Before we turn to the HotelPlanner Tour, the Korn Ferry Tour wrapped up on Sunday. Anyone deep enough in their golf love to be reading this preview will be aware of the results, and of the twenty players who won their cards, but a few quick hits from me: Particular congratulations to Ross Steelman for winning the mano-a-mano competition for first place, and thus entries into The Players and The Masters, over Sandy Scott. Congratulations are also due for Austin Hitt, who not o

In the final regular season event before the three-week Charles Schwab Cup Playoffs, the PGA Tour Champions heads to Cary, North Carolina for this week’s SAS Championship. This season marks the 26th edition of one of the Tour’s longest standing non-major events. The Prestonwood Country Club will once again play host, just as it has since the tournament's inception in 2001. SAS Institute continues on as the event’s title sponsor, again, just as it has since the tournament's in

The LPGA Tour leaves Hawaii for China for the first of four Asian based events for this week’s Buick LPGA Shanghai. With just five events left before the end-of-the-season CME Group Tour Championship, many of the Tour’s best will make the trip to China for this week’s event. This season marks the sixth playing of the Buick LPGA Shanghai. Each of the previous five installments have been held at this week’s venue, the Qizhong Garden Golf Club. This event was first staged in 201

With just two events remaining in the DP World Tour’s regular season, the Tour heads to India for the second edition of the DP World India Championship. Last year was the inaugural playing of this event, won by Tommy Fleetwood. The Tour returns this season to once again take on the Delhi Golf Club, set in the heart of the capital city of India. Prior to hosting last year’s installment of the DP World India Championship, the Delhi Golf Club had hosted a DP World Tour event ten

The end of the year is coming fast for these columns, with the KFT wrapping up this week and just three weeks left on the HotelPlanner Tour. Before the season finale on Majorca, the top seventy are off to China, to be joined in the field by a group of 58 invitees who are primarily the elite of the (weak) China golf tour, plus a few Chinese amateurs and a couple of other tournament invitees. From a playoffs perspective, though, this is all about the visiting HPT players as the

Introduction The FedExCup Fall crosses the Pacific this week for the Tour's lone stop in Asia, and a 72-man, no-cut field will take over Yokohama Country Club for the Baycurrent Classic. Xander Schauffele returns as defending champion after closing with a 64 a year ago to edge Max Greyserman by a single stroke, and he arrives fresh off helping the U.S. win the Presidents Cup at Medinah. What makes the week truly different is the golf course itself, a tree-lined parkland test

It doesn’t feel like that long ago that I sat down on a cold evening after taking down the Christmas decorations to write a preview of the Bahamas Golf Classic. A lot of water has flowed under the bridge since then. My love for Sandy Scott’s golf game has been justified (though my love for Barend Botha’s, perhaps less so.) Taylor Dickson won that week and is now one of the players to watch as he clings to a card despite weak form. Yes, we’ve come to the end of the Korn Ferry

The PGA Tour’s FedExCup Fall continues on with the Tour’s lone Asian-based event with this week’s Baycurrent Classic. Known formally as the ZOZO Championship, this season marks the eighth playing of this event. Each of the previous events, outside of 2020, have been played at the Accordia Golf Narashino Country Club in Inzai, Chiba, Japan. With the switch of the title sponsorship to Baycurrent, the event was moved to the Yokohama Country Club in Kanagawa, Japan last season.

The DP World Tour is set to make its final stop in Europe before heading to India next week for this week’s Open de Espana presented by Madrid. Including this week, there are just three events remaining in the 2026 DP World Tour regular season. From here, the Tour will head to India for the DP World India Championship and then South Korea for the Genesis Championship to put a cap on the regular season. The Open de Espana presented by Madrid dates back to 1912 and apart from 2

Introduction After a week of Presidents Cup pageantry at Medinah, the PGA Tour trades red, white and blue for black lava as the FedExCup Fall makes its third stop at Black Desert Resort in Ivins, Utah. The course is the real headliner, Tom Weiskopf's final design, blasted out of an ancient lava field at 3,100 feet of elevation, where a drive that strays past the turf is often a drive you never see again. Defending champion Michael Brennan returns as a two-time Tour winner and

Wednesday sees the start of the final regular season event of the HotelPlanner Tour season. Not Thursday, Wednesday, folks. As a reminder, after this, there are two events co-sanctioned with the China Tour, for the top seventy players on the HPT, with the remainder of the field made up of the best players on the China Tour and a few invitees, and then we move onto the Grand Final in Alcanada for the top forty-five. But first, we go to Abu Dhabi. We were supposed to be going t

We’ve had a week off in which to bask in the glory of a Sandy Scott win. It was lovely to bring one home for this page, but also just delightful to see Sandy living up to his potential. As I said in the preview, if he can stay injury free, he’s got a game better-suited to the tougher tests of the PGA than the easier courses of the KFT. I’m really looking forward to seeing him in 2027. But we’re back into it with the penultimate event, so let’s get moving fast. The Tournamen

As the dust settles on last week’s Presidents Cup, the PGA Tour is back in action for this week’s Bank of Utah Championship. This is the third consecutive season that the PGA Tour will head to Utah and just the third time since 1963 that the PGA Tour has returned to the state. The FedExCup Fall continues on with the second-of-eight stops along the fall circuit as golfers fight for their chance to secure PGA Tour status for the 2027 season. This week’s host venue will be the T

As the LPGA Tour prepares for its end-of-the-season Asian swing, it’ll make one final stop in the United States, although in Hawaii, for this week’s LOTTE Championship presented by Hoakalei. Since its inception in 2012, the event had been held in April and had been through 2023. In 2024, the event was moved to November and last season, it was moved to October. It will be held in October for a second consecutive season this week. This season marks the 14th edition of this even

With just roughly a month remaining on the DP World Tour’s schedule before the DP World Tour Play-offs, the European based tour turns its attention to its only Pro-Am. The Alfred Dunhill Links Championship is a one-of-a-kind event that has Europe’s best playing four rounds across three separate historic links venues. This event was first established in 2001 and has quickly become an established tradition as we enter the 25th edition this season. Being a pro-am, professional g

The LPGA Tour resumes for the first time since the Solheim Cup two weeks back with this week’s Walmart NW Arkansas Championship. Last year’s edition was cut short, when mother nature pushed the remainder of round-two into Sunday due to inclement weather. The course received an additional 3.25-inches of rain overnight and the remainder of the event was canceled. It is worth noting that the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship is a three-round, 54-hole event. Just about a round-and

The DP World Tour returns to the 2018 Ryder Cup and 2024 Olympic Games venue, Le Golf National, for this week’s FedEx Open de France. Le Golf National will look a bit different for the 108th edition of Continental Europe’s oldest standing national open. Due to the Grand Paris Express Line 18 metro expansion, the course underwent a near two-year long renovation, beginning just after the 2024 playing of the FedEx Open de France. Last year’s installment was played at the Golf de

I’ve called this year’s HPT results confounding before now. Before, that is, we saw Freddie Kjetterup win on the back of form figures reading MC-2-MC-MC-MC-MC-MC-MC. Safe to say that I didn’t see his finish at the English Trophy coming. That said, he’s obviously good enough to win at this level – and still only 26, it’d be great if he could show something more like this week’s results for the end of the year, and get back to the DPWT after a very underwhelming LIV performance

The first week of the KFT playoffs produced a surprisingly compelling and high-quality competition, which would give a less arrogant writer pause to consider whether this was, in fact, a better golf course than my prediction suggested. I suspect it was mere coincidence. However, it was nice to see Alvaro Ortiz, backed a couple of times last month at longer prices, grab a win to officially confirm his card for next year. There are five cards now confirmed, with Ross Steelman,

After a three-week hiatus following the conclusion of the 2026 PGA Tour season and the TOUR Championship, all attention now turns to the FedEx Cup Fall series. The FedEx Cup Fall series kicks off this week with a brand new event, the Biltmore Championship Asheville. The Cliffs at Walnut Cove in Asheville, North Carolina will play host to this new event. This will be the very first professional event that The Cliffs at Walnut Cove has hosted. In 2025, there were seven FedEx Cu