The PGA Tour’s West Coast Swing continues this week with the first signature event on the 2026 calendar. It’s time for the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, with defending champion Rory McIlroy making his season debut on the Tour.
World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler is there, too. He has one win already and missed out on the WM Phoenix Open playoff by a shot last Sunday. Also in the field (and contending once again) is Chris Gotterup, the winner at the WMPO less than a week ago and the winner of two events already in 2026.
Get caught up here on the highlights, the leaderboard and more from Thursday on the Monterey Peninsula.
2026 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am leaderboard
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The 23-year-old Japanese golfer was contending into Sunday a week ago in Scottsdale. He’s the lone golfer to get to double digits under par already this week at Pebble and his 10-under 62 is pacing the field. There are two golfers – Keegan Bradley and Sam Burns – tied for second, one shot back.
There are 80 golfers in the field with half playing Pebble Beach Golf Links and the other half playing Spyglass Hill on Thursday and through 18 holes, there are 61 golfers under par and there are 68 at par or better.
Scottie Scheffler shoots even par in first round at AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am
Scheffler shot an even-par 72 on the Pebble Beach Golf Links on Thursday which has him tied for 62nd in the 80-man field.
Bradley had birdies and an eagle on Spyglass on Thursday to match the 63 Sam Burns posted at Pebble and forge a tie for second at 9 under.
Tony Finau, last week’s winner Chris Gotterup and Patrick Rodgers each shot 8-under 64s and they’re all tied for fourth.
There are four golfers tied for seventh at 7 under: Nick Taylor, Akshay Bhatia, Andrew Novak and Tom Hoge.
Spieth and Knapp started their rounds at Spyglass on Friday at the same time but on different tees, with Knapp starting on No. 1 and Spieth on No. 10, but they shot matching 6-under 66s. They each had bogey-free rounds that included four birdies and one eagle, with Knapp making a 3 on the par-5 seventh, while Spieth holed out for eagle on the 18th. They are tied for fourth at 6 under with Russel Henley, who played Pebble Beach Golf Links for his first round.
Sam Burns shot his best round in seven outings so far on the PGA Tour in 2026. Burns shot a bogey-free, 9-under 63 at Pebble Beach Golf Links, a round that included a 7-under 29 on the second nine.
The 63 is his lowest score on Tour since a 62 in the final round of the 2025 RBC Canadian Open, a span of 46 rounds.
He was in contention for most of the week at the WM Phoenix Open before fading late on Sunday. This week, Japan’s Ryo Hisatsune is in the hunt once again. Playing Pebble Beach Golf Links on Thursday for his opening round, Hisatsune made the turn in 30 (six birdies, three pars, no bogeys) and then had four more birdies on the second nine, including three straight on Nos. 16, 17 and 18.
The 23-year-old hit 11 of 14 fairways and walked off the 18th green with a three-shot lead on Sam Burns.
Spieth was 3 under through his first eight holes on Thursday before he dropped in an eagle from the fairway on the 18th hole at Spyglass Hill. Spieth started on No. 10 and has it to 5 under, putting him two back of leader Ryu Hisatsune.
Gotterup is 6-for-6 making birdie so far in his first round Thursday at Pebble Beach Golf Links. That’s on the heels of finishing off his victory at last week’s WM Phoenix Open with three birdies in a row: two on Nos. 17 and 18 to close out regulation and then again on No. 18 in the playoff.
He’d have 13 straight birdies if not for a ho-hum par on the 16th hole last week at TPC Scottsdale.
The PGA Tour reports the six straight at Pebble is his career-high for one event.
Going back to the WM Phoenix Open, Chris Gotterup has birdied nine straight holes during PGA Tour competition.
Six straight circles to begin at Pebble Beach! pic.twitter.com/M5ScKW7AjL
— Cameron Jourdan (@Cam_Jourdan) February 12, 2026
Chris Gotterup has it going on.
Last week’s playoff victor at the WM Phoenix Open and already a two-time winner on the PGA Tour in 2026 has played five holes on Thursday and has five birdies. Starting on No. 1 at Pebble Beach Golf Links, the first-time participant in the AT&T is on a roll. He just rolled in a bending 17-footer for a birdie on the par-3 fifth.
“Me and my dad had a bet when I was growing up that once I broke par, he would take me out here,” Gotterup recalled on Wednesday of the famed seaside course along the Pacific Ocean. “So we came, I don’t know how many years ago it was, but we came then, me and my brother and my dad played. … just remember I have a video of my brother lipping out a putt on 18 and he fell to his knees.”
Now he’s competing on the venerable venue at the game’s highest level.
After opening with two birdies and two pars, McIlroy made his first PGA Tour eagle of the new year on the par-5 14th hole. After hitting his second shot into a greenside bunker, McIlroy holed out for a 3.
He’s 4 under through six holes, two shots off the lead of Ryo Hisatsune, who is 6 under through nine.
Making his PGA Tour 2026 debut this week, Rory McIlroy started on the 10th hole at Spyglass Hill on Thursday and promptly got into red numbers, making birdie on the par-4 hole. He drove it 301 yards into the right rough, then hit his second shot from 118 yards to inside eight feet and then made the putt.
92.31. That’s the percentage of signature events that Scheffler has finished in the top 10, minimum five starts, since 2024. The next best is Justin Thomas at 46.67 percent. Scheffler is seeking his third consecutive top 10 finish at the AT&T. Scheffler’s also in search of his eighth consecutive top-4 finish, looking to tie Tiger Woods for the most on the PGA Tour since 1983.
― Adam Schupak
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What is the prize money at the 2026 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am?
The total purse for the 2026 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am is $20 million. The winner of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am receives $3.6 million, or 18 percent of the total purse.
Where do they play the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am?
The AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am uses two golf courses on the Monterey Peninsula: Pebble Beach Golf Links and Spyglass Hill. All golfers play one round at each on Thursday and Friday before everyone moves to Pebble for the weekend.
What’s the weather forecast for the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am?
If Tuesday’s practice round is any indication, it’s going to be breezy. Akshay Bhatia and Emiliano Grillo had some fun trying crazy shots in the wind. There’s some rain in the forecast as well.
What is the field for the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am?
There are 80 players in the field this week at the first of eight signature events on the PGA Tour’s 2026 schedule. There is no cut this week, so everyone in the starting field gets paid on Sunday.
AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am 2026 betting odds
Here are the betting odds, courtesy of BetMGM. Odds are subject to change.
Scottie Scheffler (+300)Rory McIlroy (+1400)Si Woo Kim (+2200)Tommy Fleetwood (+2500)Viktor Hovland (+2500)Hideki Matsuyama (+2800)Justin Rose (+2800)Russell Henley (+2800)Xander Schauffele (+3000)Chris Gotterup (+3300)Cameron Young (+3300)Jake Knapp (+3300)Matt Fitzpatrick (+3300)Maverick McNealy (+3300)Patrick Cantlay (+4000)Ben Griffin (+4000)Jason Day (+4000)Who to watch at 2026 Pebble Beach Pro-Am
Chris Gotterup. Having already won the Sony Open in Hawaii and WM Phoenix Open, he can become the first player in 51 years to win three of the first five events of the PGA Tour season since Johnny Miller in 1975. Gotterup is making his debut at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
Tommy Fleetwood. Rory McIlroy isn’t the only one making his season debut. The 2025 FedEx Cup champion Fleetwood is world No. 4. His track record at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am is mediocre at best – in three previous starts, he’s finished T-45/2019, T-31/2024, T-22/2025.
Justin Rose. The 2023 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am champion is making his first start since his seven-stroke triumph at the Farmers Insurance Open two weeks ago. After his win at Torrey Pines, the 45-year-old Englishman moved from No. 10 to No. 3 in the Official World Golf Ranking, becoming the second-oldest player in the top three of OWGR (Vijay Singh/45 years, 8 months).
― Adam Schupak