Every Tour player I talked to at the Honda thought McIlroy's move was a no-brainer.
Curtis is the last PGA Tour player to win on a Tuesday, at the Booz Allen Classic in 2006.
The other two spots went to Nick Gilliam and Josh McCumber, the nephew of former PGA Tour player Mark McCumber.
Roger Federer is a talented tennis player whose all-around skills would perhaps be enough to make him a solid tour player.
Former European Tour player Hamill hit five birdies in his opening nine holes to move into the lead on five under.
He is bidding to become the first American ATP Tour player to triumph in the Palm Desert since Andre Agassi in 2001.
Our Tour player was the impeccably mannered and polite Brit, Brian Davis.
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The statistic is computed by calculating the average number of putts a PGA TOUR player is expected to take from every distance, based on ShotLink data from the previous season.
The best round of the day was a 62 by Web.com Tour player Franklin Corpening, a Fort Worth native who grew up at Colonial and played at TCU. He finished at 8 under and tied for 14th, earning an automatic invitation to play again next year.
As a result of all this cash up for grabs, plus the opportunity for a mid-level Tour player to make a seven figure annual income without ever actually wining, there will always be a crop of new young guns following in the footsteps of McIlroy and Bubba Watson.
The four-time Solheim Cup player was also named Ladies European Tour Players' Player of the Year in December.
Finchem hates the divisiveness and distraction the proposal has stirred up, and reportedly prevailed on the Tour's player policy board, which met Monday, to write a letter to the USGA expressing the Tour's opposition.
Norwich have been joined on tour by another player on a trial basis, Danish central defender Jens Berthel Askou.
Their cause has been led by a rare group of all-time players in their prime: Roger Federer (who is president of the ATP World Tour's player council), Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray.
Since 2003 the Tour has recorded detailed information about every shot hit by every player in every PGA Tour round.
Although he was the top black player on tour in the 1960s, he was never invited to play in The Masters.
The Briton, 21, went into the match as the in-form player on tour, aiming for a record third straight Masters title after 14 consecutive wins.
"Also, as the youngest player on tour, I now have responsibility for (mascot) Lenny the Lion, so Keith Earls officially handed over custody as soon as I walked into the team room!"
The 28-year-old is arguably the form player on tour after his success at the ATP World Tour Finals last November and in Doha to start the year -- where he beat both Federer and Rafael Nadal.
"It gives me a lot of confidence going into this year, " Johnson told the Tour's official website after becoming the first player since Tiger Woods to win a PGA Tour title in each of his first six seasons out of college.
If someone said I was the stand-out player of the tour, I could probably take it now.
The absence of the world's best player from the tour -- however temporary -- doesn't give Garcia a free run at a Majors title.
Mr. Kinzler qualified fourth on Saturday, while keeping an eye on Mark Stenmark, a towering former gas and oil worker from Houston and the hottest player on the tour.
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He enjoyed mixed success during a two-year stint as captain but enjoyed a renaissance as a player during a tour of England in 2011, scoring 461 runs and making three centuries in a series that India lost 4-0.
Henson, a Grand Slam winner in 2005 and 2008, was a Lions Test player on the 2005 tour of New Zealand.
The Toronto-based player won five PSA Tour titles last year and reclaimed the world number one spot for the first time in four years.
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He also has more match wins than any other player on the ATP Tour this year, with Wednesday's win over Melzer his 24th of 2013.
Love entered the US PGA Tour record books as the only player in the history of the Players Championship to go from first to missing the cut.
Ninth seed Ferrer had lost all nine of his previous meetings with Federer but is the most in-form player on the ATP Tour this season, having won 33 matches.
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