The NFL offseason is a seemingly endless slog, a seven-month stretch between games that actually matter.
The PGA Tour’s offseason, meanwhile, is the length of a commercial break. After Rory McIlroy was crowed FedEx Cup Playoff champion at East Lake on Aug. 25, the tour took less than three weeks off before the 2019-20 schedule kicked off at the Greenbrier in West Virginia earlier this month. And while the fields at the first two events of the year did not garner much notice, this weekend’s Safeway Open in California has attracted a strong group of players, including Justin Thomas, Patrick Cantlay, Adam Scott, Bryson DeChambeau and Phil Mickelson.