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For many years the last of the four Grand Slam tournaments on the PGA Tour, the 2020 PGA Championship in this very unusual campaign will be the first of the three Slams – the British Open was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic – when the best field of the season tees off Thursday at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco. It’s the penultimate tournament of the 2019-20 PGA Tour regular season.

It’s the first time that course has held a major championship – it last held a PGA Tour event in 2015, the WGC-Match Play, hosted the Presidents Cup in 2009 and the WGC-American Express Championship in 2005. This also will be the first major ever held at a TPC property, and it’s the first time since 1995 (Riviera in Los Angeles) that the PGA Championship will be played in California. TPC Harding Park is a par 70 at 7,234 yards.

As of now, 95 of the world’s Top 100 players are scheduled to play. The highest-ranked players missing are Italy’s Francesco Molinari and England’s Lee Westwood. The latter doesn’t feel comfortable traveling to the USA right now because of the coronavirus surging in the United States, while Molinari, the 2018 British Open winner, didn’t give a reason for withdrawing.