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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – Following Sunday’s conclusion of the TOUR Championship and the FedExCup Playoffs, nominees for PGA TOUR Player of the Year (Jack Nicklaus Award) and PGA TOUR Rookie of the Year (Arnold Palmer Award) were finalized by the PGA TOUR Player Directors and members of the Player Advisory Council (PAC). The nominees for the Jack Nicklaus Award as the PGA TOUR Player of the Year are (alphabetically) Patrick Cantlay, Bryson DeChambeau, Harris English, Collin Morikawa and Jon Rahm. The nominees for the Arnold Palmer Award as the PGA TOUR Rookie of the Year are Garrick Higgo and Will Zalatoris. The Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year awards are determined by a member vote, with PGA TOUR members who played in at least 15 official FedExCup events during the 2020-21 season eligible to vote. The voting will close on Friday, Sept. 10, at 5 p.m. ET. The winners will be announced at a later date. PLAYER OF THE YEAR NOMINEES (ALPHABETICAL) Patrick Cantlay, 29 Long Beach, California • Entered 24 events with victories (4) at the ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP @ SHERWOOD, the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday, the BMW Championship and the TOUR Championship • 2021 FedExCup Champion • Finished fifth in Scoring Average (69.736) • Recorded a total of seven top-10s and made 19 cuts Bryson DeChambeau, 27 Clovis, California • Entered 22 events with victories (2) at the 2020 U.S. Open and the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard • Finished No. 7 in the FedExCup • Finished fourth in Scoring Average (69.728) • Recorded a total of nine top-10s and made 20 cuts Harris English, 32 Sea Island, Georgia • Entered 26 events with victories (2) at the Sentry Tournament of Champions and the Travelers Championship • Finished No. 18 in the FedExCup • Finished 22nd in Scoring Average (70.115) • Recorded a total of eight top-10s and made 22 cuts Collin Morikawa, 24 La Cañada, California • Entered 23 events with victories (2) at the World Golf Championships-Workday Championship at The Concession and The Open Championship • Finished No. 26 in the FedExCup • Finished 20th in Scoring Average (70.109) • Recorded a total of eight top-10s and made 19 cuts Jon Rahm, 26 Scottsdale, Arizona • Entered 22 events with a victory at the 2021 U.S. Open • Finished No. 2 in the FedExCup • Led the PGA TOUR in Scoring Average (69.300) • Led the PGA TOUR in top-10s with 15 and made 21 cuts ROOKIE OF THE YEAR NOMINEES (ALPHABETICAL) Garrick Higgo, 22 Stellenbosch, South Africa • Entered eight events with a victory at the Palmetto Championship at Congaree • Finished 107th in the FedExCup • Recorded one top-10 and made five cuts • Earned PGA TOUR membership via the victory after competing on a Commissioner’s Exemption Will Zalatoris, 25 Dallas, Texas • Entered 25 events with eight top-10s highlighted by a runner-up at the 2021 Masters Tournament • Earned Special Temporary Membership after five starts; Led the non-member FedExCup standings with 1,296 points • Recorded a total of 14 top-25s and made 21 cuts • Enters the 2021-22 season as a full-time member of the PGA TOUR for the first time The Player Advisory Council and the Player Directors nominate annually a list of first-season PGA TOUR members for the PGA TOUR Rookie of the Year Award. For the 2020-21 PGA TOUR Season, at their discretion, the Player Advisor Council and the Player Directors could have determined that circumstances (i.e. the lack of nominees due to the absence of a 2020 Korn Ferry Tour graduating class) may not have warranted the selection of a 2021 award recipient, but Higgo and Zalatoris were deemed worthy of nomination. A player’s rookie season (“Rookie Year”) is defined as the season in which he becomes a PGA TOUR member (including Special Temporary Members) and plays in 10 or more events as a member or finishes in the Top 125 on the Official FedExCup Points List or qualifies as a Top 125 Non-member, whichever occurs first. Further, for purposes of this definition, a new member (including Special Temporary Members) shall not be eligible for the Arnold Palmer Award if he has previously played in more than seven Official PGA TOUR Money events as a professional in any prior season.

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AUGUSTA, Ga. — Even without spectators in November, the Masters Tournament promised to deliver more drama with 10 players separated by a single shot going into a weekend filled with possibilities. And then Dustin Johnson turned it into a one-man show. RELATED: Leaderboard | Rory finding his stride | DeChambeau battles dizziness to make cut The reigning FedExCup champion looked every bit the part Saturday, racing away from a five-way share of the lead with an explosive start — 4 under through four holes — and never letting his foot off the gas until he had a 7-under 65 and matched the 54-hole Masters record. More importantly, Johnson had a four-shot lead. Sunday will be the third time Johnson takes a solo lead into the final round of a major, along with two other majors where he was tied for the lead. His only major was the 2016 U.S. Open when he came from behind. Most recently, he had a one-shot lead at Harding Park in the PGA Championship this summer, closed with a 68 and lost to a 64 by Collin Morikawa. This effort was master class. Johnson used putter from above a slope to the right of the 18th green to 5 feet and holed that for a par to cap off another bogey-free round and reach 16-under 200. That ties the record set by Jordan Spieth in 2015, when he went on to a four-shot victory over Justin Rose and Phil Mickelson. Not all the players chasing Johnson are as familiar. Two of them are Masters rookies. Sungjae Im, the supreme ball-striker from South Korea who won his first PGA TOUR title two weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down golf in the spring, birdied the last hole for 68. Abraham Ancer of Mexico saved par on the 18th for a 69. They were at 12-under 204, along with Cameron Smith of Australia. Smith opened with 12 pars before running off three straight birdies and scrambling his way home to a 69. Justin Thomas and Jon Rahm had their chances only to make untimely mistakes. Rahm nearly topped his second shot on the par-5 eighth and hit his next one off a tree and into the bushes on his way to a double bogey. Thomas sailed his second shot over the 15th green and into the water, making bogey on a par 5 where he was hoping to make up ground. Both bogeyed the 18th hole. Thomas shot 71, Rahm had a 72. Asked to describe his day, Rahm didn’t mince words. "Seriously? How would I describe? Pretty awful," he said. Defending champion Tiger Woods will stick around Sunday to present the green jacket, and he’ll have to leave his at Augusta National until he returns. Woods was 4 under through 10 holes to start the Masters, and he picked up only one more shot over the next 44 holes. He finished off a 71 in the second round, had a 72 in the third round and was 11 shots behind. It likely didn’t help the 44-year-old Woods to go 26 holes on soft turf of a hilly course, "It’s just part of the deal," he said. "If you have long days like this, I’m going to get a little bit sore, which I definitely am." U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau was more dizzy than sore. He felt so odd on Thursday night that he had another COVID-19 test to be sure — it came back negative — and the betting favorite of this Masters was in the middle of the pack. The scoring has been low all week. The 36-hole cut Saturday morning was at even-par 144, the lowest in Masters history, another update to the club’s record book. Still in front of Johnson is a chance to set the 72-hole record. All he cares about is a green jacket, and given his past experience, he knows better than to look ahead. "I feel like I’m swinging well and I’ve got a lot of confidence in what I’m doing. Everything is going well," he said. "There’s a lot of really good players right around me. I’m going to have play aggressive when I can and play smart when I can’t.” He was aggressive at the start. First, he drilled a 5-iron he nearly holed for an albatross on the par-5 second, leaving him a tap-in eagle. He followed that with a lofted pitch to 5 feet for birdie on No. 3, and a 40-foot birdie putt up the slope on the par-3 fourth hole as the lead began to grow. Thomas was within two shots until he made mistakes and Johnson kept going. Johnson had two-putt birdies on the par 5s on the back nine, and he hasn’t made a bogey since the sixth hole of his second round.

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