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PGA TOUR THE AMERICAN EXPRESS Site: La Quinta, California. Also in the field from the top 20 are Scottie Scheffler, Tony Finau and Abraham Ancer.. Phil Mickelson is the tournament host, though the tournament does not have elite status as other player-hosted events like the Genesis Invitational, the Memorial and Arnold Palmer Invitational.. Cantlay last year closed with a 61 and finished one shot behind Si Woo Kim.. Ancer, Lucas Glover and Sungjae Im are among six players who are competing in the first three PGA Tour events of the calendar year.. Rickie Fowler makes his first start of the year and will be playing for the first time since his wife gave birth to their first child in November.. Cameron Champ returns after having to miss the winners-only Sentry Tournament of Champions with a positive COVID-19 test.. She qualified by winning the HSBC Women’s World Championship in Singapore in 2018 and missed playing because of having a child.. Lexi Thompson hasn’t won since 2019 and is not eligible for the tournament.. Other players from the top 10 in the world who chose not to play are Sei Young Kim and Minjee Lee, the only major champion from last year not playing.. The 42-man field is for PGA Tour Champions winners the last two years, senior major champions the last five years and sponsor exemptions.. He is one of six World Golf Hall of Famers in the field, along with Ernie Els, Retief Goosen, Vijay Singh, Mark O’Meara and Langer.. Jim Furyk is playing after spending four rounds at the Sony Open last week on Oahu.. Darren Clarke is the defending champion and will try to become the first back-to-back winner since the tournament moved to Hualalai in 1997.. After the start to a new year, the Champions Tour is off for three weeks before resuming in Florida.