Charles Schwab Cup Championship: Field, format, more at Phoenix Country Club
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
| 1 | Ernie Els |
| 2 | Steven Alker |
| 3 | Stephen Ames |
| 4 | Padraig Harrington |
| 5 | Y.E. Yang |
| 6 | Richard Green |
| 7 | K.J. Choi |
| 8 | Steve Stricker |
| 9 | Ricardo Gonzalez |
| 10 | Paul Broadhurst |
| 11 | Jerry Kelly |
| 12 | Stewart Cink |
| 13 | Doug Barron |
| 14 | Tim O’Neal |
| 15 | Retief Goosen |
| 16 | Thomas Bjorn |
| 17 | Darren Clarke |
| 18 | Ken Tanigawa |
| 19 | Alex Cejka |
| 20 | Rocco Mediate |
| 21 | Bob Estes |
| 22 | Bernhard Langer |
| 23 | Miguel Angel Jimenez |
| 24 | Ken Duke |
| 25 | Joe Durant |
| 26 | Tim Petrovic |
| 27 | Thongchai Jaidee |
| 28 | Greg Chalmers |
| 29 | Mark Hensby |
| 30 | Vijay Singh |
| 31 | Shane Bertsch |
| 32 | Hiroyuki Fujita |
| 33 | Rod Pampling |
| 34 | Stuart Appleby |
| 35 | Jason Caron |
| 36 | Cameron Percy |
The first five out
| 37 | Mike Weir |
| 38 | David Bransdon |
| 39 | Steve Allan |
| 40 | Scott Dunlap |
| 41 | Charlie 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 Fujita | 51 to 32 |
| Jason Caron | 53 to 35 |
| Cameron Percy | 40 to 36 |
| Mike Weir | 30 to 37 |
| David Bransdon | 35 to 38 |
| Scott Dunlap | 36 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.
