UNC Health Championship presented by STITCH: Pre-tournament notes, storylines, more

The 2025 Korn Ferry Tour season continues with the UNC Health Championship presented by STITCH, the 13th event on the Tour's 26-event schedule.

This season marks the 31st playing of the UNC Health Championship presented by STITCH, making it one of eight events on the 2025 schedule played for 30-plus seasons on the Korn Ferry Tour. Six of those eight events have yet to be played this season.

Storylines

The field includes 22 PGA TOUR winners with 45 career victories, highlighted by Ben Crane and Nick Watney who have five PGA TOUR titles each, and 61 Korn Ferry Tour winners with 91 career victories, led by Raleigh native Chesson Hadley and Robby Shelton with four wins each.

Three past champions of the UNC Health Championship are in the field: PGA TOUR winner and Raleigh native Chesson Hadley (2013), Sebastian Cappelen (2019), Jorge Fernández Valdés (2023).

Seungtaek Lee is the highest-ranked player without a victory on the 2025 Korn Ferry Tour Points List; he enters this week at No. 7 on the Points List.

Ten players in this week's field played collegiate golf in the state of North Carolina.

• North Carolina (five): sponsor exemption Ryan Burnett, Austin Greaser, Austin Hitt, Raleigh native Carter Jenkins (transferred from UNC Greensboro), Dylan Menante
• Duke (three): Ryan Blaum, PGA TOUR winner Adam Long, Julian Suri
• UNC Greensboro (two): open qualifiers Jonathan Brightwell (transferred to Oklahoma after four seasons) and Jack Marcotte
• UNC Wilmington (two): Patrick Cover, sponsor exemption Blake McShea
• Campbell (one): Pontus Nyholm
• Wake Forest (one): sponsor exemption Michael Brennan

Other players with ties to North Carolina include Davidson native Will Gordon, Charlotte resident David Kocher, Fairmont native William McGirt, and High Point native Thomas Walsh.

Tournament facts

• Course: Raleigh Country Club, par 70, 7,394 yards
• Purse: $1 million ($180,000/winner)
• Defending champion: Kaito Onishi
• Scoring records
  • Low 18-hole score: 60 (two occurrences; last: Chris Baker, 2019, R1)
  • Low 72-hole score: 263 (three occurrences; last: Mito Pereira, 2020)
  • Scoring average (2024): 71.358 / +1.358
• Playoffs: Nine (last time: Jorge Fernández Valdés defeated Trent Phillips in 2023)