Charles Schwab Challenge Featured Groups Announced
The PGA Tour is returning to action June 11-14 at the Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas with the best field in the tournament’s history that features seven of the top 10 players in the world rankings and nine of the top 10 in the FedEx Cup rankings.
With the field set, the PGA Tour announced the four featured groupings for Thursday-Friday at Colonial.
See below for the four announced groups from PGATour.com:
Rory McIlroy (1), Jon Rahm (2), Brooks Koepka (3)
Notable: McIlroy (1), Rahm (2) and Koepka (3) are the top three players in the Official World Golf Ranking
• McIlroy, who is making his first start at the Charles Schwab Challenge, has two wins in his PGA TOUR career when making a tournament debut – 2010 Wells Fargo Championship, 2019 RBC Canadian Open
• In three starts at Colonial Country Club, Rahm has earned two top-fives, highlighted by a T2 in 2017
• In his lone Charles Schwab Challenge appearance in 2018, Koepka shot a pair of 63s (R2, R4) to finish second, marking the only time in his PGA TOUR career he recorded multiple sub-65 scores
Rickie Fowler, Justin Thomas, Jordan Spieth
• Fowler has two top-10s in six starts on the season (T5/Sentry Tournament of Champions, T10/The American Express)
• Thomas enters the week No. 2 in the FedExCup standings as one of two players with multiple wins on the season (THE CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES, Sentry Tournament of Champions)
• A Dallas native, Spieth has one win (2016) and two T2s (2015, 2017) in seven starts at the Charles Schwab Challenge
Bryson DeChambeau, Dustin Johnson, Justin Rose
• DeChambeau has finished in the top five in his last three starts (T5/The Genesis Invitational, 2nd/WGC-Mexico Championship, 4th/Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard)
• 20-time PGA TOUR winner Johnson enters the week No. 111 in the FedExCup standings and has not missed the TOUR Championship since his rookie season (134th/2008)
• In 2018, Justin Rose became the first player to win the Charles Schwab Challenge and go on to win the FedExCup in the same season
Phil Mickelson, Kevin Na, Gary Woodland
• Mickelson, a 44-time PGA TOUR winner, holds two Charles Schwab Challenge titles (2000, 2008)
• Defending champion Na earned his third PGA TOUR title at the 2019 Charles Schwab Challenge; he earned his fourth earlier this season at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open
• Woodland, the reigning U.S. Open champion, has four top-10s on the season, including a T8 at The Honda Classic in his most recent start
Television: Thursday-Friday, 4 p.m.-7 p.m. ET (Golf Channel). Saturday-Sunday, 1 p.m.-3 p.m. (Golf Channel), 3 p.m.-6 p.m. (CBS).
PGA TOUR LIVE: Thursday-Friday 7:45 a.m.-7 p.m. (featured groups), Saturday-Sunday 7:45 a.m.-3 p.m. (featured groups). Saturday-Sunday 3 p.m.-6 p.m. (featured holes).
Radio: Thursday-Friday, 1 p.m.-7 p.m. Saturday-Sunday 1 p.m.-6 p.m. (PGA TOUR Radio on SiriusXM and PGATOUR.com/liveaudio).
