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The PGA Tour has four opposite-field events each year. The Tour calls them additional events but they each run concurrent to the main event on the PGA Tour. This week, the Oneflight Myrtle Beach Classic is the companion piece to the Truist Championship, a signature event.
When the event started in 2024, it was announced as a four-year deal. A year later, Oneflight signed on as the title sponsor.
Since its inception, the tournament has been played at Dunes Beach and Golf Club in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The course was designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr., and nine holes (the back nine) opened in 1949. It was renovated by Jones’ son, Rees Jones, in 2013. It is ranked by Golfweek’s Best as the No. 3 public-access layout in the state, and it comes in at No. 155 on Golfweek’s Best list of all classic courses in the U.S. The course is best known for its brilliant, often elevated and tilted greens, many of which feature brisk runoffs in multiple directions, confounding players on approach shots.
With most of the big names in the Truist, and some other big names sitting out altogether this week (including Scottie Scheffler and Collin Morikawa), the Oneflight field has a fairly typical opposite-event field. The headliner is probably Brooks Koepka, who has been on the alternate sheet for the last two signature events. This week, he's choosing to take a guaranteed tee time ahead of the PGA, a major he's won three times.
The 121-man field includes Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Eric Cole, Joel Dahmen, Cam Davis, Nick Dunlap, Billy Horschel, Tom Kim, Max McGreevy, Marco Penge and Aaron Rai. The sponsor exemptions (and there are 10 of them) went to Grayson Wood, Wells Williams, Ryan Ruffels, Trent Phillips, Nicholas Marchese, Thriston Lawrence, Casey Jarvis, Evan Harmeling, Grant Haefner and Blades Brown.
Ryan Ruffels, who has 60,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel, won The Q at Myrtle Beach, a two-round event at Pawleys Plantation Golf & Country Club where he bested seven other content creators in the golf space to earn the final spot in the Oneflight field. Ruffels beat Grant Horvat in a stroke-play shootout to clinch the title. Ruffels will be making his 21st PGA Tour start. He's made 10 cuts on the PGA Tour. He's competed in 100 other PGA Tour-sanctioned tour events in his pro career. His win the The Q led to one of the 10 sponsor invites.
Ryan Fox won it in 2025 while Chris Gotterup did so in 2024. It was the first PGA Tour win for each.
There are eight signature events, all with $20 million prize funds. Five of the eight offer $3.6 million to the winner, while the other three (Genesis Invitational, Arnold Palmer Invitational, Memorial) are "player-hosted" sigs and they have a $4 million first-place prize. Opposite-field events have $4 million for the entire prize fund with $720,000 going to the winner.
Five signature events do not have a cut but the player-hosted ones do: a 36-hole cut to the top 50 and ties plus any player within 10 shots of the lead. Opposite-field events start with 120 players and have a 36-hole cut to the low 65 and ties.
Winners of opposite-field tournaments get 300 FedEx Cup points and a two-year exemption on the PGA Tour. They also earn a spot in the Players Championship the following year. While winning on the PGA Tour generally gets a golfer into the remaining signature events during that season in which they win, that rule doesn't apply to the opposite-field stops.
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Oneflight Myrtle Beach Classic 2026 field, golf course, history
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When the event started in 2024, it was announced as a four-year deal. A year later, Oneflight signed on as the title sponsor.
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Where is the Oneflight Myrtle Beach Classic played?
Since its inception, the tournament has been played at Dunes Beach and Golf Club in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The course was designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr., and nine holes (the back nine) opened in 1949. It was renovated by Jones’ son, Rees Jones, in 2013. It is ranked by Golfweek’s Best as the No. 3 public-access layout in the state, and it comes in at No. 155 on Golfweek’s Best list of all classic courses in the U.S. The course is best known for its brilliant, often elevated and tilted greens, many of which feature brisk runoffs in multiple directions, confounding players on approach shots.
Who's in the field for the 2026 Oneflight Myrtle Beach Classic?
With most of the big names in the Truist, and some other big names sitting out altogether this week (including Scottie Scheffler and Collin Morikawa), the Oneflight field has a fairly typical opposite-event field. The headliner is probably Brooks Koepka, who has been on the alternate sheet for the last two signature events. This week, he's choosing to take a guaranteed tee time ahead of the PGA, a major he's won three times.
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The 121-man field includes Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Eric Cole, Joel Dahmen, Cam Davis, Nick Dunlap, Billy Horschel, Tom Kim, Max McGreevy, Marco Penge and Aaron Rai. The sponsor exemptions (and there are 10 of them) went to Grayson Wood, Wells Williams, Ryan Ruffels, Trent Phillips, Nicholas Marchese, Thriston Lawrence, Casey Jarvis, Evan Harmeling, Grant Haefner and Blades Brown.
How did a Youtube content creator make the field?
Ryan Ruffels, who has 60,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel, won The Q at Myrtle Beach, a two-round event at Pawleys Plantation Golf & Country Club where he bested seven other content creators in the golf space to earn the final spot in the Oneflight field. Ruffels beat Grant Horvat in a stroke-play shootout to clinch the title. Ruffels will be making his 21st PGA Tour start. He's made 10 cuts on the PGA Tour. He's competed in 100 other PGA Tour-sanctioned tour events in his pro career. His win the The Q led to one of the 10 sponsor invites.
Who are the champions at the Oneflight Myrtle Beach Classic?
Ryan Fox won it in 2025 while Chris Gotterup did so in 2024. It was the first PGA Tour win for each.
How do the opposite-field events compare to the rest of the PGA Tour stops?
There are eight signature events, all with $20 million prize funds. Five of the eight offer $3.6 million to the winner, while the other three (Genesis Invitational, Arnold Palmer Invitational, Memorial) are "player-hosted" sigs and they have a $4 million first-place prize. Opposite-field events have $4 million for the entire prize fund with $720,000 going to the winner.
Five signature events do not have a cut but the player-hosted ones do: a 36-hole cut to the top 50 and ties plus any player within 10 shots of the lead. Opposite-field events start with 120 players and have a 36-hole cut to the low 65 and ties.
Winners of opposite-field tournaments get 300 FedEx Cup points and a two-year exemption on the PGA Tour. They also earn a spot in the Players Championship the following year. While winning on the PGA Tour generally gets a golfer into the remaining signature events during that season in which they win, that rule doesn't apply to the opposite-field stops.
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Oneflight Myrtle Beach Classic 2026 field, golf course, history
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