Pinnacle Bank Championship presented by Woodhouse: Pre-tournament notes, storylines, more

The 2026 Korn Ferry Tour Season continues with the Pinnacle Bank Championship presented by Woodhouse, the 19th tournament of the 25-event schedule. The field includes 11 PGA TOUR winners with 14 total victories, led by Cameron Champ with three TOUR wins. Additionally, 65 Korn Ferry Tour winners with 89 total victories will compete, led by four-time winner Robby Shelton, who captured the 2022 Pinnacle Bank Championship.

Nine players in the field are in the top 200 in the Official World Golf Ranking, including Doc Redman (No. 125), Ross Steelman (No. 132), Ian Holt (No. 145), Cole Sherwood (No. 154), Davis Lamb (No. 167), Dylan Menante (No. 168), Tommy Morrison (No. 172), Jeremy Gandon (No. 174) and Carson Young (No. 186).

The tournament takes place Aug. 6-9 at The Club at Indian Creek in Omaha, Nebraska, with a purse of $1 million and winner's share of $180,000. The 156-player field will compete on the par-71, 7,721-yard layout. Christo Lamprecht returns as the defending champion.

Notables in the field

• Luke Gutschewski, son of three-time Korn Ferry Tour winner and University of Nebraska alum Scott Gutschewski, will make his third start at the Pinnacle Bank Championship presented by Woodhouse. Gutschewski, an Omaha native, made his first Korn Ferry Tour start at the 2024 Pinnacle Bank Championship.
• Derek Hitchner came out on top of a five-player playoff to win last week's Utah Championship presented by Zions Bank and Intermountain Health. Hitchner made birdie on the first hole (No. 18) of the sudden-death playoff to claim his first Korn Ferry Tour victory in his 18th career start. He earned Korn Ferry Tour membership for the first time with a No. 8 finish on the 2025 PGA TOUR Americas Points List.
• Ian Holt reclaimed the top position on the 2026 Korn Ferry Tour Points List following a T9 finish at the Utah Championship. Holt, a two-time winner this season, grabbed hold of the No. 1 spot in January after his win at The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic at the Abaco Club, until June when Doc Redman overtook the top position following the OccuNet Classic.
• Following a runner-up finish at the Utah Championship, Tommy Morrison has logged top-10 finishes in all five of his starts to begin his professional career. Only Adrien Dumont de Chassart has more consecutive top-10 finishes to begin a Korn Ferry Tour career (six). With his victory at the Evans Scholars Invitational, Morrison became the fifth player to win on the Korn Ferry Tour in the same season they earned membership via PGA TOUR University performance benefits. Morrison finished No. 6 in the PGA TOUR University Class of 2026 after three and a half seasons at the University of Texas.
• Fourth-year Korn Ferry Tour member Cole Hammer recorded his best career finish on Tour with his T2 at the Utah Championship after falling to Hitchner in the five-player playoff. Hammer, who rose to No. 20 on the Points List, was the only player to move inside the top 20 after last week's event. Hammer's previous best finish on the Korn Ferry Tour Points List was No. 65 (2024).

Tournament history

• Now in its 10th year on the Korn Ferry Tour schedule, the Pinnacle Bank Championship presented by Woodhouse is known as one of the truest tests on Tour, with The Club at Indian Creek serving as the host venue all 10 years.
• The Club at Indian Creek has finished among the top-10 toughest courses on Tour five times, including three appearances in the top five: 2019 (No. 5), 2020 (No. 5) and 2024 (No. 5).
• While the Pinnacle Bank Championship was established in 2017, the Korn Ferry Tour previously contested an event in Nebraska -- the Omaha Classic -- from 1996 through 2013.
• David Skinns is one of 16 players in Korn Ferry Tour history to win the same event multiple times (2018, 2021).

Tournament facts

• Course: The Club at Indian Creek; par 71, 7,721 yards
• Field: 156 players
• Scoring records:
  • 18-hole: 62, Sam Ryder (2017/Round 3), Ben Taylor (2022/Round 3), Carl Yuan (2022/Round 3), Sam Stevens (2022/Round 4), Chris Naegel (2023/Round 2), Alejandro Tosti (2023/Round 4), Danny Walker (2024/Round 1)
  • 72-hole: 263, Sam Ryder (2017)
• Defending champion: Christo Lamprecht
• Purse: $1 million ($180,000/winner)

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