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Who is playing in the 2024 Black Desert Championship? Field, top players and predictions
PGA Tour golf returns to Utah for the first time since 1963, at the inaugural tournament played at the famous Black Desert Resort in Ivins.
Next port of call for the PGA Tour is Utah for the Black Desert Championship which commences on 10 October and winds up on the 13th with the new event on the FedEx Cup Fall schedule set to feature a prize purse of $7.5m.
The Black Desert Resort, is a par 71 course with a distance of 7,371 yards and the tournament will be the first PGA TOUR event in Utah since 1963 (the course will also host an LPGA Tour event in 2025).
The course is, essentially, a brand-new golf course and will be the first course in PGA TOUR history to use robotic fairway mowers.
Notable players scheduled to play in Utah
Aaron Baddeley – four-time PGA TOUR winner
Daniel Berger – four-time PGA TOUR winner
Cameron Champ – three-time PGA TOUR winner
Harris English – four-time PGA TOUR winner
Lucas Glover – six-time PGA TOUR winner, 2009 U.S. Open champion
J.B. Holmes – five-time PGA TOUR winner
Stephan Jaeger – 2024 PGA TOUR winner
Chris Kirk – six-time PGA TOUR winner
Kevin Kisner – four-time PGA TOUR winner, 2024 U.S. Presidents Cup assistant captain
Patton Kizzire – 2024 PGA TOUR winner
Martin Laird – four-time PGA TOUR winner
Ryan Moore – five-time PGA TOUR winner
Chez Reavie – three-time PGA TOUR winner
Brandt Snedeker – nine-time PGA TOUR winner, 2024 U.S. Presidents Cup assistant captain
Nick Taylor – four-time PGA TOUR winner, 2024 PGA TOUR winner
Michael Thorbjornsen – Earned TOUR card by being No. 1 in the 2024 PGA TOUR University ranking
Camilo Villegas – five-time PGA TOUR winner; 2024 Presidents Cup International Team assistant captain
132 players are earmarked to participate in Utah with the latest odds tipping Keith Mitchell as the 16-1 favorite, followed by Kurt Kitayama (25-1), Beau Hossler (28-1), Seamus Power (30-1) and Chris Kirk (30-1).
Mitchell and Hossler were both in contention to win last week’s Sanderson Farms Championship, but Kevin Yu secured the victory, beating Hossler in a playoff to record his first PGA Tour win.