The PGA Tour's second signature event of the season has a stacked field on an iconic course requiring pinpoint ball striking.

Rory McIlroy will be making his PGA Tour season debut this week, but Pebble Beach is not the golf course to deploy him. Pebble is one of the least driver-heavy golf courses on the PGA Tour, and it consistently mitigates McIlroy’s advantage off the tee, which properly explains his porous 66th-place finish at this event last year.

The best players in the world are walking the fairways of Pebble Beach this week — it doesn't get much better than that. And by best players, we mean it. World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler and No. 3 Rory McIlroy are set to make their first PGA Tour starts of the season come Thursday morning,