When Miles Russell of Jacksonville Beach hits his first tee shot on Oct. 22 in the PGA Tour's Butterfield Bermuda Championship, he will have had almost as many professional starts as he has years on this earth.
Russell, 17 and the world's sixth-ranked amateur, will make his 15th start on either the PGA Tour or the Korn Ferry Tour at the FedEx Cup Fall event, played on the Port Royal Golf Course in Southampton, Bermuda. Russell played in the tournament in 2024 at the age of 15 and missed the cut. This will be his eighth PGA Tour start, to go with seven Korn Ferry Tour outings.
Russell is grouped with Ben James and David Ford in the first two rounds. They will tee off No. 10 at 1:11 p.m. on Oct. 22, and off No. 1 at 8:41 a.m. on Oct. 23.
Russell
made the cut earlier this year at the U.S. Open (finishing tied for 39th) and at the Puerto Rico Open (tying for 50th). He also had his best finish in a pro tournament so far with a tie for 15th at the Korn Ferry Tour's Club Car Championship in Savannah.
Russell has made two cuts on the PGA Tour and three on the Korn Ferry Tour. He has a 71.9 scoring average in PGA Tour events and 69.75 on the Korn Ferry Tour.
TGL rosters announced
Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy return for the 2027 TGL season, the indoor virtual golf league that will have seven five-man teams beginning play on Dec. 27 at the SoFi Center in Palm Beach Gardens.
The league has expanded with the addition of the Motor City Golf Club with Brooks Koepka, Bud Cauley, Si Woo Kim, Jackson Koivun and Jake Knapp. Woods returns with the Jupiter Links Golf Club, with Max Homa, Tom Kim, Akshay Bhatia and Keith Mitchell of St. Simons Island, Ga.; and McIlroy is back to lead Boston Common Golf with Shane Lowry, Keegan Bradley, Michael Thorbjornsen of Jacksonville and Hideki Matsuyama.
The other TGL teams:
- Defending champion Los Angeles Golf Club: Collin Morikawa, Justin Rose, Tommy Fleetwood, Sahith Theegala, Ben James.
- Atlanta Drive Golf Club: The 2025 champions return Billy Horschel, Patrick Cantlay, Chris Gotterup, Justin Thomas and Michael Brennan.
- The Bay Golf Club: Ludvig Aberg of Nocatee, Ryan Fox, Wyndham Clark, Min Woo Lee, Blades Brown.
- New York Golf Club: Matt Fitzpatrick, Alex Fitzpatrick, Ben Griffin, and a pair of past Players champions, Cameron Young and Rickie Fowler.
Mixed PGA Tour/LPGA Tour teams announced
Defending champions Andrew Novak and Lauren Coughlin will return to the Grant Thornton Invitational Dec. 11-13 at the Tiburon Golf Club in Naples. The mixed-team event features PGA Tour and LPGA Tour players paired together for three rounds, using scramble, alternate shot and modified four-ball formats.
Novak and Coughlin shot 28-under to win by three shots.
Among the other 15 teams: women's world No. 1 Nelly Korda and Michael Brennan; Lydia Ko and Jason Day; 2024 champions Patty Tavatanakit and Jake Knapp; Lexi Thompson and Harris English; and Jennifer Kupcho and Chris Gotterup.
PGA Tour Champions playoffs begin
The PGA Tour Champions postseason begins on Oct. 23 with the Stifel Charity Classic at the Norwood Hills Country Club in St. Louis.
The top 72 players on the money list were eligible, with the top 54 after this week moving on to the Simmons Bank Championship Oct. 30-Nov. 1 in Little Rock, Ark. The top 36 after that will move on to the Phoenix Country Club Nov. 12-15 for the Charles Schwab Championship.
It likely will come down to three players for the season-long Schwab Cup: No. 1 Stewart Cink ($3,798,700), No. 2 Zach Johnson of St. Simons Island, Ga. ($3,314,368) and No. 2 Steven Alker ($2,265,087). They have combined to win 15 of the 25 PGA Tour Champions events so far this season, with no other player winning more than one.
Qualifying for the playoffs are Ponte Vedra Beach resident Vijay Singh (No. 33 on the money list) and Jacksonville native David Duval (59th).
PGA Tour
Event: Butterfield Bermuda Championship, Oct. 22-25, Port Royal Golf Course, Southampton, Bermuda.
Purse: $6 million ($1,080,000 and 500 FedEx Cup points to the winner).
Defending champion: Adam Schenk.
TV: Golf Channel (Oct. 22-25, 1-4 p.m.).
Area players: Chandler Blanchet, Jonathan Byrd, Adrien Dumont de Chassart, Will Gordon, Patton Kizzire, Ben Kohles, David Lingmerth, Andrew Novak, Paul Peterson, Miles Russell, Greyson Sigg, Davis Thompson, Alejandro Tosti, Danny Walker.
LPGA
Event: BMW Ladies Championship, Oct. 21/22-24/25, Pine Beach Lakes Golf Links, Haenam-gun, Jeollanam-do, Korea.
Purse: $2.35 million ($352,500 to the winner).
Defending champion: Sei Young Kim.
TV: Golf Channel (Oct. 21/22-24/25, 10 p.m.-3 a.m.).
Area players: Auston Kim.
PGA Tour Champions
Event: Stifel Charity Classic, Oct. 23-25, Norwood Hills Country Club, St. Louis.
Purse: $2.3 million ($414,000 to the winner).
Defending champion: Thomas Bjorn.
TV: Golf Channel (Oct. 23-25, 4-6 p.m.).
Area players (Schwab Cup ranking): Zach Johnson (2), Vijay Singh (33), David Duval (59).
This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Miles Russell makes second trip to Bermuda for 15th professional start
