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Keegan Bradley was born in Woodstock, Vermont. The perfect spot for his first sports crush: Ski racing.

Bradley, an elite skier, decided to pursue golf as a teen, probably much to the delight of his aunt and World Golf Hall of Famer, Pat Bradley. But an area that sees 82 inches of snow annually with an average high temperature of 37 degrees for five months is not good for a game not meant to be played on the frozen tundra. So Bradley started a slow migration south, spending his senior year in high school in Hopkinton, Mass., attending St. John’s University in New York, before making the big move and deciding there was just one place to settle for a blossoming star on the PGA Tour.

“I don’t think anywhere in the world they have what we have here in Jupiter,” said Bradley, 35, a four-time winner of the PGA Tour, including the 2011 PGA Championship.

This is a story that can be repeated over and over: Golfer grows up in cold country; spends too many late fall and winter days shivering on hard, brown courses; realizes the only way to further the career is to find the perfect spot where greens are, well, green year-round.

Every search leads them back to one area of the country: Palm Beach County.

Whether it’s Jupiter or Jupiter Island, Palm Beach Gardens or North Palm Beach, Delray Beach or Boca Raton, this area is to golf what Silicon Valley is to technology.

This is the mecca for golf royalty.

MORE: Is Phil Mickelson moving to Jupiter? That’s the plan.

“All these golfers have the luxury of being able to live wherever they want, and they recognize Jupiter, northern Palm Beach County has the greatest lifestyle,” said Jupiter mayor Todd Wodraska. “(There’s) great golf courses and the ability to have a boat in your backyard. … Those guys recognize it’s pretty spectacular here.”

More than 30 active members of the regular PGA Tour – and many more men and women professionals – call the area home. From Tiger Woods (and soon Phil Mickelson) in Jupiter Island to Gary Woodland in Delray Beach. Half of the top 10 in the current World Golf Rankings and more than 20 in the top 100 live in the area.

Among those is No. 8 and four-time major winner Brooks Koepka and No. 16 Daniel Berger. Koepka and Berger are the two most recognizable names who did not need to google the area and arrange for their belongings to be shipped across state lines. Both were raised in Palm Beach County, now live in Jupiter and continue to greet their peers making the move to their hometown.

Then there are the retired legends led by the Godfather of Golf, Jack Nicklaus, along with those on the back nine of their professional careers and regulars on the Tour Champions.

Want to put together an old-timers match? Here’s a list of Hall of Famers/major winners who could jump in their car to join: Ernie Els (the baby of the group at 51), Greg Norman, Nick Price, Bernhard Langer, Raymond Floyd and Mark Calcavecchia. Nicklaus and Gary Player – both in their 80s – could pick sides. All live in the Jupiter area with the exception of Langer, a longtime resident of Boca Raton.

That’s 81 major championship trophies or jackets on the PGA Tour belonging to golfers either living in the area or planning to arrive soon among the two groups.

Jack Nicklaus started it 55 years ago

Jack and Barbara Nicklaus moved to Palm Beach County in 1966, settling in North Palm Beach. Jack already was 17 PGA Tour wins into his career, including four majors, and that year won the Masters and The Open Championship.

Jack and Barbara founded the Bear’s Club in Jupiter 22 years ago and it has become the hotbed for local professionals. Currently, 30 pros are members of the club.

Justin Thomas, Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy and Patrick Cantlay are among the members who Nicklaus said have sought his advice.

“I don’t go out and seek this, but I am available,” Jack said. “I’ve always felt like I might have some knowledge – you might call it wisdom I don’t know whether it is or not. I might have something to impart to the kids that might help them and I’m delighted to supply that to any one of them.”

Speaking to Jack Nicklaus about golf … that certainly is knowledge. Need proof? Nicklaus said he spoke with Cantlay about playing his course at Muirfield Village two years ago before the Memorial Tournament. What’s happened since? Cantlay won the event soon after that first conversation with Jack in 2019 and again this week, which pushed him to No. 7 in the world.

How many golf courses in Palm Beach County?

As the area was booming around the turn of the century, so too was its reputation for golf. Not only does Florida boast the most golf courses in the country with more than 1,250, but Palm Beach has the most of any county in the country with more than 160.

Add to that the weather, lifestyle and a significant reason that goes unspoken – tax breaks – and the movement has been well underway.

“I knew I needed to come somewhere warm year-round,” Thomas said. “I had a bunch of buddies here. I wanted to be around people that were going to make me better. I wanted to be able to play with great players. That’s been the biggest benefit.

“I can’t see myself living anywhere else at least if I want to continue to play golf.”

Thomas is ranked No. 2 in the world behind Johnson, No. 1 for the past 10 months. Johnson recently sold his Palm Beach Gardens estate for $16.5 million, $11.5 million more than he purchased it for in 2015, and moved to Harbour Isles in North Palm Beach. Johnson won the 2016 U.S. Open and 2020 Masters.

Thomas and Rickie Fowler live on the same street and are as close as any Tour pros in the area. Fowler has lived in Jupiter for more than 11 years and he has witnessed professionals from all levels streaming to the area.

“There’s always guys to play with, there’s always good games, and that’s something I’ve always enjoyed … being around guys that I can compete against and help push each other to be better,” Fowler said.

While the old “iron sharpens iron” theory probably works, it’s not necessarily for everyone. Shane Lowry, the 2019 Open champion and native of Ireland, was hooked on the area after playing the Honda Classic in 2014. After renting for four years, he closed on a home in Jupiter in the spring.

For Lowry, it was not as much his neighbors, but the neighborhoods that attracted him to Palm Beach County.

“It’s Palm Beach … Jupiter literally has everything,” he said. “It’s got good weather, great golf courses, great practice facilities. That’s why we’re here. We’re not here because everyone else is here. It just so happens that everybody comes here because it’s the best weather during the winter, the best practice.”

If Tiger Woods builds it, they will come

Tiger Woods’ connection to the area started 15 years ago, when he was living in Orlando. In 2006, the 15-time major winner (second to Nicklaus’ 18) spent $38 million on a 13,700-square-foot home that sits on a 10-acre parcel stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Intracoastal on Jupiter Island in southeast Martin County.

“I miss the ocean,” he said at the time. “Being in Orlando … there’s a bunch of lakes, but it’s not the ocean.”

The purchase reportedly was at the urging of his wife at the time, Elin Nordegren. Tiger made Jupiter Island his permanent address in 2011 after the couple divorced.

By then, a smattering of Tour pros already had preceded him, including Luke Donald, Bradley, Johnson and Fowler. But many more would follow. McIlroy, the four-time majors winner, arrived in 2013, first living in Palm Beach Gardens. In 2018, he bought Ernie Els’ 17,000-square-foot estate in the Bear’s Club.

Next up is Mickelson, the recent PGA Championship winner. Mickelson is being tight-lipped about his potential move to Jupiter Island from California but recently said “the plan” is to move here.“ A lot of great things around the area,” was all he would say.

“A lot of the guys went to Orlando first,” said Donald, who was living in Chicago before relocating in 2006. “And then from Orlando they seem to come to Palm Beach County.”

Specifically, northeast Palm Beach County, but with a few exceptions. Woodland, the 2019 U.S. Open Champion, was born in Topeka, Kansas, and attended the University of Kansas. He decided about a decade ago a move was necessary. He chose Delray Beach.

“I see everybody every week, I don’t want to see them when I’m home,” he said, smiling. “We always travel together. So I see them all the time.”

Woodland trains in Miami and wanted to be in south county. “We fell in love with Delray,” he said. “I don’t ever see leaving that place.”

‘For golf pros, this is heaven’

Professional golfers will settle for nothing but the best when it comes to facilities. Luxurious clubhouses, pristine fairways and immaculate greens are as important to them as finding the right accountant, caddie and chef.

And part of the lure is area courses.

While Nicklaus has made Bear’s Club a go-to destination, others such as Dye Preserve, Medalist, Turtle Creek and Michael Jordan’s The Grove XXIII, which opened in 2019, could host practice rounds featuring top players in the world any day of the week.

“Any given day, there are the favorable golf courses where games are being played at anytime,” said Jeff Leishman, a PGA Tour coach out of Dye Preserve who coached Berger for 12 years. About 20 pros from the PGA, Champions and LPGA tours are members at Dye Preserve.

Leishman called those games money matches. “We joked we were possibly giving out world ranking points,” he said.

Denny McCarthy, who moved to Jupiter in 2014 after graduating from the University of Virginia, said these practice rounds help “get those competitive juices flowing in an off week.”

“I’m such a competitor, so even for a small money game, I get up to play,” he said.

“Small money” is relative. Locals who continue to play the regular Tour have made nearly $1 billion combined on the course. That does not include outside ventures, which adds up to hundreds of millions more.

With so many world-class venues to chose from, several are members or play out of multiple clubs like Berger (Dye Preserve and Bear’s Club), Thomas (Bear’s Club and Medalist), Bradley (Bear’s Club and The Grove), Fowler (Medalist and Turtle Creek), Johnson (Bear’s Club and The Grove), McIlroy (Bear’s Club and The Grove), Donald (Bear’s Club and The Grove).

Woodland plays out of Pine Tree Golf Club in Boynton Beach, which Ben Hogan once called “the best course I have ever seen” and where Sam Snead was once a member.

“Other parts of the country or world, it’s pretty shocking when a tour player is at their course,” Bradley said. “But down here it’s very normal. The practice facilities are set up for us, we get to hit our own balls on the range.

“For golf pros, this is heaven.”

And they not only can be seen on the courses, but dining at restaurants or popping into their favorite Starbucks or watching their kids on a local ball field.

It all happens in Palm Beach County.

“At least once a week,” Jupiter’s Lucas Glover said. “For the most part, we frequent the same places, grocery stores, everything within five, six miles in Jupiter.”

Wodraska has been the Jupiter mayor since 2016. He’s become friends with Ryan Armour, who blends in like any other dad watching his sons’ games.

“In Jupiter, certainly the secret has been out for some time now,” Wodraska said. “I think they’re comfortable being out and about. When they’re here, they’re home. And home is being comfortable and finding your favorite restaurant and finding your favorite place to grab a cup of coffee so you don’t have to be hounded by autograph seekers.”

And no place is more welcoming and comfortable than The Woods Jupiter. Tiger’s flagship restaurant offers privacy and protection from celebrity seekers and has held several celebrations, including Thomas’ 2017 PGA Championship and Fowler’s and Thomas’ Honda Classic titles in 2017 and 2018, respectively.

All of which can be a huge boon to the area. The migration of not just great PGA pros but those from the LPGA tour along with other iconic athletes and entertainers makes the golf phenomenon happening in our area a Chamber of Commerce dream.

Realtor Brian Coffey of One Sotheby’s International has seen the benefits.

“I think it is a selling point,” he said. “If these people that could afford to live anywhere have chosen the Jupiter area and Palm Beach area to live, why wouldn’t I want to be around them.

“They are smart, very successful people. They can live anywhere they want. They’re living here. The homework’s been done for them.”

Active Tour players who live in Palm Beach and southern Martin counties

Active members of the regular PGA Tour who live in Palm Beach County and southern Martin County. (World Golf Ranking in parenthesis)

• Ryan Armour, Jupiter (261)
• Daniel Berger, Jupiter (16)
• Keegan Bradley, Jupiter (73)
• Patrick Cantlay, North Palm Beach (7)
• Corey Connors, Palm Beach Gardens (36)
• Luke Donald, Jupiter (514)
• Matthew Fitzpatrick, Jupiter (21)
• Rickie Fowler, Jupiter (87)
• Lucas Glover, Jupiter (112)
• Branden Grace, Jupiter (71)
• Dustin Johnson, North Palm Beach (1)
• Brooks Koepka, Jupiter (8)
• Tom Lewis, Jupiter (127)
• Shane Lowry, Jupiter (40)
• Denny McCarthy, Jupiter (164)
• Rory McIlroy, Jupiter (10)
• Phil Mickelson, Jupiter Island* (31)
• Joaquin Niemann, Jupiter (30)
• Alex Noren, Jupiter (93)
• Louis Oosthuizen, Jupiter (18)
• Patrick Rodgers, Palm Beach Gardens (228)
• Charl Schwartzel, Palm Beach Gardens (110)
• Cameron Tringale, Palm Beach Gardens (74)
• Justin Thomas, Jupiter (2)
• Peter Uihlein, Jupiter (250)
• Erik van Rooyen, Jupiter (88)
• Camilo Villegas, Jupiter (222)
• Aaron Wise, Jupiter (98)
• Matthew Wolff, Jupiter (33)
• Gary Woodland, Delray Beach (59)
• Tiger Woods, Jupiter Island (134)

* Mickelson expected to move to the area

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10 Greatest Professional Golfers from Florida

Many of the game’s biggest Professional Golf legends are from the Sunshine State, Florida. As the state grew in popularity at the turn of the century, so did its golfing reputation. As a result, not only does Florida have the most golf courses in the country (over 1,250), but Palm Beach County has the most of any county in the country (over 160). Golfers from Florida have a unique charisma when playing the sport.

When it comes to facilities, professional golfers will accept nothing less than the best for the golfers from Florida. Luxurious clubhouses, beautiful fairways, and immaculate greens are as essential to them as finding the appropriate accountant, caddy, and chef, which is why Florida is the professional golfer’s mecca.

Let’s dive into details on the top ten best golfers from Florida.

Camilo Villegas

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Camilo Villegas is a professional golfer from Florida who competes on the PGA Tour. Villegas joined the PGA Tour in 2004 and got his card just before the 2006 season. Unfortunately, he missed out on the Master’s Tournament by a single spot on the Official PGA Tour Money List (11th). He did, however, make his maiden Masters participation in 2007 after placing in the top 40 of the 2006 Official PGA Tour Money List.

Bubba Dickerson

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Benjamin Gordon “Bubba” Dickerson is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and competed nationwide. He is recognized for winning the 2001 US Amateur Championship. Dickerson was a member of the European Challenge Tour in 2003, the NGA Hooters Tour in 2004, and the Nationwide Tour from 2005 through 2019. He qualified on the PGA Tour in 2006 and 2007.

Robert Duval

Robert Duval is a professional golfer from the United States, particularly in the state of Florida. And he is best known as the father of David Duval, a former world number one. He had roughly a dozen top-10 finishes, including a wire-to-wire victory at the Emerald Coast Classic in 1999. His victory occurred on the same day that his son David won The Players Championship on the PGA Tour, propelling him to the top of the global rankings.

Jeffrey Michael Klauk

Jeffrey Michael Klauk is a professional golfer from the United States who has competed on the PGA Tour and the Web.com Tour. On the Nationwide Tour, he has two professional victories. One was at the Preferred Health Systems Wichita Open in 2003. The other occurred five years later, in 2008, at the Melwood Prince George’s County Open, when he finished in the top 25 on the 2008 Nationwide Tour money list.

Woody T. Blackburn

Woody T. Blackburn is a former professional golfer from the United States who competed on the PGA Tour in the 1970s and 1980s. Blackburn’s first professional victory occurred in 1976, at the Walt Disney World National Team Championship, alongside playing partner Billy Kratzert. Unfortunately, he had an abysmal stretch in which he missed the cut in twenty of twenty-one tournaments, and he lost his PGA card in 1984, forcing him to requalify for the tour with the rookies.

Nolan Jay Henke

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Nolan Jay Henke is a professional golfer from the United States who has competed on the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour. Henke has three PGA Tour victories. His first victory came in the 1990 British Columbia Open. After that, he won the Phoenix Open, was fifth on the money list, and had six top-10 finishes in 1991. His third victory came in the BellSouth Classic in 1993. His best primary finish was a T6 in the 1992 Masters Tournament and the 1993 PGA Championship.

Mark McCumber

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Mark Randall McCumber is a professional golfer from the United States who has competed on the PGA Tour and the Champions Tour. In 1974, he went professional, and in 1978, he joined the PGA Tour. Between 1979 and 1994, McCumber won eleven times on the PGA Tour, including the prestigious Players Championship (1988) and Tour Championship (1994). (1994). In addition, he and Ben Crenshaw won the World Cup for the United States in 1988.

Laura Brown

Laura Alicia Brown is a former collegiate and professional golfer from the United States. She was named Southeastern Conference (SEC) Freshman of the Year in 1988 and first-team All-SEC and honorable mention All-American in 1991 while playing for the Florida Gators.

Terry-Jo Myers

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Terry-Jo Myers is a professional golfer from the United States who competed on the LPGA Tour. She received the LPGA Tour’s Heather Farr Player Award in 1997 and the Golf Writers Association of America’s Ben Hogan Award in 1998.

Daniel Mazziotta

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Daniel Mazziotta is a professional golfer from the United States who competes on the PGA Tour Latinoamérica. Mazziotta began his professional career in 2011 on the NGA Pro Golf Tour and the West Florida Golf Tour. He won six times, one on the NGA Pro Golf Tour and five on the West Florida Golf Tour, before gaining his PGA Tour Latinoamérica playing rights for the 2014 season.

Top Florida Golf Trips

With the PGA Tour currently in its annual Florida swing, you’ll be thinking about scheduling our next Florida golf trip. Here are the top places to look for when planning a trip to Florida on our next Golf venture.

📌Jacksonville

The state’s largest and most populous city is home to some of the state’s most famous and known golf courses, including the No. 2 public course in the state and the No. 11 public course in the country. So you will indeed have a memorable experience swinging your shots in the golf courses in Jacksonville.

Tumbling over undulating terrain, stunning landforms, huge lakes, and stretches of open savannah, Streamsong Red, placed 112th on Golf Digest’s and also second 100 Greatest courses, necessitates a good approach to tackle one dramatic Coore-Crenshaw-designed hole after another.

The World’s Theme Park Capital is also home to several excellent golf courses. These courses are sure to be a thrill ride, whether on a family trip or, even better, a golf-only excursion.

Apart from the well-known magnificence of Doral, Miami is dotted with courses ideal for a round before the day at the beach or a night on the town.

📌Palm Beach

This seaside town has lots of terrific golf, but four of the top 75 courses in Florida, according to a 2015 Golf Digest study, are located on the PGA National property. In addition, the Honda Classic is held every year on the Champion Course, one of five courses at PGA National.

The excellent golf courses in Naples, Florida, are nestled among the Florida pines. Most courses take advantage of the natural environment to create undulating greens and waste areas of crushed quartz sand. When you visit the location, each golf session will be unique.

📌Panama City

You might think of Panama City as a Spring Break getaway, but it’s also one of Florida’s most stealthily low-cost golf locations, with some must-play courses. There are no visible residences on this Florida course, and there are few flat lays.

Things You Should Do Before Playing a Round of Golf

If you don’t prepare, you’re setting yourself up to fail, as the saying goes. However, incorporating these suggestions into your pre-round routine gives you the best chance of playing well.

✔️Good Sleep

When it comes to golf, sleep is crucial, and you don’t want to be playing when hungover.

✔️Create a Strategy

If it’s your home club, you probably know where to go, where not to go, and which clubs to hit like the back of your hand. However, we still recommend writing it down and planning how you intend to attack the golf course.

When you arrive at the range, it is critical to stretch before hitting any golf balls. And this will warm up the muscles and get them nice and loose, which will help you make the golf swing athletically and prevent injuries.

✔️Clean Clubs

Dirty golf clubs can significantly negatively impact your performance, particularly when generating spin-on approach shots into greens and finesse shots. As a result, you’ll want to keep your clubs as clean as possible.

✔️Plan the day

You don’t want to be rushing around and frazzled before getting to the club and golf course. As a result, organize your day carefully. Allow plenty of time to go to the club and complete your whole preparation before teeing off.

✔️Eat and Hydrate

What you eat and drink significantly influences how you feel both on and off the golf course. So you must eat well and remain hydrated both before and throughout the round.

✔️Hitting the Ball

When it comes to hitting the shots before the course, avoid using the driver. Start with a wedge since it is a simpler swing to make and helps you to ease yourself into the workout.

Things to Keep in Mind When Swinging a Golf Club

There are hundreds of things that novices attempt to remember while initially learning to swing a golf club. In addition, the quantity of white noise in their heads is a continual source of distraction, irritation, and knowledge.

This list is general, and you may find it helpful as you work on improving your golf game.

❕Set your Feet Apart at a Comfortable Distance

It is ideal for keeping the distance between your shoulders at around shoulder width. Remember to keep your left foot slightly open, with your toes to the left of your heel.

❕In your Stance, Bring the Ball Forward

The ball should be in line with your left heel while using longer clubs, such as your driver.

❕Maintain Your Composure

One of the most common problems for novices is that their head moves much too much throughout their golf swing. Many people advise beginners to keep their heads down, yet this advice is deceptive. Our heads move somewhat during a golf swing, but the less movement we have, the better.

❕Count to One While Keeping your Attention on the Point of Touch

This step’s goal is to concentrate on the point of contact between the ball and the club. Furthermore, when counting to one, you maintain your head motionless and allow the rest of your body to finish the swing before searching for your ball.

❕Follow Through with Vigour

Make sure your hands follow through high and come to rest on the left side towards the nape of your neck. You must finish your swing with a beautiful high finish.

❕Less is More in this Case

Most amateurs have a predisposition to overswing. This is because they must strive to swing their club as quickly as possible, and this added effort leads the golfer to lose balance when swinging.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: is florida a nice place to go golfing.

A: Florida is a fantastic area to play golf all year since it is one of the few places in America with the year-round sun.

Q: Where in Florida is the most excellent place to play golf?

A: Florida has the most golf courses of any state in the country, and The Palm Beaches has the most golf courses of any county in the country.

Q: Which city in Florida has the most golf courses?

A: Naples not only has more golf courses than any other city in Florida, but it also ranks high in every quality of life metric.

Q: In Florida, how many public golf courses are there?

A: The state of Florida has 1,250 golf courses.

Q: Is Florida the world’s golf capital?

A: Naples, Florida, has been dubbed the “World Golf Capital.”

Q: Which PGA players are based in Florida?

A: Thomas and Rickie Fowler share a street and are as close as any Tour pro in the region.

Final Thoughts

These exceptional athletes are the finest in the game of golf. If you’re looking for some motivation on the golf course, these golfers from Florida can assist. They have surmounted several difficulties and hardships during their careers, demonstrating their golfing skill.

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Top Golfers from each State: Florida Golf and Brooks Koepka

By kasey kuhrts | may 28, 2020.

The sunshine state is home to many of the game’s biggest Florida Golf legends. From Jack, Tiger, and Rory, along with so many others, Florida is their adopted home. But none of those legendary players were actually born in Florida, which is why we are giving the nod to Brooks Koepka.

Born in West Palm Beach, and a three-time All American at Florida State University, Brooks Koepka has been a Florida boy all his life. When looking at other golfers who were born in the state of Florida, it was hard to even argue any of them should make this list over Brooks.

In 2017, our own contributor Mike Randleman published a single article ranking the top golfer in each state. On his list, he selected David Duval as the top golfer born in Florida, a solid choice. However, the article was published 12 days after Brooks Koepka won his first major championship, and a lot has changed since then.

As mentioned above, Brooks Koepka captured his first major in 2017 winning the U.S. Open at Erin Hills. Although Brooks had turned pro in 2012, this was only his second career PGA Tour win. And although he didn’t collect a PGA Tour win until a little over two and a half years of being a professional, Brooks started winning overseas almost immediately after turning pro.

Brooks joined the Challenge Tour in 2012 after he turned pro and won four Challenge Tour events in less than a year. In 2014 Brooks won his first Euro Tour event at the Turkish Airlines Open, and the win is still his only Euro Tour win that isn’t a major or WGC event.

In 2016, Koepka was a member of the victorious 2016 Ryder Cup team. Brooks had a strong showing, going 3-1-0, earning three points, and only Patrick Reed contributed more points for the team at 3.5. Many golf fans believe the 2016 Ryder Cup put Brooks Koepka on the map, which is why it wasn’t that surprising when Brooks lifted the U.S. Open Championship trophy the following June.

Brooks finished his 2017 season by helping the United State capture the Presidents Cup at Liberty National. Brooks contributed two points to the team, going 2-2-0.

Brooks would go 364 days before his next PGA Tour win, as he won back to back U.S. Open’s in 2017 and 2018. This made Koepka the first player since Hall of Famer Curtis Strange in 1989 to go back to back in the U.S. Open. Following the 2018 U.S. Open, Brooks only waited two months before getting his next win, this time at Bellerive in the 2018 PGA Championship.

Brooks followed up the two major wins winning only his second PGA Tour event that’s not a major or WGC, by winning the CJ Cup in October of 2018.

Which brings us to last season. Brooks finished no lower than fourth in any of the season’s majors and defended his PGA Championship title at Bethpage Black. Going for the three-peat at the U.S. Open, Brooks finished three strokes back in a solo second to Gary Woodland.

Brooks captured his second, and last, 2019 win at the WGC-Fed Ex St. Jude. This was enough for Brooks to end the season atop the Fed Ex Cup rankings, but after finishing outside the top 20 at the Northern Trust and the BMW, Brooks finished the season third in the standings.

Now, as we wait for the 2020 season to resume, we wonder what is next for Brooks Koepka. Will he be able to complete a three-peat of the PGA Championship at Harding Park? Will he outdo his 2019 tie for second at the Masters and leave himself only one major shy of the grand slam? Or will he do the unthinkable, and win a PGA Tour event that isn’t a major?

Either way, being a four-time major champion, WGC winner, Ryder and President cup winner, along with racking up over 30 million dollars in career earnings, there should be little debate that Brooks Koepka is, and will continue to be the best golfer born in the Sunshine State.

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#JUPLIFE: Behind the scenes of pro golf's coolest town

It’s dinnertime in Jupiter, Fla., and 1000 North is the place to be. The restaurant opened in 2018 and immediately became a nexus of German engineering, Italian tailoring and South Beach plastic surgery. Jutting into the Loxahatchee River is a private dock so that diners can arrive in style; Dustin Johnson has been known to cruise up in his 82-foot Viking. (The lounge upstairs, available only to the 300 members who pay $4,000 to join and $4,000 in annual dues, carries Fireball cinnamon whisky to whet the whistle of Johnson and his glamorous fiancee, Paulina Gretzky.)

Michael Jordan gets a lot of attention for being a part owner, but the man behind the man is Ira Fenton, a low-key powerbroker who helped finance Jack Nicklaus’ The Bear’s Club across town. That private golf club has about three dozen elite tour pros as members, and its popularity helped inspire 1000 NORTH when Fenton sought to replicate the clubby atmosphere and first-rate service of The Bear’s Club. “If you put together a tournament with just our restaurant’s investors, you’d have a very strong field,” Fenton said recently over a decadent meal, interrupting himself often to greet by name the servers and hosts, all of whom had the fresh-scrubbed good looks of Abercrombie models. Those investors include Johnson, Ernie Els, Brooks Koepka, Justin Thomas, Rickie Fowler, Luke Donald, Keegan Bradley and Camilo Villegas. “It’s a fun thing to be a part of,” Bradley says, “and it guarantees you can get a table on a Friday night, which is getting harder these days.”

1. Brooks Koepka, 2. Debbie Terlato, 3. Bill Terlato, 4. Sherrye Fenton, 5. Ira Fenton, 6. Rory McIlroy, 7. Padma Mantena, 8. Raj Mantena, 9. Ernie Els, 10. Liezl Els, 11. Tucker Frederickson, 12. Ahmad Rashad, 13. Jena Sims

Jupiter’s popularity has solidified its standing as the center of the golf universe. Educated guesses place the number of pro golfers of varying status in the area at five dozen. Set to join them is the consummate California dude, Phil Mickelson, who bought a place on Jupiter Island, where he and wife Amy will feather their empty nest (and enjoy the benefits of no state income tax, which Phil has long desired).

When Jordan wanted to create his private 18-hole fiefdom, the Jupiter area was the only place he considered. The result is Grove XXIII, which opened in 2019 and is already the gathering spot for stars from various sports who indulge in jocular money games and other rituals of male bonding . Grove is in horse country about 15 miles from The Bear’s Club, farther north than was once considered fashionable. But its mystique helped inspire Steve Ross, the owner of the Miami Dolphins, to purchase 1,200 nearby acres, on which he is reputedly planning to build three private courses. It’s a good bet, given that every club in town has a long waiting list, and in the COVID era, well-heeled northerners continue to arrive in droves. The Wall Street Journal reported that Palm Beach, half an hour to the south, has had 35 homes sell for at least $30 million since March 2020, with two eclipsing $100 million. Jupiter, which has not one but three tiki bars clustered around its iconic lighthouse, is beachier than Palm Beach, which Luke Donald describes as “more old money, more swanky, more stuffy.” But with almost no available inventory, the high-end home prices around Jupiter have similarly spiked; Greg Norman sold Tranquility, his eight-acre spread on Jupiter Island, for $55 million. (The season in South Florida used to be October through April, but many new arrivals are staying year-round, beating the summer heat by playing golf early in the morning.)

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North Palm Beach is home to venerable Seminole, but that’s not a place where tour players hang out. Old-timers Ray Floyd and Nick Price are the only pro golfers among the membership. In Jupiter, The Bear’s Club has long been a popular spot, with many tour pros living on the premises. In 2017, Rory McIlroy bought Ernie Els’ 13,000-square-foot house for low eight figures and then did an extensive remodel.

The practice facility at The Bear’s Club is legendary, with each pro enjoying buckets of his or her preferred model of golf ball, which are meticulously sorted by the staff. Nicklaus recently reworked the par-3 course. “You can tell when a big tournament is coming because the range is packed,” says Jessica Korda, one of a dozen or so LPGA Tour players who make their home around Jupiter and often practice side by side with the guys. If The Bear’s Club is where players go to work on their game, Medalist is the place to test themselves against each other. DJ and Rickie are regulars, and it was Tiger Woods’ preferred place before his car crash in 2021. The Grove has a spectacular practice facility, but it’s more about the hang. The sleek clubhouse has a dizzying number of TVs, and the real ballers drink Cincoro Extra Añejo from Jordan’s personal tequila company. A 750-millileter bottle retails for $1,800. (Mickelson, the game’s preeminent raconteur, has already joined the Grove.) Those are the big three among the Jupiter area’s private clubs, but there are a bunch of other notable spots: the swank Floridian, which is more to the north but still popular with tour players; classy Old Palm, which has traditionally been the landing spot for European Tour expats; secluded McArthur, which is joining the building frenzy with a new second course, designed by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw; and Jupiter Hills, a 1970 George Fazio design that, like many Jupiter residents of a certain age, has had a lot of work done.

All of these courses are private, which means Jupiter will never be a destination for golf tourists. But it is a kind of fantasy camp for the surgeons and stockbrokers at the clubs who get to rub elbows with golf greatness. “If some 18-handicapper asks me how to play a certain shot, I’m always happy to help them,” Johnson says. “You never know what kind of advice they’ll be able to give you in their profession.” Plenty of these deep-pocketed duffers like to engage tour players in money games, but details are always scarce. “If there were any great stories of guys playing for huge money—and I’m not saying there are—you wouldn’t hear about them,” Bradley says. “There’s kind of an honor system to keep things private.”

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For tour pros, Jupiter is the ultimate playground. “I can’t live anywhere else now,” says Bradley, a Jup resident for more than a decade. “The courses are so good, and the practice facilities are the best in the world. I can show up any day of the week to a handful of courses and get a game against tour winners, major-championship winners, future Hall of Famers. Obviously, the weather is perfect, and the lifestyle is great. But if the goal is to keep my game razor sharp when I’m home, I can’t get done what I need to get done anywhere else in the world.”

If one house symbolizes the glamour and impetuousness of #JupLife, it is a sleek bit of American Dream on River Drive, with a backyard that spills out onto the Loxahatchee River and a private dock. Bradley bought the house after winning the 2011 PGA Championship and later sold it to Brooks Koepka, who had U.S. Open champ Graeme McDowell’s wife, Kristin, an interior decorator, redo the inside in a style that could be called macho chic: lots of stone and metal with pastel touches. When I visited in late 2017, the garage was a riot of kayaks and stand-up paddle boards, and the walk-in wine room was a nice spot for Koepka’s glittering U.S. Open trophy. As he continued to pile up major-championship victories, Koepka moved to a gaudier place on a bigger, more private lot, selling the house to yet another tour mainstay, Daniel Berger. After winning at Colonial last year, Berger bought a Bahama 41 speedboat to park out back. (What Teslas are to Pebble Beach, the Bahama 41 is to Jupiter.)

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PRO GOLF’S TROPICAL PLAYGROUND

Jupiter, Florida, the de facto capital of professional golf, is 90 miles north of Miami, 155 miles southeast of Orlando and about 55 nautical miles from the Bahamas. There are 16 golf courses in Jupiter and another 78 within 20 miles of the town, the vast majority of them private. But for the 60-plus members of the PGA Tour and LPGA Tour who call Jupiter home, the eight golf clubs that really matter are (from top) Floridian, McArthur, Medalist, Grove XXIII, Jupiter Hills Club, Bear’s Club, Seminole and Old Palm. The restaurant, 1000 NORTH, which opened in 2018 and counts Michael Jordan as part owner, has emerged as a gathering spot for golf’s elite. Several PGA Tour players are investors, members or both.

If Berger can cash a few more oversize checks, he might be able to cross the river to the west side, where Pennock Point Road is the most prized address. That’s where Fowler and Justin Thomas live. Johnson lived there for a long stretch, too, while he was building a modernist Xanadu farther up the river. “It’s a small world,” Johnson once told me. “I’ll be in the backyard chipping, and Rickie will cruise by on a paddle board. Or I’ll be in the boat and see JT or [longtime tour player Steve] Marino messing around at their place. You just kind of wave and keep going. You see them around town sometimes doing normal things. I’ll say, ‘Hey.’ We don’t talk about golf or anything like that.” (As cliquey as it can be, not every pro manages to fit in; Matthew Wolff recently decamped from Jupiter, buying a house in his old college town of Stillwater, Okla. “There’s not a lot of people my age down there,” says Wolff, 22.)

The biggest and most extravagant golfer’s house in the area is Woods’ 12-acre compound on Jupiter Island, extending from the Intercoastal all the way to the Atlantic, with a famed backyard practice area. His arrival is a key moment on Jupiter’s timeline, which begins in 1966 when Jack Nicklaus—fleeing Ohio’s harsh winters and lured by the bountiful deep-sea fishing—settled at Lost Tree Club in what is now considered North Palm Beach. That immediately made South Florida a thing. (Cary Middlecoff soon moved down the street.) In the early 1990s, the second wave of big-time golfers arrived, led by Greg Norman and Nick Price, who took turns as the game’s dominant forces of that era. Norman built a macho club in his image, Medalist, though he hasn’t come around as much since disputes about course alterations and losing control of the board. Price built McArthur, which reflects his more refined sensibilities.

BOOMTOWN Rory McIlroy, Ernie Els and Brooks Koepka are among the dozens of top tour players attracted to the Jup lifestyle.

Jesper Parnevik settled in the area, luring a cadre of fellow Swedes, but Orlando remained the golf world’s center of gravity, especially after Woods established residency upon turning pro in 1996. Orlando’s hegemony was cemented in the popular imagination by the annual Tavistock Cup, a monument to excess that pitted the glittering names from two of O-town’s warring golf clubs, Isleworth and Lake Nona. Landlocked and touristy, Orlando had only one real appeal: an international airport. But in 1999, the tour’s new TV contract kicked in, having been negotiated in the wake of Woods’ game-changing Masters victory. Previously unimaginable riches flowed into the sport. Private jets that had once been the province of only the biggest stars were suddenly within reach of the tour’s middle class. (In 1998, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway acquired NetJets and quickly reshaped the private-aviation industry, and the company would sign three dozen players as “ambassadors.”) With tour pros no longer tethered to the Orlando airport, they began migrating toward the ocean, like salmon. (Those who have stayed in Orlando skew European because they can fly nonstop to the Continent on commercial airlines given that going private across the ocean is a big ticket.) The jet center at tiny Palm Beach airport (PBI) quickly became a de facto PGA Tour clubhouse, and when the cost of a private jet is split among five or six golfers, it becomes almost defensible.

Woods famously wooed one of Parnevik’s nannies, a cosmopolitan law student (and, yes, former bikini model) named Elin Nordegren, who made it clear she had zero interest in living in Orlando. In 2006—two years after the splashy wedding—Tiger paid $40 million for his sprawling estate. He tore down the existing structures and built his dream house, complete with two swimming pools, a home gym and an oxygen therapy room. (By the time construction was finished so, too, was Woods’ marriage.) Seeking to put his branded stamp on the neighborhood, he opened his restaurant in 2015. The Woods Jupiter aspires to be a high-brow sports bar, though the prices suggest Peter Luger; the 10-ounce filet mignon is $53. Unlike the sleekly dressed staff at 1000 NORTH, the waitresses and bartenders at The Woods are a scrappy bunch who look like they have lived a little. In 2017, Tiger became romantically involved with the restaurant manager, Erica Herman, and they have settled into a contented domesticity.

Tiger also nabbed professional golf ’s biggest boat, a 155-footer he named Privacy. As the name suggests, Woods uses his yacht to get away from it all. The water is at the center of #JupLife. Many of the restaurants have private docks, and reservations are encouraged—for the boats more than the humans. Johnson and Donald are among a group of enthusiastic chasers of marlin, sailfish and mahi. “Berger thinks he’s good, but when we’ve gone out, he’s caught nothing, so I’ll believe it when I see it,” woofs Donald.

Of course, some of Berger’s best work comes without a rod in hand when he is “boating”—the local parlance for hanging out at sand bars with hot women and cold beverages. (The most popular sand bar juts off Jupiter Island and is known as Tiger Beach because Woods’ house is about 1,000 feet away, though he is never glimpsed behind the towering hedges.) The popular imagination of Jupiter as a sexy, sudsy place comes largely from the social media feeds of three extremely photogenic and often scantily clad influencers: Gretzky, Jena Sims (Koepka’s fiancé) and Tori Slater (Berger’s girlfriend). Their beaus make occasional cameos in their posts, offering stiff dance moves, doing backflips off their boats or, in Koepka’s case, wearing sneakers and an untucked t-shirt on even the fanciest occasions. It’s hard to argue with Donald, who says, “This place is a bit like Fantasyland.”

HAPPY HOUR It wouldn’t be a stretch to find Koepka, his fiancee, Jena Sims, and McIlory mingling at 1000 NORTH’s exclusive lounge.

Like any town, Jupiter is cleaved by its haves and have-nots. The area’s young, aspiring pros are not investors in 1000 NORTH but regulars at the Square Grouper, a tiki joint with leathery dudes behind the bar pouring Creamsicles, which are made with whipped-cream vodka, orange juice and cream. They taste like your childhood, plus a dash of regret. The mini-tour rabbits can’t afford (and are not invited) to join the glamorous clubs, so they congregate at Abacoa, Bear Lakes, Ironhorse, Seagate and other less-fancy joints that will cut them a deal on mini-memberships. The cost of living is so high that sharing apartments is common, though in a new twist on chain migration, players who make it to the big leagues will sometimes lend a hand; when Dominic Bozzelli made a better life for himself on the PGA Tour, he allowed his friend Gavin Hall to live in his house for two years, rent-free. “He knows how hard it is to make it and was nice enough to help me out,” says Hall, 26, a Texas grad who is chasing it on the Forme Tour, a Florida-based micro-mini that sends its top-five point earners to the Korn Ferry Tour. He could live somewhere cheaper and less glamorous, such as Jacksonville, but like the hedge-fund managers swelling the waiting lists at Jupiter’s private golf clubs, Hall wants to be close to the action.

“Every day I’m around players from the Challenge Tour, Canadian Tour, Latinóamerica, Korn Ferry,” he says. “All of these guys are busting their butts to get better—it’s motivating. Every now and then you get invited to play with established [PGA] Tour guys. To see up close how those guys operate, how they hit the ball, how they carry themselves, that’s invaluable.”

The Minor League Golf Tour hosts no-frills tournaments throughout South Florida, and it recently visited the Country Club of Coral Springs, an easy drive down I-95 from Jupiter. Thirty players kicked in $495 apiece to compete in (and fund) the three-day event. Only 12 made the cut and therefore earned a paycheck. The winner, Patrick Allgeier, went 19 under par to take home $2,200. Rohan Ramnath finished 11th, good for $480—a net loss even before factoring in gas money.

“It’s an interesting situation, to be surrounded by so much wealth and so many great golf courses and famous golfers while a lot of us are just struggling to get by,” says Ramnath, who graduated from Harvard with a degree in applied mathematics. “It’s a pretty stark illustration of how much your life can change if you shoot better scores.” There are trophies to be won and history to be made, but nowadays there is little doubt how the spoils would be spent.

Says Ramnath,“A big house on the water in Jupiter, that’s definitely the dream.”

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COGNIZANT CLASSIC IN THE PALM BEACHES

Site: Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

Course: PGA National (Champions). Yardage: 7,147. Par: 71.

Prize money: $9 million. Winner's share: $1.62 million.

Television: Thursday-Friday, 2-6 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday-Sunday, 1-3 p.m. (Golf Channel), 3-6 p.m. (NBC).

Defending champion: Chris Kirk.

FedEx Cup leader: Matthieu Pavon.

Last week: Jake Knapp won the Mexico Open at Vidanta.

Notes: The tournament again leads off the Florida swing under a new name. Cognizant takes over as title sponsor of what previously was the Honda Classic. ... Rory McIlroy is playing to beef up his pre-Masters schedule. He last played the tournament in 2018. ... Six of the seven winners on the PGA Tour this year were outside the top 50 in the world ranking. The exception was Wyndham Clark, No. 10 when he won at Pebble Beach. ... This is the last tournament for the leading top 10 in the FedEx Cup and the leading five players in “swing category” to earn a spot in Bay Hill next week. ... Since turning pro after winning The American Express, U.S. Amateur champion Nick Dunlap finished in last place at Pebble Beach and missed the cut at Riviera. He is in the field this week. ... NCAA champion Fred Biondi, who turned pro last year, received a sponsor exemption. ... The field features five of the top 25 in the world ranking.

Next week: Arnold Palmer Invitational and Puerto Rico Open.

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HSBC WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

Site: Singapore.

Course: Sentosa GC. Yardage: 6,749. Par: 72.

Prize money: $1.8 million. Winner's share: $270,000.

Television: Wednesday-Saturday, 9:30 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. (Golf Channel).

Defending champion: Jin Young Ko.

Race to CME Globe leader: Lydia Ko

Last week: Patty Tavatanakit won the Honda LPGA Thailand.

Notes: This is the second of three straight weeks in Asia. The HSBC Women's World Championship dates to 2008 and typically gets a strong field. ... Jin Young Ko is going for her third straight title in Singapore. ... Lorena Ochoa set the course record of 268 in 2008, the inaugural year of the tournament. ... The field features eight of the top 10 in the women's world ranking, missing only Nelly Korda and Charley Hull. ... Atthaya Thitikul, No. 11 in the world, has an injured left thumb and does not plan to return until the end of March. ... Former U.S. Women's Open champion In Gee Chun is playing on a sponsor's invitation. ... Minjee Lee is in the field, playing for the first time this year on the LPGA Tour. ... Solheim Cup captain Stacy Lewis has named Paula Creamer, Angela Stanford, Brittany Lincicome and Morgan Pressel as assistants for this year's matches in Virginia.

Next week: Blue Bay LPGA.

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LIV GOLF JEDDAH

Site: King Abdullah Economic City, Saudi Arabia.

Course: Royal Greens Golf & CC. Yardage: 7,048. Par: 70.

Prize money: $20 million. Winner's share: $4 million.

Television: Friday-Sunday, 3-8 a.m. (CW app); Saturday, 12:30-5:30 p.m. (CW Network-tape delay); Sunday, 1-6p.m. (CW Network-tape delay).

Defending champion: Brooks Koepka.

Points leader: Dustin Johnson.

Last tournament. Dustin Johnson won LIV Golf Las Vegas.

Notes: Brooks Koepka is going for his third straight LIV victory in Saudi Arabia. The tournament was played in the fall the last two seasons. ... Anthony Kim is expected to make his LIV debut as an individual. Kim has not competed anywhere since May 2012 at the Wells Fargo Championship. He is now 38. ... Dustin Johnson's victory in Las Vegas makes him the first player to win in each of the three seasons of LIV Golf. Among those with a chance to match him this week are Koepka and Cameron Smith. ... Johnson, Graeme McDowell, Harold Varner III and Abraham Ancer have all won in Saudi Arabia outside the LIV Golf League. ... Jon Rahm's new team is leading the standings after two events. ... Joaquin Niemann was the only LIV Golf player who received a special invitation to the Masters based on his European tour performances in the offseason. ... Patrick Reed is no longer among the top 100 in the world.

Next week: LIV Golf Hong Kong.

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SDC CHAMPIONSHIP

Site: Eastern Cape, South Africa.

Course: St. Francis Links. Yardage: 7,192. Par: 72.

Prize money: $1.5 million. Winner's share: $250,000.

Television: None.

Defending champion: Matthew Baldwin.

Race to Dubai leader: Rory McIlroy.

Last week: Darius van Driel won the Magical Kenya Open.

Notes: The tournament is co-sanctioned with the Sunshine Tour of South Africa. ... This is the second of three straight tournaments on the African continent. ... The field features only four players from the top 100 in the world. The highest-ranked player is Rikuya Hoshino, who is at No. 81. ... South Africa only has five players in the top 100 in the world. Christiaan Bezuidenhout, who plays the PGA Tour, is the top-ranked South African at No. 59. ... Only two players from Nos. 126-200 in the FedEx Cup last year are in the field, Matthias Schwab and Jonas Blixt. Dylan Frittelli was in that category until winning earlier this year to get full European tour membership. ... Keita Nakajima, a former world No. 1 amateur, is in the field. He is eligible from winning the Japan Golf Tour money title last year. ... The tournament only became part of the European tour schedule last year.

Next week: Jonsson Workwear Open.

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VISA ARGENTINA OPEN

Site: Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Course: Olivos GC. Yardage: 6,795. Par: 70.

Prize money: $1 million. Winner's share: $180,000.

Previous winner: Zack Fischer.

Points leader: Aldrich Potgieter.

Last tournament: Kevin Velo won the Astara Golf Championship in Colombia.

Next week: Astara Chile Classic.

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Last week: Ricardo Gonzalez won the Trophy Hassan II.

Next week: Cologuard Classic.

Charles Schwab Cup leader: Steven Alker.

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Japan LPGA: Daikin Orchid Ladies, Ryukyu GC, Okinawa, Japan. Defending champion: Jiyai Shin. Online: https://www.lpga.or.jp/en/

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Brian Harman hits from the pine straw on the 16th fairway during the final round of The Players Championship golf tournament Sunday, March 17, 2024, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Credit: AP/Lynne Sladky

VALSPAR CHAMPIONSHIP

Site: Palm Harbor, Florida.

Course: Innisbrook Resort (Copperhead). Yardage: 7,340. Par: 71.

Prize money: $8.4 million. Winner's share: $1.512 million.

Television: Thursday-Friday, 2-6 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday-Sunday, 1-3 p.m. (Golf Channel), 3-6 p.m. (NBC).

Defending champion: Taylor Moore.

Jordan Spieth prepares to hit his shot in the sixth hole during the second round of The Players Championship golf tournament Friday, March 15, 2024, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Credit: AP/Marta Lavandier

FedEx Cup leader: Scottie Scheffler.

Last week: Scottie Scheffler won The Players Championship.

Notes: The tournament follows Bay Hill with a $20 million purse and The Players Championship with a $25 million purse. It still attracted a reasonably good field, with five players from the top 20 in the world. ... British Open champion Brian Harman is the only player from the top 10 in the world. Patrick Cantlay was planning to play until he withdrew from the tournament on Monday. ... Jordan Spieth is playing. He won the tournament in 2015. Spieth and Justin Thomas, also in the field, are coming off a missed cut at The Players Championship. ... There are two weeks remaining for players to get into the top 50 if they are not already in the Masters. Among those on the bubble are Tom Hoge and Christiaan Bezuidenhout ... The Copperhead course at Innisbrook is regarded as one of the best tournament courses in Florida. ... European Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald received a sponsor exemption. He won in 2012.

Next week: Texas Children’s Houston Open.

Justin Thomas watches his shot on the 13th tee during the second round of The Players Championship golf tournament Friday, March 15, 2024, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Credit: AP/Lynne Sladky

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FIR HILLS SERI PAK CHAMPIONSHIP

Site: Palos Verdes Estates, California.

Course: Palos Verdes GC. Yardage: 6,447. Par: 71.

Prize money: $2 million. Winner's share: $300,000.

Television: Thursday-Friday, 6-9 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday, 7-9 p.m. (Golf Channel); Sunday, 3-6 p.m. (Golf Channel).

Defending champion: Ruoning Yin.

Race to CME Globe leader: Lydia Ko.

Last tournament: Bailey Tardy won the Blue Bay LPGA.

Notes: The LPGA Tour begins a three-week stretch in California, Arizona and Nevada that will lead to its first major championship of the year. Seri Pak is the tournament host for the first time. Pak is one of the most influential players in LPGA history, a pioneer for South Korean players to follow her path. ... Ruoning Yin of China won last year and then went on to win her first major at the KPGA Women's PGA Championship. ... Nelly Korda is playing for the first time since willing in Florida. She skipped the three-week Asian swing. ... Rose Zhang has taken off for her studies at Stanford. She is playing for the first time since a tie for seventh in the season opener in January. ... Lilia Vu, the No. 1 player in the women's world ranking, had to withdraw from the last two Asia events because of illness. She is in the field. ... Among those getting a sponsor exemption is Jiyai Shin of South Korea, a former world No. 1.

Next week: Ford Championship.

Online: https://www.lpga.com/

EUROPEAN TOUR

PORSCHE SINGAPORE CLASSIC

Site: Singapore.

Course: Laguna National Golf Resort. Yardage: 7,420. Par: 72.

Prize money: $2.5 million. Winner's share: $416,667.

Television: Thursday-Friday, 1-6 a.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday, 12-3 a.m. (Golf Channel); 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. (Golf Channel).

Defending champion: Ockie Strydom.

Race to Dubai leader: Rory McIlroy.

Last tournament: Matteo Manassero won the Jonsson Workwear Open.

Notes: The European tour now starts a five-tournament swing through Asia, going to Singapore, India, South Korea, Japan and China through the first week of May. ... Shane Lowry and Torrey Pines winner Matthieu Pavon give the field two players from the top 50 in the world. ... Paul Casey is playing. He has a relationship with Porsche. Casey now plays with LIV Golf and lost in a playoff in Hong Kong at the last LIV event. ... There is a separate bonus pool for the Asian swing, with $200,000 going to the winner and a spot in the big events toward the end of the season. ... Matteo Manassero is playing for the first time since he won in South Africa. ... Yannick Paul of Germany is competing for one of two Olympic spots, with Matti Schmid making ground on him at The Players Championship. ... Porsche previously sponsored the European Open in Germany.

Next week: Hero Indian Open.

Online: https://www.europeantour.com/dpworld-tour/

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HOAG CLASSIC

Site: Newport Beach, California.

Course: Newport Beach CC. Yardage: 6,821. Par: 71.

Television: Friday, 10 p.m. to midnight (Golf Channel-tape delay); Saturday, 4-7 p.m. (Golf Channel); Sunday, 6-8 p.m. (Golf Channel).

Defending champion: Ernie Els.

Charles Schwab Cup leader: Steven Alker.

Last tournament: Joe Durant won the Cologuard Classic.

Notes: The PGA Tour Champions is in California for the next two weeks, leading up to the Masters. ... Ernie Els has won the tournament twice in the last three years. ... The field has five former Masters champions in Mike Weir, Vijay Singh, Mark O'Meara, Jose Maria Olazabal and Fred Couples. O'Meara no longer plays the Masters. ... Steve Stricker is in the field after missing the cut at The Players Championship last week. His daughter, Izzi, will be caddying for him the next two weeks. Stricker and his daughter played in the PNC Championship last December. She will be playing for Wisconsin next year. ... Bernhard Langer is recovering from a torn Achilles tendon while playing pickleball. Langer says he hopes to be back in May. ... Angel Cabrera is an alternate, though unlikely to get in. ... The sponsor exemptions went to Tim O'Neal and Mario Tiziani. ... The tournament dates to 1995.

Next week: The Galleri Classic.

Online: https://www.pgatour.com/pgatour-champions

LIV GOLF LEAGUE

Last tournament: Abraham Ancer won LIV Golf Hong Kong.

Next tournament: LIV Golf Miami on April 5-7.

Points leader: Joaquin Niemann.

Online: https://www.livgolf.com/

KORN FERRY TOUR

Last tournament: Taylor Dickson won the Astara Chile Classic.

Next tournament: Club Car Championship on April 4-7.

Points leader: Mason Anderson.

Online: https://www.pgatour.com/korn-ferry-tour/

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PGA Tour Americas: Bupa Championship, PGA Riviera Maya, Tulum, Mexico. Defending champion: Chandler Blanchet. New tournament. Online: https://www.pgatour.com/americas

Sunshine Tour: Stella Artois Players Championship, Dainfern CC, Johannesburg, South Africa. Defending champion: Kyle Barker. Online: https://sunshinetour.com/

Japan LPGA: AXA Ladies Golf Tournament, UMK CC, Miyazaki, Japan. Defending champion: Hinako Yamauchi. Online: https://www.lpga.or.jp/en/

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PGA Tour starts the Florida swing. LIV Golf goes to Saudi Arabia

Rory McIlroy, of Northern Ireland, waits to putt on the ninth green during the final round of the Genesis Invitational golf tournament at Riviera Country Club, Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024, in the Pacific Palisades area of, Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)

Jake Knapp, of the United States, poses with his trophy during the award ceremony after winning the Mexico Open golf tournament in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Brooks Koepka watches his shot from the 14th tee during the second round of LIV Golf Las Vegas at Las Vegas Country Club on Friday, Feb. 9, 2024, in Las Vegas. (Doug DeFelice/LIV Golf via AP)

FILE - Anthony Kim watches his tee shot on the fourth hole during the final round of the Greenbrier Classic PGA golf tournament at the Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., July 31, 2011. LIV Golf Commissioner Greg Norman is the latest to indicate Kim will end his 12 years away from golf by playing for LIV in Saudi Arabia this week. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

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COGNIZANT CLASSIC IN THE PALM BEACHES

Site: Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

Course: PGA National (Champions). Yardage: 7,147. Par: 71.

Prize money: $9 million. Winner’s share: $1.62 million.

Television: Thursday-Friday, 2-6 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday-Sunday, 1-3 p.m. (Golf Channel), 3-6 p.m. (NBC).

Defending champion: Chris Kirk.

FedEx Cup leader: Matthieu Pavon.

Last week: Jake Knapp won the Mexico Open at Vidanta.

Notes: The tournament again leads off the Florida swing under a new name. Cognizant takes over as title sponsor of what previously was the Honda Classic. ... Rory McIlroy is playing to beef up his pre-Masters schedule. He last played the tournament in 2018. ... Six of the seven winners on the PGA Tour this year were outside the top 50 in the world ranking. The exception was Wyndham Clark, No. 10 when he won at Pebble Beach. ... This is the last tournament for the leading top 10 in the FedEx Cup and the leading five players in “swing category” to earn a spot in Bay Hill next week. ... Since turning pro after winning The American Express, U.S. Amateur champion Nick Dunlap finished in last place at Pebble Beach and missed the cut at Riviera. He is in the field this week. ... NCAA champion Fred Biondi, who turned pro last year, received a sponsor exemption. ... The field features five of the top 25 in the world ranking.

Next week: Arnold Palmer Invitational and Puerto Rico Open.

Online: https://www.pgatour.com/

HSBC WOMEN’S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

Site: Singapore.

Course: Sentosa GC. Yardage: 6,749. Par: 72.

Prize money: $1.8 million. Winner’s share: $270,000.

Television: Wednesday-Saturday, 9:30 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. (Golf Channel).

Defending champion: Jin Young Ko.

Race to CME Globe leader: Lydia Ko

Last week: Patty Tavatanakit won the Honda LPGA Thailand.

Notes: This is the second of three straight weeks in Asia. The HSBC Women’s World Championship dates to 2008 and typically gets a strong field. ... Jin Young Ko is going for her third straight title in Singapore. ... Lorena Ochoa set the course record of 268 in 2008, the inaugural year of the tournament. ... The field features eight of the top 10 in the women’s world ranking, missing only Nelly Korda and Charley Hull. ... Atthaya Thitikul, No. 11 in the world, has an injured left thumb and does not plan to return until the end of March. ... Former U.S. Women’s Open champion In Gee Chun is playing on a sponsor’s invitation. ... Minjee Lee is in the field, playing for the first time this year on the LPGA Tour. ... Solheim Cup captain Stacy Lewis has named Paula Creamer, Angela Stanford, Brittany Lincicome and Morgan Pressel as assistants for this year’s matches in Virginia.

Next week: Blue Bay LPGA.

Online: https://www.lpga.com/

LIV GOLF LEAGUE

LIV GOLF JEDDAH

Site: King Abdullah Economic City, Saudi Arabia.

Course: Royal Greens Golf & CC. Yardage: 7,048. Par: 70.

Prize money: $20 million. Winner’s share: $4 million.

Television: Friday-Sunday, 3-8 a.m. (CW app); Saturday, 12:30-5:30 p.m. (CW Network-tape delay); Sunday, 1-6p.m. (CW Network-tape delay).

Defending champion: Brooks Koepka.

Points leader: Dustin Johnson.

Last tournament. Dustin Johnson won LIV Golf Las Vegas.

Notes: Brooks Koepka is going for his third straight LIV victory in Saudi Arabia. The tournament was played in the fall the last two seasons. ... Anthony Kim is expected to make his LIV debut as an individual. Kim has not competed anywhere since May 2012 at the Wells Fargo Championship. He is now 38. ... Dustin Johnson’s victory in Las Vegas makes him the first player to win in each of the three seasons of LIV Golf. Among those with a chance to match him this week are Koepka and Cameron Smith. ... Johnson, Graeme McDowell, Harold Varner III and Abraham Ancer have all won in Saudi Arabia outside the LIV Golf League. ... Jon Rahm’s new team is leading the standings after two events. ... Joaquin Niemann was the only LIV Golf player who received a special invitation to the Masters based on his European tour performances in the offseason. ... Patrick Reed is no longer among the top 100 in the world.

Next week: LIV Golf Hong Kong.

Online: https://www.livgolf.com/

EUROPEAN TOUR AND SUNSHINE TOUR

SDC CHAMPIONSHIP

Site: Eastern Cape, South Africa.

Course: St. Francis Links. Yardage: 7,192. Par: 72.

Prize money: $1.5 million. Winner’s share: $250,000.

Television: None.

Defending champion: Matthew Baldwin.

Race to Dubai leader: Rory McIlroy.

Last week: Darius van Driel won the Magical Kenya Open.

Notes: The tournament is co-sanctioned with the Sunshine Tour of South Africa. ... This is the second of three straight tournaments on the African continent. ... The field features only four players from the top 100 in the world. The highest-ranked player is Rikuya Hoshino, who is at No. 81. ... South Africa only has five players in the top 100 in the world. Christiaan Bezuidenhout, who plays the PGA Tour, is the top-ranked South African at No. 59. ... Only two players from Nos. 126-200 in the FedEx Cup last year are in the field, Matthias Schwab and Jonas Blixt. Dylan Frittelli was in that category until winning earlier this year to get full European tour membership. ... Keita Nakajima, a former world No. 1 amateur, is in the field. He is eligible from winning the Japan Golf Tour money title last year. ... The tournament only became part of the European tour schedule last year.

Next week: Jonsson Workwear Open.

Online: https://www.europeantour.com/dpworld-tour/ and https://sunshinetour.com/

KORN FERRY TOUR

VISA ARGENTINA OPEN

Site: Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Course: Olivos GC. Yardage: 6,795. Par: 70.

Prize money: $1 million. Winner’s share: $180,000.

Previous winner: Zack Fischer.

Points leader: Aldrich Potgieter.

Last tournament: Kevin Velo won the Astara Golf Championship in Colombia.

Next week: Astara Chile Classic.

Online: https://www.pgatour.com/korn-ferry-tour/

PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS

Last week: Ricardo Gonzalez won the Trophy Hassan II.

Next week: Cologuard Classic.

Charles Schwab Cup leader: Steven Alker.

Online: https://www.pgatour.com/pgatour-champions/

OTHER TOURS

Asian Tour and PGA Tour of Australasia: New Zealand Open, Millbrook GC (Coronet and Remarkables), Arrowtown, New Zealand. Defending champion: Brendan Jones. Online: https://asiantour.com/ and https://pga.org.au/.

Japan LPGA: Daikin Orchid Ladies, Ryukyu GC, Okinawa, Japan. Defending champion: Jiyai Shin. Online: https://www.lpga.or.jp/en/

AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf

2024 CJ Cup Byron Nelson prop bet picks and PGA Tour predictions

T he PGA Tour is back in Texas for the 2024 CJ Cup Byron Nelson this week after Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry came away as the champions of the Zurich Classic over the weekend. The 1st round from TPC Craig Ranch begins Thursday.

Below, we search for the best value prop bets among the 2024 CJ Cup Byron Nelson odds and make our PGA Tour picks and predictions .

There are co-favorites this week, with Jordan Spieth and Si Woo Kim both holding +1600 odds. Jason Day , the 2023 champion, has the 3rd-best odds at +2000, followed by Alex Noren (+2200). Will Zalatoris was in the field but he withdrew Tuesday due to a back injury flare-up.

TPC Craig Ranch is a par-72 and 7,414 yards, often ranking as one of the easiest courses on tour. It's a wide-open layout with very few hazards to trip up players. It's why the winning score has been between 23-under and 26-under in each of the last 3 years.

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CJ Cup Byron Nelson – Top-5 picks

Odds provided by BetMGM Sportsbook ; access USA TODAY Sports Scores and Sports Betting Odds hub for a full list. Lines last updated Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. ET.

Jordan Spieth (+350)

Admittedly, it's really hard to get behind Spieth with the way he's been playing lately, but he's back home in Texas and has good course history (2nd and 9th). Even as inconsistent as he's been this season, he has the ability to flip a switch very quickly and get back on track.

Alex Noren (+450)

Noren has finished between 9th and 23rd in each of his last 5 starts this season and has results of 12th and 21st in 2 starts at TPC Craig Ranch. He's a perfect blend of recent form and tournament history.

CJ Cup Byron Nelson – Top-10 picks

Tom hoge (+320).

Hoge should find himself in contention just based on his ball-striking, but he's also putting the ball well enough to win soon, too. In his last 2 individual events, he's finished 18th and 14th.

Keith Mitchell (+375)

Mitchell has played really well this season, with his lone hiccup recently coming at the Houston Open where he missed the cut. That was right after his collapse at the Valspar Championship but he's since gotten back on track with a T-14 at the Valero Texas Open.

Byeong Hun An (+275)

An finished 14th here last year and he was on a roll this season before missing the cut at the Players and Valero Texas Open. He bounced back with a T-16 at the Masters and with this week being a birdie fest, he should be in the mix.

CJ Cup Byron Nelson – Top-20 picks

Nate lashley (+333).

Lashley has finished 17th and 23rd in his last 2 starts in this event and earlier this year, he came in 3rd at the Famers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines. All we need is a top 20 and it's a good value at +333.

C.T. Pan (+333)

Pan came in 4th place at this tournament last year, the first time he played this event. He's currently on a 6-event made-cut streak and if he plays the weekend at TPC Craig Ranch, he'll have a decent shot at cracking the top 20.

Jhonattan Vegas (+500)

Vegas came in 23rd at the Corales Puntacana Championship, his 2nd top-25 finish this season. Back in 2021, he finished 9th and he made the cut (59th-place finish) in 2022, which are his lone 2 starts in this event.

CJ Cup Byron Nelson – Matchups

Suggested play is golfer in bold .

Byeong Hun An (-110) vs. Min Woo Lee (-110)

It's not that I don't like Lee this week, but I just prefer An. Lee hasn't taken that major step forward that many were expecting this year and he missed the cut last year when An finished 14th.

CJ Cup Byron Nelson – Top English

Aaron rai (+160).

Rai ranks 27th in SG: tee-to-green, but it's been his putting holding him back. It's not a great field for Englishmen, with Matt Wallace having the 2nd-best odds at +350, so I'll take Rai.

CJ Cup Byron Nelson – First-round leader

Alex noren (+3300).

Noren ranks 7th on tour in 1st-round scoring average this season. He fired a 65 here in the opening round in 2021, which was tied for 7th.

CJ Cup Byron Nelson – To make the cut

An, min woo lee and hoge: yes (+165).

I like all 3 players this week with how open the course is. An and Lee are good drivers of the football, while Hoge is a terrific iron player.

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