THE AMERICAN EXPRESS HAS STARPOWER
Publisher CoachellaValley January 18, 2023PGA TOUR GOLF EVENT AT PGA WEST AND LA QUINTA COUNTRY CLUB, the American Express, was finalized on Friday with 153-of-156 players set for the 64th-annual tournament January 19-22.
LA QUINTA, CALIF. – One of the best Iplayer fields in recent memory at The American Express was finalized on Friday with 153-of-156 players set for the 64th-annual tournament from January 19-22.
As one of the PGA TOUR’s longest-tenured golf tournaments, The American Express is a 72-hole event – which also includes 156 amateurs over 54 holes (three rounds) – and its 2023 champion will earn $1,440,000 (from a record $8 million purse) and 500 FedExCup points.
“Ever since our title sponsor, American Express, came aboard in 2020, we have made it a top priority to elevate our field incrementally each year, and I think we are meeting that goal,” said Pat McCabe, Executive Director of The American Express.
“As we embark on our fourth iteration of The American Express next week, I believe we can make a claim to sporting the best field of any full-field event in the current PGA TOUR season to date.”
The American Express features five of the top seven golfers, including the top four American players, in the Official World Golf Ranking. Among the tournament’s leading golfers are reigning Masters champion and World No. 2 Scottie Scheffler; Long Beach native, UCLA product and World No. 4 Patrick Cantlay; World No. 5 Jon Rahm, the tournament’s 2018 winner and 2021 U.S. Open champion from Spain; World No. 6 Xander Schauffele, the Tokyo Olympics Gold medalist and seven-time PGA TOUR winner; and World No. 7 Will Zalatoris, the 2022 U.S. Open and 2022 PGA Championship runner-up.
Also including 10 of the world’s top 19-ranked golfers, The American Express field is bolstered by World No. 12 Tony Finau, who has won three of his five PGA TOUR titles in the past six months, World No. 13 Sam Burns and World No. 14 Tom Kim, the 20-year-old Korean sensation. Burns won three of his four PGA TOUR titles in the 2021-22 season. After joining the PGA TOUR as a Special Temporary Member in July, Kim became the first player since Tiger Woods in 1996 to win twice on TOUR before his 21st birthday.
World No. 17 Cameron Young, the 2022 Arnold Palmer Award winner (PGA TOUR Rookie of the Year), and 2021-22 PGA TOUR FedExCup runner-up and two-time PGA TOUR winner Sungjae Im (World No. 19) are also committed to play.
The American Express plays across PGA WEST’s Stadium Course (host venue) and Nicklaus Tournament Course and celebrates its 51st year of play at La Quinta Country Club from Thursday, Jan. 19 to Saturday, Jan. 21. The final round is played exclusively on the PGA WEST Stadium Course on Sunday, Jan. 22. It is the first PGA TOUR regular season event in the continental United States in 2023 and kicks off the TOUR’s West Coast swing.
By the numbers, The American Express field features:
- Ten major champions – Scottie Scheffler (2022 Masters), Jon Rahm (2021 U.S. Open), Jimmy Walker (2016 PGA Championship), Danny Willett (2016 Masters), Zach Johnson (2007 Masters, 2015 Open Championship), Jason Day (2015 PGA Championship), Justin Rose (2013 U.S Open), Jason Dufner (2013 PGA Championship), Lucas Glover (2009 U.S. Open) and Stewart Cink (2009 Open Championship).
- Six Americans (Sam Burns, Patrick Cantlay, Tony Finau, Xander Schauffele, Scottie Scheffler, Cameron Young) and eight internationals (Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Cam Davis, Sungjae Im, Si Woo Kim, Tom Kim, K.H. Lee, Sebastian Munoz and Taylor Pendrith) who played in the 2022 Presidents Cup.
- Fifteen golfers who reached The TOUR Championship last season and finished in the top 30 of the PGA TOUR’s FedExCup playoffs – Scottie Scheffler and Sungjae Im (FedExCup runners-up), Xander Schauffele (No. 4 FedExCup), Patrick Cantlay (No. 7), Tony Finau (No. 9), Tom Hoge (No. 10), Corona, Calif. native Aaron Wise (No. 13), Jon Rahm and J.T. Poston (tie for No. 15), Cameron Young, World No. 23 Brian Harman (No. 21), Sam Burns (No. 24), K.H. Lee (No. 27), former Chino Hills, Calif. resident and 2020 Pepperdine graduate Sahith Theegala (No. 28) and Will Zalatoris (No. 30).
- Eight past tournament champions – Si Woo Kim (2021 champion), Andrew Landry (2020), Adam Long (2019), Jon Rahm (2018), Jason Dufner (2016), two-time winner Bill Haas (2010 and 2015 champion), Brian Gay (2013) and Jhonattan Vegas (2011).
- 78 PGA TOUR winners who have combined to win 220 PGA TOUR titles.
Other notable PGA TOUR stars in The American Express field include PGA TOUR fan favorite and Riverside County native Rickie Fowler and Idyllwild native and UC Riverside graduate Brendan Steele. Sponsor exemptions were awarded to Sung Jang, John Pak, Taiga Semikawa, Caleb Surratt and Gunner Wiebe.
The Southern California PGA section champion exemption into The American Express is Michael Block, who plays out of Arroyo Trabuco Golf Club in Mission Viejo, Calif. and last week was named the PGA of America’s 2022 national PGA Professional Player of the Year.
Daily ticket options for The American Express are on sale at the tournament’s website, www.theamexgolf.com. American Express Card Members receive a 20% discount on any online ticket price (terms apply).
2023 The American Express Final Field (153 of 156 players) as of Jan. 13, 2023
Albertson, Anders
Alexander, Tyson
An, Byeong Hun
Armour, Ryan
Barnes, Erik
Bezuidenhout, Christiaan
Blair, Zac
Block, Michael #
Bramlett, Joseph
Brehm, Ryan
Burmester, Dean
Burns, Sam
Cantlay, Patrick
Cink, Stewart
Clark, Wyndham
Cole, Eric
Cone, Trevor
Cook, Austin
Daffue, MJ
Dahmen, Joel
Davis, Cam
Day, Jason
Detry, Thomas
Dou, Zecheng
Dufner, Jason
Duncan, Tyler
Echavarria, Nico
Eckroat, Austin
Endycott, Harrison
English, Harris
Finau, Tony
Fowler, Rickie
Frittelli, Dylan
Garnett, Brice
Gay, Brian
Ghim, Doug
Gligic, Michael
Glover, Lucas
Gordon, Will
Goya, Tano
Grant, Brent
Griffin, Ben
Grillo, Emiliano
Haas, Bill
Hadley, Chesson
Hadwin, Adam
Hahn, James
Haley II, Paul
Hall, Harry
Harman, Brian
Harrington, Scott
Hickok, Kramer
Higgo, Garrick
Higgs, Harry
Hodges, Lee
Hoge, Tom
Hossler, Beau
Hubbard, Mark
Huh, John
Im, Sungjae
Jaeger, Stephan
Johnson, Zach
Kang, Sung +
Kim, Michael
Kim, S.H.
Kim, Si Woo
Kim, Tom
Kirk, Chris
Kizzire, Patton
Knowles, Philip
Knox, Russell
Kodaira, Satoshi
Laird, Martin
Landry, Andrew
Lashley, Nate
Lee, Danny
Lee, K.H.
Lingmerth, David
Lipsky, David
List, Luke
Long, Adam
Lower, Justin
Malnati, Peter
Martin, Ben
Matthews, Brandon
McCarthy, Denny
McGreevy, Max
Merritt, Troy
Mitchell, Keith
Montgomery, Taylor
Moore, Ryan
Moore, Taylor
Muñoz, Sebastián
NeSmith, Matthew
Norrman, Vincent
Novak, Andrew
Núñez, Augusto
Pak, John +
Pendrith, Taylor
Piercy, Scott
Poston, J.T.
Putnam, Andrew
Rahm, Jon
Rai, Aaron
Ramey, Chad
Reavie, Chez
Riley, Davis
Rodgers, Patrick
Rose, Justin
Roy, Kevin
Ryder, Sam
Sabbatini, Rory
Schauffele, Xander
Scheffler, Scottie
Schenk, Adam
Schmid, Matti
Schwab, Matthias
Semikawa, Taiga +
Shelton, Robby
Sigg, Greyson
Smalley, Alex
Stanley, Kyle
Steele, Brendan
Stevens, Sam
Streb, Robert
Stroud, Chris
Stuard, Brian
Suh, Justin
Surratt, Caleb +
Tarren, Callum
Taylor, Ben
Taylor, Nick
Theegala, Sahith
Thompson, Davis
Thompson, Michael
Todd, Brendon
Tway, Kevin
van Rooyen, Erik
Vegas, Jhonattan
Walker, Jimmy
Watney, Nick
Werbylo, Trevor
Werenski, Richy
Westmoreland, Kyle
Wiebe, Gunner +
Willett, Danny
Wise, Aaron
Wu, Brandon
Young, Cameron
Young, Carson
Yu, Kevin
Yuan, Carl
Zalatoris, Will
+ Sponsor Exemption
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