After visits to Hawaii, California, Arizona and Mexico, the PGA Tour sets its sights on the Florida Swing next week.
The Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches, long known as the Honda Classic, is the first of four events in Florida. The Champion Course at PGA National Resort in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, is the venue for the ninth stop on the Tour’s 2025 schedule.
PGA National ranks seventh among the best public-access courses in Florida on Golfweek’s Best 2024: Top public-access golf courses in every state, ranked. The 7,167-yard course will play a par 71. Tom Fazio designed the course.
The field is headlined by Rickie Fowler, Brian Harman, Billy Horschel, Gary Woodland, Cameron Young and Kevin Kisner, who will be working as lead analyst for NBC Sports this season but who will play this week. Should he make the cut, he won’t pull any TV duty.
Also in the field: defending champion Austin Eckroat, who earned his first PGA Tour win at this event a year ago. The last golfer, by the way, to earn his first two wins at the same event in back-to-back years was K.H. Lee at the CJ Cup Byron Nelson in 2021 and 2022.
The event is Feb. 27 to March 2. The total purse is $9.2 million with $1.656 million going to the winner.
The Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches 2025 field
The field is 144 golfers with four spots available in open qualifying and eight sponsor exemptions.
The PGA TOUR’s Florida Swing begins next week at the Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches, where Austin Eckroat defends his title at PGA National.
Field for the Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches: pic.twitter.com/22o89xk5j9
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This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Field is set for Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches at PGA National
