Seven former event winners and a quintet of major tournament champions will be among the 130 golfers in the field this week when the PGA Tour heads to the Magnolia State for the Sanderson Farms Championship in Jackson, Miss.The event, which is held at at Country Club of Jackson, is the fourth tournament in the PGA Tours wraparound schedule that bridges two years with 43 events as part of the 2016-17 PGA Tour Season.Last year, Peter Malnati shot a final round 5-under-par 67 to rally past a crowded leaderboard, finish at 18-under and win his first PGA Tour event while beating William McGirt and David Toms by one stroke. He was one shot behind going into the final round, but closed with five birdies over his last 12 holes.The rain-soaked tournament was forced to complete play on Monday. This year, the forecast is for warm and dry weather, which will create a different test and, likely, lower scores. Eleven of the past 15 Sanderson Farms Championships have been decided by either one stroke or in a playoff.The event (formerly called the Viking Classic, the True South Classic and the Southern Farm Bureau Classic, et al.) moved to the Country Club of Jackson in 2014 after being contested for 19 years at Annandale Country Club in Madison, Miss.In his win in 2015, Malnati blitzed the rain-softened putting surfaces by making the most feet of putts in any Tour event last season (495 feet, 7 inches over the four days) and the most putts of more than 10 feet in any tournament in 2015-16 (16). He outperformed the rest of the Sanderson Farms Championship field by plus-2.943 strokes per round.Ive heard that the rough will be thicker and longer this year and if the fairways are firm that will create a fun challenge, Malnati said. Im looking forward to that. This course has some of the best greens we putt on Tour.Patton Kizzire, who is also in the field, finished fourth here last year and is familiar with the course from his days playing at Auburn.Im excited about the weather this week, Kizzire said. Last year the weather was rough, but the course handled it well. The course is fun to play. Itll be a little different year, but I like the Country Club of Jackson.Kizzire ended up playing in three of the four majors, making the cut at the British Open and PGA Championship. He made the cut in 20 of his 27 events last season.You have to understand its a long year and keep doing you and see if you can do you better than anyone else, Kizzire said. If you play your own game and youre not really worrying about what everyone else is doing, you can stay patient.Other previous Sanderson Farms Championship winners in this years field are Nick Taylor (2014), Scott Stallings (2012), Chris Kirk (2011), Will MacKenzie (2008), D.J. 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There were times he seemed not only outside but above the game, a perception he did nothing to discourage, and a perception teammates and bosses sometimes found a bit too precious. He was someone they couldnt predict or control, and there was something vaguely intimidating, even menacing, about that. He looked sideways at footballs conservative, corporate culture wars and asked -- peacefully and respectfully -- why he and people like him werent always treated peaceably and respectfully. He could make you uncomfortable and enjoy watching the discomfort.Just a hunch, but his mentality -- one that made him turn everything around in his head, again and again, before it caught just the right light -- made it easier for him to walk away rather than continue to chase something that had already passed him by. 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He often defused, or simply ended, locker room debates with his Christian teammates by citing Bible verses they had never read.The culture of the game amused him; this is a sport that actively pursues a vaunted place in Americana. It wants to be bigger than it is, bigger than your everyday diversion, and it fills itself with religion and patriotism until its distended belly achieves the goal. The fact that it succeeded spectacularly was not something Foster found particularly exemplary.He was wary of the games business side, knowing that his spot on a team and in the limelight would last only until someone younger and cheaper came along. And yet the game still managed to get inside him, no matter how hard he tried to hold it at arms length. His eloquent retirement statement touched on the interior conflict most players feel but few can articulate. The game has been everything to me, he wrote. My therapy, my joy, my solace and my enemy.Foster reminded me of a character named Gary Harkness from Don Delillos novel End Zone. Harkness lined up at fullback at a fictional Texas college and pondered nuclear catastrophe while his teammates worried about third-and-3. Faceless gladiators have shuffled in and out of this arena for decades, Foster wrote in his statement, and Im proud to have taken part in that legacy.Foster told me he would stand on the sideline before games -- back before he joined Colin Kaepernick in kneeling for the national anthem -- and watch the pageantry and the flyover and the burgeoning rage from the fans in the stands. His mind would drift and he would think, This is just a game. In the grand scheme of things, it really doesnt matter that much. He thought about that for a second and said, But you cant admit that -- or else.The joke there is obvious: Foster was admitting it. But he was admitting it and still running for more than 6,500 yards in an injury-shortened career. In a way, his entire career was part-admission, part-affirmation: You could be an outsider, a guy who thought his own thoughts and fought to forcibly place the game within its proper context, and still put together a memorable career on the field. As legacies go, its not a bad one to leave behind. ' ' '