Introduction There’s a milestone feel to this week in Los Cabos, because the World Wide Technology Championship turns 20, and the event that became the first PGA Tour stop ever played outside the United States and Canada is celebrating at the first course Tiger Woods ever completed. It’s also the second week of a two-stop swing through Mexico and the sixth of eight FedExCup Fall events, so plenty of the field is playing for 2027 status as much as a trophy. El Cardonal surrend

There are few names, if any, more notable than that of Tiger Woods when it comes to the world of golf. With that, the PGA Tour continues on with the FedEx Cup Fall with the fifth-of-eight stops for this week’s World Wide Technology Championship at the Woods’ designed El Cardonal at Diamante Cabo San Lucas. This year marks the fourth consecutive season that this event has been held at El Cardonal, first being played in 2023. This event was previously staged at El Camaleon in M

The LPGA Tour is set to make its final stop in Asia after a four-event stay with this week’s TOTO Japan Classic. From here, the Tour will return to the states for two events to put a cap on the 2026 season, beginning with the The ANNIKA driven by Gainbridge at Pelican. This week’s event is co-sanctioned between the LPGA Tour and the LPGA of Japan Tour. The TOTO Japan Classic was first played in 1973 and has been played every year since, at various locations. The TOTO Japan C

Following 41 events played across five continents and 25 different countries, the DP World Tour enters its end-of-the-season playoffs. The DP World Tour Playoffs are here as this week’s Abu Dhabi Aldar Championship welcomes the top 70 golfers from the Tour’s season-long Race to Dubai Standings. From here, the top 50 within the standings will advance to next week’s DP World Tour Championship at the Jumeirah Golf Estates. Yas Links plays host this week for the 21st edition of t

This, folks, will be my last preview column of 2026. On the KFT, we’ve seen some winners, but the HPT has been confounding. We have a shorter field taking part in the final event, and we’re coming to it after a week off. Let’s hope we can wrap up the year with a win. Before that, though, we should glance back at the Hangzhou Open, which was another Danish one-two, with Hamish Brown beating Kristian Bressum to win in China for the second time on this Tour, and to move to the t

Introduction The Mexico Open has a new home on the calendar this year, and that alone makes this week feel different. After four editions in April and February, Mexico’s national championship now slots into the FedExCup Fall, where 500 points and 2027 PGA Tour cards are on the line. Reigning U.S. Open champion Wyndham Clark, the only top 25 player in the world in the field, headlines a 120-player group at Vidanta Vallarta that kicks off back-to-back weeks in Mexico. I expect

For the fifth consecutive season, the PGA Tour heads to Mexico for the Mexico Open at VidantaWorld. The first two installments of this event were played during the last week of April. The last two installments were played in February. Now, for the first time, the event has found a new time slot in the PGA Tour schedule, being played during the FedEx Cup Fall in October. The event originated from the Mexican Golf Open which dates back to 1944. It is considered Mexico’s nation

The LPGA continues on with its tour around Asia with this week’s Maybank Championship. Debuted in 2023, now entering its fourth edition, the Maybank Championship has been hosted at the Kuala Lumpur Golf & Country Club in Malaysia each time and will do so again this week. As golfers continue to jockey for position in the Race to CME Globe standings, there are just three events, including this week, left on the schedule before the end-of-the-season CME Group Tour Championship a

Introduction There’s a different kind of pressure hanging over this week’s trip to Bermuda, because the fourth stop of the FedExCup Fall is where the race for a 2027 PGA Tour card starts to feel real. Port Royal doesn’t make that job any easier. It’s a short, wind-exposed Robert Trent Jones Sr. layout where the 235-yard 16th asks players to carry open Atlantic water with no safety net. The field is thin on star power, with nobody from the world’s top 50 making the trip, but t

The PGA Tour heads to Southampton, Bermuda for this week’s Butterfield Bermuda Championship. This is the fourth-of-eight stops of the FedExCup Fall as we hit the half way mark for those outside of the top 100 of the FedEx Cup Standings to secure themselves a card for the upcoming 2026 PGA Tour season. This event has been played since 2019 and has been held each year at Port Royal Golf Course in which this year will also be held. This is one of those events where the weather h

The LPGA continues on with its lone stop in South Korea for this week’s BMW Ladies Championship. This event was established in 2019 and is a limited-field event, seeing just 84-players take to the tees each season. Co-sanctioned between the LPGA Tour and the LPGA of Korea Tour, this event is nomadic, rotating amongst the best courses South Korea has to offer each season. It replaced the LPGA KEB Hana Bank Championship as the LPGA lone Korean stop on its Asian Swing. This year

Spanning nearly ten months, four continents and 24 countries, the 2026 DP World Tour regular season is coming to an end with this week's Genesis Championship. This event was first staged in 2023 and was held in the spring. It was moved to its new end-of-the-regular-season time slot two years ago and will continue to occupy that slot this season. The first two installments of this event were staged at the Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea in Incheon, South Korea. Last year, we saw

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.