Scottie Scheffler will participate in the American Express Championship at the end of January, marking his debut in 2026.
Scottie Scheffler is set to compete for the first time in 2026 at the PGA Tour’s American Express Championship, tournament organizers confirmed Wednesday. The event will take place from January 22 to 25 in La Quinta, California, with a total prize fund of $9,200,000. Last year, Austrian Sepp Straka claimed the title.
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The American Express Championship remains one of the few tournaments missing from Scheffler’s list of victories. After finishing third in 2020, he secured multiple top-25 finishes in subsequent years but missed the 2025 event due to hand surgery. Competition this year is fierce, with last year’s winner Sepp Straka, Ben Griffin, and Robert MacIntyre among those who could challenge the world number one.
This tournament is the second PGA Tour event of the year following next week’s Sony Open in Hawaii. The usual season opener, The Sentry, was canceled in October due to course conditions at the drought-affected Kapalua.
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Scheffler aims to start the new season strong at the American Express Championship to build on last year’s successes. In 20 tournaments, he won six times, including major victories at the PGA Championship and The Open Championship. Additionally, he finished in the top 10 in 17 of those events, never placing outside the top 25. These achievements earned him PGA Tour Player of the Year honors for the fourth consecutive year.
With two major titles in 2025, Scheffler now has a clear goal for 2026: completing the Career Grand Slam. After winning the Masters in 2022 and 2024, the US Open remains the only major title missing. He will compete for that crown from June 18 to 21.