Golf | Live updates, scores from Day 1 at Kaulig Companies Championship

The Big Easy and a big field of golf greats have returned to Firestone Country Club.

The 2025 Kaulig Companies Championship will take place June 19 to 22 on Firestone Country Club's South Course. It is one of five major championships on the PGA Tour Champions.

Defending champion Ernie Els leads a field that includes six members of the World Golf Hall of Fame.

The first round will tee off at 10 a.m. June 19.

Check here for live updates from the course.

What is the schedule for the Kaulig Companies Championship?

Rounds 1 and 2 of the tournament will tee off a 10 a.m. with trios starting from holes 1 and 10.

The South Course at Firestone will play as a par 70 with a total distance of 7,248 yards.

For those not able to attend, tape delay coverage of rounds 1 and 2 will be broadcast on Golf Channel at 9 p.m.

Who is the defending champion? Who is in the field?

South African golf legend Ernie Els won the 2024 Kaulig Companies Championship to claim his first Champions Tour major. He won with a 10-under score of 270.

Els is one of the six World Golf Hall of Fame members in the field. He is joined by Retief Goosen, Padraig Harrington, Bernhard Langer, Colin Montgomerie and Vijay Singh.

Harrington is making his debut at the Kaulig Companies Championship. Tour leader Miguel Angel Jiménez and Ángel Cabrera, who won the first two Champions Tour major championships, also will compete.

This article originally appeared on Akron Beacon Journal: Live scores, updates from Day 1 at Kaulig Companies Championship