Leaderboard after Rd. 3
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Steven Alker, 66-65—131 (-11)
Charles Schwab Cup standings – Start: 1st / Projected: 1st
- Records a 6-under 65 in the second round to take the lead in his fifth appearance at Phoenix Country Club. In his first four appearances at this event, he finished 2nd (2021), 3rd (2022), Won (2023) and T2 (2024).
- The 54-year-old seeks his second win at the Charles Schwab Cup Championship and 11th overall win on the PGA TOUR Champions (98th start).
- Seeks his third win of the 2025 season (23rd start)
- Previous wins: Cologuard Classic, Simmons Bank Championship
- Looks to become the fourth three-time winner of the 2025 season on PGA TOUR Champions, joining Miguel Angel Jiménez (4), Angel Cabrera (3) and Steve Allan (3).
- Seeks his third Charles Schwab Cup in the last four years
- Previous Charles Schwab Cups for Alker: 2022, 2024
- Would become the second player in PGA TOUR Champions history to win three or more Charles Schwab Cups, joining Bernhard Langer (6)
- 18-hole leader Stewart Cink (2nd) carded 68 and sits at 10-under. He seeks his third win of the 2025 season (21st) start after capturing the Insperity Invitational and The Ally Challenge.
- Rookie Tommy Gainey (3rd) carded 67 despite making double bogey on the par-4 16th. He seeks his second win in his last five starts after capturing the Constellation FURYK & FRIENDS last month.
- Miguel Angel Jiménez (T4) recorded five birdies and one eagle en route to a 6-under 65.
- Moved 11 spots on the leaderboard after Thursday’s first-round 2-under 69.
- Has notched 14 top-10 finishes in 23 starts this season.
- Bernhard Langer (T7), at age 68, shot his age or better for the 34th time with 6-under 67 in today’s second round, making it the 11th time he has shot his age or better this season.
- Last shot his age or better in the second round of the 2025 Dominion Energy Charity Classic with 5-under 67.
- Shot his age three times at last year’s Charles Schwab Cup Championship (R2, R3, R4) en route to victory.
Race for the Charles Schwab Cup
The Charles Schwab Cup offers $2.1 million in prize money to the top-5 finishers at season’s end. The prize money will be distributed in lump sum deposits into a Schwab brokerage account to be invested into a Schwab Managed Portfolio (SMP), if eligible. The winner of the season-long Charles Schwab Cup will be awarded $1 million and the 2nd–5th place finishers will receive prize money of $500,000, $300,000, $200,000, and $100,000, respectively.
