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Rory McIlroy and five other top-ranked players are skipping the PGA Tour's Cadillac Championship at Trump National Doral, marking the event's return after a decade. The tournament features a limited field of 72 players with guaranteed prize money for all participants.
As the PGA Tour returns to Trump National Doral after a decade-long break from playing at the historic course, some notable big names are missing from this weekās field.
Back-to-back Masters champion Rory McIlroy will be absent, and five of the top 15-ranked players in the Official World Golf Rankings, and three of the top 10, wonāt be teeing it up at the Cadillac Championship, which begins Thursday and is one of eight $20 million signature events on the PGA Tourās 2026 schedule.
Hereās who will be sitting this one out:
As a signature event, the Cadillac Championship has a limited field of just 72 players, and no 36-hole cut, meaning all players are guaranteed to receive at least some prize money, ranging from $3.6 million for the winner to $36,000 for last place.
This marks the largest absence of top players at a signature event so far this year.
The RBC Heritage earlier this month was missing three of the top 15-ranked players, including McIlroy, Justin Rose, and Hideki Matsuyama. The AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and Genesis Invitational each had just one top 15 player missing, but all players inside the top 10.
The Arnold Palmer Invitational in March had the entire top 15.
The contingent of stars sitting out this week is not too surprising, since the Cadillac Championship is the first of a busy, high-stakes three-week stretch on the PGA Tour.
Next week is the Truist Championship in Charlotteāalso a signature eventāfollowed by the second major championship of the year, the PGA Championship in Philadelphia starting on May 14.
While McIlroy isnāt in the field this week, he is expected to play next week in Charlotte, where he has won four previous times. However, No. 1-ranked Scottie Scheffler is expected to skip the Truist Championship as heās committed to playing the week following the PGA Championship at the CJ Cup Byron Nelson in Texas, where heāll defend his 2025 tournament title.
The Cadillac Championship is a new event this year, taking the spot on the calendar previously held by the Mexico Open.
The PGA Tour last played at Doral in 2016, when Trumpās South Florida course hosted the WGC-Cadillac Championship, which was part of a series of the former World Golf Championships that offered elevated purses for elite player fields (the WGCs ceased operations after 2021).
Rory McIlroy and other top players have chosen not to participate in the Cadillac Championship, but specific reasons for their absence have not been detailed.
The Cadillac Championship offers a total prize pool where the winner receives $3.6 million and the last place earns $36,000.
The Cadillac Championship features a limited field of just 72 players, with no 36-hole cut.
Notable absentees include Rory McIlroy, Matt Fitzpatrick, Xander Schauffele, Robert MacIntyre, and Ludvig Aberg.
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The Trump Organization bought the former Doral Golf Resort & Spa out of bankruptcy in 2012 for $150 million.
After the 2016 edition of the old tournament, Cadillac opted not to renew its tournament sponsorship and the PGA Tour decided to move that WGC event from Doral to Mexico City, where it was played from 2017 to 2020.
The move away from Doral was announced in June, as Trump emerged as the 2016 Republican presidential nominee. At the time, former PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem said the move was due to the inability to find a new title sponsor at Doral, not because of political controversy surrounding Trump. Cadillac never explicitly cited Trumpās ownership of the course as a reason for not renewing its sponsorship.
From 2022-2025, Trump Doral hosted an annual LIV Golf event. Trump-owned courses in Virginia and New Jersey have also previously hosted LIV events. Next week, Trump National Golf Club Washington, D.C., is hosting LIV Golf Virginia.
In September, the DP World Tourās Irish Open will be played at Trump International Golf Links Ireland in Doonbeg for the first time.
The Trump Organization owns 21 golf properties and resorts worldwide, according to its website.
Viewership for the signature events this season has been a bit of a mixed bag.
The Arnold Palmer Invitational was the only one of the first four to draw higher TV ratings over last year, garnering 3.3 million viewers on NBC, which was up nearly 18%. The other three signature events saw small drops, all under 4%.
Overall, this seasonās signature events have averaged 3.55 million viewers, which is slightly upājust over 2%āfrom what those same four tournaments averaged in 2025.
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