Running in parallel with The 152nd Open, the Barracuda Championship offers 50 spots to DP World Tour members to compete in a second consecutive US-based tournament.
As part of the Strategic Alliance between the PGA TOUR and the DP World Tour, the tournament features a field of 156 players with the winner receiving benefits on each Tour:
- FedExCup points: 300
- DP World Tour Rankings points: 710
- PGA TOUR exemption (for current PGA TOUR members): through 2026
- PGA TOUR exemption (for non-members): through 2025
- DP World Tour exemption: through 2026
Held in Truckee, California, the Barracuda Championship is the only Modified Stableford event on both Tours.
New in 2024, the tournament has elected to switch the nines at Tahoe Mountain Club’s Old Greenwood course. The par five 11th and 15th and the drivable par four 17th all now feature on the tournament’s closing stretch.
Dylan Frittelli of South Africa is the highest ranked DP World Tour member on the season-long Race to Dubai Rankings in Partnership with Rolex teeing it up.
He won his third DP World Tour title earlier this season in the Kingdom of Bahrain and is one of 24 players in the field at the Barracuda Championship who competed at last week's Genesis Scottish Open.
Another of those is Maximilian Kieffer, who finished tied 21st in the co-sanctioned event with the PGA TOUR at The Renaissance Club.
And after Richard Mansell earned a last-minute exemption into the Open Championship at Royal Troon via the Genesis Scottish Open, the German has teamed up with a caddie who was set to work alongside Mansell until the England carded a closing 61 to claim a prized berth for the final Major on the west of Scotland.
After his tied sixth finish last week at the ISCO Championship, which was won by Harry Hall in a play-off, Englishman Sam Bairstow looks to impress again on the other side of the Atlantic.
He is joined by among others Jordan Gumberg, who competed at the Scottish Open and is another winner so far this season on the DP World Tour following his triumph at the SDC Championship in his homeland of South Africa.
Alex Fitzpatrick is another who has made the journey from Scotland to the United States, with the Barracuda Championship preceding a three-week summer break on the DP World Tour schedule away from the limited-size field at the Olympic Games in France.
Last year, Akshay Bhatia birdied the 72nd hole to tie Patrick Rodgers and then won the play-off with a par.
It was Bhatia’s first PGA TOUR title after he earned Special Temporary Membership earlier in the season after finishing runner-up at the Puerto Rico Open. France’s Julien Guerrier fired the round of the week, +20, to tie for third along with Sweden's Jens Dantorp three points out of the play-off.
