Two of the brightest professional golf stars from South Carolina have been added to the field for the RBC Heritage at Harbour Town this week.
Jacob Bridgeman and Andrew Novak will join the elite field of 80 PGATour players at the designated “Signature” event.
The Heritage is one of eight Signature Events in 2025. The limited-field event features the top players with increased prize money ($20 million) and FedExCup points (700 points to the winner).
Both golfers had to wait for the results of the Masters before they found out they had made the field.
“I’m not real sure how it works,” said Bridgeman. “I just know I want to play in those events with the best players on Tour,” he said,
Novak was hoping his ranking would get him in to what he called his “HomeTown ‘ tournament.
“I grew up going to the Heritage every year,” said the Charleston native. “Being from South Carolina it was the tournament I wanted to play in,” he said.
Bridgeman and Novak have played their way up in the Fed/Ex points race as each golfer has recorded a pair of top 3 finishes after flirting with their first PGA Tour win .
Going into the Heritage, Novak is 36th in the standings while Bridgeman is 37th. The two are separated by 13 points.
Bridgeman finished the Cognizant Classic tied for second place and added a 15th place finish at the Arnold Palmer Championship at Bay Hill.
His best tournament of the year came at the Valspar Championship. The Clemson grad led or shared the lead for three days before finishing third.
Novak had early success this yeat with a third place finish at the Farmers Insurance Open.
The Wofford grad notched a pair of 13th place finishes before tying for third at The Valero Texas Open.
Veteran professional, Clemson grad Lucas Glover will give Palmetto State fans a third golfer in the field to follow.
The elevated prize money and points means the winner will leave Hilton Head with a tartan jacket and $3.5 million.
Only one native South Carolinian has ever won the tournament. Columbia and USC grad Wesley Bryant was the winner of the 2017 RBC Heritiage.
While Masters champion Rory McIlroy is not in the field, defending chammpion and World #1 Scottie Scheffler is back to defend his title.
Tee times for the field will be announced on Wednesday and television coverage will be available for each round, with the final weekend rounds on CBS.
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