Mark Schlabach

Apr 29, 2026, 02:50 PM ET

The most grueling stretch of the PGA Tour season begins Thursday in the Cadillac Championship at Trump National Doral outside Miami.

It's the first of back-to-back signature events -- the tour heads next week to Charlotte, North Carolina, for the Truist Championship, where another $20 million purse will be on the line.

Then it's off to the PGA Championship on May 14-17 at Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania.

"When you have a major championship as the last one, I think that creates a different kind of a different cadence to it," world No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler said. "Major championships are just the hardest events."

Scheffler is in the field this week at the Blue Monster, which last hosted a PGA Tour event in 2016.

World No. 2 Rory McIlroy is skipping his second straight signature event after winning the Masters.

Here are the PGA Tour power rankings at the halfway point of the PGA Tour season:

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