The 42-player field is set for next week\u2019s Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai, which runs from Thursday to Saturday on the Island of Hawaii. Hualalai Golf Course will host the PGA TOUR Champions season-opening event for the 30th consecutive time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eight past winners of this event will tee it up at Hualalai in 2026, including defending champion and World Golf Hall of Fame member Ernie Els.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A pair of three-time winners of the event, Bernhard Langer (2009, 2014, 2017) and Miguel Angel Jim\u00e9nez (2015, 2020, 2022) each look to become the first player to win four times at Hualalai. Els and Langer are two of six Hall of Famers set to play, along with Fred Couples, Retief Goosen, Davis Love III and Vijay Singh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Steven Alker, who finished No. 2 in last year\u2019s Charles Schwab Cup standings, won the 2024 Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai en route to winning the Schwab Cup that season. Other past champions at Hualalai in this year\u2019s field include Fred Funk (2008), Jerry Kelly (2018), Tom Lehman (2019) and Darren Clarke (2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Seven players will make their first appearance at Hualalai in 2026: Steve Allan, Thomas Bj\u00f8rn, Angel Cabrera, Tommy Gainey, Richard Green, Freddie Jacobson and Boo Weekley. Allan (three wins), Cabrera (three wins) and Bj\u00f8rn (two wins) each secured multi-win seasons in 2025, while Green and Gainey each broke through for their first win on PGA TOUR Champions last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Other notables in the 2026 field include reigning Charles Schwab Cup winner Stewart Cink along with fellow major champions David Duval, Jim Furyk, Justin Leonard and Mike Weir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Complete Tournament Field<\/u><\/strong>: Steven Alker, Steve Allan, Stephen Ames, Doug Barron, Thomas Bj\u00f8rn, Olin Browne, Angel Cabrera, Alex Cejka, K.J. Choi, Stewart Cink, Darren Clarke, Fred Couples, Stephen Dodd, Scott Dunlap, Joe Durant, David Duval, Ernie Els, Steve Flesch, Fred Funk, Jim Furyk, Tommy Gainey, Ricardo Gonzalez, Retief Goosen, Richard Green, Jay Haas, Freddie Jacobson, Miguel Angel Jim\u00e9nez, Jerry Kelly, Bernhard Langer, Tom Lehman, Justin Leonard, Davis Love III, Scott McCarron, Rocco Mediate, Tim O’Neal, Corey Pavin, Vijay Singh, Ken Tanigawa, David Toms, Boo Weekley, Mike Weir, Y.E. Yang<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 42-player field is set for next week\u2019s Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai, which runs from Thursday to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-8075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-golf"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1626px-Ernie_Els_3-wood_tee.jpg",1626,1080,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1626px-Ernie_Els_3-wood_tee-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1626px-Ernie_Els_3-wood_tee-300x199.jpg",300,199,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1626px-Ernie_Els_3-wood_tee-768x510.jpg",640,425,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1626px-Ernie_Els_3-wood_tee-1024x680.jpg",640,425,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1626px-Ernie_Els_3-wood_tee-1536x1020.jpg",1536,1020,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1626px-Ernie_Els_3-wood_tee.jpg",1626,1080,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1626px-Ernie_Els_3-wood_tee-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1626px-Ernie_Els_3-wood_tee-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"International<\/a>","tag_info":"International","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1626px-Ernie_Els_3-wood_tee.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8076,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8075\/revisions\/8076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}