The event, slated for March 20-23, was scheduled to be held at Palos Verdes Golf Club and feature a $2 million purse.

Keeping the tourney in California and the proximity to Riviera Country Club were primary factors for selecting Torrey Pines for the Feb. 13-16 to the event.

Riviera Country Club sits right in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, which was devastated by a fire earlier this month.

Scottie Scheffler has committed to play the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am next week, his first competition in about six weeks while recovering from a puncture wound to his right hand while preparing Christmas dinner. Scheffler had said at the start of the week the recovery was progressing well and he was eager to get back but that he wasn't about to “rush back just to rush back.” The AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am has the largest field (80 players) of the $20 million signature events because of the amateur component over two days at Pebble Beach and Spyglass Hill.

English golfer Marcus Armitage retained the lead at the Ras Al Khaimah Championship but saw his advantage trimmed to two strokes after shooting 3-under 69 in the second round on Friday. The No. ranked Armitage birdied his final two holes at Al Hamra Golf Club to stay on track for a first win since the European Open in 2021.

Els was a scratch golfer by age 14 and his first big victory was that same year when he beat Phil Mickelson in the 1984 Junior World Golf Championship.

The colder it got last week at Deerwood, the more Tennessee assistant golf coach Payne Denman strengthened his hold on the First Coast Amateur lead.

Adam Svensson had an all-time bad break, missing the cut after the horn went of during his birdie putt, that if it dropped, to make the weekend.

Round 2 was suspended for nearly 90 minutes on Thursday before darkness ultimately ended play at Torrey Pines.

Ludvig Aberg and Lanto Griffin shared the lead Thursday at Torrey Pines in the Farmers Insurance Open after ferocious wind forced an 86-minute delay and prevented dozens of players from finishing the second round. First-round leader Aberg fought to a 3-over 75, while Griffin had a 72 — both on the South Course — to sit even with Aberg at 6-under 138. Danny Walker was 5 under, while Chris Gotterup had a 69 to match the day's best round and join Hayden Springer and Sungjae Im at 4 under.