The American Professional Golf (PGA) Tour Farmers Insurance Open (total prize money of 8.7 million dollars) opens on the 26th (Korean time) at Torrey Pines Golf Course in San Diego, California, USA.
The competition will start on Wednesday, the 25th, and end on Saturday, the 28th, local time.
This is a one-day shift from the usual Thursday-Sunday schedule for PGA Tour events. This is to avoid the National Football League (NFL) Conference Championship game scheduled for Sunday, the 29th, local date.
The first and second rounds of this tournament are played on the Torrey Pines South Course (par 72, 7,765 yards) and North Course (par 72, 7,258 yards), and the third and fourth rounds are played on the South Course.
Korean players include Lim Seong-jae (25), Kim Si-woo (28), Kim Seong-hyeon (25), An Byeong-hun (32), and Noh Seung-yeol (32).
Kim Joo-hyung (21), who tied for 6th place in the American Express, which ended on the 22nd, will not attend.
In early February, Kim Joo-hyung will go to the PIF Saudi International (total prize money of 5 million dollars), the opening game of the Asian Tour 2023 season in Saudi Arabia.
Lim Seong-jae, who finished 6th at the Farmers Insurance Open last year, is expected to perform well this year as well.
Yon Rahm (Spain), who won both competitions in 2023, is the strongest candidate to win this competition.
Ram showed a particularly strong side at Torrey Pines.
He won this event in 2017, and maintained the top ranks of the Farmers Insurance Open held at Torrey Pines, including 5th place, runner-up, 7th place and 3rd place for 4 years from 2019 to last year.
He also won the 2021 US Open at this course.
He won both the Sentry Tournament of Champions and American Express, which he participated in this year. He earned 4.14 million dollars (approximately 5.11 billion won) in prize money alone for winning the two tournaments.
He also reached the top twice in DP World Tour events, such as the Spanish Open in October last year and the Tour Championship in December.
Last year’s Farmers Insurance Open winner Luke List, Zander Chopley, Justin Thomas, Colin Morikawa, and Will Jaratoris 바카라are among the world’s top players appearing in this tournament.
From the 26th to the 29th, the DP World Tour UAE Hero Dubai Desert Classic (total prize money of 9 million dollars) will be held in Dubai, UAE.
World No. 1 Rory McIlroy (Northern Ireland) competed with Saudi Arabia-funded LIV Series players Abraham Anser (Mexico), Ian Poulter, Lee Westwood (both England) and Patrick Reed (USA). , Henrik Stenson (Sweden) and others in a ‘shot match’.
McIlroy stood on the PGA Tour around the launch of the LIV Series last year and set up a confrontation with players moving to the LIV Series.