SPONSOR EXEMPTIONS: University of Maryland product Peter Knade along with celebrated college star Chris Gotterup are in the field. Gotterup, a star at the University of Oklahoma, earned his PGA TOUR card via finished 23rd on the Korn Ferry Tour Points List this season. This is his fifth TOUR event this season… A foursome of Mexicans are teeing it up at their home-country event including Sebastian Vazquez, Jose Cristobal Islas, Isidro Benitez and former TOUR member Roberto Diaz, who notched two top-10s on the Korn Ferry Tour this season… Chase Johnson has nabbed his second TOUR start of the season. Johnson won THE JOHN SHIPPEN to earn a spot in the Rocket Mortgage Classic where he made the cut. Johnson has long pointed to Tiger Woods as an idol and has had a breakthrough 2023 campaign on the Advocates Professional Golf Association with three wins and two runner-up finishes. He earned a spot in Mexico thanks to his September APGA Farmers Insurance Fall Series win at Cincinnati… This will mark Preston Summerhays’ fourth TOUR start this season including the U.S. Open. Summerhays, who played on Team USA’s Palmer Cup team in April, is a junior at Arizona State University… Other sponsor invites include Ryan Gerard (who earned Special Temporary Membership on the PGA TOUR earlier this year), veteran Chris Naegel, and TOUR winners Camilo Villegas and Charley Hoffman