The third Signature Event of the 2026 PGA Tour season has arrived as Orlando’s Bay Hill Club and Lodge once again stages the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
It’s a stacked line-up as always for one of the circuit’s prestigious $20m events, with a star-studded 72-man field highlighted by World No.1 Scottie Scheffler and No.2 Rory McIlroy, with 19 of the world’s top 20 playing.
Tiger Woods
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Woods is back hitting full shots as he ramps up his Masters preparation after recently confirming a return to Augusta is not off the table.
He was at TGL on Sunday night and it now does seem likely that he’ll play The Masters, but is he going to have a tune-up before? It won’t be this week at Bay Hill in a tournament he has won on eight occasions.
Brooks Koepka
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Brooks Koepka knew he would not be eligible for sponsor’s invites into Signature Events when he rejoined the PGA Tour via the Returning Member Program, and he has not made it into any of the three so far in 2026.
He recorded the first top-10 of his return at the Cognizant Classic to move up to 83rd in the FedEx Cup standings, but he remains well short of making it into the Signature Events.
Aaron Rai
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Aaron Rai has not been able to qualify for the Arnold Palmer Invitational despite ranking 33rd in the world.
The Englishman finished 53rd in the FedEx Cup standings last year, three spots shy of the mark needed to make it into the big $20m events.
He did play both the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and Genesis Invitational thanks to the Aon Next 10 but will take a short break ahead of The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass next week.
Marco Penge
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Marco Penge had his best PGA Tour result of the season so far at the Genesis Invitational, where he ended T16th after co-leading at the halfway stage.
The three-time DP World Tour winner became a father for the second time last week and is set to return at TPC…
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