Jun 08, 2020: The PGA TOUR announced today the four featured groupings for Thursday-Friday at the Charles Schwab Challenge, to be contested at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas. The Charles Schwab Challenge marks the TOUR’s return to competition after a 12-week hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Full groupings and starting times for the first two rounds of the Charles Schwab Challenge will be released officially at approximately 1 p.m. ET on Tuesday, June 9. To watch the featured groupings on Thursday-Friday, fans in the United States can tune in to the Golf Channel telecast (4-7 p.m. ET). Additionally, PGA TOUR LIVE, the PGA TOUR’s Over-The-Top subscription service, will be complimentary to fans during Thursday’s first round. Following that, PGA TOUR LIVE can be viewed via subscription on NBC Sports Gold (www.nbcsports.com/pgatour) and Amazon Prime Video Channels (amazon.com/video/pgatourlive)
Audio coverage is also available on SiriusXM PGA TOUR Radio (Sirius 208, XM 92), and streams free via PGATOUR.COM (pgatour.com/liveaudio) as well as the TOUR’s official iPhone, iPad, and Android apps.
Charles Schwab Challenge Featured Groupings
Rory McIlroy, Jon Rahm, Brooks Koepka
Notable: McIlroy (1), Rahm (2) and Koepka (3) are the top three players in the Official World Golf Ranking
- McIlroy, who is making his first start at the Charles Schwab Challenge, has two wins in his PGA TOUR career when making a tournament debut – 2010 Wells Fargo Championship, 2019 RBC Canadian Open
- In three starts at Colonial Country Club, Rahm has earned two top-fives, highlighted by a T2 in 2017
- In his lone Charles Schwab Challenge appearance in 2018, Koepka shot a pair of 63s (R2, R4) to finish second, marking the only time in his PGA TOUR career he recorded multiple sub-65 scores
Rickie Fowler, Justin Thomas, Jordan Spieth
- Fowler has two top-10s in six starts on the season (T5/Sentry Tournament of Champions, T10/The American Express)
- Thomas enters the week No. 2 in the FedExCup standings as one of two players with multiple wins on the season (THE CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES, Sentry Tournament of Champions)
- A Dallas native, Spieth has one win (2016) and two T2s (2015, 2017) in seven starts at the Charles Schwab Challenge
Bryson DeChambeau, Dustin Johnson, Justin Rose
- DeChambeau has finished in the top five in his last three starts (T5/The Genesis Invitational, 2nd/WGC-Mexico Championship, 4th/Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard)
- 20-time PGA TOUR winner Johnson enters the week No. 111 in the FedExCup standings and has not missed the TOUR Championship since his rookie season (134th/2008)
- In 2018, Justin Rose became the first player to win the Charles Schwab Challenge and go on to win the FedExCup in the same season
Phil Mickelson, Kevin Na, Gary Woodland
- Mickelson, a 44-time PGA TOUR winner, holds two Charles Schwab Challenge titles (2000, 2008)
- Defending champion Na earned his third PGA TOUR title at the 2019 Charles Schwab Challenge; he earned his fourth earlier this season at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open
- Woodland, the reigning U.S. Open champion, has four top-10s on the season, including a T8 at The Honda Classic in his most recent start
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