The PGA Tour is back, although it wasn’t gone for long. The fall part of the schedule begins this week at the inaugural Biltmore Championship Asheville, where the field is at the Cliffs at Walnut Cove playing for $5 million with the winner taking home $900,000 in North Carolina.
Top players, of course, are not in the field because they don’t have to be. That leaves World No. 29 Jacob Bridgeman as the top-ranked player in the field and he’s really only here to shake off some rust before he plays in the Presidents Cup next week in Chicago. Jackson Koivun is also in Asheville, joining Bridgeman as the only two American Presidents Cup players participating. Justin Thomas was in the field but withdrew over the weekend. Five from the International Presidents Cup team are playing, starting with Corey Conners (54) and Nico Echavarria (60).
A reminder that this is the start of the FedEx Cup Fall, where players inside the top 100 in FedEx Cup standings after the eight fall events will earn full status for next year. Anyone ending Nos. 51-60 will qualify for the first two signature events next year, the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and the Genesis Invitational. That guaranteed that some of the bigger, veterans names wanting to secure cards for 2027 would play this week—like Tony Finau (98), Billy Horschel (100) and Lucas Glover (101).
Check back here Sunday after play is complete for updates.
Here’s the prize breakdown in Asheville
WIN: $900,000
2: $545,000
3: $345,000
4: $245,000
5: $205,000
6: $181,250
7: $168,750
8: $156,250
9: $146,250
10: $136,250
11: $126,250
12: $116,250
13: $106,250
14: $96,250
15: $91,250
16: $86,250
17: $81,250
18: $76,250
19: $71,250
20: $66,250
21: $61,250
22: $56,250
23: $52,250
24: $48,250
25: $44,250
26: $40,250
27: $38,750
28: $37,250
29: $35,750
30: $34,250
31: $32,750
32: $31,250
33: $29,750
34: $28,500
35: $27,250
36: $26,000
37: $24,750
38: $23,750
39: $22,750
40: $21,750
41: $20,750
42: $19,750
43: $18,750
44: $17,750
45: $16,750
46: $15,750
47: $14,750
48: $13,950
49: $13,250
50: $12,850
51: $12,550
52: $12,250
53: $12,050
54: $11,850
55: $11,750
56: $11,650
57: $11,550
58: $11,450
59: $11,350
60: $11,250
61: $11,150
62: $11,050
63: $10,950
64: $10,850
65: $10,750
66: $10,650
67: $10,550
68: $10,450
69: $10,350
70: $10,250
71: $10,150
72: $10,050
73: $9,950
74: $9,850
75: $9,750
76: $9,650
77: $9,550
78: $9,450
79: $9,350
80: $9,250
This article was originally published on golfdigest.com
