The purse at the 2024 Black Desert Championship is $7.5 million with $1.35 million going to the winner. The winner will also receive 500 FedEx Cup points
From tee times to TV and streaming info, here’s everything you need to know for the first round of the 2024 Black Desert Championship. All times listed are MT.
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This week, the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup Fall continues in Ivins, Utah, at the 2024 Black Desert Championship at Black Desert Resort.
The rank-and-file field set to take on this Tom Weiskopf design includes Keith Mitchell, Seamus Power, Beau Hossler, Lucas Glover, Harris English and Daniel Berger. Mitchell, the betting favorite at 16/1 (+1600), led last week’s Sanderson Farms Championship through 54 holes but eventually tied for third.
This course is brand new to the Tour, so compiling a betting card will be a bit trickier than normal. We’ll have to focus on recent form and a few other key factors.
This week’s winner will head home with $1.35 million of the $7.5 million purse.
Golf course
Black Desert Resort | Par 71 | 7,371 yards
No. 1 at Black Desert Resort in Utah (Photo: Jason Lusk/Golfweek)
Black Desert Championship betting odds
Player
Odds
Player
Odds
Keith Mitchell
(+1600)
Andrew Novak
(+3500)
Seamus Power
(+2500)
Ryan Fox
(+3500)
Kurt Kitayama
(+2500)
Patrick Rodgers
(+3500)
Beau Hossler
(+2800)
J.J. Spaun
(+3500)
Erik van Rooyen
(+3000)
Michael Thorbjornsen
(+4000)
Chris Kirk
(+3000)
Mac Meissner
(+4000)
Chan Kim
(+3000)
Lucas Glover
(+4000)
Stephan Jaeger
(+3000)
Harry Hall
(+4500)
Ben Griffin
(+3000)
Harris English
(+4500)
Patrick Fishburn
(+3000)
Doug Ghim
(+4500)
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Black Desert Championship picks to win
Patrick Fishburn (30/1)
Patrick Fishburn of Ogden, Utah, tees off at the 1st hole during the Sanderson Farms Championship at the Country Club of Jackson in Jackson, Miss., on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024.
Analysis: Fishburn will feel right at home this week because, well, he will be. Fishburn was born in Ogden, Utah, and graduated from Brigham Young University (BYU).
Before tying for 48th at the Sanderson Farms last week, Fishburn finished solo third at the Procore Championship to open the fall. He’s 16th in total driving on Tour and is coming off a week where he gained strokes with his tee-to-green game.
Lucas Glover (40/1)
Lucas Glover of Jupiter, Fla., watches his ball fly toward the 1st green during the Sanderson Farms Championship at the Country Club of Jackson in Jackson, Miss., on Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024.
Analysis: Glover has played some great golf across two FedEx Cup Fall starts. At the Procore Championship, Glover tied for 13th, and at last week’s Sanderson Farms, the 44-year-old grabbed a share of third.
Since there’s no course history to rely on, I’m focusing on tee-to-green performance. Last week at The Country Club of Jackson, Glover was eighth in the field in Strokes Gained: Tee-to-Green.
Michael Thorbjornsen (40/1)
Michael Thorbjornsen of Wellesley, Mass., watches his ball shoot down the 1st fairway during the Sanderson Farms Championship at the Country Club of Jackson in Jackson, Miss., on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024. (Photo: Lauren Witte/Clarion Ledger)
Analysis: As a New Englander, it feels right to put Thorbjornsen on the card — he’s from Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Thorbjornsen is coming off a T-8 performance at the Sanderson Farms where he ranked 33rd in SG: Tee-to-Green. Black Desert Resort features bentgrass greens and Thorbjornsen should love that as many New England courses feature the very same.
The PGA Tour’s FedEx Fall Series rolls on, and this week, a new tournament takes center stage.
Black Desert Resort in Ivins, Utah, will host the 2024 Black Desert Championship, which begins Thursday. This is the first year the tournament will be played, and it’s the third of eight tournaments in the fall.
From TV coverage to field information and prize money, here’s everything you need to know about the 2024 Black Desert Championship.
Black Desert course information
Black Desert Resort is a par 71 layout measuring 7,371 yards. Tom Weiskopf was the architect. This will be the first time the tournament has been contested at Black Desert Resort.
Black Desert purse, prize money
The purse at the 2024 Black Desert Championship is $7.5 million with $1.35 million going to the winner.
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The field of 132 was announced Friday. Tournament headliners include Daniel Berger, Kevin Kisner, Keith Mitchell, Brandt Snedeker, Mike Weir and Jay Don Blake, 65, who learned in May he was being granted a sponsor exemption into the event.
Kisner and Snedeker (U.S. assistant captains) and Weir (International captain) were recently in Montreal at the Presidents Cup.
Most notably: there’s a new event in southern Utah and new name for the northern California tournament.
Time flies when you’re having fun.
The PGA Tour’s 2024 schedule has just four regular-season events left and then there’s the three-event FedEx Cup Playoffs. Then there’s a week off before the start of the fall schedule.
On Monday, the Tour officially released what it calls the FedEx Cup Fall for 2024, an eight-event swing for the back end of the year.
Most notably: there’s a new event in southern Utah and new name for the northern California tournament, as the Black Desert Championship joins the slate, while Fortinet’s title sponsorship of the event in Napa, California, has ended after three seasons. It was the Safeway Open prior to that.
There’s another week off before the Presidents Cup, and one more in early November before the final stretch.
The Tour states that: “The 2024 FedExCup Fall will finalize top 125 eligibility for the next season, providing exempt status for full-field events, as well as a spot in the Players Championship.”
2024 PGA Tour’s fall schedule
Sept. 12-15
Napa Valley Golf Championship
Sept. 26-29
Presidents Cup
Oct. 3-6
Sanderson Farms Championship
Oct. 10-13
Black Desert Championship
Oct. 17-20
Shriners Children’s Open
Oct. 24-27
Zozo Championship
Nov. 7-10
World Wide Technology Championship
Nov. 14-17
Butterfield Bermuda Championship
Nov. 21-24
RSM Classic
Then it’s the ‘silly season’:
Hero World Challenge, Dec. 5-8
Grant Thornton Invitational, Dec. 12-15
PNC Championship, Dec. 21-22
More from the Tour regarding the 2024 regular season:
“Players who finish No. 70 or better in the FedExCup standings through the 2024 Tour Championship are exempt for the 2025 season, with players ranked Nos. 1 through 50 also being exempt into all Signature Events for 2025. Players ranked No. 51 and beyond will carry their FedExCup Points from the Regular Season and first FedExCup Playoffs event into the FedExCup Fall and will continue to accumulate FedExCup Points to finalize eligibility for the 2025 season. As part of the Aon Next 10, players ranked Nos. 51-60 through the FedExCup Fall earn their way into two early-season 2025 Signature Events, the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and The Genesis Invitational.”
