A Major Warm-Up, Minus Scottie Scheffler

The season’s next big is upcoming week at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Ky., and most of the top rated PGA Tour players will get a warm-up for it this week.

The Wells Fargo Championship is a signature celebration, this means an exclusive area of 70 gamers competing for a $20 million purse. But as opposed to the past signature party, the RBC Heritage, many of the game’s greatest will never be coming in off an exhausting major 7 days.

Also unlike the past signature occasion, this discipline won’t have to deal with Scottie Scheffler. The earth No. 1 went from profitable the Masters to profitable at Harbour Town, a back again-to-back again feat not seen considering the fact that 1985. As he’s however awaiting his 1st child, he’ll sit out this excursion to Quail Hollow.

Wyndham Clark returns as the defending champion. A calendar year in the past he grabbed his first PGA Tour acquire at Wells Fargo, then took that momentum to Los Angeles Country Club to acquire the U.S. Open six months later. Also in the industry is Max Homa, a two-time winner who broke as a result of as a initially-time winner at the 2019 occasion.

Rory McIlroy is a three-time winner and, with Scheffler out, is the greatest-ranked participant in the industry at No. 2 in the environment. Taylor Pendrith comes from the CJ Cup Byron Nelson, where he won for the first time on Tour and will make his to start with signature event appearance.

Quail Hollow gets back into the important rotation in 2025 for the PGA Championship, so the Wells Fargo Championship will shift to a distinct web-site upcoming year.

2024 Wells Fargo Championship Whole Industry

70 players
Åberg, Ludvig

An, Byeong Hun

Bezuidenhout, Christiaan

Bhatia, Akshay

Bradley, Keegan

Burns, Sam

Cantlay, Patrick

Clark, Wyndham

Cole, Eric

Conners, Corey

Davis, Cam

Day, Jason

Dunlap, Nick

Eckroat, Austin

English, Harris

Finau, Tony

Fitzpatrick, Matt

Fleetwood, Tommy

Fowler, Rickie

Glover, Lucas

Grillo, Emiliano

Hadwin, Adam

Harman, Brian

Henley, Russell

Hodges, Lee

Hoge, Tom

Homa, Max

Horschel, Billy

Hovland, Viktor

Hughes, Mackenzie

Im, Sungjae

Jaeger, Stephan

Kim, Si Woo

Kim, Tom

Kirk, Chris

Kitayama, Kurt

Knapp, Jake

Kohles, Ben

Kuchar, Matt +

Lowry, Shane

Malnati, Peter

Matsuyama, Hideki

McCarthy, Denny

McIlroy, Rory

Moore, Taylor

Morikawa, Collin

Murray, Grayson

Noren, Alex

Pavon, Matthieu

Pendrith, Taylor

Poston, J.T.

Electrical power, Seamus

Putnam, Andrew

Rodgers, Patrick

Rose, Justin

Schauffele, Xander

Schenk, Adam

Scott, Adam +

Simpson, Webb
+

Spieth, Jordan

Straka, Sepp

Svensson, Adam

Taylor, Nick

Theegala, Sahith

Thomas, Justin

Todd, Brendon

Tway, Kevin

Woodland, Gary
+

Young, Cameron

Zalatoris, Will

+ – Sponsor Exemption