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What you need to know about U.S. Open Final Qualifying

Final Qualifying for next month’s U.S. Open begins on Monday, May 20. Here is everything you need to know as players look to book their spots for the penultimate Major Championship of 2024.

What has happened so far in the Qualifying journey?

Between April 22 to May 20*, thousands of hopefuls competed in 109 local qualifiers, comprising an 18-hole round, across the United States and Canada in Local Qualifying.

Any professional golfer or amateur with a Handicap Index of 0.4 or better was eligible to enter.

*One local qualifying site in Texas and Massachusetts will be added at a later date

How does Final Qualifying work?

Players who advance through local qualifying, and those who were exempt, head to one of 13 Final Qualifying sites.

Played over 36 holes in a single day, ten venues are in the U.S., one in England, one in Canada, and one in Japan.

Where is Final Qualifying taking place?

Starting on Monday, May 20, U.S. Open Final Qualifying begins across three sites.

• Hino Golf Club’s King Course, in Shiga Prefecture, is a first-time host venue in Japan.
• Walton Heath Golf Club, in Surrey, England, was a site when international qualifying began in 2005. The Old and New Courses will host a final qualifier for the 17th time.
• Dallas Athletic Club’s Gold and Blue Courses will host a qualifier for the 11th time. 

Often called "Golf's Longest Day" - the last day of qualifying is June 3, when ten locations across the U.S. and Canada will hold 36-hole qualifying simultaneously.

Who is playing in U.S. Open Final Qualifying?

As with years gone by, Final Qualifying will attract former Ryder Cup winners, winners on both the DP World Tour and PGA TOUR along with young global talent and experienced campaigners.

Among those in action at Walton Heath are a host of DP World Tour winners, including Team Europe Ryder Cup Vice Captain Edoardo Molinari, fellow Italian Matteo Manassero, Northern Ireland’s Tom McKibbin, New Zealand’s Daniel Gavins and Spain’s Jorge Campillo, who holds dual membership on the PGA TOUR.

Ross Fisher, who qualified for the U.S. Open via this method last year, Eddie Pepperell, Dan Bradbury and James Morisson are among an English contingent teeing it up that also includes Robert Rock, who retired from Tour group in 2022.

Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen of Denmark has already won twice on the European Challenge Tour this season and is among this playing, alongside past Walker Cup stars Conor Gough, Alex Maguire and Mark Power.

For the full field and tee times, click here .

How many places will be available through Final Qualifying?

The USGA has allocated nine qualifying spots from the final qualifier at Walton Heath, with two alternates.

The exact number of players to advance from each Final Qualifying site is determined by the number of players and the strength of each site’s field.

Where is this year’s U.S. Open being held?

The 124th U.S. Open Championship is to be contested on Pinehurst Resort & Country Club’s Course No. 2, for the fourth time from June 13-16.

Who won last year's U.S. Open?

Wyndham Clark claimed his maiden Major title with a one-stroke victory over Rory McIlroy at The Los Angeles Country Club

How else can players qualify?

In February, the USGA outlined the various exemption categories for this year’s U.S. Open.

• Winners of the U.S. Open Championship the last 10 years
• From the 2023 U.S. Open Championship, the 10 lowest scorers and anyone tying for 10th place
• Winner of the 2023 U.S. Senior Open Championship
• Winner of the 2023 U.S. Amateur Championship
• Winners of the 2023 U.S. Junior Amateur and U.S. Mid-Amateur Championships, and the 2023 U.S. Amateur runner-up (must be an amateur)
• Winners of the Masters Tournament from 2020-2024
• Winners of the PGA Championship the last five years (including current year)
• Winners of the Open Championship from 2022-24
• Winner of the 2023 European BMW PGA Championship
• Those players who qualified and were eligible for the season-ending 2023 Tour Championship
• Multiple winners of PGA Tour events that award full-point allocation for the FedEx Cup, from the conclusion of the 2023 U.S. Open to the initiation of the 2024 U.S. Open:
• The Top 5 players in the 2024 FedExCup standings as of May 20, 2024 who are not otherwise exempt
• The points leader from the 2023 Korn Ferry Tour season using combined points earned on the Official Korn Ferry Tour Regular Season Points Standings and points earned in the Korn Ferry Tour Finals
• The top two players from the final 2023 Race to Dubai Rankings who are not otherwise exempt as of May 20, 2024
• The top player on the 2024 Race to Dubai Rankings as of May 20, 2024 who is not otherwise exempt
• Winner of 2023 The Amateur Championship conducted by The R&A (must be an amateur)
• Winner of the 2023 Mark H. McCormack Medal (Men's World Amateur Golf Ranking; must be an amateur)
• Winner of the 2024 NCAA Division I Men's Individual Golf Championship (must be an amateur)
• Winner of the 2024 Latin America Amateur Championship (must be an amateur)
• From the current Official World Golf Ranking, the top 60 points leaders and ties as of May 20, 2024. Players must select a qualifying site at the time of entry. (NOTE: Blank entries will be filed by the USGA for players who become exempt after the close of entries.)
• From the current Official World Golf Ranking, the top 60 points leaders and ties as of June 10, 2024 (if not previously exempt). Players must select a qualifying site at the time of entry. (NOTE: Blank entries will be filed by the USGA for players who become exempt after the close of entries.)
• Special exemptions as selected by the USGA. (Deadline for submission of request: May 15, 2024)

Who is currently exempt for this year's U.S. Open?

To date, 52 golfers have earned full exemptions into the 156-player field at Pinehurst.

• Wyndham Clark
• Matt Fitzpatrick
• Bryson DeChambeau
• Gary Woodland
• Brooks Koepka
• Dustin Johnson
• Jordan Spieth
• Martin Kaymer
• Rory McIlroy
• Scottie Scheffler
• Cameron Smith
• Tommy Fleetwood
• Min Woo Lee
• Rickie Fowler
• Harris English
• Austin Eckroat
• Xander Schauffele
• Bernhard Langer
• Nick Dunlap
• Bryan Kim (a) 
• Stewart Hagestad (a)
• Neal Shipley (a)
• Justin Thomas
• Phil Mickelson
• Brian Harman
• Shane Lowry
• Keegan Bradley
• Patrick Cantlay
• Corey Conners
• Lucas Glover
• Emiliano Grillo
• Tyrrell Hatton
• Russell Henley
• Taylor Moore
• Viktor Hovland
• Adam Schenk
• Sepp Straka
• Nick Taylor
• Christo Lamprecht (a)
• Gordon Sargent (a)
• Santiago De La Fuente (a)
• Tiger Woods

The number of fully exempt players will increase with the inclusion of the top-60 point leaders and ties not already in the field from the Official World Golf Ranking, as of May 20 and June 10.

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John schwarb | may 21, 2024.

PGA Tour: Charles Schwab Challenge

Site: Fort Worth, Texas.

Course: Colonial CC. Yardage: 7,289. Par: 70.

Field size: 133 players .

Prize money: $9.1 million. Winner’s share: $1,638,000.

Television: Thursday-Friday, 4-7 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday-Sunday, 1-3 p.m. (Golf Channel), 3-6 p.m. (CBS).

Defending champion: Emiliano Grillo.

FedEx Cup leader: Scottie Scheffler.

Last week: Xander Schauffele won the PGA Championship .

Notes: Masters champion Scottie Scheffler is in the field after his wild week at the PGA Championship. The arraignment on his arrest for not following police orders was postponed until June 3 , the week of Memorial. ... Scheffler has finished in the top 10 in all but one tournament this year. That was a tie for 17th in The American Express. ... Colonial has gone through a course renovation led by Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner that was completed in about 11 months. ... Colonial is the longest-running host course of a regular PGA Tour event dating to 1950. The 1949 tournament was canceled by historic rain. ... Ben Hogan (1946-47 and 1952-53) is the only player to repeat. Jordan Spieth finished second, won and finished second from 2015 through 2017. ... The top 50 in the world ranking after this week are exempt from British Open qualifying. ... Club pro Michael Block received another sponsor exemption after missing the cut last week in the PGA Championship. ... The field features four of the top 10 in the world.

GCSAA Fact Sheet: Click here .

Next week: RBC Canadian Open.

PGA Tour Champions: Senior PGA Championship

Site: Benton Harbor, Michigan.

Course: Harbor Shores Resort. Yardage: 6,852. Par: 71.

Prize money: $3.5 million. Winner’s share: $630,000.

Television: Thursday-Friday, 1-4 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday, 1-4 p.m. (NBC); Sunday, 3-4 p.m. (Golf Channel), 4-6 p.m. (NBC).

Defending champion: Steve Stricker.

Charles Schwab Cup leader: Steven Alker.

Last tournament: Doug Barron won the Regions Tradition.

Notes: Steve Stricker, who decided to withdraw from the PGA Championship last week because of a crammed schedule, is back to defend his title. ... Hale Irwin, Sam Snead and Eddie Williams are the only players to successfully defend since the Senior PGA Championship began in 1937. ... This is the sixth time the Senior PGA has been held at Harbor Shores. Players from Britain have won three of the previous five — Roger Chapman, Colin Montgomerie and Paul Broadhurst. ... The field includes 40 club professionals 50 or older. ... Tracy Phillips of Cedar Ridge Golf Club in Tulsa, Okla., is the only club pro to compete in the PGA Championship and the Senior PGA this week. ... Padraig Harrington, Rich Beem, John Daly, Shaun Micheel and Y.E. Yang also competed at Valhalla last week as past PGA champions. None made the cut. ... This is the first of five majors on the PGA Tour Champions schedule.

Next week: Principal Charity Classic.

DP World Tour: Soudal Open

Site: Antwerp, Belgium.

Course: Rinkven International GC. Yardage: 6,940. Par: 71.

Prize money: $2.5 million. Winner’s share: $416,667.

Television: Thursday-Friday, 7 a.m. to noon (Golf Channel); Saturday, 7:30 a.m. to noon (Golf Channel); Sunday, 7 a.m. to noon (Golf Channel).

Defending champion: Simon Forsstrom.

Race to Dubai leader: Rory McIlroy.

Last week: Xander Schauffele won the PGA Championship.

Notes: The tournament starts the continental European part of the schedule. Except for the U.S. Open in North Carolina next month, the European tour won’t leave the continent again until October. ... The Belgian players in their national open include Thomas Pieters, who is now with LIV Golf, and Nicolas Colsaerts, a Ryder Cup assistant captain. Thomas Detry is playing on the PGA Tour this week, fresh off his tie for fourth in the PGA Championship that got him into the U.S. Open and next year’s Masters. ... The field includes Adrian Otaegui, who narrowly missed the cut in the PGA Championship. He is three spots behind LIV’s David Puig in the race for the final spot in the Olympics for Spain. Otaegui won the tournament in 2018. ... The tournament dates to 1910 and features past champions Henry Cotton and Walter Hagen, the only American to win the Belgium Open.

Next week: European Open.

Korn Ferry Tour: Visit Knoxville Open

Site: Knoxville, Tennessee.

Course: Holston Hills CC. Yardage: 7,222. Par: 70.

Prize money: $1 million. Winner’s share: $180,000.

Television: None.

Previous winner: Rico Hoey.

Points leader: Tim Widing.

Last tournament: Harry Higgs won the AdventHealth Championship.

Next week: UNC Health Championship.

Last week: Nelly Korda won the Mizuho Americas Open.

Next week: U.S. Women’s Open.

Race to CME Globe leader: Nelly Korda.

LIV Golf League

Last tournament: Brooks Koepka won LIV Golf Singapore.

Next tournament: LIV Golf Houston on June 7-9.

Points leader: Joaquin Niemann.

Other Tours

Japan Golf Tour: Mizuno Open, JFE Setonaikai GC, Okayama, Japan. Defending champion: Kensei Hirata.

Challenge Tour: Danish Golf Challenge, Odense Eventyr Golfc, Odense, Denmark. Previous winner: Matteo Manassero.

Ladies European Tour: Jabra Ladies Open, Evian Resort GC, Evian-les-Baines, France. Previous winner: Linn Grant.

Sunshine Tour: KitKat Cash & Carry Pro-Am, Irene CC, Centurion, South Africa. Defending champion: Louis Albertse.

Japan LPGA: ResortTrust Ladies, Kansai GC, Hyogo, Japan. Defending champion: Miyuu Yamashita.

Korea LPGA: E1 Charity Open, Ferrum GC, Yeoju-gun, South Korea. Defending champion: Shinsil Bang.

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CHARLES SCHWAB CHALLENGE

Site: Fort Worth, Texas.

Course: Colonial CC. Yardage: 7,289. Par: 70.

Prize money: $9.1 million. Winner’s share: $1,638,000.

Television: Thursday-Friday, 4-7 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday-Sunday, 1-3 p.m. (Golf Channel), 3-6 p.m. (CBS).

Defending champion: Emiliano Grillo.

FedEx Cup leader: Scottie Scheffler.

Last week: Xander Schauffele won the PGA Championship.

Notes: Masters champion Scottie Scheffler is in the field after his wild week at the PGA Championship. The arraignment on his arrest for not following police orders was postponed until June 3, the week of Memorial. ... Scheffler has finished in the top 10 in all but one tournament this year. That was a tie for 17th in The American Express. ... Colonial has gone through a course renovation led by Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner that was completed in about 11 months. ... Colonial is the longest-running host course of a regular PGA Tour event dating to 1950. The 1949 tournament was canceled by historic rain. ... Ben Hogan (1946-47 and 1952-53) is the only player to repeat. Jordan Spieth finished second, won and finished second from 2015 through 2017. ... The top 50 in the world ranking after this week are exempt from British Open qualifying. ... Club pro Michael Block received another sponsor exemption after missing the cut last week in the PGA Championship. ... The field features four of the top 10 in the world.

Next week: RBC Canadian Open.

Online: https://www.pgatour.com/

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SENIOR PGA CHAMPIONSHIP

Site: Benton Harbor, Michigan.

Course: Harbor Shores Resort. Yardage: 6,852. Par: 71.

Prize money: $3.5 million. Winner’s share: $630,000.

Television: Thursday-Friday, 1-4 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday, 1-4 p.m. (NBC); Sunday, 3-4 p.m. (Golf Channel), 4-6 p.m. (NBC).

Defending champion: Steve Stricker.

Charles Schwab Cup leader: Steven Alker.

Last tournament: Doug Barron won the Regions Tradition.

Notes: Steve Stricker, who decided to withdraw from the PGA Championship last week because of a crammed schedule, is back to defend his title. ... Hale Irwin, Sam Snead and Eddie Williams are the only players to successfully defend since the Senior PGA Championship began in 1937. ... This is the sixth time the Senior PGA has been held at Harbor Shores. Players from Britain have won three of the previous five — Roger Chapman, Colin Montgomerie and Paul Broadhurst. ... The field includes 40 club professionals 50 or older. ... Tracy Phillips of Cedar Ridge Golf Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is the only club pro to compete in the PGA Championship and the Senior PGA this week. ... Padraig Harrington, Rich Beem, John Daly, Shaun Micheel and Y.E. Yang also competed at Valhalla last week as past PGA champions. None made the cut. ... This is the first of five majors on the PGA Tour Champions schedule.

Next week: Principal Charity Classic.

Online: https://www.pgatour.com/pgatour-champions

EUROPEAN TOUR

SOUDAL OPEN

Site: Antwerp, Belgium.

Course: Rinkven International GC. Yardage: 6,940. Par: 71.

Prize money: $2.5 million. Winner’s share: $416,667.

Television: Thursday-Friday, 7 a.m. to noon (Golf Channel); Saturday, 7:30 a.m. to noon (Golf Channel); Sunday, 7 a.m. to noon (Golf Channel).

Defending champion: Simon Forsstrom.

Race to Dubai leader: Rory McIlroy.

Notes: The tournament starts the continental European part of the schedule. Except for the U.S. Open in North Carolina next month, the European tour won’t leave the continent again until October. ... The Belgian players in their national open include Thomas Pieters, who is now with LIV Golf, and Nicolas Colsaerts, a Ryder Cup assistant captain. Thomas Detry is playing on the PGA Tour this week, fresh off his tie for fourth in the PGA Championship that got him into the U.S. Open and next year’s Masters. ... The field includes Adrian Otaegui, who narrowly missed the cut in the PGA Championship. He is three spots behind LIV’s David Puig in the race for the final spot in the Olympics for Spain. Otaegui won the tournament in 2018. ... The tournament dates to 1910 and features past champions Henry Cotton and Walter Hagen, the only American to win the Belgium Open.

Next week: European Open.

Online: https://www.europeantour.com/dpworld-tour/

KORN FERRY TOUR

VISIT KNOXVILLE OPEN

Site: Knoxville, Tennessee.

Course: Holston Hills CC. Yardage: 7,222. Par: 70.

Prize money: $1 million. Winner’s share: $180,000.

Television: None.

Previous winner: Rico Hoey.

Points leader: Tim Widing.

Last tournament: Harry Higgs won the AdventHealth Championship.

Next week: UNC Health Championship.

Online: https://www.pgatour.com/korn-ferry-tour

Last week: Nelly Korda won the Mizuho Americas Open.

Next week: U.S. Women’s Open.

Race to CME Globe leader: Nelly Korda.

Online: https://www.lpga.com/

LIV GOLF LEAGUE

Last tournament: Brooks Koepka won LIV Golf Singapore.

Next tournament: LIV Golf Houston on June 7-9.

Points leader: Joaquin Niemann.

Online: https://www.livgolf.com/

OTHER TOURS

Japan Golf Tour: Mizuno Open, JFE Setonaikai GC, Okayama, Japan. Defending champion: Kensei Hirata. Online: https://www.jgto.org/en/

Challenge Tour: Danish Golf Challenge, Odense Eventyr Golfc, Odense, Denmark. Previous winner: Matteo Manassero. Online: https://www.europeantour.com/challenge-tour/

Ladies European Tour: Jabra Ladies Open, Evian Resort GC, Evian-les-Baines, France. Previous winner: Linn Grant. Online: https://ladieseuropeantour.com/

Sunshine Tour: KitKat Cash & Carry Pro-Am, Irene CC, Centurion, South Africa. Defending champion: Louis Albertse. Online: https://sunshinetour.com/

Japan LPGA: ResortTrust Ladies, Kansai GC, Hyogo, Japan. Defending champion: Miyuu Yamashita. Online: https://www.lpga.or.jp/en/

Korea LPGA: E1 Charity Open, Ferrum GC, Yeoju-gun, South Korea. Defending champion: Shinsil Bang. Online: https://klpga.co.kr/web/

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Monday qualifiers: Valero Texas Open

Monday Qualifiers

LIMA, PERU - OCTOBER 22: Sam Fidone of the United States tees off on the 15th hole during the third round of the PGA TOUR Latinoamerica Lexus Peru Open Presentado por Diners Club at Los Inkas Golf Club on October 22, 2016 in Lima, Peru. (Photo by Enrique Berardi/PGA TOUR)

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Here is a look at the four players who qualified for the Valero Texas Open. The group includes a former Korn Ferry Tour Player of the Year who now works as a driving range pro, Patrick Rodgers’ former caddie and college teammate and a Texas native who played college golf with Bryson DeChambeau. The qualifier was held at Club at Comanche Trail in Kerrville, Texas.

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Tain Lee (66) Age: 30 College: Claremont-Mudd-Scrips Turned pro: 2012 PGA TOUR starts: 1 Cuts made: 1 Best PGA TOUR Finish: 69th, Farmers Insurance Open PGA TOUR earnings: $15,375 Twitter: N/A Notes : Also Monday qualified for this year’s Farmers Insurance Open, finishing 69th. Had to make an 8-foot putt on the last hole of the pre-qualifier just to advance to the Monday qualifier. He then made it through the Monday qualifier and made the cut on the number in his first PGA TOUR start … He has four top-10s in 33 career starts on the Mackenzie Tour … Played on the Challenge Tour, the satellite tour of the European Tour in 2014 … Played the Korn Ferry Tour in 2013 and made five of 20 cuts. … Won the Jack Nicklaus Award in 2010 as the top player in NCAA Division III.

Patrick Grimes (66) Age: 28 College: Stanford University Turned Pro: 2015 PGA TOUR starts:07 Cuts made: N/A Twitter: N/A Notes: Caddied for former Stanford teammate and friend Patrick Rodgers on the PGA TOUR before going back to playing full-time … Birdied two of the last three at the pre-qualifier to get through on the number … Eagled two of the last four holes in the Monday qualifier to advance … Was team captain during his senior year at Stanford … Won on the Golden State Tour in 2020 after opening with a 65.

JJ Killeen (67) Age: 39 College: TCU Turned Pro: 2005 PGA TOUR starts: 34 Cuts made: 17 Best PGA TOUR Finish: 8th, 2012 True South Classic PGA TOUR earnings: $414,257 Twitter: @jjkilleentcu

Notes: The 2011 Korn Ferry Tour Player of the Year after finishing first on the money list and winning back-to-back starts. He was 44 under in those eight rounds … He had seven top-10s and 11 top-25s during that season … He has 150 career starts on the Korn Ferry Tour, his last coming in 2016 … Has a cult following on social media, where he refers to himself as the West Texas Driving Range Pro. … His last start came in the 2015 Valero Texas Open, where he missed the cut.

PGATOUR.COM talked with JJ Killeen who will play in his first PGA TOUR start since the Valero Texas Open in 2015.

PGATOUR.COM: I know you like to joke around a lot, but what are your serious feelings about getting through?

KILLEEN: I’m getting older, 39, almost 40, so it’s not getting any easier. I’ve been playing pretty well, but as you well know Monday’s can be really hard. Flying all over the country can be physically and emotionally draining. I have been in like three playoffs in the last eight Mondays and finally got through. It feels really good man. I have been really close.

PGATOUR.COM: You have been really close in a few Monday’s over the last couple of months, is that frustrating or encouraging?

It’s frustrating, but it’s not. If you went out there and made like 400 feet in putts, missed by one, but it was all smoke and mirrors you might think that was my only chance. Besides the 80 I dropped in San Diego when it was snowing and hailing on the back nine, I have really played well. I missed by one or two a bunch and lost in a couple playoffs. I knew I was on the planet. … If you are a guy that has missed by a million each week, then got through somehow that is a different feeling. It’s good to be able to do it. Before last year, I probably played 10 Monday qualifiers my whole life. I had never flown to a Monday in my life before last year. This took some time to get used to, but I’ve played well over the last bit.

PGATOUR.COM: You have battled some injuries, and this will be your first start in five years, what will it be like having your kids watching you?

That is super cool. They don’t think I have a job; they just think I play golf with friends all the time. It’s nice to Monday in Texas. Lubbock (where J.J. lives) is not easy to travel from so it’s nice that it is just a five-hour drive here. A five-hour drive is nothing in Texas. The kids haven’t seen me play a real tournament. It will be great to have them and my wife there. She hasn’t seen me play in forever either.

PGATOUR.COM: You have a large following that really loves you on social media, what was turning on your phone like after the playoff?

That is the stuff that make it really cool and emotional. (So) many people were hanging on updates. I really do appreciate it though, I just try to keep it real, and hopefully people like that. I’m really excited about this start and can’t wait to get out there..

NOTABLE MISSES: Derek Lamely, Jay McLuen, Zach Zaback, Matt Oshrine, Isaiah Salinda, Ethan Marcus, all lost in playoff

COURSE INFO Club at Comanche Trail: 7,281 yards (76.2 rating 12 slope)

2020-2021 SEASON MONDAY QUALIFIER STATS Total number of cuts made: 20 for 54 (37%) Previous event (Corales Puntacana Resort and Club Championship): Eric Cole (T22), Andrew Yun (T22), MJ Daffue (MC), Chris Wiatr (MC) Money earned: $576,878 Best finish: MJ Daffue T12, Sanderson Farms

NEXT MONDAY QUALIFIER Valspar Championship: April 26th, Southern Hills Plantation

NOTES FROM OTHER TOURS Jefferey Kang made a 30-foot eagle putt from off the green to take home medalist honors at PGA TOUR CANADA-Mackenzie Tour.

Alvaro Ortiz Becerra, brother of PGA TOUR winner Carlos Ortiz, shot a closing round 63 on the Latinoamerican Tour to take home the Mexico Open.

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2024 Charles Schwab Challenge odds, picks and PGA Tour predictions

F ollowing a thrilling finish at the PGA Championship on Sunday, the PGA Tour heads to Texas for the 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial Country Club. Scottie Scheffler comes in as the overwhelming favorite, but Jordan Spieth , Collin Morikawa and other stars will also be teeing it up.

Below, we look at BetMGM Sportsbook's 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge odds and make our PGA Tour picks and predictions .

Colonial Country Club is once again playing host for this event, and it'll do so following a complete restoration in the last year. The course was fully restored by Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner, which included removing bunkers, changing the elevation of specific greens and relocating some greens altogether. It's a much shorter course than Valhalla, coming in at 7,289 yards as a par 70, which puts a greater emphasis on accuracy over length off the tee.

Spieth is one of the former champions teeing it up this week, along with 2023 champion Emiliano Grillo . Justin Rose and Adam Scott have also won this event in the past and will be in the field at Colonial again. Scheffler is the favorite at +275, followed by Morikawa (+1200) and Max Homa (+2000).

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Charles Schwab Challenge – Expert picks

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Jordan Spieth (+2200)

Course history may not be as important this week following the massive renovations Colonial underwent, but it'll mostly be the same course and that bodes well for Spieth. He's been up and down all year, but he's played relatively well in back-to-back weeks with finishes of 29th and 43rd in his last 2 starts. He now comes to an event where he's won before and has 7 top-10s since 2015. If Spieth is ever going to find momentum, it'll be this week back home in Texas.

Collin Morikawa (+1200)

Morikawa has a chance to do something similar to what Xander Schauffele did by going from 54-hole leader (or co-leader) to champion the next week. Morikawa is on the brink of winning again after finishing near the top at the Masters and now the PGA Championship, and he's already finished 2nd at Colonial before (2020). His odds are short, but Morikawa has everything clicking now.

Charles Schwab Challenge picks – contenders

Keegan bradley (+5000).

Bradley has finished 21st and 18th in the last 2 weeks at the Wells Fargo Championship and PGA Championship, continuing to play very well this season. At a shorter course, his lack of length off the tee won't be penalizing and with Colonial likely to play fairly tough, it fits Bradley's game well. Bradley hasn't played here since 2020, but he finished 32nd that year.

Tom Hoge (+5000)

Hoge is fresh off a T-23 at the PGA Championship and has now made the cut in all but 1 of his last 15 starts this season, which includes 2 top-10s and 8 top-25s. He's a terrific ball-striker, excelling with his irons, which will give him an edge at Colonial where approach play is extremely important.

Charles Schwab Challenge picks – long shots

Brendon todd (+10000).

Todd is one of the shortest hitters on tour, ranking 185th in driving distance. He's 33rd in driving accuracy, however, which is more important this week at the Charles Schwab Challenge. He finished 8th here in 2021 and 3rd in 2022 before coming in 57th last year, so he's had success at this event before. He also finished 5th in Texas earlier this year at the Valero Texas Open.

Michael Kim (+15000)

Kim placed 20th in the Myrtle Beach Classic, which was his 5th top-25 finish this season. In his 1st start at this event since 2019, he finished 6th last year. Kim is another player who doesn't hit it very far but he's a good putter and about average when it comes to his approach game.

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Who’s going to win the PGA Championship? Breaking down a crowded leaderboard

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Justin Thomas predicted it so perfectly.

There’s something about this place, whether you like the course or not , that creates drama. Valhalla Golf Club does not have boring finishes. Tournaments end with playoffs, like the PGA Championships in 1996 and 2000. They end with Rory McIlroy playing through darkness and on Phil Mickelson’s and Rickie Fowler’s heels like he did to win in 2014.

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So the local kid playing his first major in his hometown explained Tuesday what it is about Valhalla. The answer is that it’s straightforward. “There’s not a lot of different ways to play the golf course.” You know you’re pulling out driver. You know where to put it.

“I think when you give all of us very similar places to play from,” Thomas said, “you have the opportunity for more bunched leaderboards.”

In roughly 20 minutes Saturday evening, the 2024 PGA Championship went from a three-man race to an eight-man free-for-all with double bogeys, eagles and everything in between. Xander Schauffele lost a solo lead on 15 and fought his way back. Bryson DeChambeau chipped in on 18 to jump from the pack to right on the leaders’ heels. Shane Lowry shot a major record-tying 62 to throw himself in the mix.

Six of the biggest names in golf are within two shots of the lead on Sunday at the year’s second major championship. Two more Ryder Cuppers are within three. Fifteen are within four. And while, yes, 40 of the last 41 PGA champions started Sunday within four, it’s also a wild week in which two of the five 62s ever shot in a major have been produced, who knows if we can even rule out world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, who sits eight back?

Someone is going to have a career-altering moment Sunday. Who will it be?

The front-runners

Collin morikawa (t1, 15-under-par).

Morikawa was the phenom, the next great ball-striking prodigy who won two majors by 24. Then, he slowed down. He didn’t win for two years. He hasn’t won outside of the fall in three. But we all know — when he has it — he’s as pure of an iron player as golf has to match Scheffler.

So when he entered Sunday at last month’s Masters in the final group, it felt like we had him back. Instead, he shot 74 to finish seven behind the winner, Scheffler. To have him back here again, hunting the pin on 15 while Schauffele double-bogeyed to set up their final-group pairing Sunday in Louisville, gives Morikawa a chance to put himself on another level.

PGA Championship analysis: What to know heading into the final round at Valhalla

A win takes him from a streaky young prospect who broke out during COVID-19 to joining the exclusive group of eight golfers to reach three majors this century. The way we look at him would change, allowing us to step back and view him as one of the great major players of the era because it says so much more to go through struggles and come back to win a third major four years after the first. There are more consistent golfers than Morikawa, but few can boast eight top-10 finishes in just 17 career majors. Maybe, just maybe, he is the prodigy we thought.

Two leaders putting in some work on the range before dusk @collin_morikawa | @XSchauffele #PGAChamp pic.twitter.com/othSpJFEuR — PGA Championship (@PGAChampionship) May 19, 2024

Xander Schauffele (T1, 15-under)

He was finally having his moment. His chance to prove he had the weekend resiliency to hit the clutch shots and grab a major. As his playing partners stuck in neutral around him, Schauffele hit a 30-foot birdie putt to take a two-shot lead at Valhalla with four holes to go. Once he put his tee shot on 15 into the fairway, one wondered: Is Schauffele really gonna do it?

Then he airmailed the green by 20 yards. Then his pitch from the rough went only a few feet. He double-bogeyed 15, and it would have been so easy for all to say it was the same old Xander. To his credit, Schauffele closed Saturday with birdies on 17 and 18.

Nobody has more to gain Sunday than Schauffele. He’s already becoming known as the best player without a major, but worse than that, he’s becoming known as someone who can’t close on Sunday. Three times this year already, Schauffele entered Sunday in a final group. He didn’t win any, and two of them he finished four and five back.

He’s one of the most consistent golfers on Earth, maybe behind only Scheffler. He’s only 30 and has 12 top-10 major finishes. But that consistency is now an albatross around Schauffele’s neck until he quiets the noise.

The potential breakout star

Sahith theegala (3rd, 14-under).

While so many of the names on this board are known commodities, Theegala is the one introducing himself to the greater sports world this weekend. Golf nerds know of the 26-year-old rising star’s absurd talent and promise. But in reality, he has only one top-20 major finish, and even that was a late Sunday 67 to come out of nowhere. He hasn’t been in a true pressure situation in a major.

That means two things. One, we have no clue how he’ll handle it. Two, the sports world finally will see one of golf’s more fun and interesting personalities with an awesome playing style going for a major.

His track record on Sundays isn’t great. He gave away a Sunday lead at the 2022 Waste Management Open with an unlucky bounce on 17. He double-bogeyed 18 at the 2022 Travelers to go from leading to handing Schauffele a win. And his only career win was a fall event, the Fortinet Championship.

But Theegala is an awesome ball striker, a great putter and, after years of driving woes, he’s hitting it great off the tee in 2023. If Theegala wins Sunday, he might become one of the most popular players in golf. He might anyway.

The red-hot hunters

Bryson dechambeau (t4, 13-under).

When DeChambeau chipped from the fringe off 18 green and sunk his final shot Saturday for eagle to thrust himself into the Sunday conversation, he let out the most sincere and raw fist pump anyone had ever seen from the iconoclastic star. It served as a reminder — just as his hot start at the Masters did — of the truth about DeChambeau: Golf hated DeChambeau. It’s now so, so happy to have him back.

Bryson DeChambeau EAGLES on 18 😱 He's ONE BACK off the lead! #PGAChamp pic.twitter.com/9vODJiMbXF — PGA Championship (@PGAChampionship) May 18, 2024

Winning Sunday isn’t just validation for DeChambeau. It’s not even just legacy building. It makes us take him seriously from here on out.

The 2020-2021 version of Bryson felt like a fever dream. Almost a fad. He was this polarizing, idiosyncratic thick boy who blew our minds, challenged norms and annoyed a lot of people. When he won the 2020 U.S. Open at Winged Foot, it solidified his philosophies. But we must remember DeChambeau had just two top-10s in his first 23 majors. Then he went to LIV, and you remember most fads go away.

But DeChambeau worked his ass off and fought to get back. He has three top-10s in the last six majors. This week might be four in seven. He’s become more likable. He’s a YouTube and Snapchat star. He’s even more self-aware. But he’s still different. Still a little weird. And if he wins Sunday, he’s here to stay. Maybe for the better.

“I’ve worked really hard to have people help hopefully understand who I am a little bit better,” he said.

Viktor Hovland (T4, 13-under)

Let’s call it how it is. Viktor Hovland was the best golfer in the world eight months ago. Pretending he wasn’t is revisionist history. He stared down Scheffler two weeks in a row to win in Chicago and then Atlanta for the Tour Championship. He and Ludvig Åberg beat Scheffler and Brooks Koepka in the largest Ryder Cup match blowout ever.

And then he messed with it all.

It’s been covered in depth , but Hovland went down a rabbit hole of fixing his excellent swing, switching between four coaches in a year and having by far the worst season of his career. Now he’s back with Joe Mayo (his coach during last season’s heater) and finds himself shooting consecutive 66s with fantastic iron play to sit two back entering Sunday. It only makes us sad, realizing this could have been Hovland all year.

He’s 26, and he has catching up to do to his peers, but Hovland remains the bright-burning supernova who could surpass anyone if he finds his stride. A Hovland win isn’t so much a monkey off Hovland’s back as it is the much-anticipated step toward a massive launch.

Shane Lowry (T4, 13-under)

You thought Lowry was a good ol’ lovable one-hit wonder, didn’t you? You were within your rights to. Lowry ran away with the 2019 Open Championship, but he’s never been a top-15 player in the world. You might have viewed him as the funny, large Irishman who’s friends with Rory McIlroy.

But Lowry just shot a 62. That’s tied for the best major round in history (Schauffele also shot 62 here Thursday). He’s been in multiple major final groups. He’s learned from his 6-over Sunday at the 2016 U.S. Open against Dustin Johnson. And he’s putting out of his mind this week, leading the field in it.

Lowry has the chance to go from one-hit wonder with a great personality to a key person in golf history. He’d suddenly be a guy who has won two different majors at two extremely different courses, who has played on two Ryder Cup teams and won one.

“To win one is pretty good,” Lowry said Saturday, “but to win multiple, you’re kind of a bit of a different level.”

Justin Rose (T7, 12-under)

Did you know Justin Rose has been world No. 1 five times? Did you know he’s played on six Ryder Cup teams with four European wins? Did you know he has 25 professional wins?

He has been a steady force in the golf world for 20 years, but do you think of him the way you do Dustin Johnson? Or Justin Thomas? Or even a Jose Maria Olazabal type? Whether you should or shouldn’t is a different discussion, but Rose getting a second major immediately recontextualizes his career. He was a lightning bolt at the 2023 Ryder Cup, hitting multiple massive putts in Europe’s win. That combined with a PGA Championship win to add to his 2013 U.S. Open win at Merion takes Rose from solid career to one of the best European golfers of the century.

Robert MacIntyre (T7, 12-under)

Few think MacIntyre can win this thing. But few thought MacIntyre deserved a Ryder Cup spot, and he earned it on points. The Scotsman has two 66s this week, and glossing over him might be a mistake.

Yes, MacIntyre winning might be viewed as a random winner. It coming at a PGA Championship (often viewed as the lowest of the four majors) wouldn’t help. But it would make us respect the 27-year-old who came over from Europe to play his first PGA Tour season this year.

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Other names to watch

Dean Burmester (9th, 11-under): Burmester won the LIV event in Doral this year and is a great course fit as an awesome tee-to-green player.

Justin Thomas (T10, 10-under): A local star coming from five back in his hometown and earning a third major after a brutal two years of struggles? You can’t write it better.

Tony Finau (T10, 10-under): He’s striking the living daylights out of the ball, but he’s become a horrible putter the last two years. Right now, he’s gaining strokes putting. If he can get hot on the greens for one day, he can go crazy low and earn his first major.

Rory McIlroy (T19, 8-under): Rory shooting Sunday 64s when seemingly out of it for a backdoor top-5 has become something of a meme in recent years. Now you’re telling me he’s seven back at a course that’s allowed two 62s this week? At the course he won his last major at? To catch Koepka at five majors? It’s a long shot, but it’s possible.

Jordan Spieth (T19, 8-under): He’s going for the career grand slam, and the one thing we know about Spieth is he can get hot.

Scottie Scheffler (T24, 7-under): Oh, you’re gonna bet your life on Scottie Scheffler not shooting a 59? I didn’t think so.

(Top photo of Collin Morikawa, left, and Xander Schauffele: Christian Petersen / Getty Images)

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