2025 RBC Heritage Full Field: Relaxing After the Masters, but Without Rory McIlroy

The PGA Tour takes its traditional post-Augusta trip to Hilton Head, S.C., with most of the Masters protagonists in a signature event.

Harbour Town Golf Links is a classic lowcountry course with marshes and overhanging trees. / Aaron Doster-Imagn Images

This week is one of the great exhales in golf.

After the Masters, and the months of buildup preceding it, the PGA Tour takes its traditional chill-out week at the RBC Heritage in Hilton Head, S.C.

Hilton Head Island is a laid-back spot where you might sleep in a little, take a long walk on the beach, grab a leisurely meal—and not spend every waking moment on your day job.

So even though the RBC Heritage is a signature event, with the requisite $4 million purse and boosted FedEx Cup points, the Tour’s best may not all be grinding away on the practice tee at Harbour Town Golf Links early this week. They’ll be taking a day or two to recharge.

Justin Rose, who fell short again in a Masters playoff but will be remembered fondly for his Sunday rally, is making the drive over to South Carolina, as are Scottie Scheffler, Sungjae Im, Ludvig Åberg, Xander Schauffele, Jason Day and Corey Conners. All finished in the top 10 at the season’s first major.

The biggest absence in this field is Rory McIlroy, the newly minted green jacket winner and member of the career Grand Slam club, but don’t read anything into that. He was never on the tournament’s entry list. McIlroy has only played at Harbour Town three times in his career and instead he will defend his title next week at the team-event Zurich Classic with countryman Shane Lowry, a big boost for the New Orleans stop.

Scheffler is the defending champion at Harbour Town, having pulled off the rare Masters-RBC Heritage double last year when he seemingly couldn’t lose. Matt Fitzpatrick and Jordan Spieth, the two champs before Scheffler, are also playing.

Harbour Town is one of great tactician’s courses on Tour, a 7,213 par-71 that cannot be tamed with a driver. Players have to maneuver around a classic lowcountry setting with overhanging limbs from oak, palm and palmetto trees, and tackle the Tour’s smallest greens. You’ll see more holeouts from off greens this week than any other, because the putting surfaces are so small.

The winner will get $3.6 million, 700 FedEx Cup points and a tartan jacket—perhaps the second most iconic jacket in golf.

2025 RBC Heritage full field

80 players

Åberg, Ludvig

An, Byeong Hun

Berger, Daniel

Bezuidenhout, Christiaan

Bhatia, Akshay

Bradley, Keegan

Bridgeman, Jacob

Burns, Sam

Campbell, Brian

Cantlay, Patrick

Cauley, Bud

Clark, Wyndham

Cole, Eric

Conners, Corey

Davis, Cam

Day, Jason

Detry, Thomas

Dunlap, Nick

Eckroat, Austin

English, Harris

Finau, Tony

Fitzpatrick, Matt

Fleetwood, Tommy

Fowler, Rickie +

Gerard, Ryan

Glover, Lucas

Greyserman, Max

Hadwin, Adam

Harman, Brian

Henley, Russell

Highsmith, Joe

Hisatsune, Ryo

Hoge, Tom

Homa, Max

Horschel, Billy

Hovland, Viktor

Hughes, Mackenzie
+

Im, Sungjae

Jaeger, Stephan

Kim, Michael

Kim, Si Woo

Kirk, Chris

Lee, Min Woo

Lowry, Shane

MacIntyre, Robert

McCarthy, Denny

McNealy, Maverick

Morikawa, Collin

Novak, Andrew

Pavon, Matthieu

Pendrith, Taylor

Poston, J.T.

Rai, Aaron

Rodgers, Patrick

Rose, Justin

Schauffele, Xander

Scheffler, Scottie

Scott, Adam

Spaun, J.J.

Spieth, Jordan +
Stevens, Sam

Straka, Sepp

Taylor, Nick

Theegala, Sahith

Thomas, Justin

Thompson, Davis

Valimaki, Sami

Vilips, Karl

Woodland, Gary

Young, Cameron

Zalatoris, Will

+ - sponsor exemption