The Big Boys Finally Come Out to Play

Yeah, I recognize we have already seen Rory gambling for the closing 3 weeks... However he changed into simply seeking to get his recreation returned in form. This week it is the gamers whose games were already in form who get back into the sport!

The World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions begins this night -- take into account, American readers, that this event is in China so Thursday starts around half of a day earlier for them. (Is it just me or are the guys chasing the ladies around the globe? The LPGA changed into in Malaysia weeks ago, and the PGA Tour played there closing week while the LPGA teed it up in China, and this week...)

Bubba Watson is the protecting champion.

Ten of the Top15 within the OWGR are in the discipline:

• Jordan Spieth
• Rory McIlroy
• Bubba Watson
• Rickie Fowler
• Henrik Stenson
• Dustin Johnson
• Sergio Garcia
• Adam Scott
• Louis Oosthuizen
• Hideki Matsuyama

The other five -- Jason Day, Jim Furyk, Brooks Koepka, Justin Rose and Zach Johnson--  aren't playing anywhere this week. Rose's absence surprises me a bit since he's fifth in the Race to Dubai but he skipped last week as well. He is listed in next week's event, the BMW Masters which is also in Shanghai.

I accept as true with Spieth, Stenson and Watson are GC's featured group in their telecast this night, even though the McIlroy-Fowler-Johnson institution tees off about an hour later so you'll possibly get to see pretty of bit of them as nicely.

GC lists their lead-in coverage to begin tonight at 9pm ET and the event broadcast proper at 10pm ET . Looks like another week of late, late, LATE night golf!