The Zurich Classic begins Year 3 of its revamped team format on Thursday as the PGA Tour heads to New Orleans, which has hosted the event annually since 1958.
The Zurich turned into a team event in 2017, and all four of its winners — Jonax Blixt and Cameron Smith (2017) and Billy Horschel and Scott Piercy (2018) — return and are paired up again.
Other headlining teams include Australians Jason Day and Adam Scott, Europeans Sergio Garcia and Tommy Fleetwood, brothers Brooks and Chase Koepka, and Patrick Reed and Patrick Cantlay.
The format is best-ball on Thursday and Saturday and alternate shot on Friday and Sunday. The field consists of 80 two-man teams and is cut to the low 35 teams and ties after 36 holes. The purse is $7.3 million and the winning team gets $2,102,400, or $1,051,200 each.
The Zurich Classic teams, as of April 20, 2019, are listed below.
Zurich Classic players and teams
Jason Day – Adam Scott
Sergio Garcia – Tommy Fleetwood
Billy Horschel – Scott Piercy
Brooks Koepka – Chase Koepka
Bubba Watson – J.B. Holmes
Patrick Reed – Patrick Cantlay
Jon Rahm – Ryan Palmer
Tony Finau – Kyle Stanley
Henrik Stenson – Graeme Mc Dowell
Keegan Bradley – Jon Curran
Jim Furyk – David Duval
Davis Love III – Dru Love
Kevin Kisner – Scott Brown
Charley Hoffman – Nick Watney
Ernie Els – Trevor Immelman
Louis Oosthuizen – Charl Schwartzel
Ian Poulter – Sam Horsfield
Branden Grace – Justin Harding
Steve Stricker – Jerry Kelly
Padraig Harrington – Shane Lowry
Kevin Streelman – Vaughn Taylor
Chesson Hadley – Brice Garnett
Kenny Perry – Josh Teater
Alex Cejka – Alex Prugh
Boo Weekly – Colt Knost
Rod Pampling – John Senden
Chris Stroud – Jason Kokrak
Scott Stallings – Trey Mullinax
Whee Kim – Sungjae Im
Austin Cook – Andrew Landry
Tyler Duncan – Adam Schenk
Ted Potter, Jr. – Nate Lashley
Si Woo Kim – Sangmoon Bae
Russell Knox – Brian Stuard
Jason Dufner – Pat Perez
Blixt, Jonas Smith, Cameron
Cameron Champ – Sam Burns
Corey Conners – Mackenzie Hughes
Cody Gribble – Joey Garber
Adam Hadwin – Aaron Baddeley
Brian Harman – Patton Kizzire
Russell Henley – Ryan Blaum
Michael Kim – C.T. Pan
Troy Merritt – Robert Streb
Putnam, Andrew Homa, Max
Brendan Steele – Luke Donald
Hudson Swafford – Wes Roach
Kevin Tway – Kelly Kraft
Jhonattan Vegas – Abraham Ancer
Shubhankar Sharma – Anirban Lahiri
Chez Reavie – Lucas Glover
Brian Gay – Rory Sabbatini
J.J. Spaun – Matt Jones
Peter Uihlein – Dominic Bozzelli
Chris Kirk – Sepp Straka
Joel Dahmen – Brandon Harkins
Tom Hoge – J.J. Henry
Danny Lee – Sung Kang
Ollie Schniederjans – Sam Ryder
Harold Varner III – Tom Lovelady
Richy Werenski – Nicholas Lindheim
Seamus Power – David Hearn
Martin Laird – Nick Taylor
J.T. Poston – Stephan Jaeger
Harris English – Johnson Wagner
Joaquin Niemann – Dylan Frittelli
Freddie Jacobson – Chad Campbell
K. J. Choi – David Lingmerth
Denny McCarthy – Roberto Díaz
Wyndham Clark – Ben Crane
Kyoung-Hoon Lee – Matt Every
Scott Langley – Jonathan Byrd
Carlos Ortiz – Sebastián Muñoz
Peter Malnati – Billy Hurley III
Julián Etulain – Andres Romero
Chase Wright – Derek Fathauer
Anders Albertson – Seth Reeves
Roberto Castro – Cameron Tringale
Cameron Davis – Kyle Jones
