2025 American Express Full Field: PGA Tour Opener on the Mainland

Ten of the world’s top 30 are scheduled to compete in the first event of the California Swing.
Nick Dunlap was a stunning winner last year as an amateur at the American Express.
Nick Dunlap was a stunning winner last year as an amateur at the American Express. / Ray Acevedo-Imagn Images

After a two-week trip to Hawaii to open the 2025 PGA Tour season, the traveling circus arrives in California for its annual visit to Palm Springs.

The tournament now known as The American Express will host 156 players across three courses (PGA West Pete Dye Stadium Course, LaQuinta Country Club, Nicklaus Tournament Course), with all players competing in one round on each and then the Stadium Course after a 54-hole cut.

If that sounds like a lot, remember the older days of the Bob Hope? The event used to be 90 holes with a pro-am, but in 2012 changed to the current format.

The field includes 10 of the top 30 players in the Official World Golf Ranking, led by No. 2 Xander Schauffele. This event was going to be the opener for world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, but he announced last week that a holiday hand injury will require a bit more time to heal. Other top players scheduled to compete are Wyndham Clark, Patrick Cantlay, Billy Horschel, Justin Thomas and Tom Kim

World No. 3 Rory McIlroy is playing in the Hero Dubai Desert Classic on the DP World Tour along with Tommy Fleetwood, Robert MacIntyre and Akshay Bhatia, which one could say hurt this field but then again the AmEx falls two weeks after one signature event (The Sentry) and two weeks before another (AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am).

The defending champion is Nick Dunlap, a stunning winner last year as an amateur and at a tournament-record 29 under. Not since Phil Mickelson in 1991 had an amateur won on Tour, and later in the year Dunlap backed it up with a win as a pro at the Barracuda Championship.

2025 American Express full field

156 players

Albertson, Anders

Andersen, Mason

Baddeley, Aaron

Berger, Daniel

Bezuidenhout, Christiaan

Bridgeman, Jacob

Brown, Blades +

Bryan, Wesley +

Buckley, Hayden

Burgoon, Bronson

Burns, Sam

Campbell, Brian

Campos, Rafael

Cantlay, Patrick

Capan III, Frankie

Castillo, Ricky

Cauley, Bud

Chandler, Will

Clark, Wyndham

Cole, Eric

Cone, Trevor

Cummins, Quade

Dahmen, Joel

Davis, Cam

Day, Jason

Del Solar, Cristobal

Dickson, Taylor

Dufner, Jason

Dunlap, Nick

Echavarria, Nico

English, Harris

Finau, Tony

Fishburn, Patrick

Fisk, Steven

Fowler, Rickie

Garnett, Brice

Gerard, Ryan

Ghim, Doug

Glover, Lucas

Goodwin, Noah

Gordon, Will

Gotterup, Chris

Greyserman, Max

Griffin, Ben

Griffin, Lanto

Grillo, Emiliano

Haas, Bill

Hadley, Chesson +

Hadwin, Adam

Hall, Harry

Hardy, Nick

Harman, Brian

Higgs, Harry

Highsmith, Joe

Hisatsune, Ryo

Hodges, Lee

Hoey, Rico

Hoffman, Charley

Hoge, Tom

Horschel, Billy

Hoshino, Rikuya

Hossler, Beau

Hubbard, Mark

Hughes, Mackenzie

Im, Sungjae

Johnson, Zach +

Kanaya, Takumi

Kim, Chan

Kim, Michael

Kim, Si Woo

Kim, Tom

Kirk, Chris

Kisner, Kevin

Kitayama, Kurt

Kizzire, Patton

Knapp, Jake

Knowles, Philip

Kohles, Ben

Kuchar, Matt

Lashley, Nate

Lee, K.H.

Lipsky, David

List, Luke

Lower, Justin

Malnati, Peter

Manassero, Matteo

Martin, Ben

McCarty, Matt

McGreevy, Max

Meissner, Mac

Mendoza, Kyle #

Mitchell, Keith

Molinari, Francesco

Montgomery, Taylor

Moore, Taylor

Mouw, William

Mullinax, Trey

Norlander, Henrik

Norrman, Vincent

Novak, Andrew

Onishi, Kaito

Pak, John

Palmer, Ryan

Paul, Jeremy

Perez, Victor

Peterson, Paul

Phillips, Chandler

Poston, J.T.

Potgieter, Aldrich

Putnam, Andrew

Ramey, Chad

Reavie, Chez +

Riedel, Matthew

Riley, Davis

Rodgers, Patrick

Rosenmueller, Thomas

Roy, Kevin

Rozner, Antoine

Ryder, Sam

Salinda, Isaiah

Schenk, Adam

Schmid, Matti

Sigg, Greyson

Silverman, Ben

Skinns, David

Smalley, Alex

Snedeker, Brandt

Spaun, J.J.

Stevens, Sam

Straka, Sepp

Streelman, Kevin +

Suber, Jackson

Svensson, Adam

Svensson, Jesper

Taylor, Nick

Thomas, Justin

Thompson, Davis

Thorbjornsen, Michael

Thornberry, Braden

Todd, Brendon

Tosti, Alejandro

Valimaki, Sami

van Rooyen, Erik

Vegas, Jhonattan

Velo, Kevin

Ventura, Kris

Villegas, Camilo

Walker, Danny

Whaley, Vince

Widing, Tim

Willett, Danny

Xiong, Norman

Young, Cameron

Young, Carson

Yu, Kevin

Zalatoris, Will

+ - Sponsor exemption

# - Section champion



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John Schwarb
JOHN SCHWARB

John Schwarb is a senior editor for Sports Illustrated covering golf. Prior to joining SI in March 2022, he worked for ESPN.com, PGATour.com, Tampa Bay Times and Indianapolis Motor Speedway. He is the author of The Little 500: The Story of the World's Greatest College Weekend. A member of the Golf Writers Association of America, Schwarb has a bachelor's in journalism from Indiana University.