The pairings have been unveiled for this week’s PGA TOUR Matchups Game on Facebook. You can check out the Matchups for the British Open below, or on the PGA TOUR’s Facebook page.

Participants have until 6 a.m. ET Thursday to make their picks. Log on to the PGA TOUR Facebook page and click the Matchups link to make your picks for this week, or to sign up.

GO TO FACEBOOK PAGE TO PLAY MATCHUPS GAME

Matchups for the British Open:

Tiger Woods vs. Bubba Watson	Will these two big hitters bag their drivers for the entire week?
Padraig Harrington vs. Rory McIlroy	Two Irishmen -- and two different ways of navigating the links
Sergio Garcia vs. Dustin Johnson	Both have come oh-so-close to winning this event
Luke Donald vs. Lee Westwood	Will one of these greats finally snag that elusive major?
Darren Clarke vs. Louis Oosthuizen	The last two British Open champs clash at Royal Lytham

Got a question for Chris Kirk? Send us your questions for Direct Connect — PGATOUR.COM’s video franchise that gets you closer to a PGA TOUR pro each week — and host John Swantek might use it when he chats the defending champion of the True South Classic.

If you’ve been wanting to ask Kirk a question, now is your opportunity. Just fill out the form below.

Also, we are now taking video submissions of questions. If you would like to send a video of you asking your question, please email the video to directconnectpgatour@gmail.com . Please keep video to 20 seconds or less, shoot landscape style, and include your name and where you’re from in the text of your email.

Direct Connect video is posted each Wednesday afternoon on PGATOUR.COM, so please check back then for the Kirk interview.

FEDEXCUP: Current standings | Weekly leaders | More By Chris Dunham, PGATOUR.COM Does anyone enjoy the Humana Challenge in partnership with the Clinton Foundation more than Bill Haas? The reigning FedExCup champion has found no shortage of success in seven starts in La Quinta. The 2010 champion and 2011 runner-up has posted 20 consecutive sub-70 rounds here. In seven starts, Haas has just one round over par and no finish lower than a tie for 34th (2005, in his event debut). This week presents the 29-year-old’s second opportunity to get a quick start on his title defense. His first attempt didn’t go as well as hoped when Haas started 2012 with two even-par 73s while more than half the field was posting red numbers at Kapalua. Bookends were key for Haas en route to the 2011 FedExCup title. Of his seven top-10 finished, Haas had three to open his year and one to close the FedExCup season. If he doesn’t have a good week here, Haas will be behind his schedule from the last two years and will need to make up ground elsewhere. With more than 30 events ahead, he’ll have plenty of opportunities to rack up points, though. FRAZAR ENTERS THE PICTURE: Sticking with golf is looking like a very good decision for Harrison Frazar. It took 355 starts for Frazar to break through with his maiden victory (last year’s FedEx St. Jude Classic). Prior to that, Frazar hadn’t finished inside the top 10 since the 2009 Turning Stone Resort Championship or the top 3 since 2005 at Disney. Now Frazar is off to one of the best starts on TOUR, earning a tie for fifth and a T2 in two 2012 starts -- the only player with two top-5 finishes -- and a fourth-place standing in the FedExCup race. ROOKIE SECONDS: While the Sony Open in Hawaii has not featured a rookie finisher inside the top 10 since 2009, the Humana Challenge is far more welcoming to the first-year TOUR pros. Three rookies -- Chris Kirk, Keegan Bradley and champion Jhonattan Vegas -- finished inside the top 10 here last year. Interestingly, that trio all ended the season with victories and spots in the top five of PGATOUR.COM’s Rookie Rankings. Ted Potter Jr. (T13 at the Sony Open) is off to the best start in this year’s class.

By Mike McAllister, PGATOUR.COM

KAPALUA, Hawaii -- Chris Kirk had to play as a single in the first round after playing partner and good friend Lucas Glover pulled out prior to their tee time with a knee injury.

Things didn't go too well for Kirk, as he shot a 2-over 75.

For Saturday's second round, Kirk had a playing partner. Jhonattan Vegas.

The result for Kirk? Much better -- a 7-under 66 which moved him onto the first page of the leaderboard, albeit 10 shots behind leader Steve Stricker, who’s at 15 under.

"I don't want to put too much blame on having to play by myself yesterday," Kirk said, "but that definitely threw my rhythm off a little bit, being in a single amongst a bunch of twosomes."

Because the first-round tee times were already set prior to Glover's decision not to play, Kirk could not be moved to the front of the line of the 27-man field. With the pairings reshuffled for Saturday, David Toms was the single who went out in the first group, and he took just three hours to finish his round.

"I ended up waiting a lot," Kirk said. "Just waiting in general kind of throws you off your normal rhythm."

Kirk said the difference in his game from Friday to Saturday had nothing to do with any adjustments in his swing. He just felt better. The fact he produced one of just three bogey-free rounds on the day (Stricker and Jonathan Byrd had the other two) is a testament to just feeling in control.

His only glitch came on the par-5 18th when he failed to birdie after driving the green in two. He ended up three-putting from 38 feet.

"It definitely stinks to finish up a round like that," Kirk said. "Still, if you told me I was going to have 7 under at the start of the day, I would've taken it."

KAPALUA, Hawaii – Chris Kirk was scheduled to be paired with Lucas Glover in Friday’s first round at the Plantation Course. But when Glover pulled out a few hours before his tee time with a knee injury, that left Kirk by himself.

As Kirk waited on the tee, someone reminded him: “By the way, you’ll be swinging first in this group.”

Replied Kirk with a wry smile, “Thank you.”

Kirk is making his first appearance  after winning the Viking Classic last year. He also posted three other top-10 finishes in his rookie season on TOUR.

Kirk, decked out in his usual Travis Mathew attire, was wearing the company’s new Steadman shoes that look like canvas deck shoes, albeit with a specially designed sole for golf.

Three players who won PGA TOUR events in 2011 are among the names ranked No. 81-90 that were unveiled Friday on PGATOUR.COM’s Top 100 Players to Watch in 2012.

Scott Piercy (Reno-Tahoe Open), Chris Kirk (Viking Classic) and Harrison Frazar (FedEx St. Jude Classic) each won for the first time on TOUR in 2011.

Below is a link to each of the 10 players who were revealed on Friday. PGATOUR.COM will countdown the players for the rest of December, with No. 1 unveiled on Dec. 30.

Be sure to check out this year’s new addition of the Three Wise Men – Chris DiMarco, Arron Oberholser and Craig Perks, who offer their takes on each of the players on the list .

Let’s us know how you think these players will perform in 2012 and whether we ranked ‘em too high, too low or just right.

No. 81: Scott Piercy

No. 82: Chris Kirk

No. 83: John Senden

No. 84: Carl Pettersson

No. 85: Chad Campbell

No. 86: George McNeill

No. 87: Harrison Frazar

No. 88: Jeff Overton

No. 89: Chris Stroud

No. 90: Kevin Streelman

CLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE ARCHIVE PAGE/SCHEDULE FOR THE TOP 100 PLAYERS TO WATCH IN 2012

The six nominees for 2011 PGA TOUR Rookie of the Year have been unveiled.

The awards are determined by a member vote, with PGA TOUR members who played in at least 15 official money events in 2011 eligible to vote. The winners are expected to be announced the week of Dec. 12.

Nominees for the PGA TOUR Rookie of the Year are:

Keegan Bradley

Chris Kirk

Charl Schwartzel

Scott Stallings

Brendan Steele

Jhonattan Vegas

For more on the candidates, click here

Now it’s your turn. Which player do you think deserves this year’s Rookie of the Year?

Chris Kirk is one of four rookies now inside the top 30 in the FedExCup standings thanks to his victory at last week’s Viking Classic. The others are Charl Schwartzel, Keegan Bradley and Jhonattan Vegas.

While Kirk became the 10 ^th winner in his 20s to win on the PGA TOUR last week, though, the RBC Canadian Open has favored the establishment in recent years -- only three winners since 2000 have been under the age of 30 (Tiger Woods in 2000, John Rollins in 2002 and Chez Reavie in 2008).

Speaking of Reavie, who got his first career win at this event, he seems to have re-captured his form after undergoing ACL surgery on his right knee in June 2010. He missed the remainder of last year and has played on a combination of medical extension and past champion status this year. But his recent finishes include a tie for fifth at the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial and a tie for fifth at the John Deere Classic, where he posted a career-best 62 in the second round. He’s currently 91 ^st in the FedExCup standings, so another strong finish this week would go a long way.