The two-time U.S. Open champ is teeing it up at the VidantaWorld Mexico Open, where he'll be without his regular caddie who is at a wedding. But Clark is more focused on another upcoming wedding: his brother's. And with his younger brother Brendan filling in on his bag, it's a chance for Big Bro to do him a solid. "I would love for my brother with his wedding coming up a great week so I can give him a nice check to help pay for the wedding and honeymoon," Clark told reporters on Wednesday. And considering Clark is the clear favorite to win the PGA Tour fall event, there's a good chance Brendan walks away with a nice payday as well. In any event, here are Golf Digest's expert picks for this week's tournament.

The 15-time major champ has accomplished just about everything possible in golf, but USGA Chief Championships Officer John Bodenhamer expects him to try to add at least one more notch on his resume. That would be the U.S. Senior Open, which would break Woods from a tie with Bobby Jones for the most USGA championships won with nine. As Bodenhamer explains, it would also join Woods with Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer as the only golfers to win the U.S. Amateur, U.S. Open and U.S. Senior Open—and that it would make Woods the only player to have won those three titles plus the U.S. Junior Amateur. "It's important to Tiger, and I would expect him to be here at Crooked Stick in 2028," Bodenhamer says in an interview with WISH-TV News in Indiana. Of course, the 50-year-old Woods could also make his U.S. Senior Open debut next summer at Oak Tree National. 

In one of the more memorable breaks that we’ve ever seen, Campbell hit a terrible drive slice that was headed into no man’s land on the second hole of his playoff with Aldrich Potgeiter in the VidantaWorld Mexico Open. But the ball kicked off a tree and into the middle of the fairway. From there, the previously winless pro hit his approach to four feet, and his birdie earned him the $1.26 million first prize.

“Something I'll never forget,” Campbell said this week as he prepared to defend his title outside of Puerto Vallarta. “And then hitting a wedge shot tight and hearing the crowd go crazy there, two memories. And then being taken back to the scene of the crime and toasting the tree was definitely a memory."

The Mexico win last year came in February, while this year’s event was switched to the Fall Series. Campbell, 33, went on in 2025 to also win the John Deere Classic and make the playoffs for the first time. But he’s also fortunate to be able to defend in Mexico after having surgery in August to remove a cyst in his shoulder that bothered him most of the season. He’s only made nine cuts this season and missed the weekend in two of his last nine starts.

Whatever happens this week will hardly matter in big picture of life: Campbell is getting married soon after he gets home.

ESPN and TMRW Sports announced the upcoming schedule for the indoor simulator league, TGL, and Woods’ Jupiter Links Golf Club is part of an opening day doubleheader. Of course, there’s no guarantee that Woods will play, but with reports of him actively practicing, it seems very possible he’d compete in an event that requires little walking. Spots are still being held open for him in both the Tiger-hosted Hero World Challenge (Dec. 3-6) and family competition PNC Championship (Dec. 19-20).

The Sunday opening day of TGL’s third season—which falls in Week 16 of the NFL season—will be televised by ABC, Jupiter plays reigning champ Los Angeles Golf Club at 3 p.m. ET in a rematch of this year’s final. The first match, at 1 p.m., features Rory McIlroy’s Boston Common Golf vs. Brooks Koepka’s first-year Motor City Golf Club.

In all, there will be 14 regular-season matches at SoFi Center, with the top three teams from a total of seven automatically reaching the playoffs, which will be held March 1-23. The fourth team will be determined by a play-in match. In the release, the companies said the schedule “includes a broader mix of weekend, daytime and earlier primetime windows that expand accessibility, particularly for younger viewers, and offer favorable times for international audiences.”

the first of two playoff events that cap its 2026 season. The top 70 players off the Race to Dubai points list qualify for the event, but 10 of those players are skipping it, including several recent European Ryder Cup players: Matt Fitzpatrick, Shane Lowry, Bob MacIntyre, Justin Rose and Ludvig Aberg. Also not on the entry list are reigning Open champion Ryan Fox and Alex Fitzpatrick. Neither the tour or the players themselves have given reasons for missing the event, although last month Matt Fitzpatrick and MacIntyre voiced concerns about playing this tournament and the season-ending DP World Tour Championship in the Middle East given the ongoing political conflict. The decision by MacIntyre (56th in the Race to Dubai) and Rose (69th) means that they are forgoing the chance to move into the top 50 on the points list and qualify for the Tour Championship in Dubai. To fill the 70-player field in Abu Dhabi, the DP World Tour reached down to the next 10 players off the RTD points list.

After a contentious couple weeks in the court room about the future of the Washington D.C. public course, U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes issued an injunction that prevents the government from taking down more trees or doing any other modifications while the lawsuit against Trump’s plans is active. In the injunction Reyes did not hide her displeasure with the administration, expressing indignation regarding the government’s assertion “not to believe the sitting President” and overlook Trump’s remarks and social-media posts about what he wants to do at East Potomac. “This started as a case about golf. That good walk spoiled. But it has become much more,” Reyes wrote. “It now forces the Court to reconcile assertions by President Donald J. Trump with the sworn testimony of multiple government employees and the argument of senior Department of Justice attorneys.” Read Golf Digest’s longform about the East Potomac controversy here.