2026 RSM Classic Field: Koepka, Åberg, Harman Headline

The 2026 RSM Classic field is set, and Brooks Koepka, Ludvig Åberg, and Brian Harman are the names on top of it. Defending champion Sami Valimaki is back too, along with every other RSM winner since 2022, which makes this a deeper field than the last week of the PGA Tour season usually gets.

The tournament runs November 19 to 22 at Sea Island Golf Club on St. Simons Island, Georgia. It is the final FedExCup Fall event, so for most of these players the trophy is the second prize. The first is a job for 2027.

Who is in the 2026 RSM Classic field

Koepka, a five-time major champion, is the biggest name. Åberg is the best recent Sea Island player in it, and Harman is the local who lives down the road. Around them are two more U.S. Open winners in Webb Simpson and Lucas Glover, eight past RSM champions, and a group of 2026 winners led by 19-year-old Blades Brown.

The field is 156 players. The PGA Tour’s list showed 139 names as of Friday, November 13, after the commitment deadline passed that afternoon, so the last spots are still being filled and the sheet can change before Thursday. Players can also withdraw at any time.

The notable names below come from the PGA Tour’s field list as of Friday, November 13, 2026, and each one also appears in the Florida Times-Union’s field report or the tournament’s own release.

Player	Why he matters this week
Brooks Koepka	Five-time major champion and the headliner
Ludvig Åberg	2023 RSM champion and the tournament record holder
Sami Valimaki	Defending champion
Brian Harman	2023 Open champion and a Sea Island resident
Maverick McNealy	2024 RSM champion
Webb Simpson	2012 U.S. Open champion
Lucas Glover	2009 U.S. Open champion
Blades Brown	Won the World Wide Technology Championship at 19 on November 8
Jackson Koivun	A 21-year-old who already has a 2026 PGA Tour win

Brown is the one to watch if you like a story. He won the World Wide Technology Championship in a playoff on November 8, and The Brunswick News counts him among the Sea Island players in the field, a group that also includes Harman, Harris English, Keith Mitchell, J.T. Poston, Davis Thompson, Andrew Novak, and Patton Kizzire. Home games do not come much more literal than that.

The other 2026 winners in the field include Michael Brennan, Austin Smotherman, Bud Cauley, Ricky Castillo, and Steven Fisk. Matt Kuchar and Billy Horschel are in as well.

Every RSM Classic winner since 2022 is back

Eight past champions are on the PGA Tour’s field list for the 2026 RSM Classic as of Friday: Valimaki, McNealy, Åberg, Adam Svensson, Tyler Duncan, Mackenzie Hughes, Kevin Kisner, and Chris Kirk, whose 2013 win is the oldest of the group. The last four winners are all here, and what they shot tells you what kind of week this is.

The table shows the last four RSM Classic winners and their winning scores, per the tournament’s history page and the PGA Tour, all four of whom are in the 2026 field.

Year	Winner	Score	Margin
2025	Sami Valimaki	259 (23 under)	1 shot
2024	Maverick McNealy	266 (16 under)	1 shot
2023	Ludvig Åberg	253 (29 under)	4 shots
2022	Adam Svensson	263 (19 under)	2 shots

That works out to an average winning score of about 22 under par across the last four RSM Classics. Åberg’s 253 in 2023 is still the tournament record. Valimaki’s win in 2025 made him the first player from Finland to win on the PGA Tour, and he got there by one shot over Max McGreevy.

Who is not playing the 2026 RSM Classic

The top of the world ranking is not at Sea Island. Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy are not on the PGA Tour’s field list, and that is normal for this week. Only players who finished the FedExCup Playoffs ranked 51st or lower can earn points in the Fall, so the stars who locked up everything in the Playoffs have no reason to be here.

That is what makes Åberg and Koepka stand out. Åberg is coming back to the course where he set the scoring record, and Koepka is playing the RSM for the first time, per the Florida Times-Union. Nobody has to show up for this one. They chose to.

For the rest of the field, the math is blunt. The top 100 in the FedExCup standings after Sunday keep full PGA Tour cards for 2027. Nos. 51 to 60 make the Aon Next 10 and get into the first two Signature Events of next season, at Pebble Beach and Riviera. Everything else is conditional status or worse.

2026 RSM Classic betting and DFS angle

Outright prices for the 2026 RSM Classic had not posted at the books we track as of Saturday morning, November 14, so there is no number to react to yet. Expect Åberg at the top when they do. Our read is that he deserves it, and that the price will still be short in a 156-player field on a course where almost anyone can go low.

The format matters here. Everybody plays one round on the Seaside Course, a par 70, and one on the Plantation Course, a par 72, on Thursday and Friday. After the 36-hole cut, both weekend rounds are on Seaside. A 66 on a par 70 and a 66 on a par 72 are not the same round, so check which course a first-round score came on before you chase it live.

The scores in the table say the rest. A winner at 22 under on average is a birdie contest, and we would weight approach play and putting ahead of distance off the tee in one. It is the kind of week that suits a Harman or a Kirk, and a bomber’s price deserves a second look. If you want to build that kind of weighting yourself, here is how the Rabbit Hole model builder works, and our guide to which stats to weigh for a pick covers the thinking behind it.

For DFS, the two-course rotation and a full 156-player field make the cut harder to get six players through than a normal week. Koepka and Åberg will carry the ownership. The bubble players are the interesting part, because a guy sitting 105th is playing every shot like it matters, and some of them will be cheap. Newer to it? Start with how DraftKings golf scoring and lineups work.

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RSM Classic FAQ

How much is the 2026 RSM Classic purse?

The 2026 RSM Classic purse is 7.4 million dollars, per the PGA Tour. At the Tour’s standard 18 percent, the winner’s share works out to 1,332,000 dollars, and the win is worth 500 FedExCup points, which is enough to move almost anyone on the bubble inside the top 100.

Is the RSM Classic the last PGA Tour event of 2026?

Yes. The 2026 RSM Classic is the final event of the PGA Tour season and of the FedExCup Fall, so the standings that decide 2027 cards are final when it ends on Sunday, November 22.

Who hosts the RSM Classic?

Davis Love III is the tournament host, and the event benefits the Davis Love Foundation. It has been played at Sea Island Golf Club since it started in 2010.

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