TOURNAMENT NOTES Defending Champion Daniel Berger Thursday GC • Friday GC • Saturday GC, CBS • Sunday GC, CBS
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2021 Charles Schwab Challenge • 35th of 50 FedExCup events May 24-30, 2021 Colonial Country Club • Fort Worth, Texas • Par 70 • 7,209 yards Purse $7.5 million • Winner $1.35 million, 500 FedExCup pts. 121 players • 72-hole stroke-play TOURNAMENT NOTES Defending champion Daniel Berger Thursday GC • Friday GC • Saturday GC, CBS • Sunday GC, CBS 2020-21 PGA TOUR WINNERS TOURNAMENT STORYLINES FedExCup Playoffs Return to the site of the return: The 2020 Charles Schwab Challenge marked the PGA TOUR’s return to TOUR Championship ................................................. competition after a 12-week hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 91-day gap between the cancellation of THE BMW Championship ................................................. THE NORTHERN TRUST ............................................... PLAYERS Championship and the first round of the Charles Schwab Challenge represented the longest unscheduled FedExCup Regular Season break from PGA TOUR competition since World War II. Wyndham Championship ......................................... Barracuda Championship .......................................... Mickelson goes for two in a row: Phil Mickelson won his sixth major championship title at last week’s PGA WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational ............................... Championship, becoming the oldest major winner in history and the sixth-oldest winner of any tournament in PGA 3M Open ................................................................... TOUR history. Two of Mickelson’s 45 career PGA TOUR victories have come at the Charles Schwab Challenge (2000, Barbasol Championship ............................................ The Open Championship ........................................... 2008) and he will be making his third start in the event since 2010 (T29/2017, MC/2020). John Deere Classic .................................................... Last to win the week after winning a major: Tiger Woods, 2006 (PGA Championship, WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational) Rocket Mortgage Classic ............................................ Travelers Championship ............................................ Playoff participants are back: Daniel Berger defeated Collin Morikawa in a playoff at Colonial in 2020, earning U.S. Open................................................................... his third career PGA TOUR title. Berger entered the week No. 107 in the Official World Golf Ranking and has since Palmetto Championship at Congaree ....................... the Memorial Tournament......................................... moved up 91 spots to No. 16, while Morikawa has jumped from No. 44 to No. 5 in the same span. Both players Charles Schwab Challenge ................................ would go on to finish the season in the top 15 in the FedExCup standings and have combined for four victories on PGA Championship ...........................Phil Mickelson the PGA TOUR since their playoff, highlighted by Morikawa’s 2020 PGA Championship title. AT&T Byron Nelson ........................................K.H. Lee Wells Fargo Championship ...................Rory McIlroy Playing well at home: Dallas native Jordan Spieth has three consecutive top-10s in the state of Texas, highlighted Valspar Championship ............................ Sam Burns Zurich Classic of New Orleans ..M. Leishman/C. Smith by his 12th career PGA TOUR title at the Valero Texas Open (others: T9/WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, T9/AT&T RBC Heritage ...................................Stewart Cink (2) Byron Nelson). Spieth, who won at Colonial in 2017, enters the week at No. 9 in the FedExCup standings. Masters Tournament ................... Hideki Matsuyama Valero Texas Open ..............................Jordan Spieth Another opportunity for Visacki: Michael Visacki, who received widespread attention after Monday qualifying WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play .... Billy Horschel for the Valspar Championship, is in the field on a sponsor exemption. Visacki missed the cut at the Valspar Joel Dahmen Corales Puntacana Championship....... Championship after carding scores of 74-71 (+3). The Honda Classic ....................................Matt Jones THE PLAYERS Championship ............. Justin Thomas FEDEXCUP and SEASON STORYLINES Arnold Palmer Invitational Bryson DeChambeau (2) Puerto Rico Open ...............................Branden Grace Last week on TOUR: Phil Mickelson won his sixth major championship title at last week’s PGA Championship, WGC-Workday Championship ........ Collin Morikawa becoming the oldest major winner in history and the sixth-oldest winner of any tournament in PGA TOUR history. The Genesis Invitational ..........................Max Homa With the victory, Mickelson became the 14th player to reach six major championship titles and ninth to win 45 times AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am ................. Daniel Berger Waste Management Phoenix Open ..Brooks Koepka on the PGA TOUR. Farmers Insurance Open .......................Patrick Reed The American Express .............................Si Woo Kim Top players winning top events: Three of the five events to date this season that award 600 points to the Sony Open in Hawaii .................................. Kevin Na winner have been won by players that entered the week in the top 10 in the Official World Golf Ranking: Bryson Sentry Tournament of Champions ......Harris English DeChambeau, 2020 U.S. Open (9); Dustin Johnson, 2020 Masters (1); Justin Thomas, THE PLAYERS (3). Mayakoba Golf Classic .......................Viktor Hovland The RSM Classic .....................................Robert Streb Few first-time winners: There have been just five first-time PGA TOUR winners this season: Carlos Ortiz, Vivint Masters Tournament ........................ Dustin Johnson Vivint Houston Open ...............................Carlos Ortiz Houston Open; Jason Kokrak, THE CJ CUP @ SHADOW CREEK; Joel Dahmen, Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Bermuda Championship ...........................Brian Gay Championship; Sam Burns, Valspar Championship; K.H. Lee, AT&T Byron Nelson. The last time there were fewer than ZOZO CHAMP. @ SHERWOOD ............Patrick Cantlay 10 in a season: 2012 (9). Fewest in a season: 4 (1992). THE CJ CUP @ SHADOW CREEK ............Jason Kokrak Shriners Hospitals for Children Open ....Martin Laird Winning droughts snapped in back-to-back weeks: On August 6, 2017, Hideki Matsuyama won his fifth PGA Sanderson Farms Championship ........ Sergio Garcia TOUR title. At that time, Jordan Spieth was No. 2 in the Official World Golf Ranking and Matsuyama was No. 3. Corales Puntacana Championship. Hudson Swafford U.S. Open.................................Bryson DeChambeau Neither won on the PGA TOUR over the next 1,300 days, before back-to-back at the Valero Texas Open (Spieth) and Fortinet Championship......................... Stewart Cink Masters Tournament (Matsuyama). Italics First-time PGA TOUR winners Thomas joins elite company: Justin Thomas won THE PLAYERS Championship by one stroke, earning his 14th PGA PGA TOUR COMMUNICATIONS TOUR title in his 165th career start at the age of 27 years, 10 months, 13 days. Thomas became the fourth player since 1960 to win 14 times on TOUR before turning 28, joining Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus and Johnny Miller. Contact .................................... John Bush Email [email protected] Youth in the FedExCup standings: Nine of the top 10 players in the FedExCup standings are in their 20s, led by Phone ................................. 904-923-7419 No. 1 Bryson DeChambeau. The only player 30 or older in the top 10 is Stewart Cink (6). @PGATOURCOMMS 2021 CHARLES SCHWAB CHALLENGE SNAPSHOT WINNERS (1960-PRESENT) TOP PLAYERS IN THE FIELD 2020 ...........................................Daniel Berger Player Top results this season 2019 .................................................. Kevin Na Phil Mickelson • 50 • Arizona State • USA Won ........................................... PGA Championship 2018 .............................................. Justin Rose - Winner of last week’s PGA Championship (oldest major winner in history) T21 ................................(2021) Masters Tournament 2017 .............................................Kevin Kisner - Two-time winner of the Charles Schwab Challenge (2000, 2008) T25 ................................................The Honda Classic 2016 ...........................................Jordan Spieth - Moved to No. 45 in the FedExCup and No. 32 in the Official World Golf Ranking T35 ...............................THE PLAYERS Championship 2015 ................................................. Chris Kirk Justin Thomas • 28 • Alabama • USA Won .............................THE PLAYERS Championship 2014 ....................................................... Adam Scott - Finished T10 at the 2020 Charles Schwab Challenge in his tournament debut T2 ..................ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP @ SHERWOOD 2013 .....................................................Boo Weekley - Most career PGA TOUR wins among players younger than 30 (14) 3rd .......................Sentry Tournament of Champions 2012 ........................................... Zach Johnson - No. 2 in both the FedExCup standings and Official World Golf Ranking 4th ...............................(2020) Masters Tournament) 2011 ....................................................... David Toms Collin Morikawa • 24 • Cal • USA Won ...........................WGC-Workday Championship 2010 ........................................... Zach Johnson - Lost in a playoff