Louisville to host 2025 ISCO Championship at Hurstbourne Country Club
Calling it a “fantastic day for golf in Kentucky,” ISCO chairman and CEO Jimmy Kirchdorfer announced that the PGA is coming to Hurstbourne Country Club for the 2025 ISCO Championship.
- Chan Kim leads the ISCO Championship by five strokes after two rounds.
- Kim shot a record-tying 61 in the first round and followed up with a 68 in the second round.
- Kim is seeking his first PGA Tour victory.
Can anyone catch Chan Kim? That’s the question the rest of the ISCO Championship field will attempt to answer this weekend.
Kim tied the tournament’s first-round scoring record Thursday, firing a 61. He followed up with a 2-under 68 on Friday. While he was seven shots worse in Round 2 than Round 1, Kim extended his lead from four shots to five entering today’s third round at Hurstbourne Country Club.
His closest pursuers are a trio of players at 6 under: Thomas Rosenmueller, Kris Ventura and Vince Whaley. Eight more players are at 5 under.
Kim, a 35-year-old who played at Arizona State, never has won on the PGA Tour. His best career finish on the circuit is a tie for fifth, which he netted earlier this year at the Valero Texas Open. While he’s still seeking his maiden PGA Tour victory, Kim owns two wins on the Korn Ferry Tour and eight more on the Japan Golf Tour.
His five-shot advantage was only one away from matching the event’s 36-hole record; Jhonattan Vegas led by six strokes at the halfway point in 2016. Kim hopes his story ends differently, however: Vegas didn’t go on to win that year, tying for fourth — and three shots out of a playoff eventually won by Aaron Baddeley. (Back then, the tournament was known as the Barbasol Championship and contested at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail’s Grand National course in Opelika, Alabama.)
If Kim still holds the lead after today’s round and goes on to win Sunday, he’ll make tournament history: No player ever has led the event wire to wire.
The 67 other golfers who made the cut will try to ensure that doesn’t come to pass.
Courier Journal reporter Ryan Black along with CJ photographer Scott Utterback will provide coverage throughout today’s third round. You can follow them on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, at @RyanABlack and @Utterback13.
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Inclement weather in the area has paused the ISCO Championship a second time delay.
At 5:10 p.m., lightning forced the suspension of play at Hurstbourne Country Club.
Read more about the lightning delay here.
Just before 5 p.m., Chan Kim continues to hold a five-shot lead, sitting at 11 under for the tournament after posting pars on his first two holes today.
There now are four players tied for second at 6 under: Thomas Rosenmueller and Vince Whaley, who entered the weekend on that number, have been joined by Luke List and Paul Peterson.
Amateur Jackson Koivun briefly reached 6 under, but bogeyed the par-4 14th. He’s 4-under on his round today through 14 holes and 5 under for the tournament.
Click here to access the full leaderboard via the PGA Tour’s official website.
It’s 4 p.m.
After an afternoon lightning delay pushed back tee times more than an hour and a half, leader Chan Kim will begin his round at 4:26 p.m. At 11 under, Kim is five shots ahead of the trio at 6 under: Thomas Rosenmueller, Kris Ventura and Vince Whaley.
Ivan Cantero Gutierrez has the best round of the day among those already in the clubhouse, posting a 3-under-par 67. But the lowest round on the course belongs to the lone non-pro to make the cut: Jackson Koivun, who plays at Auburn and is the top-ranked amateur in the world, is 4 under after 10 holes.
Click here to access the full leaderboard via the PGA Tour’s official website.
The PGA Tour’s communications office announced play at Hurstbourne Country Club will resume at 3 p.m. Lightning led to a suspension of play at the ISCO Championship this afternoon. Play was halted at 1:24 p.m.
Per the PGA Tour’s comms office, players who have yet to tee off today will have their “starting times … delayed a total of 1 hour and 36 minutes.”
ISCO CHAMPIONSHIP: Round three is scheduled to resume at 3 p.m. ET. Remaining round three starting times will be delayed a total of 1 hour and 36 minutes. https://t.co/OqhoWGcwkf
— PGA TOUR Communications (@PGATOURComms) July 12, 2025
Inclement weather in the area has paused the ISCO Championship.
Lightning forced the suspension of play at Hurstbourne Country Club.
Read more about the lightning delay here.
It’s still more than two hours until the ISCO Championship’s final pairing, Chan Kim and Vince Whaley, step to the first tee box.
And so far, Hurstbourne Country Club is posing a formidable challenge.
As of 12:30 p.m., 42 players are on the course; only six players are under par for their rounds, with nine more at even on the day.
Ivan Cantero Gutierrez has the best round going, 4 under through 13 holes. He’s 3 under for the tournament and tied for 18th. Even so, that leaves him eight strokes off Kim’s lead.
Click here to access the full leaderboard via the PGA Tour’s official website.
It’s still more than two hours until the ISCO Championship’s final pairing, Chan Kim and Vince Whaley, step to the first tee box.
And so far, Hurstbourne Country Club is posing a formidable challenge.
As of 12:30 p.m., 42 players are on the course; only six players are under par for their rounds, with nine more at even on the day.
Ivan Cantero Gutierrez has the best round going, 4 under through 13 holes. He’s 3 under for the tournament and tied for 18th. Even so, that leaves him eight strokes off Kim’s lead.
Click here to access the full leaderboard via the PGA Tour’s official website.
Check out the third round hole locations for the ISCO Championship at Hurstbourne Country Club in the embedded tweet below.
All times are Eastern
Hole 1
TimeGroupings9 a.m.Frankie Capan III, Cristobal Del Solar9:10 a.m.Marcus Byrd, Chez Reavie9:20 a.m.Rafael Campos, Mark Hubbard9:30 a.m.Ivan Cantero Gutierrez, Matt NeSmith9:40 a.m.Stephen Stallings Jr., Carl Yuan9:50 a.m.Noah Goodwin, Jack Senior10 a.m.Lanto Griffin, Max Kieffer10:15 a.m.Harry Higgs, Braden Thornberry10:25 a.m.MJ Daffue, William Mouw10:35 a.m.Angel Ayora, Gordon Sargent10:45 a.m.Hamish Brown, James Hahn10:55 a.m.Conor Purcell, Callum Shinkwin11:05 a.m.Martin Laird, Ben Silverman11:15 a.m.Ricky Castillo, S.H. Kim11:30 a.m.Wenyi Ding, Jackson Suber11:40 a.m.Ben Kohles, David Lipsky11:50 a.m.Alexander Levy, Scott Piercy12 p.m.Emiliano Grillo, Chad Ramey12:10 p.m.Jackson Koivun, Josh Teater12:20 p.m.Marcus Armitage, Michael Thorbjornsen12:30 p.m.Jonathan Byrd, Tommy Gainey12:45 p.m.Will Chandler, Patrick Fishburn12:55 p.m.Luke List, Troy Merritt1:05 p.m.Trevor Cone, Ben Martin1:15 p.m.Manuel Elvira, Will Gordon1:25 p.m.Joel Girrbach, Hayden Springer1:35 p.m.Steven Fisk, Taylor Montgomery1:45 p.m.Cameron Champ, Peter Malnati2 p.m.Beau Hossler, Paul Peterson2:10 p.m.Nick Hardy, Callum Tarren2:20 p.m.Kevin Kisner, David Skinns2:30 p.m.Zac Blair, Rico Hoey2:40 p.m.Thomas Rosenmueller, Kris Ventura2:50 p.m.Chan Kim, Vince Whaley
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