{"id":394494,"date":"2026-01-08T04:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T04:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/394494\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T04:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T04:53:08","slug":"scottie-scheffler-commits-to-american-express-wm-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/394494\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottie Scheffler commits to American Express, WM Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World No. 1 <a data-player-guid=\"38cbeebe-aac8-fb36-dce0-cf45436086e4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/9478\/scottie-scheffler\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scottie Scheffler<\/a> will make his 2026 debut at the American Express Championship later this month in La Quinta, California, tournament officials said Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Scheffler never has won the AmEx but does have a third-place finish in 2020, as well as a pair of top-20s. He didn&#8217;t play last year after having hand surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/story\/_\/id\/40632405\/scottie-scheffler-golf-career-pga-tour-wins-more-titles\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/r1368333_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The tournament, to be held Jan. 22-25, will be the second of the year on the PGA Tour following next week&#8217;s Sony Open in Hawaii. The usual opener, The Sentry, was canceled in October due to course conditions at water-deprived Kapalua.<\/p>\n<p>Several big names already are in the AmEx field, including <a data-player-guid=\"718b2cd9-49cb-f723-4c03-eda264da3e1a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/441914\/akshay-bhatia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Akshay Bhatia<\/a>, <a data-player-guid=\"330cbcb2-636c-8729-3c1f-829c82011df9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/3702\/rickie-fowler\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rickie Fowler<\/a>, defending champion <a data-player-guid=\"7d66c751-33af-9c89-a201-8edc63e2ef75\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/8961\/sepp-straka\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sepp Straka<\/a> and up-and-coming star <a data-player-guid=\"619eba4f-2368-31ca-9d12-8912a6450d21\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/521503\/luke-clanton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Clanton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Scheffler also has committed to the WM Phoenix Open on Feb. 5-8, tournament officials said Wednesday night. He won there in 2022 and &#8217;23, with the former his first PGA Tour victory.<\/p>\n<p>Scheffler is coming off another remarkable season, winning six times in 20 starts, including the PGA Championship and Open Championship. He had 17 top-10s and was in the top 25 in every start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler will make his 2026 debut at the American Express Championship later this month&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-394494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}