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Players in the Sentry Tournament of Champions field, the largest in the tournament’s history. Because of schedule changes due to the COVID- 19 global pandemic – the PGA Tour was silent for 13 weeks – tournament winners from 2020 are joined by those who also made the field in the Tour Championship, the FedExCup Playoffs final event.

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Hudson Swafford will hit the first shot of 2021 when the Sentry Tournament of Champions rings in the new year. Golf Channel’s featured coverage of Thursday’s first round will highlight world No. 1 and twotime Sentry winner Dustin Johnson playing with defending champion and 2017 Sentry winner Justin Thomas ( 5: 30 p. m. ET). Jon Rahm is out with 2019 TOC winner Xander Schauffele ( 5: 20). Reigning PGA champion Collin Morikawa is with Scottie Scheffler ( 5: 10). Reigning U. S. Open champ Bryson DeChambeau is alongside Brendon Todd ( 4). And Webb Simpson is playing with Sungjae Im ( 4: 50).