{"id":693402,"date":"2026-05-25T21:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/693402\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T21:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:17:10","slug":"the-first-look-charles-schwab-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/693402\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Look: Charles Schwab Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>5H AGO<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"chakra-text css-lqkr0z\">5 Min Read<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"chakra-link css-1jfg7sy\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pgatour.com\/news\/the-first-look\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"chakra-text css-lqkr0z\">The First Look<\/p>\n<p><\/a>*:not(style){overflow:hidden;position:absolute;top:0px;right:0px;bottom:0px;left:0px;display:-webkit-box;display:-webkit-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webkit-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webkit-justify-content:center;justify-content:center;-webkit-align-items:center;-webkit-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-items:center;width:100%;height:100%;}.css-17ygvlf>img,.css-17ygvlf>video{object-fit:cover;}.css-17ygvlf::before{height:0px;content:&#8221;&#8221;;display:block;padding-bottom:56.25%;}]]><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779743830_608_image.jpg\" alt=\"Mic\u2019d up with Charles Schwab Challenge winner Ben Griffin\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;object-fit:cover\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"chakra-text css-16ejlxd\">Mic\u2019d up with Charles Schwab Challenge winner Ben Griffin<\/p>\n<p>*:not(style)~*:not(style){margin-top:0.5rem;-webkit-margin-end:0px;margin-inline-end:0px;margin-bottom:0px;-webkit-margin-start:0px;margin-inline-start:0px;}]]><\/p>\n<p class=\"chakra-text css-lqkr0z\">A<\/p>\n<p class=\"chakra-text css-17sz9ey\">Change Text Size<\/p>\n<p>Written by Staff  <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:var(--font-suisse-intl), &quot;Suisse Intl&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:1.7rem;line-height:2.6rem;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0rem;position:relative\">The PGA TOUR returns to Colonial Country Club and one of the longest-standing TOUR venues is ready to welcome many of the game\u2019s best.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:var(--font-suisse-intl), &quot;Suisse Intl&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:1.7rem;line-height:2.6rem;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0rem;position:relative\">The field of the Charles Schwab Challenge is chock-full of notables and soon-to-be stars ready to win one of the TOUR\u2019s most storied titles with lots on the line: This week marks the final chance to qualify for the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"chakra-link css-vqpqpw\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pgatour.com\/signature-events\/qualification\">via the Aon Swing 5 and Aon Next 10.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:var(--font-suisse-intl), &quot;Suisse Intl&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:1.7rem;line-height:2.6rem;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0rem;position:relative\">It\u2019s the 80th playing of this event at Colonial, and it\u2019s set to be a special one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:var(--font-suisse-intl), &quot;Suisse Intl&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:1.7rem;line-height:2.6rem;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0rem;position:relative\">Here\u2019s everything else you need to know from this week \u2013 the second of two in a row in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:var(--font-suisse-intl), &quot;Suisse Intl&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:1.7rem;line-height:2.6rem;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0rem;position:relative\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"chakra-link css-vqpqpw\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pgatour.com\/article\/news\/inside-the-field\/2026\/05\/22\/who-is-playing-charles-schwab-challenge-colonial-justin-thomas-brooks-koepka-how-they-qualified\">FIELD NOTES<\/a>: Ludvig \u00c5berg returns to action on TOUR after finishing T4 at the PGA Championship. \u00c5berg has notched six top-10 finishes on TOUR so far this season and all six have come in his last seven weeks \u2013 including three in a row. This is \u00c5berg\u2019s tournament debut. \u2026 In all, there are seven golfers in the top 20 of the Official World Golf Ranking who are teeing it up at Colonial including \u00c5berg, J.J. Spaun, Russell Henley, Robert MacIntyre, Justin Thomas, Hideki Matsuyama and last year\u2019s winner Ben Griffin. \u2026 Griffin is looking to become the first golfer since Ben Hogan all the way back in the 1950s to successfully defend his title at Colonial. \u2026 This marks Thomas\u2019 return to the Charles Schwab Challenge for the first time since 2022, where he missed the cut. Thomas comes into the week after a T4 at the PGA Championship. \u2026 Speaking of returns after the PGA Championship, Alex Smalley is also back on TOUR after his dream-like run at Aronimink Golf Club, where Smalley was in the final group for both Saturday and Sunday. Smalley has recorded six top-25 finishes in a row heading into this week including two T2s (at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans and the PGA). \u2026 There are plenty of other notables teeing it up at Colonial including Keegan Bradley, Rickie Fowler and Gary Woodland. Fowler, too, is on his own little springtime heater \u2013 he had three top-10 finishes in a row heading into the PGA Championship and would have dialed up another solid result had it not been for a final-round 75 at TPC Craig Ranch. \u2026 Among the past champs in the field are Davis Riley, Emiliano Grillo and Chris Kirk.<\/p>\n<p>HIGHEST-RANKED PLAYERS IN THE FIELDWorld RankingFedExCup9. J.J. Spaun6. Ludvig \u00c5berg12. Russell Henley10. Akshay Bhatia13. Ludvig \u00c5berg15. Alex Smalley15. Robert MacIntyre19. Rickie Fowler16. Justin Thomas21. J.J. Spaun17. Ben Griffin26. Russell Henley20. Hideki Matsuyama27. Hideki Matsuyama26 Akshay Bhatia28. Gary Woodland35. Keegan Bradley29. Robert MacIntyre37. Ryan Gerard30. Matt McCarty<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:var(--font-suisse-intl), &quot;Suisse Intl&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:1.7rem;line-height:2.6rem;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0rem;position:relative\">SPONSOR EXEMPTIONS: Georgia Tech sophomore Albert Hansson won the Ben Hogan Collegiate Invitational presented by Charles Schwab at Colonial in September to earn a spot in the Charles Schwab Challenge. He earned the spot via a five-man playoff, and this week will mark his PGA TOUR debut. \u2026 The rest of the sponsor invites are filled with PGA TOUR winners, veterans and notables including Matt Kuchar, Ryan Palmer, Charley Hoffman, Nick Hardy, Zac Blair, Camilo Villegas, Webb Simpson and Kevin Kisner,who won the event in 2017.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:var(--font-suisse-intl), &quot;Suisse Intl&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:1.7rem;line-height:2.6rem;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0rem;position:relative\">SIGNATURE EVENT STORYLINES: The next Signature Event on the PGA TOUR schedule is the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday, and this week marks the final event for golfers to earn points to qualify. \u2026 With his win at THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson, Wyndham Clark now <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"chakra-link css-vqpqpw\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pgatour.com\/signature-events\/qualification\">tops the Aon Swing 5<\/a> with Brandt Snedeker (after his win at the ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic) remaining in second. \u2026 Mark Hubbard sits third while Jackson Suber (who finished solo fourth) and Zach Bauchou (tied for sixth) both jumped into the Aon Swing 5 with their finishes at THE CJ CUP. Bauchou leads No. 6 Keith Mitchell by less than two points. Snedeker, Hubbard, Suber, Bauchou and Mitchell are all in the field. \u2026 There were no changes to the standings of the Aon Next 10 after Sunday at THE CJ CUP, with Min Woo Lee continuing to lead the way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:var(--font-suisse-intl), &quot;Suisse Intl&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:1.7rem;line-height:2.6rem;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0rem;position:relative\">FEDEXCUP: Winner receives 500 FedExCup points.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:var(--font-suisse-intl), &quot;Suisse Intl&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:1.7rem;line-height:2.6rem;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0rem;position:relative\">COURSE: Colonial Country Club, par 70, 7,289 yards. This year will mark the third after Gil Hanse\u2019s ambitious $25 million restoration of the venerable Dallas layout. Hanse was tasked with returning the course to its original look and greens were relocated, bunkers were removed, previously elevated greens were lowered, and some sightlines were made cleaner \u2013 much to the overarching approval of the TOUR\u2019s best. The classic layout puts emphasis on accuracy off the tee to have success.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:var(--font-suisse-intl), &quot;Suisse Intl&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:1.7rem;line-height:2.6rem;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0rem;position:relative\">72-HOLE RECORD: 259, Zach Johnson (2010)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:var(--font-suisse-intl), &quot;Suisse Intl&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:1.7rem;line-height:2.6rem;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0rem;position:relative\">18-HOLE RECORD: 61, Keith Clearwater (second round, 1993), Lee Janzen (fourth round, 1993), Greg Kraft (third round, 1999), Kenny Perry (third round, 2003), Justin Leonard (fourth round, 2003), Chad Campbell (third round, 2004), Kevin Na (fourth round, 2018)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:var(--font-suisse-intl), &quot;Suisse Intl&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:1.7rem;line-height:2.6rem;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0rem;position:relative\">LAST TIME: On a tough final day in Texas, Ben Griffin managed to hold on tight at the Charles Schwab Challenge despite two bogeys in his final six holes to defeat Matti Schmid by one. Griffin was 3 under through two holes but let the chasing pack into the mix. Schmid was the early leader before he had a turbulent closing stretch. In all, Schmid made six bogeys, six birdies and a double bogey in his final-round, 2-over 72. His solo second was his best-career TOUR finish. Griffin and Schmid took a four-shot lead into the final round and stayed 1-2 on the leaderboard. Bud Cauley finished third alone while Tommy Fleetwood and Scottie Scheffler finished tied for fourth.<\/p>\n<p>How to follow (all times ET)<\/p>\n<p>Thursday-Friday: 4-7 p.m. (Golf Channel)Saturday: 1-3:30 p.m. (Golf Channel), 3-6:30 p.m. (CBS)Sunday: 1-3 p.m. (Golf Channel), 3-6 p.m. (CBS)Thursday-Friday: 8 a.m.-7 p.m.Saturday: 8:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m.Sunday: 8 a.m.-6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:var(--font-suisse-intl), &quot;Suisse Intl&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:1.7rem;line-height:2.6rem;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0rem;position:relative\">PGA TOUR LIVE is available exclusively on ESPN+ and consists of four streams:<\/p>\n<p>Main feed (Stream 1): Primary tournament coverage featuring the best action from across the courseMarquee group (Stream 2): New &#8220;marquee group&#8221; showcasing every shot from each player in the groupFeatured groups (Stream 3): Traditional PGA TOUR LIVE coverage of two concurrent featured groupsFeatured holes (Stream 4): Combination of par 3s and iconic or pivotal holesThursday-Friday: 1-7 p.m.Saturday: 1-6:30 p.m.Sunday: 1-6 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"5H AGO 5 Min Read The First Look *:not(style){overflow:hidden;position:absolute;top:0px;right:0px;bottom:0px;left:0px;display:-webkit-box;display:-webkit-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webkit-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webkit-justify-content:center;justify-content:center;-webkit-align-items:center;-webkit-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-items:center;width:100%;height:100%;}.css-17ygvlf>img,.css-17ygvlf>video{object-fit:cover;}.css-17ygvlf::before{height:0px;content:&#8221;&#8221;;display:block;padding-bottom:56.25%;}]]&gt; Mic\u2019d up with Charles Schwab Challenge winner Ben Griffin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-693402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}