With World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler away as he and his wife Meredith remain on Baby Watch, seven of the remaining top 10 golfers on the Official World Golf Ranking will have a chance to win a PGA Tour Signature Event at this week’s Wells Fargo Championship—not to mention gain some momentum with the PGA Championship right around the corner. Rory McIlroy, Wyndham Clark, Xander Schauffele, Viktor Hovland, Patrick Cantlay, Brian Harman and Max Homa are set to tee off at Quail Hollow, all trying to hit the highs that Clark reached in 2023.

Winning by four strokes while setting a 72-hole record at 265, Clark claimed his maiden tour title a year ago in Charlotte before eventually going on to win the U.S. Open just over a month later. On Sunday last year, Clark went four under over his last 11 holes separating himself from the red-hot Xander Schauffele.

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Like Clark, McIlroy is a big fan of this event as he set a scoring record of 21 under back in 2015; it’s also the only tournament that the Northern Irishman has won three times. His last victory came in 2021, so it might be time for that fourth Wells Fargo victory.

This week’s winner will receive 700 FedEx Cup points and a $3.6 million cut of the $20 million purse.

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Few golf course projects had more national attention in recent years than Quail Hollow, mainly because its front nine was redesigned just a year before it hosted the 2017 PGA Championship, won by Justin Thomas. The par-4 first and par-3 second holes were completely torn up, replaced by a new long dogleg-right par-4 opening hole. Several acres of pines to the left of the fifth tee were removed to make room for a new par-3 fourth. (With its knobby green fronted by three traps, it proved to be the most frustrating hole for pros in the 2017 PGA.) More pines were removed to the left of the par-4 11th, replaced by bunkers, and even more trees chopped down on a hill left of the par-4 18th to make room for money-making hospitality boxes. There’s no question that this latest remodeling, rushed though it was, improved the course. The course was also rerouted for the 2022 Presidents Cup. View Course TV Schedule

Golf Channel will carry live coverage Thursday and Friday from 2-6 p.m. EDT. On Saturday and Sunday, Golf Channel will start the coverage from 1-3 p.m. with CBS taking over with afternoon coverage from 3-6 p.m.

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Streaming Schedule

PGA Tour Live streaming coverage will air on ESPN+ from 11 a.m.-6 p.m. on Thursday and Friday with four-stream expanded coverage that includes a main feed, a featured groups feed, a marquee groups feed and a featured holes (Nos. 4, 6, 14 aand 17) feed. Four-stream coverage will also take place Sautrday and Sunday from 7:15 am to 1 p.m.

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First tee

11 a.m. – Peter Malnati, Matthieu Pavon, Gary Woodland

11:11 a.m. – Sungjae Im, Brendon Todd, Denny McCarthy

11:22 a.m. – Tom Hoge, Andrew Putnam, Adam Schenk

11:33 a.m. – Sepp Straka, Mackenzie Hughes, Eric Cole

11:44 a.m. – Si Woo Kim, Seamus Power, Patrick Rodgers

11:55 a.m. – Lee Hodges, Russell Henley, Byeong Hun An

12:06 p.m. – Jake Knapp, Will Zalatoris, Alex Noren

12:17 p.m. – Emiliano Grillo, Sam Burns, Harris English

12:28 p.m. – Hideki Matsuyama, Sahith Theegala, Viktor Hovland

12:39 p.m. – Rory McIlroy, Tom Kim, Max Homa

12:50 p.m. – Matt Fitzpatrick, Corey Conners, Adam Svensson

1:01 p.m. – Billy Horschel, Nick Dunlap, Kevin Tway

10th tee

11 a.m. – Taylor Pendrith, Akshay Bhatia, Justin Thomas

11:11 a.m. – Brian Harman, Jason Day, Patrick Cantlay

11:22 a.m. – Shane Lowry, Wyndham Clark, Xander Schauffele

11:33 a.m. – Collin Morikawa, Rickie Fowler, Jordan Spieth

11:44 a.m. – Keegan Bradley, Kurt Kitayama, Cameron Young

11:55 a.m. – Grayson Murray, Justin Rose, Webb Simpson

12:06 p.m. – Austin Eckroat, Adam Scott, Ben Kohles

12:17 p.m. – Lucas Glover, J.T. Poston, Cam Davis

12:28 p.m. – Chris Kirk, Taylor Moore, Tommy Fleetwood

12:39 p.m. – Nick Taylor, Tony Finau, Adam Hadwin

12:50 p.m. – Stephan Jaeger, Matt Kuchar, Christiaan Bezuidenhout

This article was originally published on golfdigest.com