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PGA TOUR LIVE is back. This week's The American Express marks the return of the streaming service, which showcases exclusive early coverage from the PGA TOUR. The broadcast from PGA West will include Brooks Koepka, Patrick Reed, Rickie Fowler, Matthew Wolff and tournament host Phil Mickelson. They'll be competing on two courses at PGA West, including Pete Dye's famed Stadium Course and its island-green 17th nicknamed Alcatraz. Related: Tee times | The First Look, How to Watch A star-studded charity match also will be available Wednesday on PGA TOUR LIVE. Country music artist Jake Owen and soccer star Landon Donovan will team with Tony Finau and Paul Casey in the nine-hole match from PGA West's Stadium Course. Mickelson will host the match and participate through "Phil's Challenges." Each player, including Mickelson, will take a shot at a $1 million hole-in-one for charity on Alcatraz, as well. The match will tee off at 2 p.m. Pacific. The Featured Groups, which will tee off at 1:40 and 1:50 p.m. Eastern each day on PGA West’s Stadium Course, are listed below. To prepare you for PGA TOUR LIVE’s coverage, our roundtable of writers convened to answer a burning question around each group. Enjoy. THURSDAY Patrick Reed, Andrew Landry, Gary Woodland (1:40 p.m. ET, No. 1 tee, Stadium) – Andrew Landry has a win and playoff loss in his last three American Express starts. Will he finish as low man in this group? SEAN MARTIN: Landry has nine career top-10s on TOUR. Two have come at this event. But I think Reed is the man to beat in this group. Reed has a win at this event, in 2014, and earned his PGA TOUR card at a Q-School on the two courses in use this week. He has exhibited some incredible consistency lately, finishing in the top 25 in two-thirds of his starts since the start of last season, including all four in 2020-21. BEN EVERILL: Not this time. Patrick Reed is a desert warrior who has surprised us by playing in this desert instead of being in a Middle East one. He should threaten to win the whole thing. CAMERON MORFIT: I'll subscribe to the horses-for-courses theory and go with defending champ Landry here. I know he didn't show much at the Sentry TOC and missed the cut at the Sony Open, but he won here last year after missing five consecutive cuts. It wasn't that long ago that he finished T4 at The RSM Classic. I'll say he picks up right where he left off in the desert and notches another top-10 finish. Kevin Na, Matthew Wolff, Tony Finau (1:50 p.m. ET, No. 1 tee, Stadium) – Na had one win in his first 369 TOUR starts. He has four in his last 55, including last week's Sony Open. Finau has one win in his first 170 starts. How many will he finish his career with? MARTIN: Finau is just 31. He has plenty of time left. I think 10 is within reach but seven seems more realistic. I still think Finau could have some multiple-win seasons ahead of him. EVERILL: Should be 10 (or more), I want to say six but I'm going to take the under and say four. MORFIT: With his talent I would have guessed double digits, but it's just so hard to win on TOUR, and he's let a few victories pass him by already. I'll say he ends up with six wins, and I wouldn't be at all shocked if one of those was a major. FRIDAY Cameron Champ, Brooks Koepka, Paul Casey (1:40 p.m. ET, No. 1 tee, Stadium) – What do you expect out of Koepka this year? MARTIN: He had two top-10s in the fall but also ended the year with a missed cut. I think he will return to East Lake but I'm not sure about a win. He had opportunities to win late last season but wasn't able to capitalize on them. He said Tuesday he feels good, so this week will be an opportunity to show us what to expect. EVERILL: If he's fully fit, a return to some dominant wins. When he's at his peak, he's a beast. I'd love to see him and DJ down the stretch in a tournament at some point. MORFIT: That's just it, Ben - the big IF remains. Is he healthy again? If so, I'd expect him to make a strong run at the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines South, which is precisely the type of big, brawny course that sets him apart from the rest. Patrick Cantlay, Phil Mickelson, Rickie Fowler (1:50 p.m. ET, No. 1 tee, Stadium) – More likely to join Cantlay as a winner on the PGA TOUR this season, Mickelson or Fowler? It's been two years since each won. MARTIN: Mickelson finished runner-up not long ago at the World Golf Championships-FedEx St. Jude Invitational, and he has some winning mojo after his back-to-back triumphs on PGA TOUR Champions. His recent results haven't been very good, in part because of his obsession with hitting bombs, but if he could back off the gas a bit, and the putter gets hot, he can pick off another win after age 50. EVERILL: I'm not sure either will but of course both could! I'll stick with youth and say Fowler. His good stuff is more likely to turn up over four days while Mickelson's mistakes continue to get punished exponentially on this TOUR. MORFIT: I'm guessing we haven't seen the last of Fowler in the winner's circle, even though his swing changes have taken longer to solidify than he probably thought they would. It's the old story of working so hard on the swing you neglect your putting, but his above-average ability on the greens will return, and I'm guessing his swing change is pretty close to being complete.

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Round 3 of the Butterfield Bermuda Championship takes place Saturday. Note: PGA TOUR LIVE will not be available for the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. Leaderboard Full tee times HOW TO FOLLOW Television: Thursday-Friday, 1:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. ET (Golf Channel). Saturday-Sunday, 1 p.m.-4 p.m. (Golf Channel) Radio: Thursday-Friday, 11 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. (PGA TOUR Radio on SiriusXM and PGATOUR.com/liveaudio). TOURCast: Get shot-by-shot info in real time with shot tracks and video with TOURCast. TOUR Pulse: Get the PGA TOUR app to utilize TOUR Pulse, which provides users the ability to experience a mix of content, such as video highlights, written hole summaries and stat graphics on every player after every hole they complete. MUST READS Local pro with cancer inspires family, major champions Former NCAA champ excited for Bermuda

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SAN DIEGO – So what if the TV cameras weren’t there? Someone in J.J. Henry’s group on Monday understood the magnitude of the moment. So, he pulled out his cell phone and recorded the scene as that 14-foot eagle putt slithered into the hole. After all, it’s not every day you shoot a 59. In fact, this was a first for Henry and came after he played the final six holes at the Tradition Golf Club, where Arnold Palmer often spent his winters, in a phenomenal 7 under. “I was pretty nervous,” admits Henry, who had added to the pressure back at the 16th hole when he told the other members of his foursome that a birdie-birdie-eagle finish would do the trick. “I’ve been fortunate to do a lot of things. Ryder Cups, gracious enough to win three times. But it was pretty cool to be able to make that putt. … “At 42 I guess I’ve still got it. (It’s) just matter of doing it when it counts.” Sure, it would have even better if the terrific round of 13 under had come during a PGA TOUR event. But as Henry says, there’s no bad day to shoot a 59. Henry shared the video of the final putt on Tuesday morning as he stood in the shadow of the trees beside the putting green at Torrey Pines. He’ll play in his 502nd event there this week when the Farmers Insurance Open begins on Thursday. That’s a number almost as elusive as a 59. Since Henry played in his first PGA TOUR event in 1988, with his father caddying for the son who had just finished an All-America season at TCU, only five other players have made 500 or more starts. “It’s kind of cool to see (you’re) still tackling milestones and unique things in golf,” says Henry, who joined the TOUR in 2001. “Whether it’s was to play my 500th event at the Sony Open or go out with some buddies and still feel like you can do it. … “Even though it wasn’t in a tournament something like that (59) could really jump-start things. The game’s a bunch of momentum, confidence. So regardless it was just a fun day.” By Henry’s calculations, those 502 starts have probably meant about nine years’ worth of nights spent in a hotel room. He’s averaged 27 starts a year and six times has played more than 30 tournaments, sometimes when he was fighting to keep his card. “That puts it in perspective,” he says. “I don’t know if sacrifice is the right word because we’re out here doing what we love to do. But at the same time, you’re still missing things. “You take for granted sleeping in your own bed. As you get older, I think there’s no question I think it feels more like a job than it does when you were 25 because you want to be there for your wife and your kids.” Before Henry and Lee, the college sweetheart who became his wife, had kids, the two traveled the TOUR together. Ditto for when their children, Connor and Carson, were young. But the kids are now 13 and 9, respectively. They’ve come to understand that their dad’s job sometimes will keep him away from basketball and Little League games and school plays. Thank goodness for Facetime, though. “Last Saturday I’m in a hotel (watching his son’s game),” Henry says. “Of course, my wife puts me on mute because I’m yelling ‘get the ball, be aggressive’ through the phone.” Henry tries to get home for a few days between tournaments whenever he can. After all, in 18 years on TOUR he knows the golf courses and one less practice round won’t make or break things. But there are still moments that tug at his heartstrings. “I am very grateful because my wife is so on top of things and just so great with our kids,” Henry says. “But sometimes you get that, dad, when are you coming home and what do you say? It’s hard.” On the flip side, though, if Henry plays 28 weeks a year, he has another 24 at home – to the point “where my wife is probably saying, when the hell are you going back out on the road? But you get used to that kind of lifestyle.” That’s the glass half full side of life on TOUR. Connor is starting to take a real interest in the game – as well as his dad’s career, which is proving a motivating factor. Recently, after Henry missed two straight cuts, Connor started sending texts — stay positive after a bad hole, just relax, no one can beat you, the mental game wins tournaments. “So here’s my 13-year-old, he’s like my sports psychologist,” Henry says with a grin. While Henry admits there’s “more scar tissue at 42 than 22,” he still feels his best golf is ahead of him. Sure, the game has changed. The players are younger. More fit, too. And they hit the ball a mile. But Henry has persevered. He’s won three tournaments and played on the 2006 Ryder Cup team. Yet, he’s never finished higher than 28th on the money list, and last year he squeaked into the FedExCup Playoffs at No. 125. At the same time, though, Henry only missed the Playoffs twice in the FedExCup’s first decade. He compares himself to a blue-chip stock. “It’s never crazy up or crazy down but you kind of know what you get,” Henry says. As the 500th start approached, many of Henry’s friends contacted him and told him he should appreciate what he’s accomplished. And while he’s still wrapped up in the here-and-now, the unusual longevity of his TOUR career is not lost on Henry. “To be able to play at this elite level for all these years, is something I’m pretty grateful and kind of humbled and still, honored to say,” he says. “And regardless of whatever happens in the next eight years or whether I play out here until I’m 50 and a rookie again, not many people can say they’ve played 500 TOUR events… “So as long as they keep giving me a tee time, I’ll be out here working on my three-footers.”

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