Defending champion Nick Dunlap, who won the 2024 American Express as a PGA Tour rookie, will try to become the first back-to-back winner of the event since Johnny Miller in 1975-76.

For the first time since 2015, Xander Schauffele will not be playing in his hometown event, the 2025 Farmers Insurance Open. The San Diego native's name was not among those listed in the field as announced by the PGA Tour on Friday evening.

The major championship slate is wiped clean as the calendar flips to the new year and players eye four opportunities to claim golf immortality in 2025. The 2024 major championship results were rather predictable with Scottie Scheffler securing his second green jacket in the last three years and Bryson DeChambeau raising another U.

Xander Schauffele, the world's number two ranked player, surprisingly withdrew from The American Express on Monday.

LA QUINTA, Calif. -- PGA and British Open champion Xander Schauffele withdrew from the American Express on Monday for medical reasons, the second highly ranked player who had to pull out of the third PGA Tour event of the season.

Reigning PGA Championship winner and Champion Golfer of the Year Xander Schauffele withdrew ... to tee it up in 2025. Without Schauffele and Scheffler, Wyndham Clark, Patrick Cantlay, Justin ...

Xander Schauffele is withdrawing from The American Express this week in the California desert. That makes two of the top players in the world ranking to have withdrawn in the last two weeks.

⛳️ JUST IN: Xander Schauffele has withdrawn from the AMEX ... The highest ranked player now in the field is Wyndham Clark, who is currently 7th in the Official World Golf Rankings (OWGR).

Xander Schauffele, the world’s No. 2-ranked player ... He did not enter last week’s Sony Open. That leaves No. 7 Wyndham Clark as the top-ranked player in the field this week at the Pete ...

The American Express field took another major hit on Monday evening. Following the withdrawal of world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, who is still recovering from a right-hand injury, No. 2 Xander Schauffele was among the latest WDs from the pro-am tournament in La Quinta,

The American Express field features eight of the world’s top 25-ranked golfers but will miss out on Nos. 1 and 2 after each withdrew.

Xander Schauffele, the No. 2 player in the world ... eight of the top 25 players in the Official World Golf Ranking. Wyndham Clark, the 2023 U.S. Open winner, is now the highest-ranked player ...