The Sunday Sweat

Arnold Palmer Invitational

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The PGA Tour has a new classification system for their tournaments, and with that comes a new term, "designated events."

Designated events were designed to improve the product for fans, ensuring the best players would be competing at the best tournaments with the added benefit of much larger purses.

Shocking the golfing world this week, the Tour announced that all designated events will feature limited fields and no cuts starting in 2024. This marks a major shift from their current format and a move that looks oddly similar to the LIV Golf League.. 🤔

The 2024 designated event schedule will include the four majors, the Players, the three FedEx Cup playoff events and an additional eight still-to-be determined tournaments. Of those eight, four are presumed to be the Sentry Tournament of Champions, Genesis Invitational, the Arnold Palmer Invitational and the Memorial.

  • ⛳️ Tournament: Arnold Palmer Invitational

  • 📍 Location: Orlando, Florida

  • 💰 Purse: $20,000,000

  • 🎥 Watch: 2:30-6pm ET (NBC)

  • 🏆 Final Group: Tees off at 1:30pm ET

Viktor Hovland is in the hunt this week and chasing his first win of 2023 AND his first win on U.S. soil. He's put on an absolute ball-striking clinic at Bay Hill jarring his 4th career ACE on the PGA Tour. Hovland said if you catch him in a bar, you can put your drinks on his tab🍻

Cameron Young was the 2022 PGA Rookie of Year, one of the most exciting young players on Tour posting two Top-5's in majors as a rook. He finds himself back in the mix this weekend at an elevated event playing for the big bucks. If only we all had this shot in the bag from 245 with an iron... Sheesh👇

We could highlight Scottie Scheffler every week at this point. Can't say this guy is just on a heater anymore, he is just really damn good. He put a nice little string of birdies together to finish his 3rd round heading into Sunday 1-shot back of the lead.

Scottie Scheffler was HOT last year. It was his breakout year on the PGA TOUR. He kicked the year off with a victory at the Waste Management Phoenix Open. He followed that up with a victory at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, The Masters, and the World Golf Championship-Dell Technologies Match Play.

Even with all that success, he finished the 2021-2022 season on a bit of a lull, getting chased down by Rory Mcilroy at the TOUR Championship at East Lake and missing out on $12.25M. Though he still made $5.75M for finishing T2.

This Texas boy is out for revenge in the 2022-2023 season. Scheffler went back-to-back at the tournament that made him a winner for the first time on the PGA TOUR, the Waste Management Phoenix Open. He’s now trying to go back-to-back at the tournament that made him a second time winner, the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

Winning the Arnold Palmer Invitational would not only make Scheffler a back-to-back winner AGAIN this year, it would also take him back to world #1, overtaking the seemingly unstoppable, Jon Rahm. Can this kid carry his birdie-birdie-birdie finish from Saturday into Sunday and claim back his throne???

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