as an elder stateman on the European Tour. Still a champion, too. And, he was reminded, almost a shoo-in now for a place in the European team for next year’s postponed Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits. It would be his 11th appearance in golf’s biggest team event. "The Ryder Cup would be great if I got in again," Westwood said, before hesitating. “I would love to play again but at some point I'm hoping the captaincy will be offered to me. I would love to do that. "At certain times, you've got to move into different chapters of your life. It’s nice to watch these young kids play, they tear it up out there. I enjoyed the Ryder Cup last time out when I was vice-captain. It's a lot less pressure than having to hit the greens and hole the putts yourself." The baby-faced Fitzpatrick is one of those young guys, with the 26-year-old Englishman now a two-time winner of the DP World Tour Championship. He started the final round tied for the lead with Reed and Canter, and birdied the first four holes after some precise iron play to move into a three-shot lead. Reed managed to keep in touch courtesy of his short game that has been in great form all week, chipping in for birdie at the par-5 7th hole and again at No. 15 to move from a tie for third into outright second place, which would have been enough to win the Race to Dubai. However, he pushed a long par putt at No. 16 to drop out of the projected lead for the Race to Dubai — putting Fitzpatrick in it instead — and bogeyed par-3 17th, too, after finding a bunker off the tee. Chipping in from the fringe at No. 18 lifted Reed to third place alongside Viktor Hovland after a 70. They were two strokes behind Fitzpatrick, who knew a par at No. 18 would be enough to win the tournament, if not the Race to Dubai title. He pulled his tee shot into the rough, chipped back onto the fairway, and found the center of the green with his approach. He left himself a nervy 3-footer for par, but it was never in doubt. Fitzpatrick was full of praise for Westwood. "Lee is just the definition of the Tour, isn’t he?" he said. "Just a phenomenal player, and has been for so long now. I can’t speak highly enough of him."

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