Three weeks after Tiger Woods’s Genesis Invitational, the PGA Tour has the second of its three “legacy” signature events at Arnold Palmer’s place.
Bay Hill has challenged the PGA Tour’s best players since 1979, and they’ll all gather in Orlando, Fla., this week for a $20 million purse ($3.6 million to the winner) and a boosted FedEx Cup points stash (700 to the winner).
All nine of the top 10 in the Official World Golf Ranking who are eligible are competing. Austin Eckroat will make the drive up from Palm Beach Gardens, thanks to his win Monday at the Cognizant Classic. Min Woo Lee and Erik van Rooyen also played their way into the signature event by virtue of T2 finishes at PGA National.
Kurt Kitayama is the defending champion, with other past champions in the field including Scottie Scheffler (2022), Rory McIlroy (2018) and Jason Day (2016). Tiger Woods won eight times at Bay Hill, he’s not in the field but don’t be surprised to see a highlight or two of his top moments on the broadcast.
Like other legacy signature events at the Genesis and Memorial, the API will have a cut to low 50 and ties plus those within 10 shots of the lead. The winner gets the big payday plus a red cardigan sweater, one of the more unique garments in golf.
After Bay Hill virtually the entire field will head northeast to the Players Championship, the PGA Tour’s flagship event.
2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational Full Field
69 players
Åberg, Ludvig
An, Byeong Hun
Bezuidenhout, Christiaan
Bradley, Keegan
Burns, Sam
Cantlay, Patrick
Clark, Wyndham
Cole, Eric
Conners, Corey
Davis, Cam
Day, Jason
Dunlap, Nick
Eckroat, Austin
English, Harris
Fitzpatrick, Matt
Fleetwood, Tommy
Ford, David +
Fowler, Rickie
Glover, Lucas
Grillo, Emiliano
Hadwin, Adam
Harman, Brian
Henley, Russell
Hodges, Lee
Hoge, Tom
Højgaard, Nicolai +
Homa, Max
Hovland, Viktor
Hughes, Mackenzie
Im, Sungjae
Jaeger, Stephan
Kim, Si Woo
Kim, Tom
Kirk, Chris
Kitayama, Kurt
Knapp, Jake
Lee, Min Woo
List, Luke
Lower, Justin
Lowry, Shane +
Matsuyama, Hideki
McCarthy, Denny
McIlroy, Rory
Moore, Taylor
Morikawa, Collin
Murray, Grayson
Pan, C.T.
Pavon, Matthieu
Poston, J.T.
Power, Seamus
Putnam, Andrew
Rodgers, Patrick
Rose, Justin
Schauffele, Xander
Scheffler, Scottie
Schenk, Adam
Scott, Adam +
Simpson, Webb +
Spieth, Jordan
Straka, Sepp
Svensson, Adam
Taylor, Nick
Theegala, Sahith
Thomas, Justin
Todd, Brendon
Valimaki, Sami
van Rooyen, Erik
Young, Cameron
Zalatoris, Will
+ – Sponsor Exemption
