Overview
- Golfers wore yellow ribbons during Sunday’s final round at PGA National as part of Play Yellow to raise money and awareness for children’s hospitals.
- Play Yellow traces to Jack Nicklaus’s Sunday yellow tradition and honors Craig Smith, a family friend diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma in 1968.
- The Nicklaus Children’s Health Care Foundation has been the Cognizant Classic’s main charity partner since 2007, and the broader effort reports more than $100 million raised since 2019.
- Shane Lowry and Brooks Koepka took part in the display, while top names such as Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy did not compete this week.
- Nicklaus called the tournament a community fixture and said he does not expect it to go away despite scheduling challenges.