The field for this week’s Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial Country Club will be missing some big names, including two stars from Dallas.
Scottie Scheffler, the world’s No. 1-ranked golfer and a former Highland Park and University of Texas standout, did not enter the Fort Worth PGA Tour event. Jordan Spieth, a Dallas native who also played at UT, joined Scheffler in skipping the event. Both have been fixtures at Colonial during their careers.
Then the event lost two more major winners with the withdrawals of Brooks Koepka on Sunday and Wyndham Clark on Monday. Clark won the CJ Cup Byron Nelson on Sunday at TPC Craig Ranch in McKinney.
Those four players have won a combined 13 majors: Koepka (five), Scheffler (four), Spieth (three) and Clark (one).
Scheffler and Spieth cited the PGA Tour’s hectic schedule that sandwiches in both Metroplex events amid majors and other signature events, the Dallas Morning News reported.
“It’s just a rock and a hard place for myself and Scottie and guys who are local, who grew up here,” Spieth said after his round at the CJ Cup on Friday.
Despite the departures, the Charles Schwab Challenge still boasts a solid field with seven of the world’s top 20 players: No. 9 J.J. Spaun, No. 12 Russell Henley, No. 13 Ludvig Aberg, No. 15 Robert MacIntyre, No. 16 Justin Thomas, defending champion No. 17 Ben Griffin and No. 20 Hideki Matsuyama.
Griffin won last year by one shot (12-under) over Matti Schmid.
The Charles Schwab Challenge starts Thursday.
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Jim Barnes is the Star-Telegram’s sports editor. A Fort Worth native and graduate of Castleberry High School, he returned to Texas after 13 years at the Las Vegas Review-Journal. He previously was sports editor of the Waco Tribune-Herald and a freelance high school sports reporter for The Dallas Morning News.
