CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Two-time PGA TOUR Champion Brian Campbell is in the spotlight as the only former Illini in action across the professional golf landscape this week.
PGA TOUR
Brian Campbell is set to compete at The Genesis Invitational at The Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, Calif., for the first time. The event is the PGA TOUR's second Signature Event of the season, following last week's AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am where Campbell finished T78.
Campbell is familiar with The Riviera Country Club. As a freshman at Illinois in 2011-12, the California native was a part of the Fighting Illini lineup spearheaded by then-sophomore Thomas Pieters who claimed the individual national title at the famed venue.
Illini legend Steve Stricker also won this event - then known as the Northern Trust Open - at Riviera in 2010. The win was the eighth of his 12 career PGA TOUR victories and vaulted Stricker back to No. 2 in the Official World Golf Rankings (behind Tiger Woods) for the second time.
LIV GOLF
Though not in action this week, Pieters and former teammate and fellow Belgian Thomas Detry, helped their 4Aces Golf Club to a second consecutive third-place team finish to open the 2026 LIV Golf season.
In the opener in Riyadh, Saudia Arabia (Feb. 4-7), Pieters finished T4 and Detry placed seventh to lead the team to their third-place finish. Last weekend in Adelaide, Australia, Pieters and Detry finished T27 and 31st, respectively, but the team was buoyed by a first-place finish from Anthony Kim.
LIV is back on the course, March 5-6 in Hong Kong.
KORN FERRY TOUR
Jackson Buchanan, Michael Feagles, and Nick Hardy are slated to return to action on the Korn Ferry Tour when the schedule resumes next week at the 119 Visa Argentina Open.
Last week at the Astara Golf Championship in Bogota, Colombia, Hardy missed the cut by just two strokes, while Buchanan and Feagles were four strokes off the line after 36 holes.
