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Published 6:31 PM EST Jan 8, 2019
Golf fans will get into the Waste Management Phoenix Open Presented by The Ak-Chin Indian Community for free on Monday and Tuesday leading up to the tournament during "Ford Free Days".
Both days feature practice rounds by PGA Tour players. Also on Monday is the Kadima.Ventures Pro-Am. On Tuesday is the R.S. Hoyt Jr. Family Foundation Dream Day, the San Tan Ford Special Olympics Open and the PGA Tour Wives Classic.
"This marks the fourth consecutive year our event and Ford have teamed up to offer free admission to all of our fans," said Tournament Chairman Chance Cozby in a statement.
As part of the renewed partnership, the second-annual closest-to-the-pin contest called "FORD Drive for Your Ride" will take place at the 16th hole. Players will have a chance to win a new Ford Edge ST and also give a new Ford Edge ST to one of ten local non-profit organizations.
Sports stars join LPGA Tour season openerCardinals receiver Larry Fitzgerald, Cardinals cornerback Patrick Peterson, former Cardinals quarterback Carson Palmer and former Coyotes star Jeremy Roenick will help kick off the 2019 LPGA Tour season next week in Orlando.
Fifty sports celebrities will join LPGA champions from 2017 and 2018 in the Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions in a 72-hole, $1.7 million competition.
The current list of LPGA stars includes 20 of the top 25 money winners from last season.
The tournament is a 72-hole, no-cut event.
The LPGA Tour will then make two stops in Australia before heading to Thailand and Singapore before returning to the U.S. March 21-24 for the Bank of Hope Founders Cup at Wildfire in Phoenix.
Harrington named European team captainPadraig Harrington is under no illusions about what captaining the 2020 European Ryder Cup team at Whistling Straits could mean to his career.
It could possibly damage his legacy. Maybe that's why he took on the job with some "trepidation."
The worst kept secret in golf was revealed in the Ballroom of the Wentworth Club in England, home of the European Tour and venue for the 1953 Ryder Cup match. Harrington takes over from Thomas Bjorn to lead Europe in two years' time. We'll need to wait two years for the golf's second-worst kept secret – that Lee Westwood will captain the 2022 European team to play in Rome.
In the meantime, Harrington knows only one result matters in Wisconsin.
"It does reflect on my career how this goes," Harrington admitted. "When you're a Ryder Cup captain you're putting a lot of your history in the game, your legacy, on the line."
Harrington, 47, was a member of Thomas Bjorn's backroom staff at Le Golf National last year, his third time acting as a vice-captain after six appearances as a player. He had success as vice-captain to Paul McGinley in 2014 before losing alongside Darren Clarke at Hazeltine in 2016. He played on four winning Euro teams, compiling a 9-13-3 won/lost/halved record.
— Alistair Tait, Golfweek
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