Who are the top-ranked golfers at The CJ Cup Byron Nelson 2025? Rankings explored

The CJ Cup Byron Nelson 2025 is set to tee off on Thursday, May 1 at TPC Craig Ranch in McKinney, Texas. The 20th event on the PGA Tour schedule will see a stacked 156-player field compete for the winner’s paycheck from the $9,900,000 prize purse.

The CJ Cup Byron Nelson follows the unique team-format Zurich Classic of New Orleans on the schedule. Several big-name stars including World No.2 Rory McIlroy are sitting the competition out after their team outings. However, World No.1 Scottie Scheffler has committed to the contest.

Despite having seven others of the top 50 in the Official World Golf Ranking among the top contenders, the 2024 Masters champ remains the outright favorite to win.

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Scheffler enters the event on the back of a T8 finish at the RBC Heritage. He’d finished solo-fourth at the Masters. The 28-year-old celebrated his best finish, a T2 at the Houston Open ahead of the Augusta outing. The ace golfer, who was crowned the PGA Tour Player of the Year last year, will be eying his first victory of the season this weekend in Texas.

The two-time major champion will face some competition from World No.20 Sungjae Im. The 27-year-old South Korean golfer finished T11 at RBC Heritage, one stroke behind Scheffler. Interestingly, he’d also finished T5 at the Masters with the same distance to the World No.1 golfer. It’ll be interesting to see how the two golfers fare against each other at TPC Craig Ranch.

Scheffler and Im are the only two top-20 ranked players at The CJ Cup Byron Nelson this year. World No.37 Byeong Hun An, No.38 Tom Kim, No.39 Sam Burns are some other big names to watch at the contest. Notably, event’s reigning champion and World No.45 golfer Taylor Pendrith also returns to defend his title.

The CJ Cup Byron Nelson 2025 field rankings

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Listed below is the top-50 ranked players at The CJ Cup Byron Nelson by their Official World Golf Rankings:

1 - Scottie Scheffler
20 - Sungjae Im
37 - Byeong Hun An
38 - Tom Kim
39 - Sam Burns
45 - Taylor Pendrith
47 - Stephan Jaeger
48 - Nick Dunlap

Listed below is the complete field for The CJ Cup Byron Nelson outing in Texas:

Anders Albertson
Byeong Hun An
Mason Andersen
Aaron Baddeley
Zac Blair
Jacob Bridgeman
Blades Brown
Hayden Buckley
Sam Burns
Brian Campbell
Rafael Campos
Frankie Capan III
Ricky Castillo
Will Chandler
Seungbin Choi
Eric Cole
Trevor Cone
Pierceson Coody
Vince Covello
Quade Cummins
Joel Dahmen
Cam Davis
Cristobal Del Solar
Taylor Dickson
Nick Dunlap
Nico Echavarria
Austin Eckroat
Harrison Endycott
Patrick Fishburn
Ryan Fox
Brice Garnett
Ryan Gerard
Doug Ghim
Noah Goodwin
Will Gordon
Chris Gotterup
Ben Griffin
Lanto Griffin
Emiliano Grillo
Scott Gutschewski
Harry Hall
Nick Hardy
Harry Higgs
Joe Highsmith
Ryo Hisatsune
Lee Hodges
Rico Hoey
Charley Hoffman
Nicolai Højgaard
Rasmus Højgaard
Rikuya Hoshino
Beau Hossler
Mark Hubbard
Mackenzie Hughes
Sungjae Im
Stephan Jaeger
Zach Johnson
Takumi Kanaya
Sung Kang
Noah Kent
Chan Kim
Kris Kim
S.H. Kim
Si Woo Kim
Tom Kim
Kevin Kisner
Kurt Kitayama
Patton Kizzire
Jake Knapp
Philip Knowles
Ben Kohles
Matt Kuchar
Christo Lamprecht
Nate Lashley
David Lipsky
Luke List
Justin Lower
Peter Malnati
Matteo Manassero
Ben Martin
Brandon Matthews
Matt McCarty
Max McGreevy
Mac Meissner
Keith Mitchell
Francesco Molinari
Taylor Moore
Tommy Morrison
William Mouw
Trey Mullinax
Niklas Norgaard
Henrik Norlander
Thorbjørn Olesen
Kaito Onishi
John Pak
Ryan Palmer
Jeremy Paul
Taylor Pendrith
Victor Perez
Paul Peterson
Chandler Phillips
Aldrich Potgieter
Seamus Power
Andrew Putnam
Chad Ramey
Gabe Reynolds
Matthew Riedel
Davis Riley
Patrick Rodgers
Thomas Rosenmueller
Kevin Roy
Antoine Rozner
Sam Ryder
Isaiah Salinda
Scottie Scheffler
Adam Schenk
Matti Schmid
Greyson Sigg
Ben Silverman
Webb Simpson
David Skinns
Alex Smalley
Brandt Snedeker
Jordan Spieth
Hayden Springer
Sam Stevens
Jackson Suber
Adam Svensson
Jesper Svensson
Michael Thorbjornsen
Braden Thornberry
Alejandro Tosti
Sami Valimaki
Erik van Rooyen
Jhonattan Vegas
Kevin Velo
Kris Ventura
Karl Vilips
Camilo Villegas
Danny Walker
Matt Wallace
Paul Waring
Vince Whaley
Tim Widing
Gary Woodland
Dylan Wu
Norman Xiong
Carson Young
Kevin Yu
Will Zalatoris

More details on the PGA Tour’s The CJ Cup Byron Nelson will be updated as the event progresses.

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Vishnu is a Golf journalist at Sportskeeda. He completed his post-graduation diploma in Print Media Journalism. Before joining Sportskeeda, he worked as an entertainment writer at Zee5 and a news writer at Republic.

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