Defending champion Bubba Watson is one of the headliners in the field for this week's Genesis Open, which begins play Thursday at venerable Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, Calif., set in the Santa Monica Canyon outside Los Angeles.
There are plenty of other sizzling golfers to focus on as well, including three players who won the most recent tournament in which they competed. And plenty of attention will be on one player who withdrew from the event last week because of injury but will still be around the course all weekend.
The three recent winners -- Jordan Spieth, who captured the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am last week, and Hideki Matsuyama of Japan and Sergio Garcia of Spain, winners of the Waste Management Phoenix Open in Scottsdale, Ariz.