Price Cutter Charity Championship presented by Dr Pepper: Tournament facts, storylines and all you need to know

The Korn Ferry Tour returns to Springfield, Missouri, for the 18th event of the Tour’s 26-event season, the Price Cutter Charity Championship presented by Dr Pepper. The Price Cutter Charity is one of four tournaments played every season since the Korn Ferry Tour’s inaugural 1990 season, with this year marking the 35th playing of the event. Reigning champion Pierceson Coody, who finished No. 6 on the 2023 Korn Ferry Tour Points List to earn his first PGA TOUR card, recorded his best career result on TOUR last week with a T2 at the ISCO Championship; his second top-10 finish of the season.

See storylines and tournament facts below.

Price Cutter Charity celebrates 35 years

Highland Springs Country Club has hosted every iteration of the Price Cutter Charity Championship presented by Dr Pepper over its 35 years on the Korn Ferry Tour. This makes the Price Cutter Charity one of four tournaments played every season since the Korn Ferry Tour’s inaugural 1990 season, becoming a staple on the circuit's schedule. The other three events with such distinction are the Visit Knoxville Open, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Kansas Wichita Open Benefitting KU Wichita Pediatrics and the Albertsons Boise Open presented by Chevron. Only the Price Cutter Charity Championship, Wichita Open and Albertsons Boise Open are set to enter their 35th playing this year, as the Visit Knoxville Open was only contested once (2021) amid the 2020-21 combined season.

Stacked field heads to Missouri

This year, the field includes 51 Korn Ferry Tour winners, including 11 winners from this season with 72 total victories, led by four-time winner Kevin Stadler. Ten players in this week’s field are in the top 200 in the Official World Golf Rankings: Tim Widing (No. 117), Taylor Dickson (No. 130), Cristobal Del Solar (No. 146), Frankie Capan III (No. 162), Max McGreevy (No. 166), Brian Campbell (No. 176), Jackson Suber (No. 179), Ryan Gerard (No. 189), Peter Kuest (No. 190) and Alistair Docherty (No. 191).

The field includes 11 PGA TOUR winners with 22 total wins, led by Jonathan Byrd with five career victories. Three past champions are in this week’s field: David Kocher (2022), McGreevy (2020) and Dawie van der Walt (2015). They are joined by seven of the 12 players that finished T7 or higher at last year’s Price Cutter Charity including reigning champion Pierceson Coody, earned their PGA TOUR cards with a top 30 finish on the 2023 Korn Ferry Tour Points List. Coody, Ben Silverman (T2), Chandler Phillips (T2), Parker Coody (T2), Adrien Dumont de Chassart (T7), Patrick Fishburn (T7) and Jake Knapp (T7).

#TOURBounds galore

Chilean Del Solar became the fifth player to achieve #TOURBound status this season with a four-stroke victory at The Ascendant presented by Blue last week, the first win of his Korn Ferry Tour career. He joins Widing and Dickson, two of the three two-time winners this season (Harry Higgs being the other), who are both seeking the Three-Victory Promotion, which would earn them an immediate promotion to the PGA TOUR.

Tournament facts

• Course: Highland Springs Country Club, par 72, 7,115 yards
• Field: 156 players (72 holes)
• Defending champion: Pierceson Coody
• Purse: $1,000,000 (winner: $180,000)
• Scoring records:
  • Low 18-hole score: 60, Tyler Williamson (Round 4, 2004)
  • Low 72-hole score: 260, David Kocher (2022)