The Korn Ferry Tour season continues with the Price Cutter Charity Championship presented by Hiland Dairy Foods, the 18th event of the Tour’s 26-event season.

Highland Springs Country Club in Springfield, Missouri, has hosted every iteration of the Price Cutter Charity Championship, first played in 1990. This week marks the 36th playing of the Price Cutter Charity Championship.

The Price Cutter Charity Championship is one of four tournaments on the 2025 Korn Ferry Tour schedule to be played every season since the Tour's inaugural 1990 season.

• The other three events with such distinction are the Visit Knoxville Open, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Wichita Open and Albertsons Boise Open presented by Chevron.
• Only the Price Cutter Charity Championship, Wichita Open (already contested) and Albertsons Boise Open are set to mark their 36th playing this year, as the Visit Knoxville Open was only held once (2021) amid the 2020-21 combined season.

PGA TOUR winner Matt McCarty earned the first of his three victories last season at the Price Cutter Charity Championship. Declared #TOURBound following the win, McCarty went on to secure the Three-Victory Promotion just five weeks later with additional titles at the Pinnacle Bank Championship presented by Woodhouse and the Albertsons Boise Open presented by Chevron.

Neal Shipley became the second two-time winner this season, joining Austin Smotherman, after claiming last week’s title at The Ascendant presented by Blue. While Smotherman is not in the field this week, both players remain in pursuit of the Three-Victory Promotion, which would earn them an immediate promotion to the PGA TOUR.

Tournament storylines

• The field includes nine PGA TOUR winners with 17 career victories, highlighted by Ben Crane with five career TOUR victories.
• The field features 44 Korn Ferry Tour winners who have combined for 62 career victories, led by four-time Korn Ferry Tour winner Robby Shelton.
• Six players in this week’s field are in the top 200 of the Official World Golf Ranking:
  • Johnny Keefer (No. 81)
  • Neal Shipley (No. 94)
  • S.H. Kim (No. 141)
  • Kensei Hirata (No. 144)
  • Hank Lebioda (No. 159)
  • Trace Crowe (No. 186)

• Two-time Korn Ferry Tour winner David Kocher, the 2022 champion of the Price Cutter Charity Championship, is the only past winner in this week’s field.
• Columbia, Missouri, native Ross Steelman is one of four players in this week’s field with ties to the state of Missouri.
  • Steelman is coming off a T4 finish at last week’s The Ascendant presented by Blue, marking the second-highest finish of his Korn Ferry Tour career.
  • He held a three-stroke lead entering the final round and ultimately earned his fifth top-10 of the season, moving up to No. 24 on the Korn Ferry Tour Points List.
• Springfield, Missouri, natives Nick Sheppard and Nate Angus join Steelman as Missouri representatives in this week’s field.
  • Sheppard will make his Korn Ferry Tour debut.
  • Angus is set for his second career start on Tour and first since the 2023 Price Cutter Charity Championship.
• Wildwood resident Chris Naegel, who earned a spot in the field as an open qualifier, will make his first start of the 2025 season.
  • Naegel finished No. 101 on the 2024 Korn Ferry Tour Points List, just one spot shy of retaining conditional membership for the current season.

Tournament Facts

• Course: Highland Springs Country Club (Springfield, Missouri)
  • Years hosted: 1990-present
• Field: 156 players
• Scoring records:
  • 18-hole: 60, Tyler Williamson (2004, final round)
  • 72-hole: 260, David Kocher (2022)
• Defending champion: Matt McCarty
• Purse: $1,000,000 ($180,000/winner)