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2026 Truist Championship Full Field: Rory McIlroy Returns One Week Before PGA Championship
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2026 Truist Championship Full Field: Rory McIlroy Returns One Week Before PGA Championship

SI·John Schwarb·29 days ago
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The Masters champion is coming back.  Rory McIlroy, nearly a month after winning a second consecutive green jacket , is playing again on the PGA Tour this week at the Truist Championship—on one of his favorite courses. The Grand Slam winner now owns 30 Tour wins and four of them have come at Quail Hollow Club. His very first win was the then-Quail Hollow Championship in 2010 (runner-up: Phil Mickelson), then he won at Quail again in 2015, 2021 and 2024 when it was the Wells Fargo Championship. Now it’s the Truist Championship, in its second year as a Tour signature event. That means a limited field of 72 players, no cut and a $20 million purse with $3.6 million to the winner. It is the third signature event in four weeks on Tour since the Masters, a scheduling glut that may need to be rectified in the coming years. Not every player likes competing the week before a major, and indeed the Truist will not have the No.…

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