World No. 1 Rory McIlroy will be among six of the world’s leading top-10 players heading to a PGA Tour return to competition next month at the Charles Schwab Challenge in Texas.
McIlroy will be making his Tour debut in the $US 7.5m event to be played over the famed Colonial club in Fort Worth.
And joining the game’s best will be:-
- World No. 3 Brooks Koepka
- World No. 5 Dustin Johnson
- World No. 7 Patrick Reed
- World No. 9 Webb Simpson and
- World No. 10 Tommy Fleetwood
“I just want to get back out and play. So right now, I’m planning to play the first three events … and then see where we go from there,” said McIlroy.
What a change a year makes and what a change in playing priorities since the Tour went into lockdown mode of 12th March.
A year ago, just five of the then world’s top-10 made the trip to Fort Worth while another five inside the top-20 in the world.
And in the final round Charles Schwab wash-up there was just one of those in world’s to-20, and Tony Finau and then the World No. 13, who manageed to finish the Texas event inside the top-50.
Finau was runner-up but a distant four shots behind Kevin Na.
MEANTIME ..
The 2021 edition of the AT&T Byron Nelson is scheduled for May 13-16, the week after Mother’s Day next year, when it moves to TPC Craig Ranch in McKinney.
The tournament this year had been cancelled this year because of the coronavirus pandemic and with next year’s event to be the week before the PGA Championship at the Ocean Course on Kiawah Island, S.C
