AdventHealth Championship: How to watch, pre-tournament notes, storylines, more

The 2026 Korn Ferry Tour season continues with the AdventHealth Championship, the 21st tournament of the 25-event schedule and the 36th season in Tour history. This week's field is filled from the top 156 available and committed players from the 2026 Korn Ferry Tour Points List, with the top 156 players following this event gaining entry to the Simmons Bank Open for the Snedeker Foundation, the first of four Korn Ferry Tour Finals events.

The tournament takes place at Blue Hills Country Club in Kansas City, Missouri, featuring a par-72, 7,383-yard layout. The event carries a $1 million purse with $180,000 going to the winner.

The field includes 10 PGA TOUR winners with 16 career wins, led by three-time winners Cameron Champ and Chez Reavie. Additionally, 68 Korn Ferry Tour winners are competing this week, including past champions Trevor Cone (2022) and Harry Higgs (2024), with a combined 98 career victories. Five-time winner Ben Kohles leads the Korn Ferry Tour winners in career victories.

Fourteen players in the field are ranked inside the top 200 of the Official World Golf Ranking, led by Ross Steelman at No. 85, followed by Blades Brown (No. 102) and Ben Kohles (No. 108).

How to follow (all times ET)

Television:

• Thursday-Friday: noon-2 p.m., GOLF Channel
• Saturday: 3-5 p.m., GOLF Channel
• Sunday: 2-5 p.m., GOLF Channel

Notables in the field

• Rookie Jackson Buchanan stands No. 48 on the 2026 Korn Ferry Tour Points List after his fifth-place finish at the Albertsons Boise Open presented by Chevron. Over his last six starts, Buchanan has logged three top-10 finishes and an additional top 25. Buchanan recorded only one top-25 finish over his first 13 starts of the 2026 season.
• Hunter Eichhorn stands No. 7 on the 2026 Korn Ferry Tour Points List off the strength of a runner-up finish at the Visit Knoxville Open, where he lost a playoff to Doc Redman. Eichhorn, who leads the Korn Ferry Tour with nine top-10 finishes, grew up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, frequenting Wild Pines Golf Course – a nine-hole course in Hermanville, Michigan – with his grandpa. Later played collegiately at Marquette University (2017-22).
• Robby Shelton stands No. 18 on the 2026 Korn Ferry Tour Points List, following his second consecutive top-three finish. Shelton followed up a solo-third finish at the Pinnacle Bank Championship presented by Woodhouse with a T2 at last week's Albertsons Boise Open presented by Chevron. Over his past two starts, Shelton has climbed from No. 55 to No. 18 on the 2026 Points List.
• Davis Shore is coming off a career-best finish with a T2 at the Albertsons Boise Open presented by Chevron. The Knoxville, Tennessee, native carded a bogey-free, 8-under 63 in the final round to record his second top-five finish of the season. Shore climbed into the top 20 on the 2026 Korn Ferry Tour Points List to No. 15 off the strength of his T2 and three additional top-10 finishes.
• Columbia, Missouri, native Ross Steelman captured his second Korn Ferry Tour victory at last week's Albertsons Boise Open presented by Chevron, effectively securing his PGA TOUR card for the 2027 season. Steelman becomes the second Korn Ferry Tour member to secure TOUR membership for the 2027 season, along with Doc Redman. Steelman overtook Redman for the No. 1 position on the 2026 Korn Ferry Tour Points List off the strength of his two victories and five additional top-10 finishes.

Tournament history

• This is the AdventHealth Championship's first year as the regular season finale, with Golf Channel providing television coverage for the first time.
• Blue Hills Country Club finished among the top 10 toughest courses on Tour (measured by scoring average relative to par) three times in its six seasons as the host venue: 2019 (No. 3), 2022 (No. 4) and 2025 (No. 6).
• Four past champions of the event became PGA TOUR winners: Wesley Bryan (2016), Sepp Straka (2018), Cameron Young (2021) and Grayson Murray (2023).
• Cameron Young, who won the 2021 AdventHealth Championship and followed it a week later with a win at the 2021 Evans Scholars Invitational, captured the 2025 THE PLAYERS Championship for his second PGA TOUR title.
• The AdventHealth Championship received the 2025 Charity of the Year Award as part of the annual Korn Ferry Tour Tournament Awards, recognizing its charitable impact on the AdventHealth Kansas City Foundation. The tournament also established the Grayson Murray Be Kind to One Another Legacy Award in 2025, honoring the legacy of 2023 champion Grayson Murray, who passed away in May 2024.

Tournament facts

• Course: Blue Hills Country Club; par 72, 7,383 yards
• Field: 156 players
• Scoring records:
  • 18-hole: 60, Scott Dunlap (2011/Round 2), Tom Hoge (2014/Round 3)
  • 72-hole: 258, James Nitties (2011), Martin Piller (2015)
• Defending champion: S.H. Kim
• Purse: $1 million ($180,000/winner)

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