Canadians Adam Hadwin/Nick Taylor ($8,600) posted 28 under and lost by two in 2023, then returned with a T10 in 2024. Taylor won the Sony Open in Hawaii in January. Hadwin owns a T9 from Phoenix.

Not that there’s ever a preferred time to focus on secondary objectives when the primary seems out of reach but Scottie Scheffler’s runaway victory at THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson was as good as ...