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Charles Schwab Challenge: Round 1, Thursday tee times and pairings
The Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth (Texas) is the setting for the latest competition on the 2024 PGA Tour
The PGA Tour makes its fourth and final stop in Texas this season for the Charles Schwab Challenge, which begins Thursday at the Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth with the action running through to Sunday’s final round.
Current world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler is among the top favourites competing for the overall purse of $9.1M with the winner alone set to pocket $1.638M with Argentine Emiliano Grillo the reigning champion.
Scheffler will be looking to put last week’s events behind him following his arrest at the PGA Championship in Louisville with the 27-year-old winning four of the past competitions he has started.
With personal matters sidelining Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy who skips the competition, other challengers are expected to come in the form of, Collin Morikawa, Jordan Spieth, Tom Kim and Justin Rose with the field including 23 of the top 50 players in the Official World Golf Ranking and 66 players who competed in last week’s PGA Championship.