A tee-time in the Olympics is also a rare commodity. Just 60 men qualified for this year’s games and with the Olympic golf tournament a once-every-four-years event, the opportunity to represent your country on this grand stage is a unique one.
Jason Day has been given the ultimate Masters compliment, being grouped with five-time winner Tiger Woods and Max Homa for the opening two rounds at Augusta National.
The 144-player field will be competing for the richest prize in on the PGA Tour. The overall purse is $US25 million with the winner taking home $US4.5 million.
So what’s in store for this year at LACC? Tee-times have just been announced, with players competing in threesomes off the first and 10th tees during the first and second rounds this Thursday and Friday.
West Australian Min Woo Lee has maintained his position inside the top 10 on the leaderboard as driving rain made the US PGA Championship challenge at Oak Hill even tougher in Round 3.
Headline act Min Woo Lee has been paired with LPGA Tour star Su Oh and Victorian PGA champion Blake Windred as the final fields for the Fortinet Australian PGA Championship and Fortinet Australian WPGA Championship were released on Wednesday.