Francesco Molinari returns to the PGA Tour, which offers the Butterfield Bermuda Championship (November 14-17) on the Port Royal Golf Course, in Southampton, Bermuda. It is the seventh and penultimate event of the FedExCup Fall, a series of eight tournaments scheduled after the TOUR Championship aimed at defining the group of the top 125 players in the FedEx Cup rankings. These, at the end of the last competition (The RSM Classic, November 21-24, St. Simons Island, Georgia), will receive the ‘card’ for 2025, while those who finish 126th to 150th will have full status for the Korn Ferry Tour and a conditional card for the main circuit.
Francesco Molinari, results
Defending his fifth title, which came nine years after his fourth (Wyndham Championship, 2014), is Colombian Camilo Villegas, 42 years old from Medellin, whose palmarès includes six other successes, one of which on the Japan Tour, and who nevertheless remained a failed promise after a career start that foreshadowed much different outcomes. In the field there are 49 winners on the tour, five of whom will win in 2024: Nico Echavarria, Kevin Yu, Jhonattan Vegas, Nick Taylor and Peter Malnati, as well as two other past winners of the competition, Brendon Todd (2019) and Seamus Power (2022). Along with the aforementioned, Daniel Berger, Andrew Putnam, Lucas Glover, Chez Reavie, Nick Watney, Rico Hoey and Mackenzie Hughes can also play leading roles.
In the tournament, now in its sixth edition, no one has ever made a “hole in one”, but rookie Joe Highsmith will be at the start, the first golfer since 1983 to have signed three in the season (The American Express, Rocket Classic and Wyndham Championship). The prize pool is 6,900,000 dollars of which 1,242,000 will go to the winner.
Bermuda is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic, consisting of a chain of islands that includes about three hundred islets, reefs and coral outcrops, twenty of which are inhabited, called the Bermudas (it is therefore incorrect to use the Bermudas, as plural, when referring to it.
The capital is Hamilton, located in Greater Bermuda. Bermuda is an associate member of CARICOM.
The inhabitants are predominantly black or mulatto, but there are also minorities of whites.
It is the oldest and most populous of the British overseas territories.