The First Look: ISCO Championship

This year marks the fifth in a row for the ISCO Championship to be co-sanctioned alongside the DP World Tour and is one of the final stops on the PGA TOUR schedule this summer as players look to earn some seriously important FedExCup Points.

In Kentucky, there will once again be a tidy mix of TOUR winners and up-and-coming stars teeing it up.

Here’s everything else you need to know.

FIELD NOTES: Max Homa leads the way after a runner-up result at the John Deere Classic. Homa is the top-ranked golfer in the Official World Golf Ranking in the field. His runner-up finish on Sunday was his first top-three finish on TOUR since the 2024 Masters and his best result of the year. … Jackson Koivun is set to tee it up in his second event as a pro after missing the cut last week at the John Deere. He’s not the only young star to join the field in Kentucky, as Ben James, Luke Clanton and Gordon Sargent are all in action. … Major champion Lucas Glover, who was the 54-hole leader at the John Deere last week, is teeing it up. … William Mouw is looking to become the first golfer in tournament history to both successfully defend and win the event twice. Mouw has one top-10 finish this year at the Cognizant Classic in the Palm Beaches and has made three straight cuts. … Harry Higgs, who had a magical run through the early part of the week at the U.S. Open, returns to the PGA TOUR. He’s made his last two cuts as he looks to earn some valuable FedExCup points. … More than 40 golfers from the DP World Tour have joined the field in Kentucky, as this is once again a co-sanctioned event. Tops in the Official World Golf Ranking via the DP World Tour category is Christiaan Bezuidenhout.

SPONSOR EXEMPTIONS: The robust group of impressive sponsor invites is led by teenage star-in-waiting Miles Russell. Russell, the No. 6-ranked amateur in the world, comes into the week in Kentucky after finishing T5 at the Northeast Amateur Invitational. He also finished T39 at the U.S. Open. This is the third start on TOUR this season for the 17-year-old. … Preston Stout, who won the NCAA individual title in June, will tee it up for the fourth time on TOUR this season, including the U.S. Open. Stout, who finished his junior year at Oklahoma State, had five wins this season – the most by a junior in program history. Stout had a very impressive T15 result at the John Deere Classic on Sunday after four rounds in the 60s. … Kentucky golfer and LSU grad Drew Doyle, a winner already this year on PGA TOUR Americas, will play the ISCO Championship for the second year in a row. Doyle sits third on the PGA TOUR Americas Points List. … Josiah Gilbert, a senior at Auburn University, will make his PGA TOUR debut. … Last year’s winner of the Kentucky Open Ashton Van Horne along with fellow Kentucky native Cooper Musselman, J.B. Holmes and Jared Wolfe, round out the sponsor invites.

FEDEXCUP: Winner receives 300 FedExCup points

COURSE: Hurstbourne Country Club (Championship Course), par 70, 7,056 yards. Located about 11 miles east of downtown Louisville, Hurstbourne took over hosting duties of the ISCO Championship for the first time in 2025 after being contested at Keene Trace Golf Club since 2018. Originally designed by Chick Adams in the 1960s, the course was renovated in 2005, highlighted by a major bunker improvement program. For the PGA TOUR, they switched the nines versus the normal routing to not finish on a par 3.

72-HOLE RECORD: 262, Jim Herman (2019)

Hurstbourne Country Club record: 270, William Mouw (2025)

18-HOLE RECORD: 61, Kelly Kraft (Round 3, 2019), Pierceson Coody (Round 1, 2024)

Hurstbourne Country Club record: 61, William Mouw (Round 4, 2025)

LAST TIME: William Mouw saved the best for last and shot a tournament-record-tying 61 in Sunday’s finale in Louisville to climb 24 spots on the leaderboard and win for the first time on the PGA TOUR. It was his 20th start on TOUR. Mouw went off almost two hours prior to the final group and waited around to see if his final total would hold up. Third-round leader Paul Peterson – who was on No. 10 when Mouw finished – shot a 1-under 69 in the final round and left himself a 55-foot birdie try to force a playoff, which he left short. Peterson, who was 2 over through six holes in the final round, made birdies on Nos. 14 and 16 on the back nine but fell just short. Mouw, meanwhile, went out in 30 and came in bogey-free – and with the trophy.

How to follow (all times ET)

Television:

• Thursday-Friday: 4-7 p.m. (Golf Channel)
• Saturday-Sunday: 4-7 p.m. (Golf Channel)