The Sanderson Farms Championship returns to the Country Club of Jackson in Jackson, Mississippi, this week, continuing its stint as the state’s lone PGA Tour event.
From Presidents Cup standouts, to a Monday qualifier's musical prodigy brother, to the most controversial trophy on Tour, here’s five things you need to know about this year’s Sanderson Farms Championship:
No rest for the weary
Three players from last week's Presidents Cup are in the Sanderson field. That includes defending champion Sam Burns, the lone U.S. representative, as well as Internationals Sebastian Munoz and Christiaan Bezuidenhout. Burns' victory was his second-career Tour title and the first of three last season.