These guys are supposed to be PROS, so why do they need a day or two of practice on the course before the tournament?
I’ve played on golf leagues and in many charity tournaments for decades, but we were never given a couple of days to “practice” on the courses.
The real losers are the charities and the people and companies that pay to play in the pro-am events.
The idea is not to practice your game, but to learn the course, or in this cases courses. Many of the new guys have not played on these courses before; if they don’t get to hit practice putts on the greens, they won’t know how they break and the guys who have played there before will wipe them out.
In any case, they finished on time, and everyone can hop on the plane to California.