The PGA Tour is already in the fourth week of its new FedEx Cup Fall Series as golf’s traveling circus treks to Las Vegas for the 42nd edition the Shriners Children’s Open.
Contested at TPC Summerlin, the field in Sin City will be headlined by back-to-back champion Tom Kim and fan favorite Rickie Fowler.
Joining Kim and Fowler in Vegas will be the three winners of the Fall Series, including Patton Kizzire (Procore Championship), Kevin Yu (Sanderson Farms) and Matt McCarty (Black Desert).
Other familiar names include Harris English, Maverick McNealy, J.T. Poston, Emiliano Grillo, Seamus Power, Gary Woodland, Daniel Berger, and Webb Simpson.
The Skinny
Tournament: Shriners Children’s Open
PGA Tour Debut: 1983
Event Type: FedEx Cup Fall Series (4th of 8)
Dates: Oct. 17-20, 2024
Where: Las Vegas, Nevada
Course: TPC Summerlin
Par/Yards: 35-36-71, 7255
Architect: Bobby Weed & Fuzzy Zoeller
Format: Stroke play, 72/36 cut
Field: 132 players, Top 60 cut
Purse: $7,000,000
Winning Share: $1,260,000
FedExCup/OWGR Points: 500/35
Defending Champion: Tom Kim
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Tournament History
The PGA Tour’s yearly excursion in Las Vegas once had a reputation for big payouts, as the event regularly drew impressive fields by offering one of the largest purses on Tour. First teeing off in 1983, the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open has the distinction of being the first Tour event to offer a purse in excess of $1 million and the first non-major to offer a $5 million purse.
Originally, a five-round tournament, the inaugural 1983 title was captured by 10-time PGA Tour winner Fuzzy Zoeller, who would go on to help design the current host track at TPC Summerlin
Over the years, notable winners of the Sin City event include Curtis Strange, Greg Norman, Paul Azinger, Davis Love III, Bob Tway, and three-time champ Jim Furyk.
Perhaps its most notable winner, however, was Tiger Woods, who notched victory No. 1 of his illustrious 80-win career in Vegas, way back in 1996, defeating Davis Love III in a playoff as a then 20-year-old.
The Shriners Children’s Open has always contested its tournament in the Las Vegas area, but originally rotated between several area courses, before settling on TPC Summerlin as the permanent host venue in 2008.
From 2008-2012, the tournament was notable for including the name of superstar entertainer Justin Timberlake in its title. Timberlake, an avid golf fan, was a tournament sponsor and host during that time.
In 2023, the tournament gave an exemption to LPGA superstar Lexi Thompson, who posted impressive rounds of 73 and 69 to miss the cut by just a stroke. She was the fifth woman in the modern era to tee it up in a PGA Tour event, joining Annika Sorenstam (2003), Suzy Whaley (2003) Michelle Wie West (2004-08), and Brittany Lincicome (2018). She was just the second woman to finish a round in the 60s on the PGA Tour after Michelle Wie West carded 68 two separate times at the Sony Open.
Tournament Names
- Shriners Children’s Open (2021-Pres)
- Shriners Hospitals for Children Open (2013-20)
- Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open (2008-12)
- Frys.com Open (2006-07)
- Michelin Championship at Las Vegas (2004-05)
- Las Vegas Invitational (2003)
- Invensys Classic at Las Vegas (2000-02)
- Las Vegas Invitational (1989-99)
- Panasonic Las Vegas Invitational (1984-88)
- Panasonic Las Vegas Pro-Celebrity Classic (1983)
History: Recent Winners
2023: Tom Kim -24
2022: Tom Kim -24
2021: Sungjae Im -24
2020: Martin Laird -23
2019: Kevin Na -23
2018: Bryson DeChambeau -21
2017: Patrick Cantlay -9
2016: Rod Pampling -20
2015: Smylie Kaufman -16
2014: Ben Martin -20
2013: Webb Simpson -24
2012: Ryan Moore -24
2011: Kevin Na -23
History: Records
Wins
3 – Jum Furyk (1995, 1998-99)
Low Score
260 – Ryan Moore (2012); Webb Simpson (2013), Sungjae Im (2021), Tom Kim (2022)
Low Round
59 (Chip Beck – Sunrise GC)
60 (JJ Henry, Rod Pampling – TPC Summerlin)
The Course: TPC Summerlin
The host course for the Shriners Children’s Open, the Tournament Players Club Summerlin, offers golfers a 7,255-yard stadium course layout that has gained a reputation as one of the country’s finest.
The TPC, which opened for play in November 1991, was built in the heart of Summerlin, a 22,000-acre master-planned community on the western-most edge of Las Vegas. The community is currently home to more than 100,000 residents.
As a stadium course, the TPC Summerlin was built to accommodate golfing fans with unrestricted views of tee shots, fairway approaches and putting through strategically placed spectator mounds and natural amphitheaters. Still, the integrity of the course remains.
The TPC Summerlin is one of two TPC Network members in Nevada.
PGA Tour design architect Bobby Weed was assisted in the course design by player consultant Fuzzy Zoeller, winner of the first edition in 1983. Zoeller was committed to designing a course which could accommodate a major tournament and appeal to the average golfer.
TPC Summerlin is an 18-hole golf course that stretches to 7,255 yards from the Championship tees. This magnificent par-71 course is covered with Bermuda grass fairways, tees and roughs; and new A-5 Bent grass greens, which were completed in March 2006.
Course Skinny
Name: TPC Summerlin
Locale: Las Vegas, NV USA
Established: 1991
Type: Private/TPC
Holes: 18
Par: 71 (35-36)
Par 3s: 4 (5, 8, 14, 17)
Par 4s: 11 (1-4, 6-7, 10-12, 15, 18)
Par 5s: 3 (9, 13, 16)
Length: 7255 yards
Greens: Bentgrass
Rough: Bermuda
Water Holes: 4
Designed by: Bobby Weed / Fuzzy Zoeller
Web: TPC.com/Summerlin
Source: PGA TOUR
Shriners Children’s Open Field
The field in Las Vegas is headlined by reigning back-to-back winner Tom Kim, along with handful of marquee PGA Tour veterans attempting a comeback from injury and or slump, including Rickie Fowler, Gary Woodland, Harris English, Daniel Berger and Webb Simpson, who won here in 2013.
Betting favorites include Kim, Taylor Pendrith, Beau Hossler, Davis Thompson, Seamus Power, Cam Davis, Eric Cole, Kurt Kitayama, Tom Hoge and Matt McCarty.
Other familiar names in the field include Patton Kizzire, Maverick McNealy, Jon Vegas, Nick Taylor, Adam Hadwin, Keith Mitchell, and J.T. Poston.
Top-10 Betting Favorites
1. Tom Kim (14-1)
2. Taylor Pendrith (20-1)
3. Beau Hossler (25-1)
4. Davis Thompson (28-1)
4. Seamus Power (28-1)
6. Cam Davis (30-1)
6. Eric Cole (30-1)
6. Kurt Kitayama (30-1)
6. Matt McCarty (30-1)
6. Tom Hoge (30-1)
Full Field: Rank and Odds
Shriners Children’s Open | TPC Summerlin | Las Vegas, NV | Oct. 17-20, 2024
