Four years ago, Arnold Palmer joked that he was going to break Rory McIlroy’s arm if he didn’t come play in his tournament at Bay Hill. In 2015, McIlroy honoured the request, playing in the namesake’s Invitational for the first time. He returned last year, too.
Dustin Johnson has dethroned Jason Day as the best golfer on the planet by demolishing the field to win the US PGA Tour’s Genesis Open by five strokes in Los Angeles.
Hurricane Junior Golf Tour has grown tremendously in its first decade of existence. And adding two of the biggest names on the planet as backers certainly won’t hurt that development.