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Couples: Safeway likely last Tour start outside Masters

Making a rare PGA Tour start this week in Napa, Fred Couples admitted that this could be his final stint with the under-50 crowd outside of the Masters.

Couples, who turned 59 on Wednesday, has battled back problems for much of his career and told Golf Digest this summer that "time's running out" on his playing career. He made only one start in the first six months of the year on PGA Tour Champions, although the second half of his season included four top-20 finishes in six starts.

Playing this week at Silverado Resort & Spa on a sponsor invite, Couples is making his first PGA Tour start outside of Augusta since the 2016 Genesis Open.