Following a three-week hiatus since Tommy Fleetwood’s win at the Tour Championship, the PGA Tour resumes with the first of the FedEx Cup Fall events, the Procore Championship, which is being held at Silverado Country Club.
It’s not the only big tournament in men’s golf this week, though. On the other side of the Atlantic, at Wentworth in Surrey, England, is the DP World Tour’s flagship event, the BMW PGA Championship.
This year, there is added interest in both tournaments as each will serve as preparation for players involved in the Ryder Cup, which gets underway at Bethpage Black on September 26th, but which tournament has the stronger field?
In total, 10 of the US Ryder Cup team will be teeing it up at the Procore Championship.
Among them is long-term leader of the world rankings, Scottie Scheffler, who will be joined by fellow US Ryder Cup stars Sam Burns, Patrick Cantlay, Harris English, Ben Griffin, Russell Henley, Collin Morikawa, JJ Spaun, Justin Thomas and Cameron Young.
Collin Morikawa is one of 10 US Ryder Cup players in the Procore Championship field
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That means that only Xander Schauffele and LIV Golfer Bryson DeChambeau from the team will not be appearing at the tournament.
A similar tactic is being deployed by European team captain Luke Donald, with 11 of his 12 Ryder Cup stars preparing to compete at Wentworth and only Sepp Straka missing out.
That means we’ll see Rory McIlroy, fresh from his thrilling win at the Irish Open, along with Ludvig Aberg, Matt Fitzpatrick, Fleetwood, Tyrrell Hatton, Rasmus Hojgaard, Viktor Hovland, Shane Lowry, Robert MacIntyre, Jon Rahm and Justin Rose compete.
Tommy Fleetwood part of a strong field in the BMW PGA Championship
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There’s no doubt both events benefit significantly from their proximity to the Ryder Cup given the quality of players using the tournaments to prepare for the match. As a result, both have a stronger field than usual.
That’s reflected in the field rating for each event, a metric based on the total performance points contributed by all players, calculated from their Strokes Gained World Rating, over the past two years of strokeplay rounds.
The Procore Championship’s field rating is 280.63673, up from 211.98264 a year…
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