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 January 3, 2008 (UPDATED JAN. 5)--Three Las Vegas golfers are in the field for the 2008 PGA Tour opener, the Mercedes Benz Championship (only 2007 champions are invited), but Adam Scott (pictured), a former UNLV golfer, isn't in the field despite winning the 2007 Shell Houston Open. Reports indicated that he cited 'exhaustion' as his reason for missing the event while Chad Campbell and Charley Hoffman (former Rebels), and Nick Watney (Henderson resident) are in Hawaii teeing it up. Watney is the leader after the first round. Click now to read how he credits Las Vegas' own Butch Harmon, and to read his official first round press conference. After Round two Watney is in fourth. Click now for Watney's second round press conference. Follow the Las Vegas golfers with LIVE SCORING now. For more ...
Scott is in good company as six of the world's best players are missing the event including the top two, Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson. But Scott's camp said that a 'heavy dose of international starts in January and February' were the reason he wasn't in Hawaii. Scott is said to be slated for a debut on the PGA Tour at the new Northern Trust Open, formerly the Nissan Open, in February. Campbell won the 2007 Viking Classic to qualify for the opener while Charley Hoffman, a member of the 1998 UNLV National Championship team, won the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic. Watney is a new resident of Henderson, a Las Vegas suburb, won the Zurich Classic of New Orleans.  Watney and Hoffman, still a Las Vegas resident, both work on their games at the Butch Harmon School of Golf located at Las Vegas golf course Rio Secco Golf Club. Rio Secco is one if two Rees Jones-designed Las Vegas golf courses. Cascata is the other. Both are owned by Harrahs.
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