The 2026 Austin Championship presented by Compliance Solutions runs Thursday, November 12 through Sunday, November 15 on the Fazio Canyons Course at Omni Barton Creek Resort & Spa in Austin, Texas, the event the PGA Tour first announced as the Good Good Championship. It is the seventh of eight FedExCup Fall events, with a $6 million purse, $1.08 million and 500 FedExCup points to the winner, and it is the last stop before The RSM Classic closes the race for 2027 cards. Max Homa, Brian Harman, Lucas Glover and Billy Horschel are the biggest names in a 120-player field that also has all three of the most recent Tour winners: Austin Smotherman, Andrew Novak and 19-year-old Blades Brown, who won in Los Cabos on Sunday. There is no defending champion and no course history, because no PGA Tour event has been played here before. Here is the full preview: every player in the field, how to watch, what should win on this course, and where the BettorEdge community board stands.
Who is in the field at the 2026 Austin Championship
Field as of November 10
Commitments closed at 5 p.m. ET on Friday, November 6, and the PGA Tour published 116 names that day. The four Monday qualifiers below fill the 120 spots. The list can still move before Thursday with withdrawals and alternates.
- B: Zach Bauchou, Daniel Berger, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Zac Blair, Chandler Blanchet, Blades Brown
- C: Rafael Campos, Ricky Castillo, Davis Chatfield, Luke Clanton, Eric Cole, Pierceson Coody, Trace Crowe
- D to E: Joel Dahmen, Cam Davis, Zecheng Dou, Adrien Dumont de Chassart, Nick Dunlap, Austin Eckroat, A.J. Ewart
- F to G: Patrick Fishburn, David Ford, Brice Garnett, Doug Ghim, Lucas Glover, Emilio Gonzalez, Max Greyserman, Emiliano Grillo
- H: Harry Hall, Brian Harman, Joe Highsmith, Kensei Hirata, Lee Hodges, Rico Hoey, Tom Hoge, Rasmus Højgaard, Max Homa, Billy Horschel, Rikuya Hoshino, Beau Hossler, Mark Hubbard, Mackenzie Hughes
- J to K: Stephan Jaeger, Ben James, Takumi Kanaya, Jeffrey Kang, Johnny Keefer, Michael Kim, Chris Kirk, Patton Kizzire, Ben Kohles, Jackson Koivun, Matt Kuchar
- L: Christo Lamprecht, Hank Lebioda, Haotong Li, Nicholas Lindheim, David Lipsky, Justin Lower
- M to N: Christiaan Maas, Peter Malnati, Denny McCarthy, Matt McCarty, Max McGreevy, Mac Meissner, Taylor Moore, Tommy Morrison, William Mouw, Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen, Andrew Novak, Pontus Nyholm
- P to R: C.T. Pan, John Parry, Matthieu Pavon, Taylor Pendrith, Marco Penge, Chandler Phillips, Seamus Power, Andrew Putnam, Chad Ramey, Davis Riley, Patrick Rodgers, Kevin Roy, Marcelo Rozo, Casey Russell, Miles Russell
- S: Adrien Saddier, Isaiah Salinda, Gordon Sargent, Adam Schenk, Cole Sherwood, Neal Shipley, Jordan Smith, Austin Smotherman, Sam Stevens, Kevin Streelman, Jackson Suber, Adam Svensson, Jesper Svensson
- T to Y: Nick Taylor, Davis Thompson, Michael Thompson, Brendon Todd, Alejandro Tosti, Sami Valimaki, Erik van Rooyen, John VanDerLaan, Kristoffer Ventura, Karl Vilips, Danny Walker, Matt Wallace, Vince Whaley, Aaron Wise, Dylan Wu, Sudarshan Yellamaraju, Kevin Yu
- Monday qualifiers: William Sides (10 under), Frankie Harris, Nick Hardy and Thomas Rosenmueller (9 under each)
The 116 names are the PGA Tour's November 6 field list. The Monday qualifier results come from Monday's open qualifier at Barton Creek, and Hardy and Rosenmueller also show up on the tournament's betting roster. Confirm the other two on the official tee sheet when it posts.
How they got in
Four sponsor exemptions, three with Texas ties. The PGA Tour lists Christiaan Maas, Tommy Morrison, Miles Russell and Cole Sherwood as sponsor invites. Sherwood is from Austin, and Maas and Morrison played at the University of Texas, per Community Impact. Casey Russell is in as a PGA section champion.
No Good Good invite. When the event was still the Good Good Championship, it was supposed to include a sponsor exemption for a golf content creator. That spot went away with the sponsor, and no content creator is in the published field.
Everyone else got in on status, and for a lot of them that status is what this week is about.
Why it is not the Good Good Championship anymore
The Tour announced the Good Good Championship in October 2025, bringing the Tour back to Austin for the first time since the last WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play at Austin Country Club in 2023. In August, a co-branded Good Good and Callaway driver ad drew heavy backlash, and Callaway ended its partnership with Good Good. On August 27, Good Good said it would step away as sponsor of the Austin event. The Tour kept the dates, the course and the $6 million purse, and on November 2 it named Compliance Solutions, which sponsors the Korn Ferry Tour's Compliance Solutions Championship, as presenting sponsor. If you search for "Good Good Championship field," this is the event you are looking for.
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Quick comparison: what to track at Barton Creek
| Storyline | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| Blades Brown | Won the World Wide Technology Championship on Sunday at 19, coming from seven back with a 63 and beating Ben James on the second playoff hole |
| Austin Smotherman | Won the Bank of Utah Championship and the Butterfield Bermuda Championship, his first two Tour titles, in back-to-back starts this fall |
| Andrew Novak | Won the VidantaWorld Mexico Open by five on November 1, his first individual Tour title |
| Ben James | Forced a playoff at El Cardonal with an eagle on the 72nd hole, then lost to Brown on the second extra hole |
| The marquee names | Six-time Tour winner Max Homa, major champions Brian Harman and Lucas Glover, Billy Horschel and nine-time winner Matt Kuchar |
| The card line | Only the top 100 in the final FedExCup Fall standings keep full 2027 status, and only The RSM Classic is left after this |
Event: 2026 Austin Championship presented by Compliance Solutions, PGA Tour FedExCup Fall, $6 million purse, 500 FedExCup points to the winner
Dates: Thursday, November 12 to Sunday, November 15, 2026
Venue: Fazio Canyons Course, Omni Barton Creek Resort & Spa, Austin, Texas (par 72, 7,451 yards)
Watch: Golf Channel, 3 to 6 p.m. ET all four days per the PGA Tour's broadcast schedule
Field: 120 players, cut to the top 65 and ties after Friday
Defending champion: None, this is the first edition
How to watch the 2026 Austin Championship
Golf Channel has all four rounds, with a live simulcast at GolfChannel.com and in the Golf Channel app. The PGA Tour's broadcast schedule lists the window as 3 to 6 p.m. ET each day. Some TV guides list 2 to 5 p.m. ET, so check your Golf Channel listing on Thursday. PGA Tour Radio on SiriusXM starts at noon ET Thursday and Friday and 1 p.m. ET on the weekend, and live scoring is on PGATour.com and the PGA Tour app.
| Round | Date | ET | CT (Austin) | PT |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Round 1 | Thursday, Nov. 12 | 3 to 6 p.m. | 2 to 5 p.m. | Noon to 3 p.m. |
| Round 2 | Friday, Nov. 13 | 3 to 6 p.m. | 2 to 5 p.m. | Noon to 3 p.m. |
| Round 3 | Saturday, Nov. 14 | 3 to 6 p.m. | 2 to 5 p.m. | Noon to 3 p.m. |
| Final round | Sunday, Nov. 15 | 3 to 6 p.m. | 2 to 5 p.m. | Noon to 3 p.m. |
First and second round tee times had not been released as of Tuesday morning. If you are going in person, general admission runs $80 to $100 a day, and kids 12 and under get in free with a ticketed adult.
What the FedExCup Fall decides this week
The top 100 in the final FedExCup Fall standings keep full PGA Tour status for 2027, and the list locks after The RSM Classic on November 22. That leaves two starts, and for a player sitting just outside the line, a top 10 here is worth more than anything they can do at Sea Island. Anyone who finishes outside the top 100 goes to Q-School to win a card back. Higher up, Nos. 51 to 60 earn spots in the first two Signature Events of 2027. The standings moved again on Sunday in Los Cabos, so check the live list on PGATour.com before you lean on any bubble angle.
The course: Fazio Canyons
Tom Fazio designed the Canyons course in 1999, and it was rebuilt under his direction in 2022 to bring it up to Tour length. It plays as a par 72 at 7,451 yards for the tournament, with four par 5s (the 5th, 7th, 14th and 18th) and four par 3s (the 3rd, 8th, 11th and 17th). It sits on the eastern edge of the Texas Hill Country, routed through limestone canyons along Short Springs Branch.
- Elevation changes. Most holes play noticeably uphill or downhill, and several tees sit well above the landing areas, so judging how far the ball will actually go matters on nearly every shot.
- Water in play. Short Springs Branch, a limestone creek, crosses or runs alongside several holes, including the closing hole.
- Bermuda throughout. Bermuda fairways and rough with ultradwarf Bermuda greens.
- The par 5s are the scoring holes. Two of them play from elevated tees, and most of the field should be able to reach them in two.
One honest caution: Fazio Canyons has never hosted a full-field Tour event, so there is no strokes gained history, no winning score and no cut line to point to. Any preview that tells you exactly what number wins here is guessing.
What should win at Fazio Canyons
With no history to lean on, look at what the course asks for. Elevation changes reward players who control their distances with irons, because a downhill tee shot plays shorter than the card says and an uphill approach can need an extra club or more. Four par 5s on a par 72 reward length, and greens guarded by bunkers reward good short games.
On a course nobody has played in competition, the edge goes to the players who prepare best during the practice rounds and the pro-am. Course knowledge is close to zero for everyone in the field, which is the opposite of a normal week.
Form is the next best guide. Brown's 63 on Sunday, Novak's five-shot win in Vallarta and Smotherman's two wins are the hottest stretches in the field. Smotherman won his second title in a weather-shortened 57 holes in Bermuda, so his two wins came in very different conditions. The Texas players get a small home edge too: Sherwood, Maas and Morrison should have the most local knowledge and the loudest crowd support.
Austin Championship 2026 odds: where the community board stands
As of 2:00 p.m. UTC on Tuesday, November 10, the BettorEdge community board has the Austin Championship winner market open with 122 players listed, but no live prices posted yet. No number is quoted here, because a price nobody has offered is not a price. Several odds feeds had not posted an Austin board as of Monday either, so expect prices to arrive closer to Thursday.
When the numbers do arrive, expect the top of the board to come from the recent winners and the biggest names: Brown, Smotherman, Novak, James, Homa, Harman, Horschel and Haskins Award winner Jackson Koivun. Before you back anyone, keep the scale in mind. Even a short price in a 120-player field with no course history should be a low single-digit to low double-digit percentage, so +900 means about a 10 percent chance and +2000 about 4.8 percent. Run any number through the implied probability calculator or the no-vig calculator first.
The case on each side of the likely favorites
The case for Blades Brown. He just won from seven shots back with a closing 63, and a win on the last start is the clearest sign of current form there is. He also arrives with his card secured and nothing to protect.
The case against Brown. He comes off an emotional first win in Mexico and has to travel and get ready for a course he has never seen. Winning back to back on Tour is rare for anyone, let alone a teenager the week after his first title.
The case for Austin Smotherman. He won twice in three weeks this fall, at altitude in Utah and in the wind in Bermuda. Winning on two very different courses suggests there is no weak area in his game right now.
The case against Smotherman. The second of those wins came over just 57 holes in Bermuda, and his price will reflect two wins in a row. A short number on a player chasing a third straight title is expensive.
The case for the marquee names. Homa, Harman, Glover and Horschel have all won bigger events than this one and will probably be priced on name. Look at their recent fall finishes before paying for a resume.
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Beyond the outright: cut and matchup angles
The cut is the top 65 and ties after 36 holes, and with no history here, nobody knows where it will fall. That makes make-the-cut prices less settled than usual. Players who stay out of trouble around the creek and the greenside bunkers are better make-the-cut candidates than players who need lots of birdies. The sponsor exemptions and Monday qualifiers are where these prices are least tested. The make the cut betting guide walks through how they are built.
Matchups are the other angle. Pairing a player in hot form, such as Brown, Novak or Smotherman, against a bigger name who has been quiet this fall is the question to ask this week. The golf matchup betting guide, the top 5 and top 10 finish guide and the golf outright betting guide cover each market, and the rest of the fall schedule is on the BettorEdge golf hub.
Austin Championship 2026 FAQ
Who is in the field at the Austin Championship?
The 2026 Austin Championship field has 120 players led by Max Homa, Brian Harman, Lucas Glover, Billy Horschel and Matt Kuchar, plus the last three Tour winners, Blades Brown, Andrew Novak and Austin Smotherman. Ben James, Jackson Koivun, Daniel Berger, Chris Kirk, Taylor Pendrith and Nick Taylor are also in, along with sponsor invites Cole Sherwood, Christiaan Maas, Tommy Morrison and Miles Russell. The full list is above, as of November 10.
When is the 2026 Austin Championship and how can I watch it?
The 2026 Austin Championship runs Thursday, November 12 through Sunday, November 15 at Omni Barton Creek, with all four rounds on Golf Channel from 3 to 6 p.m. ET. That is 2 to 5 p.m. CT and noon to 3 p.m. PT, and some guides list 2 to 5 p.m. ET, so check your local listing.
Is the Austin Championship the same as the Good Good Championship?
Yes, the Austin Championship is the event the PGA Tour announced as the Good Good Championship, played on the same dates at the same course. Good Good stepped away as sponsor in August, and Compliance Solutions was named presenting sponsor on November 2.
Where is the Austin Championship played?
The Austin Championship is played on the Fazio Canyons Course at Omni Barton Creek Resort & Spa in Austin, Texas, a Tom Fazio design from 1999 that plays as a par 72 at 7,451 yards. It was renovated in 2022 and is hosting its first PGA Tour event.
Who is the defending champion at the Austin Championship?
There is no defending champion, because 2026 is the first edition of the Austin Championship. The last PGA Tour winner in Austin was Sam Burns at the 2023 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play at Austin Country Club.
Who is the favorite to win the 2026 Austin Championship?
The BettorEdge community board had the winner market open but no live prices posted as of Tuesday, November 10, so no favorite price is quoted here. The recent winners Blades Brown, Austin Smotherman and Andrew Novak, along with Max Homa and Brian Harman, are the names most likely to sit at the top when prices post.
What is the purse for the 2026 Austin Championship?
The purse is $6 million, with $1.08 million and 500 FedExCup points going to the winner.
How do I bet on the Austin Championship?
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The bottom line
The Austin Championship has a full 120-player field, a renovated Fazio course that has never hosted a Tour event, and a card race with one event left after it. The players in the best form are the three most recent winners, and the biggest names are Homa, Harman, Glover and Horschel. When the community board fills in, ask whether a price is paying for a player's current form or just his name, on a course where everyone starts with the same knowledge.
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