The teams for the Optum Golf Channel Games are set. 

Rory McIlroy’s squad will include Shane Lowry, Haotong Li and Luke Donald, the European Ryder Cup captain.  

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Scottie Scheffler’s lineup will consist of his good friend Sam Burns, rising star Luke Clanton and 2025 U.S. Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley. 

The Golf Channel games will be a silly season, rapid-fire team golf competition on Golf Channel and USA Network in primetime on Wednesday, Dec. 17, at Trump National Golf Club Jupiter in Jupiter, Fla.

The games are comprised of a timed drive, chip and putt competition, a 14-club challenge, a timed shootout and a captain’s challenge. All eight players go head-to-head against each other. 

These are the formats for each challenge:

McIlroy is playing this week in the DP World Tour finale while Scheffler has not played on the PGA Tour since winning the Procore Championship to start the Tour’s fall schedule.

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