How Scottie Scheffler met his agents — when he was 8 — and formed a relationship that ‘goes beyond business’

With three of the top-10 players in the Official World Golf Ranking raised in Dallas and still calling “Big D” home, AT&T Byron Nelson tournament director John Drago should have a leg up on securing a field of big names to TPC Craig Ranch in McKinney, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, that brings the locals rushing to secure tickets to one of the city’s most popular rites of spring.

But that was before No. 9 Will Zalatoris had season-ending back surgery last month and No. 10 Jordan Spieth withdrew on Monday citing a wrist injury. That leaves Scottie Scheffler, who slipped to No. 2 in the world when he draped a Green Jacket on Spain’s Jon Rahm last month, to take top billing all by himself on the tournament marquee this week.