Major Winners Set For Inaugural Austin Championship Field

The PGA Tour's inaugural Austin Championship presented by Compliance Solutions tees off this week at Omni Barton Creek Resort & Spa's Fazio Canyons Course, with a field of major winners and tour veterans chasing a $6 million purse in the penultimate event of the 2026 FedExCup Fall.

Six-time PGA Tour winner Max Homa headlines the 120-player field alongside major champions Brian Harman and Lucas Glover. Billy Horschel, nine-time winner Matt Kuchar, Matt Wallace and Eric Cole are also entered, along with recent winners Austin Smotherman and Andrew Novak.

Why does the field matter for 2027 status?

Smotherman has already won twice this FedExCup Fall, at the Bank of Utah Championship and the Butterfield Bermuda Championship, while Novak took the Mexico Open at Vidanta World. For much of the rest of the field, the stakes are about survival rather than trophies: only the top 100 in the final FedExCup Fall standings keep full status for the 2027 season.

Mackenzie Hughes, Taylor Pendrith, Horschel, Marco Penge and Rasmus Hojgaard are among the players hovering near that cutoff heading into Austin. Their positions could shift again before the opening round, since the World Wide Technology Championship in Mexico was still being played as the Austin field was finalized.

The 120-man field also includes several of the sport's emerging names. Teenagers Miles Russell and Blades Brown are both entered, as is Jackson Koivun, the 3M Open champion playing his rookie PGA Tour season. The RSM Classic closes out the FedExCup Fall the following week.