Shriners Children’s Open gets Ryder Cup players, loses others

Six golfers who played successful the Ryder Cup were among the precocious entries for the Shriners Children’s Open, but 3 of the biggest names expected to play person chosen to skip the tournament.

Reigning PGA Tour subordinate of the twelvemonth Patrick Cantlay, Collin Morikawa and Bryson DeChambeau failed to perpetrate to the tournament, which begins Thursday astatine TPC Summerlin. Cantlay and DeChambeau are past champions of the tournament, and British Open champion Morikawa passed up a location game, surviving minutes from the course.

“We were hopeful they would come, but yet it is their decision, and we respect that,” said Patrick Lindsey, enforcement manager of the tournament.

After a lengthy agelong of FedEx playoffs and Ryder Cup, Lindsey said the players are simply exhausted.

“We expect to spot them again successful the future,” helium said.

Despite their absence, the Shriners volition diagnostic a beardown field, which includes 27 of the apical 50 players successful the Official World Golf Rankings and 13 past large title winners.

Brooks Koepka, Harris English and Scottie Scheffler from the triumphant U.S. Ryder Cup squad volition beryllium successful Las Vegas, on with European squad members Paul Casey, Viktor Hovland and Ian Poulter.

Other apical names committed to play see Louis Oosthuizen, Hideki Matsuyama, Webb Simpson and Patrick Reed, who is playing the Shriners for the archetypal clip successful astir a decade.

The tourney volition besides diagnostic a beardown contingent of players with ties to Southern Nevada, including two-time champion Kevin Na, Ryan Moore, Maverick McNealy and Adam Scott. It includes erstwhile UNLV standout Harry Hall, a Korn Ferry Tour subordinate who received 1 of 4 sponsor’s exemption into the field.

“Overall, I’m thrilled with however it turned out,” Lindsey said of the field. “We person a truly beardown radical of players, and the upwind is going to beryllium perfect. We’re looking guardant to a truly bully week.”

Players volition request to spell debased astatine TPC Summerlin, a people that yields a ton of birdies arsenic agelong arsenic the upwind doesn’t footwear in. Last year’s event, played nether the calmest of conditions, led to a 36-hole chopped of 7 under, the lowest people needed to play the play since the PGA Tour began keeping records successful the 1970s.

Greg Robertson covers play for the Review-Journal. He tin beryllium reached astatine grobertson@reviewjournal.com.