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Rory McIlroy will next week take the leading role in the first professional golf to be televised live in more than two months. The world No 1 will partner Dustin Johnson in a charity match against Rickie Fowler and Matthew Wolff in Florida. Sky Sports will screen the 18 holes, which will begin at 7pm at UK time on Sunday May 17, with NBC broadcasting it across America. The behind-closed-doors event at Seminole - the much-lauded layout near McIlroy's Jupiter home where father Gerry is a member - will benefit the coronavirus relief efforts, with $4m being put up by UnitedHealth Group and Farmers Insurance. Officials will follow social-distancing guidelines and there will be testing measures to protect the health and safety of the golfers, production crews and others on site. In that sense, it will be a useful guide for the PGA Tour, that intends to restart their schedule - under similar conditions, albeit with 140-plus players - at the Charles Schwab Challenge in Dallas on June 11.
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