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The 2026 American Express tees off this week in La Quinta, California, marking the PGA Tour’s first mainland event of the new season. World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler headlines the 156-player field, making his season debut after winning six times in 2025 en route to his fourth consecutive Player of the Year award. The field features 12 players ranked in the top 25, including defending champion Sepp Straka, Russell Henley, Robert MacIntyre, Ben Griffin, and Patrick Cantlay. Scheffler enters as the heavy favorite at +300 odds, though he’s still searching for his first victory at this event despite four top-25 finishes in five previous appearances.
Players will compete across three courses over the first three rounds — the Pete Dye Stadium Course at PGA West, the Nicklaus Tournament Course at PGA West, and La Quinta Country Club — before the cut sends survivors to the Stadium Course for Sunday’s finale. The tournament offers a $9.2 million purse with $1.656 million going to the winner, along with 500 FedExCup points. This birdie-fest traditionally produces winning scores exceeding 20-under par, putting a premium on aggressive iron play and hot putting — conditions that could allow mid-tier players to make a run if Scheffler shows any rust from his extended offseason.
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I would normally play Scottie Scheffler in all of my lineups, but the 14,200 salary forces you to play 5 players around 7,000 and that creates too much risk and too tight of a funnel for duplicate lineups. I have run our AI simulator without Scottie and here are the Player Sim results and the Lineup Results. If you want to build lineups with Scottie, you can use the Player simulation file to decide how much risk you want to accept.
