After an exciting week in Jackson, Mississippi, the PGA Tour departs for its annual international tournament in the Land of the Rising Sun. Led by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw’s redesign, the 2025 Bay Current Classic will be held for the first time ever, with a total of 78 players starting at Yokohama Country Club, including 60 from the PGA Tour, nine from the Japan Golf Tour, and nine exempt players.
With both the East and West Course holes, Yokohama Country Club’s par 71 is a standard tree-lined golf course commonly found in Japan, giving players a lot to think about from the tee. With U.S. Ryder Cup members Xander Schauffele and Collin Morikawa traveling overseas, this should be good news for several players with ties to the country.
The world No. 4 will look to continue the momentum from his performance in the Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black, which gave the Red, White and Blue a 3-1-0 record. Schauffele, who is hitting the ball better by the week as he continues to search for the form from 2024, when he won several majors, has a golden opportunity to step down from Schnee in the same country where he missed out on gold at the Olympics two years ago.
Japan was kind to Schauffele and Morikawa. Morikawa, winner of the ZOZO Championship two years ago and a two-time major champion, is aiming to return to the winner’s circle for the first time since. Despite having a slump in 2025 by his standards, the reliable right-hander will be able to switch on before the holidays and deliver another impressive performance in Japan.
Other Ryder Cup participants, including Rasmus Højgaard and vice-captains Alex Nolen and Gary Woodland, will also be in attendance at the tournament as Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama targets another title on home soil. Windham Clark, Lee Min-woo, Im Sung-jae, Max Homa and recent French Open champion Michael Kim all set sail for what should be a hotly contested tournament in the middle of the FedEx Cup fall.
2025 Bay Current Classic Schedule
date: October 9th to 12th
position: Yokohama Country Club — Yokohama, Japan
Par: 71 | Yardage: 7,315
wallet: 8 million dollars
2025 Bay Current Classic Field, Odds
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- Xander Schauffele (10-1)
- Collin Morikawa (16-1): The 2025 season is not what Morikawa envisioned, but that could change over the course of 72 holes. Morikawa, who is still ranked eighth in the Official World Golf Rankings, should relish the opportunity in front of him, given his acumen for tight, tree-lined golf courses. Although his play at the Ryder Cup was still lackluster, Morikawa will likely be hitting a lot of fairways and greens in the future, so if his putter cooperates, Morikawa will be satisfied.
- Hideki Matsuyama (18-1): Matsuyama, who won this tournament in 2021, hopes to bring the same energy this week and aim for his first top-10 finish since the first week of the calendar year. Matsuyama’s performance at Kapalua, which also served as his win at Sentry, has yet to be replicated by the methodical right-hander. His iron play seemed to play a role in his bid for a T13 finish at the BMW PGA Championship, but his driver remains a bit of a mystery. He’ll need to iron that out this week to give the home crowd something to cheer about.
- Chris Gotterup (20-1)
- Alex (20-1): Noren, one of the hottest players in the world right now, enters the Bay Current Classic having won two of the past three tournaments. The Swede emerged from the playoffs at Wentworth with his second career BMW PGA Championship title on the line, brimming with confidence as his iron play turned the corner to match the effectiveness he always had on the greens.
- Rasmus Heugaard (22-1): Luke Donald didn’t run him often at Bethpage Black, but Hoygard is running with the best team at the moment. The Dane didn’t take any time off after his Ryder Cup debut and came into the Sanderson Farms Championship needing a quality match to earn his place on the PGA Tour. If you listen, you’ll hear that the big-hitting right-hander picked up a T3 result, moving him up to No. 75 in the FedEx Cup standings. He now has three podium finishes in the last five tournaments around the world.
- Kurt Kitayama (22-1)
- Similarly (25)
- Kevin Yu (28-1)
- Mino Wei Lee (30-1): A missed cut at the Sanderson Farms Championship ended the Australian’s run of form. After finishing T11 at the BMW PGA Championship, Lee went on to race at Roland Garros, finishing with a T5. He’s 57th in the Aon Next 10 (51st-60th in the FedEx Cup standings), in the year-end top 50 in the OWGR cutoff for major championship invitations, and currently ranked 43rd in the world, he has a lot to play for this week and the rest of the season.
