Bank Of Utah Championship Preview: Field, Course, History, Tee Times, How To Watch

Back to Black Desert. 

It’s clip for nan 2nd Bank of Utah Championship, marking nan midway constituent of nan PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup Fall series. A 132-player field will vie for portion of an $6 cardinal purse, pinch nan victor collecting $1,080,000—and galore are trying to unafraid position for nan 2026 pinch clip dwindling. 

From its field, course, history, tee times and really to watch, here’s everything you request to cognize for nan 2025 Bank of Utah Championship.

There are 5 players wrong nan apical 50 players successful nan Official World Golf Ranking playing this week: Alex Noren (No. 17), Maverick McNealy (No. 19), Kurt Kitayama (No. 36), Billy Horschel (No. 38) and Jason Day (No. 42). 

There are besides 7 names who person won connected Tour this year: Steven Fisk (Sanderson Farms Championship), Ryan Gerard (Barracuda Championship), Joe Highsmith (Cognizant Classic), Kurt Kitayama (3M Open), William Mouw (ISCO Championship), Aldrich Potgieter (Rocket Classic) and Karl Vilips (Puerto Rico Open). 

Plus, location are different notables specified arsenic Max Homa, Sahith Theegala, Thorbjørn Olesen, Luke Clanton, Zac Blair and Nick Dunlap. 

However, galore of nan players competing successful Utah are looking to fastener up position for 2026 by finishing wrong nan apical 100 successful FedEx Cup points astatine nan conclusion of nan seven-tournament autumn series. Some names connected nan bubble playing this week are Rico Hoey (No. 91), Matt Wallace (No. 93), Beau Hossler (No. 95), Patrick Fishburn (No. 98), David Lipsky (No. 99), Isaiah Salinda (No. 101), Joel Dahmen (No. 103), Max McGreevy (No. 104), Victor Perez (No. 105), Sam Ryder (No. 106), Andrew Putnam (No. 107), Lanto Griffin (No. 108), Lee Hodges (No. 109) and Taylor Moore (No. 110). 

A Majestic Course successful Utah

The Black Desert Resort successful St. George, Utah, is rather a majesty. 

“Golf people is simply a batch of fun,” Nick Taylor said up of past year’s inaugural event. “Obviously, nan views and nan backdrops are spectacular. The people decidedly has a batch of risk-reward type shots. The backmost 9 a small much open, but there’s still reachable par-5s, drivable par-4 connected each side. A small much consequence connected nan front.”

The Tom Weiskopf design, successful nan mediate of a lava field, opened 2 years ago, and for nan PGA Tour it plays arsenic a 7,421-yard, par-71. It has an mean greenish size of 7,000 quadrate feet, 51 acres of fairway, 25 acres of rough, 3 h2o hazards and 44 bunkers, nan 2nd fewest of immoderate people connected Tour. 

In 2024, nan people was nan 38th hardest connected Tour (out of 50), pinch a scoring mean of 69.061 (1.939 strokes nether par).

The course’s astir difficult spread was nan 532-yard, par-4 11th, which played .253 holes complete par past year, making it nan 49th toughest connected Tour. Black Desert’s slightest hardest spread was nan 571-yard, par-5 18th, playing .652 nether par arsenic nan Tour’s 19th easiest hole. 

Black Desert Resort besides hosted nan LPGA Black Desert Championship successful May, joining Tiburon Golf Club arsenic nan only people to clasp some a PGA Tour and LPGA arena successful nan aforesaid season. 

It’s besides nan only people connected Tour to usage robotic fairway mowers. 

The Bank of Utah Championship doesn’t person a agelong history, considering its inaugural playing was past year. Heck, it was nan first PGA Tour arena successful Utah since nan 1963 Utah Open Invitational.

So let’s hop successful nan clip instrumentality and spell backmost to 2024. 

Earlier successful nan year, Matt McCarty won 3 times connected nan Korn Forry Tour to gain a promotion to nan PGA Tour. And successful conscionable his 3rd Tour start, it looked for illustration a prima was born. 

The 26-year-old lefty from Arizona held a two-stroke lead heading into nan last information and ne'er relinquished it. At 1 point, though, Stephan Jaeger sewage wrong a stroke, but McCarty sealed nan woody pinch a 3-wood connected nan 310-yard, par-5 14th that landed 3.5 feet from nan cup for an eagle.

With nan victory, McCarty was nan first subordinate since Jason Gore to gain a three-win promotion from nan Korn Ferry Tour and past triumph connected nan PGA Tour successful nan aforesaid season. 

“I don't cognize really you tin expect this,” McCarty said afterward. “It's conscionable a batch of fun. I’ve been moving really hard. This twelvemonth was awesome for me. To get retired present a small early, to get immoderate acquisition was awesome and evidently this now.

“It's conscionable been a crazy past fewer months for me.”

This year, however, McCarty has struggled successful 25 starts, pinch conscionable 2 apical 10s. 

How to watch (all times ET)

ESPN+ will besides person unrecorded sum during each 4 rounds. 

View tee times here.