PGA Tour Brunch | John Deere Preview
PGA Tour Brunch Previews the 2025 John Deere Classic | Silvis
SILVIS - The John Deere Classic is - historically - PGA Tour Light and a signal that we’re all coming down the home stretch towards the final major (The Open) and the FedEx Cup Playoffs. It’s the 30th of 36 FedExCup regular season events.
John Deere is the PGA TOUR’s second-longest running title sponsor (1998), behind only AT&T (1986).
Among the notable players in the field on the Top 70 (for playoff eligibility) bubble include Chris Kirk (No. 67), Davis Thompson (No. 70), Rickie Fowler (No. 72), and Karl Vilips (No. 73).
The top-three players in the World Amateur Golf Ranking are in the field on sponsor exemptions: Jackson Koivun (No. 1), University of Virginia rising senior and two-time First Team All-American Ben James (No. 2) and Ole Miss rising senior and NCAA individual champion Michael La Sasso (No. 3); James has made two cuts in eight career PGA TOUR starts (best: T33/2025 Valero Texas Open), while La Sasso will make his third career TOUR start (MC/2025 U.S. Open, MC/2025 Rocket Classic).
The John Deere Classic | Tournament Facts
COURSE: TPC Deere Run, Silvis, IL
YARDS/PAR: 7,289 yards/Par 71
ARCHITECTS: D.A. Weibring and Chris Gray
PRIZE Money - Purse/Winner’s Share: $8,400,000/$1,512,000
DEFENDING CHAMPION: Davis Thompson
OVERVIEW: (PGATourCom)
PAST RESULTS: (link)
FEDEx CUP Points to Winner: 500
SOCIAL MEDIA: #PGATour #FedExCup @JDCLASSIC @JohnDeere
How to Watch: In case of changes, visit: (PGATourCom)
John Deere | The Basics
The Tee Times at the John Deere start on Thursday at 7:45am (ET) and continue to 3:17pm (ET).
Weather: – Thursday’s forecast is for mostly sunny skies but a 15% chance of rain. High to reach 91-degrees. Winds at 10 mph.
Tournament Web Site: (link)
FedEx Cup Standings: (link)
PGA Tour Brunch will post at 7:00am (ET) Thursday.
John Deere - Field, Update and Tee Times:
The Field: (link)
Updates:
Saturday, June 28
Norman Xiong WD / Zac Blair IN
Danny Walker WD / Matt NeSmith IN
Sunday, June 29
Aaron Baddeley WD / James Hahn IN
Monday, June 30
Davis Riley WD / Austin Cook IN
Tee Times: (link)
The John Deere Classic | Tournament Odds
Source: Betting Hero
Ben Griffin +1600
Jason Day +2200
Denny McCarthy +2800
Si Woo Kim +3000
J.T. Poston +3300
Sungjae Im +3500
Luke Clanton +3500
Davis Thompson +3500
Michael Thorbjornsen +3500
Jake Knapp +3500
Chris Kirk +3500
Aldrich Potgieter +4000
Sam Stevens +4000
Kevin Yu +4000
Thorbjørn Olesen +4000
Pierceson Coody +4000
Chris Gotterup +4000
Bud Cauley +4000
Lucas Glover +4500
Ryan Gerard +4500
Alex Smalley +4500
Michael Kim +4500
Keith Mitchell +5000
Mark Hubbard +5000
Kurt Kitayama +5500
Rickie Fowler +5500
Nico Echavarria +6000
Stephan Jaeger +6000
Andrew Putnam +6500
Taylor Moore +7000
Victor Perez +7000
Kevin Roy +7000
Vince Whaley +7000
Jacob Bridgeman +7000
Thriston Lawrence +7000
Emiliano Grillo +7000
Ryo Hisatsune +7500
Christiaan Bezuidenhout +7500
Tom Kim +7500
Jesper Svensson +7500
Lee Hodges +8000
Cameron Champ +8000
Matt McCarty +8000
Patrick Rodgers +8000
Rico Hoey +8000
Eric Cole +8000
Seamus Power +9000
Isaiah Salinda +10000
Doug Ghim +11000
Jackson Suber +11000
Max McGreevy +11000
Chandler Phillips +11000
Austin Eckroat +11000
Sam Ryder +11000
Sami Valimaki +11000
Max Homa +11000
Ricky Castillo +11000
Quade Cummins +12000
Joseph Bramlett +12000
Zach Johnson +12000
Beau Hossler +12000
Patrick Fishburn +12000
Steven Fisk +12000
Matt Kuchar +12000
Davis Riley +12000
Henrik Norlander +12000
Garrick Higgo +15000
Joe Highsmith +15000
Trey Mullinax +15000
Chan Kim +15000
What They’re Saying
Power Rankings for the 2025 John Deere Classic (PGATourCom)
Ben Griffin: Under radar at the John Deere (PGATourCom)
How to Watch the John Deere Classic (PGATourCom)
FedEx Cup Standings (PGATourCom)
Sports Gambling, Daily Fantasy & Industry News
Best Bets for The John Deere Classic - (Action Net)
Expert Picks for John Deere - (PGATourCom)
Sleeper Picks for John Deere - (PGATourCom)
On This Day in Golf History
July 2, 2000 - Notah Begay, then best known as the Stanford teammate of Tiger Woods, won a second consecutive event on the PGA Tour with his victory at the Greater Hartford Open. Begay also won the previous week at the St. Jude Classic in Memphis. - Courtesy of Randy Walker, Author of On This Day in Golf History, available via Amazon.com and by clicking HERE
Parting Putt
Every shot from last weekend’s Playoff:
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