How to Watch Simmons Bank Championship, First Round: Stream PGA Tour Champions Golf Live, TV Channel

The Charles Schwab Cup playoffs enter the second week at the inaugural Simmons Bank Championship in Little Rock, Arkansas on Friday.

Tim O’Neal began the Dominion Energy Charity Classic last weekend in 55th place in the Charles Schwab Cup standings, with the top 54 players on the list set to advance to the second playoff event. This weekend’s Simmons Bank Championship is at Pleasant Valley Country Club. O’Neil’s first career win on the PGA Tour Champions catapulted him to 13th place and he arrives in Little Rock, Arkansas with a puncher’s chance to win the Cup. The top 36 players on the points list advance to next month’s Charles Schwab Cup Championship in Phoenix.

How to Watch Simmons Bank Championship, First Round, in PGA Tour Champions Golf Today:

Date: Oct. 25, 2024

Time: 3 p.m. ET

TV: The Golf Channel

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The Simmons Bank Championship is on the Champions Tour schedule for the first time and is the first PGA Tour-sanctioned event in Arkansas since 2010. Charles Schwab Cup leader Ernie Els leads the field with three wins and 10 Top 10 finishes this season.

Els is joined in the field by Retief Goosen, Kenny Perry (a 10-time winner on tour), last season’s Cup runner-up Steven Alker, Vijay Singh, Y.E. Yang, Pádraig Harrington and Arkansas native Ken Duke. Alker is again second in the Charles Schwab Cup standings, which are computed by winnings, with playoff earnings counting double.

Defending Cup champion Steve Stricker is not in the field, meaning a new champ will be crowned. The winner earns $365,000 from the $2.3 million purse for the event, which will count for 730,000 Charles Schwab Cup points. Scott Dunlap arrives for the tournament in 36th place, the cutoff for the final event of the season, with Charlie Wi in 37th place.

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