2026 FGT Results - CJ Cup Byron Nelson

After Scottie Scheffler dismantled TPC Craig James with a winning total score of -31 last year, the owners brought in Lanny Wadkins to renovate the course and make it harder. They admitted the project called for a budget of perhaps $10-$12 million dollars, but they decided to double that and instead spent $25MM (& doubled the initiation fee from $75k to $150k). For that investment, they got Wyndham Clark winning at -30 this year. Hey, it worked! One stroke more difficult…

In fairness, they got a lot of rain before the event and over the first couple days, so ¾ rounds were played lift-clean-and-place. And the PGA stipulate that pin locations have no more than 2° around them, meaning no more than a one-ball-out read was required any putt within about 15 feet. This is confirmed by observing that Si Woo Kim - a below average putter at -0.2 Strokes Gained: Putting for the season coming into this event - gained more than 8 strokes in this event. I’m a Si Woo fan (how can you not be?) but that is a sign that these greens were not that hard to putt on.¹  

Figuring out the winner was pretty easy this week, as Long Balls was the only team to have the top 3 on the leaderboard (Clark, Si Woo and Scottie) and took easily earned the win and the $150 payout. This moves them up from 78th to 37th (the last of the overall payout spots).

Herbert’s Hackers 1 maintains the overall lead by ~$2MM as the Tour heads to the Charles Schwab.

1  Another Si Woo stat: he led by 5 after the first two rounds, shot 68-65 on the weekend…and finished 3 back of Wyndham Clark.