For the second time, Cameron Champ of Sacramento, California has tested positive for coronavirus. This time Champ will be unable to participate at the 2022 Sentry Tournament of Champions, the opening event of the 2022 PGA Tour season from the Hawaiian island of Maui.
Champ initially tested positive for coronavirus on June 23, 2020. He qualified for the 2022 Sentry Tournament of Champions by winning the 3M Open in Minnesota in late July. The tournament in Maui is usually only open to winners on the PGA Tour from the previous season. However last year players who participated in the Sentry Tournament of Champions received an invite if they played in the 2020 Tour Championship in Atlanta.
The biggest story heading into the 2022 Sentry Tournament of Champions is the fact that Phil Mickelson will be participating for the first time since 2001. We all know about Mickelson’s remarkable PGA Championship victory where he became the oldest major winner ever at age 50.
Mickelson will be one of three consecutive pairings that will feature major champions. He is being teamed up with 2021 Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama of Japan. The others have 2021 British Open champion and 2020 PGA Championship winner Collin Morikawa golfing with 2018 Masters champion Patrick Reed, followed by the pairing of 2017 PGA Championship winner Justin Thomas and three-time grand slam champion Jordan Spieth, who won the 2015 Masters and 2015 United States Open, along with the 2017 British Open. Like Mickelson, Thomas, Morikawa, Reed and Spieth are American.
In all, there will be 38 golfers participating at the Sentry Tournament of Champions this weekend. The defending champion is American Harris English.
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