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Butterfield Bermuda Championship 2026: wind and the top-100 line
Adam Schenk won at −12 last year, the highest winning score in seven editions. Lee Hodges is exactly 100th in the FedExCup Fall, and four players ranked between 96th and 103rd are also in the field.
Twelve under par won the Butterfield Bermuda Championship last year, the highest winning score in the event’s seven editions. The six previous champions were between −15 and −24. Gusts reached 40 mph in the final round, and the field averaged 73.113 that day, according to the PGA TOUR. Adam Schenk, in his 243rd start on the tour, closed with a level-par 71 and won by one from Chandler Phillips.
The forecast for this week (22–25 October) is for sustained winds of up to 25 mph until Saturday and possibly stronger on Sunday, when rain is likely, according to the PGA TOUR. Port Royal Golf Course in Southampton plays as a par 71 of 6,828 yards, short for the tour but the longest course on the island. The Bermudagrass greens are kept to about 10.5 on the Stimpmeter so that the wind doesn’t move balls at rest. The four par 3s averaged 3.20 last year, among the hardest on the tour.
Hodges, Phillips and Greyserman around 100th
This is the fourth of eight FedExCup Fall events. The top 100 in the standings after The RSM Classic keep full cards for 2027, and the PGA TOUR says status down to 150th is also at stake. Five players ranked between 96th and 103rd are in the field:
| FedExCup Fall rank | Player | Thursday (GMT) |
|---|---|---|
| 96 | Taylor Pendrith | 15:27, 10th tee |
| 98 | Chandler Phillips | 10:35, 10th tee |
| 99 | Max Greyserman | 16:11, 1st tee |
| 100 | Lee Hodges | 10:46, 1st tee |
| 103 | Seamus Power | 15:16, 1st tee |
Pendrith shares the course record, a 61 in the second round in 2021. Power won here in 2022. Lucas Glover, 108th, needs about a top-20 finish to move inside the top 100, according to the PGA TOUR’s projections.
Schenk would be the first player to defend the title, but he is 163rd in the standings and has made three cuts in his last ten starts, with no top-20 finish.
Ben James and Corey Conners head the field
Ben James is the bookmakers’ favourite. The rookie has finished in the top five in each of his last three starts and in four of his last six, but has not won on the PGA TOUR. Corey Conners, world No. 61, is the highest-ranked player in the 120-man field. Austin Smotherman, who won the Bank of Utah Championship this month, is the highest-placed player in the field in the FedExCup Fall standings. The purse is US$6 million, with 500 FedExCup points for the winner.
Past champions Brendon Todd (2019) and Camilo Villegas (2023), who share the 72-hole record of 260, are playing. The sponsor invitations include Miles Russell, 17, the world amateur No. 6, and Mason Howell, the 2025 US Amateur champion. Nick Jones and Camiko Smith are the two Bermudians in the field.
The PGA TOUR’s highlights of Schenk’s final round:
Thursday’s tee times
Bermuda is three hours behind GMT. Add an hour for British Summer Time, which ends on Sunday. Selected groups:
| GMT | Local | Tee | Players |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:35 | 07:35 | 10th | Harry Higgs, Greyson Sigg, Chandler Phillips |
| 10:46 | 07:46 | 1st | Lee Hodges, Aaron Baddeley, David Lingmerth |
| 10:57 | 07:57 | 10th | Austin Smotherman, Adam Schenk, Davis Thompson |
| 10:57 | 07:57 | 1st | Kevin Yu, Cam Davis, Lucas Glover |
| 11:08 | 08:08 | 1st | Camilo Villegas, Ben Kohles, John Parry |
| 11:41 | 08:41 | 10th | Brendon Todd, Takumi Kanaya, Danny Walker |
| 15:16 | 12:16 | 1st | Seamus Power, Joel Dahmen, Will Gordon |
| 15:27 | 12:27 | 1st | Aldrich Potgieter, Andrew Novak, Corey Conners |
| 15:27 | 12:27 | 10th | Davis Riley, Taylor Pendrith, Bill Haas |
| 16:11 | 13:11 | 1st | Max Greyserman, Hank Lebioda, A.J. Ewart |
| 16:11 | 13:11 | 10th | Ben James, David Ford, Miles Russell (a) |
| 16:22 | 13:22 | 1st | Patrick Fishburn, Paul Peterson, Mason Howell (a) |
Golf Channel is live from 17:00 to 20:00 GMT on all four days, with PGA TOUR Radio from 15:00 GMT. Round reports go on the tournament hub each morning. The next Fall event, the VidantaWorld Mexico Open, starts on 29 October.
Sources
- PGA TOUR: Butterfield Bermuda Championship overview
- PGA TOUR: The First Look, Butterfield Bermuda Championship
- PGA TOUR: Power Rankings, Butterfield Bermuda Championship
- PGA TOUR: Inside the field, Butterfield Bermuda Championship
- PGA TOUR: Top 100 watch
- PGA TOUR: Adam Schenk betting profile
- PGA TOUR: How to watch the Butterfield Bermuda Championship
- Golf.com via Yahoo Sports: Thursday tee times
- Golf Channel: Butterfield Bermuda Championship 2026 odds
- Fox Sports (AP): Adam Schenk survives a raging wind in Bermuda
- Wikipedia: Bermuda Championship
- PGA TOUR on YouTube: Round 4 highlights, 2025 Butterfield Bermuda Championship
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