Professional golf enters a busy week of tournament action across six major men’s tours and multiple women’s circuits, with elite players jockeying for form, ranking points, and coveted major championship exemptions ahead of next month’s U.S. Open.
### PGA Tour: Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial Country Club
Headlining the men’s schedule this week is the PGA Tour’s Charles Schwab Challenge, hosted for the first time in back-to-back weeks with the CJ Cup Byron Nelson, an unprecedented scheduling shift for the Texas-based stop. Held at Fort Worth’s Colonial Country Club, the par-70 7,289-yard course will host a $9.9 million total purse, with the winner taking home $1.782 million in prize money.
Notable absences shake up this year’s field: current FedEx Cup leader Scottie Scheffler, who has notched seven top-5 finishes in 11 events this season with one win at The American Express, will miss the tournament for the first time since he became eligible to compete. Texas fan favorite Jordan Spieth also sits out this year, ending a consecutive start streak that dates back to his professional debut. With Scheffler and Spieth out, U.S. Open champion J.J. Spaun, ranked world No. 9, enters as the highest-ranked competitor in the field. Former top-50 player Nico Echavarria will look to rebound after a surprise last-week win by Wyndham Clark at the Byron Nelson knocked him out of the top 50, costing him an automatic exemption into the 2025 British Open. Justin Thomas makes his first start at Colonial since 2022, while Texas native Ryan Palmer accepted a sponsor exemption for his sixth PGA Tour start of the year. In milestone news, Si Woo Kim has officially crossed $6 million in career PGA Tour earnings, coming off a runner-up finish at last week’s Byron Nelson. Ben Griffin returns as defending champion.
Broadcast coverage is split across Golf Channel and CBS: preliminary rounds air Thursday and Friday from 4-7 p.m. ET on Golf Channel, with Saturday coverage running 1:30-3:30 p.m. on Golf Channel and 3:30-6:30 p.m. on CBS. Sunday coverage airs 1-3 p.m. on Golf Channel and 3-6 p.m. on CBS.
### LPGA Tour: ShopRite LPGA Classic in New Jersey
On the women’s side, the LPGA Tour hosts the ShopRite LPGA Classic at Galloway, New Jersey’s Seaview Hotel and Golf Club Bay Course. The par-71 6,263-yard event carries a $2 million total purse, with a $300,000 winner’s share. Jennifer Kupcho returns to defend her 2024 title, while Nelly Korda enters the week as the top-ranked player in the Race to CME Globe standings. Last week, Lottie Woad claimed victory at the Kroger Queen City Championship.
This week’s New Jersey event is one of only two remaining 54-hole tournaments on the LPGA schedule, held just seven days ahead of the high-profile U.S. Women’s Open at Los Angeles’ Riviera Country Club. World No. 7 Charley Hull is the only top-10 ranked player in the world competing this week, with most top contenders opting to prepare directly for next week’s major. Nelly Korda, who fell out of the final round top grouping in her most recent event for the first time this season, will not compete. First held in 1986, the tournament has only seen one repeat winner in its history: Anna Nordqvist, who won back-to-back titles in 2015 and 2016. Nordqvist shares the 54-hole scoring record of 17-under 196 with legend Annika Sorenstam.
Broadcast coverage runs exclusively on Golf Channel: Friday 12-3 p.m. ET, Saturday 3:30-6:30 p.m. ET, and Sunday 3-5 p.m. ET, with early Sunday coverage streaming on the Golf Channel app.
### DP World Tour: Austrian Alpine Open in Kitzbühel
The European DP World Tour travels to the Austrian Alps for the Austrian Alpine Open, held at Kitzbühel’s Kitzbühel-Schwarzsee-Reith Golf Club. The par-70 6,822-yard course hosts a $2.75 million total purse, with a $458,333 winner’s share. Nicolai Von Dellingshausen returns as defending champion, with Patrick Reed leading the Race to Dubai standings entering the week. Last week, Richard Sterne claimed victory at the Soudal Open.
Austrian native Sepp Straka makes a sentimental home start, competing in his national open 12 years after he played his first professional event at the same tournament as a 20-year-old collegiate golfer at the University of Georgia. Only two other top-100 world-ranked players join Straka in the field: Casey Jarvis of South Africa and Daniel Hillier of New Zealand, with the field slightly depleted by conflicting tournament play from LIV Golf. Kevin Na, who recently ended a four-year tenure with LIV Golf, makes his second DP World Tour start of the year at this event. First held in 1990 with Bernhard Langer as the inaugural champion, the tournament spent eight seasons as a Challenge Tour event before returning to the DP World Tour schedule in 2006. This week’s event marks the third stop of the DP World Tour’s European Swing.
Golf Channel will carry all four rounds of coverage, airing 6:30-11:30 a.m. ET Thursday and Friday, 7-11:30 a.m. ET Saturday, and 6-11 a.m. ET Sunday.
### LIV Golf League: LIV Golf Korea in Busan
The breakaway LIV Golf League travels to Busan, South Korea for LIV Golf Korea, the eighth event of the 2025 season held in the eighth different host country, with four of this year’s stops hosted in Asia. The event is held at Busan’s Asiad Country Club, a 7,024-yard par-70 originally built for the 2002 Asian Games that underwent a major redesign by Rees Jones in 2019. The 54-hole event carries a $20 million total purse, with the winner taking home a $4 million payout. Bryson DeChambeau, who won the 2024 event at Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea, returns to defend his title, while Jon Rahm enters the week as the circuit’s points leader. Last week, Lucas Herbert won LIV Golf Virginia, earning himself a spot in the upcoming U.S. Open.
This week’s event is the first of two consecutive LIV stops ahead of the U.S. Open, and the circuit continues its streak of strong major performances: at least one LIV player has finished in the top 10 of the last 10 major championships. Three LIV players qualified for the upcoming U.S. Open via sectional qualifying last week in Dallas: Peter Uihlein, 2010 U.S. Open champion Graeme McDowell, and amateur Caleb Surratt. The season-ending points leader after next week’s stop in Andalucia will earn an automatic exemption into the British Open at Royal Birkdale.
Broadcast coverage airs on Fox Sports networks: FS1 carries round one and two coverage Thursday and Saturday from 12-5 a.m. ET, with final round coverage Sunday on Fox from 12-5 a.m. ET.
### Other Global Tour Events This Week
The Korn Ferry Tour hosts the UNC Health Championship in Raleigh, North Carolina this week, held at Raleigh Country Club with a $1 million total purse and an $180,000 winner’s share. Trace Crowe returns as defending champion, with Ian Holt leading the tour’s points standings. No television coverage is scheduled for the event.
Additional global events this week include the Mizuno Open on the Japan Golf Tour, the Jabra Ladies French Open on the Ladies European Tour, the Spanish Challenge on the European Challenge Tour, the Resort Trust Ladies on the Japan LPGA, and the Suhyup Bank MBN Ladies Open on the Korea LPGA. Next week, top tours will shift to major championship preparation, with the PGA Tour hosting the Memorial Tournament, LIV Golf heading to Andalucia, the DP World Tour hosting the KLM Open, and the LPGA Tour teeing off the U.S. Women’s Open.