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Here\u2019s the field, format and TV times for this year\u2019s PNC Championship.<\/p>\n
The invitation to the year-ending team event is particularly special following a difficult few seasons for Woodland, who was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2023 and continues to deal with symptoms following surgery.<\/p>\n
Getting a chance to play professional golf again following his diagnosis was special, but the opportunity to compete alongside his father, who introduced him to golf, is an exhale moment following a trying spell.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy whole life is in perspective now. To be honest, I probably took it for granted being out here. This is my 17th year out here on Tour. You just expect that to happen every year,\u201d Woodland said. \u201cIt\u2019s still been a journey, right? I\u2019m still battling. I\u2019m still grinding. Even for us, my first tournament back after surgery was Sony, and I got a call the Saturday before from my mom that my dad got diagnosed with cancer. So my poor mom\u2019s been through it more than either one of us, dealing with us.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut he rang the bell [for being cancer-free] almost a year ago now, and I\u2019ve gotten to a point where I\u2019m still healing but I\u2019m getting better. This is a special week for both of us for perspective for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n
The biggest challenge for the Woodlands this week will likely be expectations, with Dan Woodland admitting that when he received the news he would be teamed with his son in the event, it came with a healthy amount of competitive anxiety.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, I don\u2019t play a whole lot. Gary gave me a call about a month ago, month and a half ago, and I can tell you, I\u2019ve hit more golf balls the last month and a half than I have the last 25 years,\u201d Dan Woodland said. \u201cSo that kind of explains it all. Like I say, I spend a lot of time with my grandkids, but how can you turn this opportunity down? It\u2019s awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 As an example of how coveted a spot in this week\u2019s PNC Championship field has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-357188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}