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Jim Furyk walks to the 18th green with his caddie Mike "Fluff" Cowan during the RBC Heritage at Harbour Town Golf Links. (Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)
• FEDEXCUP: Winner receives 500 points.
• CHARITY: The Heritage Classic Foundation, which has given more than $32 million to outlets in South Carolina and Georgia since its 1987 start. The foundation’s Scholar Program awards nearly 30 Beaufort County college students with up to $22,000 in aid. Other recipients include the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Lowcountry and the Child Abuse Prevention Association.
• FIELD WATCH: Jason Day, already twice a winner in 2016, and Open Championship titleholder Zach Johnson head a roster that includes nine of the top 30 in the current world rankings. … Bryson DeChambeau, just the fifth man to win U.S. Amateur and NCAA crowns in the same year, will make his professional debut at Harbour Town. The California native was runner-up at the Australian Masters in December. … Five-time Heritage champion Davis Love III is back for his 28th Heritage start, two shy of Jay Haas’ standard. He last won the event in 2003. … Reigning champion Jim Furyk won’t defend his title, still rehabbing from wrist surgery in early February. He will strike the ceremonial opening drive across Calibogue Sound, though.
• 72-HOLE RECORD: 264, Brian Gay (2009).
• 18-HOLE RECORD: 61, David Frost (2nd round, 1994), Troy Merritt (2nd round, 2015).
• LAST YEAR: Furyk finally ended an exasperating 4 ½-year victory drought in dramatic fashion, charging into a playoff with an 8-under-par 63 and adding two more birdies to dispatch Kevin Kisner. Furyk carded six birdies in his first nine holes, including a 48-footer at No.8 that moved him to the front, and added three birdies on the back. Kisner chased him down, though, with three birdies in his final five holes to force the playoff. After both birdied a replay of the 18th, Furyk stuck his tee shot at the par-3 17th to within 7 feet of the flagstick. It was Furyk’s first victory since the 2010 TOUR Championship, a span of 100 starts in which he had gone 0-for-9 in closing out 54-hole leads.
• STORYLINES: Kisner, whose effort came closest to giving the Heritage its first home-state winner, will try again to attain that distinction. The Aiken native was a South Carolina junior standout before heading to college at Georgia. … Luke Donald, who owns five top-3 finishes at Harbour Town in the past seven years, once again pursues that elusive first Heritage victory. He has played those seven editions in a combined 56-under par. … Jason Bohn, out the past seven weeks following a heart attack at the Honda Classic, marks his return to action. Doctors inserted a stent into an artery found to be more than 90 percent blocked.
• SHORT CHIPS: Since the Heritage moved into the post-Masters slot in 1983, just six men have won without spending the prior week at Augusta National. Four, though, have come in the past decade – Aaron Baddeley (2006), Boo Weekley (’07), Brian Gay (’09) and Carl Pettersson (’12). … The RBC Heritage has seen just 32 occasions in which someone has posted four rounds in the 60s, though six took place last year in soggy conditions. Before that, the event had gone four years without one. … Four of the past five winners also have happened to be RBC ambassadors, with Furyk joining Matt Kuchar (2014), Graeme McDowell (’13) and Brandt Snedeker (‘11).
• TELEVISION: Thursday-Friday, 3-6 p.m. ET (Golf Channel). Saturday-Sunday, 1-2:30 p.m. (GC), 3-6 p.m. (CBS).
• PGA TOUR LIVE: Thursday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.-3 p.m. ET (featured groups), 3-6 p.m. (featured holes).
• RADIO: Thursday-Friday, noon-6 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday 1-6 p.m. (PGA TOUR Radio on SiriusXM and PGATOUR.com).-
- What an exciting Sunday, that is why you watch the second nine at Augusta, congrats to Danny Willet
- In the PGSF
Good Luck to everyone this week
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