Astara Chile Classic presented by Scotiabank: Pre-tournament notes, storylines, more

The 2025 Korn Ferry Tour season continues this week with the Astara Chile Classic presented by Scotiabank, the sixth event on the Tour's 26-event schedule. This year marks the seventh playing of the Astara Chile Classic, which was first contested in 2012 and returned from a seven-year hiatus in 2023. Prince of Wales Country Club in Santiago, Chile, has hosted five of the previous six playings of the event. The Astara Chile Classic is the fourth and final event in the Korn Ferry Tour's Latin America swing, with events already completed in Panama, Colombia, and Argentina.

Past champions of the Astara Chile Classic include PGA TOUR winners Adam Hadwin (2014) and Kevin Kisner (2013), along with 2023 Korn Ferry Tour Player of the Year Ben Kohles (2023). Trey Winstead returns to the Astara Chile Classic field for a second consecutive year, after he carried a four-stroke lead into the final round in 2024 before finishing runner-up to Taylor Dickson after a playoff. Winstead finished No. 35 on the 2024 Korn Ferry Tour Points List, earning fully exempt status for 2025, while Dickson earned a second victory later in the season and full PGA TOUR membership for 2025. In addition to Dickson, three other players who finished in the top six of last year's event earned PGA TOUR membership at season's end, including PGA TOUR winner Matt McCarty (T3).

This year's field includes three PGA TOUR winners with four total wins, led by two-time TOUR winner Fabián Gómez, and 37 Korn Ferry Tour winners with 53 total wins, including the 2012 winner here Paul Haley II. There are 19 players from four different Latin American countries, including five from Chile. Four players in the field are ranked inside the top 200 of the Official World Golf Ranking: No. 110 Kensei Hirata, No. 148 S.H. Kim, No. 158 Johnny Keefer, and No. 182 Justin Suh, who returned to the winner's circle with a five-stroke victory at the 118th VISA Argentina Open last week. Among the four open qualifiers for this week's event is 16-year-old Giuseppe Puebla. Should Puebla make the cut, he would tie the late Grayson Murray as the third-youngest player to make the cut in Korn Ferry Tour history.

Tournament facts

• Course: Prince of Wales Country Club
• Field: 156 players

• 2024 winner: Taylor Dickson
• Purse: $1 million
• Records:
  • Low 18-hole score: 61 (Kevin Kisner, 2013, Round 3)
  • Low 72-hole score: 263 (Dawie van der Walt, 2015, Club de Golf Mapocho)