PGA Tour Brunch | WM Phoenix Open
Second Round Coverage of the 2026 WM Phoenix Open | Scottsdale
Note: Suspension: Yesterday, the first round was suspended due to darkness at 6:06 pm (local). Play is scheduled to resume this morning at 8:15am (local) with nine players yet to complete their round. Today’s second round will begin as scheduled at 7:20am (local)/9:20am ET.
By TERRY LYONS, Editor-in-Chief Digital Sports Desk
SCOTTSDALE - Chris Gotterup (1st/-8) carded a bogey-free (63), tying his second-lowest round on TOUR with his best best a 61/R2/2025 Scottish Genesis Open/Won).
Upon completion of the first round, this will mark his first 18-hole lead/co-lead on TOUR in his 71st career start. Gotterup leads the field in Strokes Gained: Approach the Green (3.471) and ranks third in Strokes Gained: Tee to Green (5.096).
He’s making his third career appearance in the WM Phoenix Open after missing the cut in both 2024 and 2025. That means? He’s hot.
Matt Fitzpatrick (2nd/-6) opened the first round with a 7-under 29 on Nos. 10-18, tying the back-nine scoring record at TPC Scottsdale. Only seven players previously recorded a 29 on the back nine, most recently Scottie Scheffler in 2022 (R3) who went on to win the event; played his first 16 holes bogey free before bogeying Nos. 8 and 9.
Michael Thorbjornsen (T3/-5) sits inside the Top Five after 18 holes for the fifth time in his career and first time since the 2025 Sanderson Farms Championship when he finished T29). In 39 starts on TOUR as a professional, the 24-year-old owns eight Top 10 finishes, highlighted by a pair of T2s (2024 John Deere Classic, 2025 Corales Puntacana Championship).
Making his second appearance in the WM Phoenix Open after finishing T36 in 2025, Denmark’s Nicolai Højgaard (T3/-5) opened with a bogey-free (66) and sits inside the Top Five after 18 holes for the second consecutive year at TPC Scottsdale.
In his WM Phoenix Open debut, Pierceson Coody (T3/-5) carded a first-round (66). Coody, who finished T2 at last week’s Farmers Insurance Open, is one of three players to finish inside the Top 25 in each of the first three events of the 2026 season. The others? (Ryan Gerard, Si Woo Kim).
WM Phoenix Open | Partial 18 Hole Leaderboard
1 Chris Gotterup 63 (-8)
2 Matt Fitzpatrick 65 (-6)
T3 Michael Thorbjornsen 66 (-5)
Nicolai Højgaard 66 (-5)
Pierceson Coody 66 (-5)
Sam Stevens 66 (-5)
Full Leaderboard: (link)
WM Phoenix Open | Tournament Facts
COURSE: TPC Scottsdale, Arizona (Stadium Course)
YARDS/PAR: 7,261 yards/Par 71
OVERVIEW: (link)
ARCHITECTS: Tom Weiskopf /Jay Morrish
PRIZE Money - Purse: $9,600,000/$1,728,000
DEFENDING CHAMPION: Thomas Detry
PAST RESULTS: (link)
FEDEx CUP Points to Winner: 500
SOCIAL MEDIA: #PGATour #FedExCup @WMPhoenixOpen
📺 How to Watch - Friday, February 6, 2026
(All Times Eastern)
9:15 - 7:30pm - ESPN+ (Streaming) and ESPN Betcast (Four Live Streams by ESPN+)
2:00pm - 8:00pm - PGA Tour Radio on Sirius XM and Online
3:30pm - 7:30pm - Golf Channel and Peacock Network
How to Watch: (PGATourCom)
WM Phoenix Open | Basics
The Tee Times at TPC Scottsdale will run from 9:20am (ET) to 3:50pm (ET) today.
Weather: Mostly Sunny and highs of 77 degrees. Winds at 5-7 mph. No chance of rain.
Tournament Web Site: (link)
FedEx Cup Info: (link)
PGA Tour Brunch will post at 9:00am (ET) on Friday
Last Week’s Results: (link)
WM Phoenix Open | Field, Updates and Tee Times
The Field: (link)
Updates:
Monday, February 2
Kevin Yu (WD), Alejandro Tosti (IN)
Wednesday, February 4
J.J. Spaun (WD), Marcelo Rozo (IN)
Tee Times: (link)
What They’re Saying
Gotterup “Got” Started (PGATourCom)
Uncharacteristic “73” for Scottie (PGATourCom)
How to Watch Thursday (PGATourCom)
CBS Sports HQ Coverage (CBSSportsCom)
On This Day in Golf History
February 6, 1994 - Forty-six years old and mostly retired, Johnny Miller won the AT&T National Pro-Am at Pebble Beach for his 25th and final PGA Tour victory. Miller’s title came with a one-shot lead over Tom Watson, Jeff Maggert, Corey Pavinand Kirk Triplett. The win came in Miller’s fifth event over the prior four years. (Courtesy of Randy Walker), Author of On This Day in Golf History, available via Amazon.com and by clicking HERE
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