The 2026 American Family Insurance Championship format is unique for this PGA Tour Champions event, the only event on the schedule to be played as a two-man team competition.
The American Family Insurance Championship field is 76 players as 38 teams of two. The top players in the PGA Tour Champions' priority ranking that committed to the field got to pick their partner, so long as they had some kind of PGA Tour Champions status or garnered a sponsor exemption.
American Family Insurance Championship format
The American Family Insurance Championship format is still a 54-hole event. The first and third rounds will be played as best ball (fourballs) at TPC Louisiana. The second round will play under scramble rules.
The players on the winning team will each get better status on the PGA Tour Champions.
The team members will split the Charles Schwab Cup points normally distributed for individual events, which converts dollars to points one for one. They will also split the first- and second-place prize money from the $3 million purse.
In the case of a winning player who has no status on the PGA Tour Champions, a win would mean that player earns PGA Tour Champions status. A win in the American Family Insurance Championship goes in the record book as an official PGA Tour Champions win.
American Family Insurance Championship playoff format
A playoff to settle any ties after 72 holes will be played under PGA Tour rules. The American Family Insurance Championship playoff format is a sudden-death format, with playoff holes being 18, 16, 17 and 18 played by any qualifying team.
A sudden-death playoff to settle any ties after 54 holes will be played under rules with the format being best ball on every hole.
The American Family Insurance Championship playoff competitors compete hole-by-hole until a winner is determined by a player scoring the lowest among the remaining players.
