Charles Schwab Cup Championship: Field, format, more at Phoenix Country Club

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PHOENIX — After 28 tournaments over the last 10 months, the PGA Tour Champions 2024 season reaches the end of the road at the Charles Schwab Cup Championship.

Phoenix Country Club is the host venue for the season finale, the final leg of a three-tournament postseason. Outside of the five majors on the senior circuit, this is the only 72-hole event on the schedule.

The regular season consisted of 25 tournaments and then only the top 72 golfers advanced to the first event of the postseason. Those 72 golfers became 54 for last week’s event, won by Padraig Harrington. Now there are just 36 remaining.

Top 36 in Charles Schwab field

1Ernie Els
2Steven Alker
3Stephen Ames
4
Padraig Harrington
5Y.E. Yang
6Richard Green
7K.J. Choi
8Steve Stricker
9
Ricardo Gonzalez
10Paul Broadhurst
11Jerry Kelly
12Stewart Cink
13Doug Barron
14Tim O’Neal
15Retief Goosen
16Thomas Bjorn
17Darren Clarke
18Ken Tanigawa
19Alex Cejka
20Rocco Mediate
21Bob Estes
22
Bernhard Langer
23
Miguel Angel Jimenez
24Ken Duke
25Joe Durant
26Tim Petrovic
27
Thongchai Jaidee
28Greg Chalmers
29Mark Hensby
30Vijay Singh
31Shane Bertsch
32Hiroyuki Fujita
33Rod Pampling
34Stuart Appleby
35Jason Caron
36Cameron Percy

The first five out

37Mike Weir
38David Bransdon
39Steve Allan
40Scott Dunlap
41Charlie Wi

Who moved in, who moved out

The Simmons Bank Championship proved to have some volatility, as three golfers played their way into the finale, which meant three golfers have to drop out.

Hiroyuki Fujita51 to 32
Jason Caron53 to 35
Cameron Percy40 to 36
Mike Weir30 to 37
David Bransdon35 to 38
Scott Dunlap36 to 40

Who’s leading the Charles Schwab Cup points race?

Ernie Els, who has three wins in 2024, sits atop the points. Steven Alker, who won the season-long title in 2022, is second. He has one win this season. In third is Stephen Ames, who has three wins this season. Harrington, No. 4 in the points, also now has three wins. Y.E. Yang is fifth. He has one win in 2024.

Other notables in the standings

Steve Stricker, who had such a dominant regular season in 2023 that he won the Schwab Cup title without playing in any of the three postseason events, is No. 8.

Bernhard Langer, who leads the PGA Tour Champions with 45 wins and who has won the Schwab six times, is No. 22.

Jason Caron, a PGA club professional in from Oyster Bay, New York. He last played on the PGA Tour in 2011 but has been a full-time club pro since. This year, however, he’s played really well in the nine starts he’s made on the senior circuit, post four top-10s, including a tie for fourth at the KitchenAid PGA Senior Championship in May. He earned the 35th spot in the field after a tie for third in Little Rock, Arkansas.

About Phoenix Country Club

The golf course in central Phoenix was home to the PGA Tour’s Phoenix Open from 1932 to 1986. It has hosted the PGA Tour Champions since 2017 and has a deal in place to continue to do so through 2032. This year’s Schwab tournament is Nov. 7-10.

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