PGA Tour Valero Texas Open.... Tee Times https://www.pgatour.com/competition/2019/valero-texas-open/leaderboard.html
Some of the field from Austin, and some from Puntacana have made the trip to San Antonio, Texas this week for the Valero Texas Open and amongst them are six Canucks including Monday qualifier Corey Connors.
Ben Silverman, Nick Taylor, Adam Svensson, Roger Sloan and MacKenzie Hughes will all play in the last event before the 2019 Masters, where unless one of them win, Mike Weir will be the only Canadian.
Rickie Fowler #8 is the top ranked player, also the struggling Jordan Spieth is joined by Lucas Bjerregaard and Matt Kuchar who both featured so prominently at the Dell Match Play and Graeme McDowell who won the Corales Puntacana.
For the official world rankings click here http://www.owgr.com/
So Dustin Johnson, Rory, Justin Rose, Brooks Koepka, Francesco Molinari, Justin Thomas, Jon Rahm, Paul Casey, Tiger etal are preparing for Augusta in their own ways and the Valero obviously isn't one of them. Rory for example flew home to Florida after losing to Tiger last Saturday morning, for a week off with his wife, before heading up to Augusta on Monday.
The relatively weak field isn't necessarily a reflection on the TPC San Antonio, which is returning to this spot before the Masters for the first time since 2013. It has more to do with the condensed new spring and summer PGA Tour schedule.
Remember in this day and age the big guys rarely play more than 4 weeks in a row, mostly 3, as they build their schedules around the majors, WGC, sponsor obligations ( like the RBC Canadian Open) and Fed Ex Cup and or Race to Dubai playoffs. Also keep in mind there is either a Ryder Cup or Presidents Cup every year for the Americans.
Play begins at 7.20am local time tomorrow.
Bryan Angus
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