Snedeker is now regarded as the Myrtle Beach Classic 2026 winner.
Brandt Snedeker won the 2026 ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic on Sunday, May 10, closing with a 5-under 66 at the Dunes Golf and Beach Club to finish at 18-under 266 and edge Mark Hubbard by a single stroke [PGA Tour, 2026].
**The victory was Snedeker’s first on the PGA Tour in nearly eight years**, ending a winless stretch that dated to the 2018 Wyndham Championship and pushing the 45-year-old Tennessean to 10 career titles [Golf Channel, 2026]. The win came at a course that has anchored Grand Strand golf for nearly 80 years and at a tournament that, in only its third year, is still building its identity inside the PGA Tour calendar [WBTW, 2026].
Myrtle Beach Classic 2026 Winner: A New Era for Snedeker
## A One-Shot Finish at the Dunes Club
Snedeker and Hubbard played the final round in the same group and traded the lead through the back nine, leaving the tournament decided on the closing hole. Snedeker pulled his drive on the 18th into the right trees, pitched out to the fairway, and two-putted from roughly 30 feet for a bogey [PGA Tour, 2026]. He needed Hubbard to do the same or worse to win outright.
Hubbard pushed his own tee shot into trouble. He was left with a 25-foot par putt that would have forced a playoff and watched it slide by the cup, signing for a closing 70 and a 17-under finish for second place [PGA Tour, 2026]. A par from either player at the 72nd hole would have rewritten the result.
The 5-under 66 Snedeker posted on Sunday matched the low round inside the top contenders and was built on steady iron play rather than a single dramatic stretch [Golf Channel, 2026]. Aaron Rai, who led after 36 holes, faded to a fifth-place finish at 15-under after failing to convert his weekend position into Sunday pressure [ESPN, 2026; PGA Tour, 2026].
Beau Hossler and Kevin Roy tied for third at 16-under, with Eric Cole, Tom Kim, and Christiaan Bezuidenhout sharing sixth at 14-under, leaving the top 10 dominated by players ranked outside the world top 50 [ESPN, 2026]. Brooks Koepka, the five-time major champion who entered the week as the field’s most decorated name, did not contend, leaving the closing leaderboard to players ranked outside the world top 50 [Today’s Golfer, 2026].
For Snedeker, the closing bogey was secondary to the result. “I feel amazing. I feel so lucky to still be out here still doing what I love to do,” he told reporters after the round, calling the chance to win at his age “something super special [PGA Tour, 2026].
## A Long Road Back to the Winner’s Circle
The win is Snedeker’s 10th on the PGA Tour and his first since the 2018 Wyndham Championship, where he opened with a 59 — only the 10th sub-60 round in tour history at the time [PGA Tour, 2026]. The eight-year gap between victories covered a stretch in which Snedeker dropped out of the top of the world rankings and out of the regular winner’s bracket on tour [Golf Channel, 2026].
Snedeker built his career quickly after leaving Vanderbilt University. He was named PGA Tour Rookie of the Year in 2007 after his first tour win at the Wyndham Championship and reached a career-high world ranking of No. 4 in February 2013 [Wikipedia, 2026].
His 2012 season produced the FedEx Cup, secured with a three-stroke win at the Tour Championship at East Lake and a $10 million bonus that, at the time, ranked among the largest single payouts in golf [ESPN, 2012].
His prior nine PGA Tour wins span the 2007 Wyndham Championship, the 2011 Heritage at Hilton Head, the 2012 Farmers Insurance Open, the 2012 Tour Championship, the 2013 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, the 2013 RBC Canadian Open, the 2015 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, the 2016 Farmers Insurance Open, and the 2018 Wyndham [Wikipedia, 2026].
He played on the 2012 U.S. Ryder Cup team that lost at Medinah and the 2016 team that won at Hazeltine, served on the 2013 Presidents Cup team, took a vice-captain’s role at the 2025 Ryder Cup, and is set to captain the United States as a non-playing captain at the 2026 Presidents Cup [Wikipedia, 2026].
In his post-round comments at the Dunes Club, Snedeker tied the win to his recovery from sternum surgery, framing the victory as proof that the work to get back to competitive form had been worth it [PGA Tour, 2026].
He did not specify a date or surgical detail in his remarks, leaving the medical history to his own characterization rather than a documented procedure. He also told reporters the win “means everything,” a description that, paired with his age and his time away from the winner’s circle, defined the tone of the closing ceremony at the Dunes Club [PGA Tour, 2026].
## The Dunes Club’s Place in Grand Strand Golf
The Dunes Golf and Beach Club is the venue that gives the Myrtle Beach Classic much of its identity. The course was designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr. as his first nationally acclaimed solo project and is widely regarded as the design that helped establish his reputation as the 20th century’s most influential American golf architect [LINKS Magazine, 2026]. Course historians often describe the Dunes Club as the second course built in Myrtle Beach, behind Pine Lakes [WBTW, 2026].
The club was incorporated in May 1948 by a group of Myrtle Beach businesspeople led by local attorney George W. Buster” Bryan, with land donated by Myrtle Beach Farms [LINKS Magazine, 2026]. The course opened to play in the late 1940s and has since hosted the U.S. Women’s Open, six Senior Tour Championships, and PGA Tour Q-School finals, giving the property a tournament resume few South Carolina courses can match [LINKS Magazine, 2026]. A later redesign by Rees Jones, the architect’s son, refreshed the layout while preserving the original routing [Rees Jones Inc., 2026].
For the 2026 Myrtle Beach Classic, the Dunes Club played at 7,347 yards as a par 71, with the long teeing areas, wide fairways, large bunkers, and elevated greens characteristic of Robert Trent Jones Sr.’s work [ESPN, 2026]. The internal contours that LINKS Magazine has described as “greens within a green” continue to define the scoring conditions, rewarding precise approach play over raw distance off the tee [LINKS Magazine, 2026].
## The Myrtle Beach Classic in Context
The 2026 ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic was the third annual playing of a tournament that launched in 2024 [WBTW, 2026]. The event runs as a PGA Tour-designated opposite-field tournament held the same week as the Truist Championship at Quail Hollow, the Signature event that drew most of the top-30 players in the world [Today’s Golfer, 2026]. The PGA Championship, the season’s second major, follows the next week at Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, May 14 through 17 [Golf Channel, 2026].
The tournament’s purse was $4 million, with $720,000 to the winner and 300 FedEx Cup points [ESPN, 2026]. The Myrtle Beach Classic field was limited to 120 players and included Brooks Koepka, the five-time major champion, as its highest-profile entrant [Today’s Golfer, 2026].
The winner also receives the last-available invitation to the PGA Championship and a two-year PGA Tour exemption running through 2028, the structural reward that gives an opposite-field event its competitive stakes for players outside the Signature tier [Tournament Site, 2026]. The two prior winners arrived at the Dunes Club without PGA Tour titles to their names — Chris Gotterup broke through wire-to-wire in 2024 at 22-under, and Ryan Fox of New Zealand won a 2025 playoff with a 50-foot chip-in over Mackenzie Hughes and Harry Higgs — making Snedeker the first established tour winner to take the trophy [PGA Tour, 2024; PGA Tour, 2025].
ONEflight International, a private aviation and jet card company founded in Englewood, Colorado in 2010, became co-title sponsor in 2025 alongside Visit Myrtle Beach [Denver Life Magazine, 2026]. Tournament director Darren Nelson has framed the partnership as the platform on which the event will scale, saying that the addition of ONEflight in 2025 was the moment “this event took a big step forward” and that the tournament hopes the first four years are only the beginning of a long PGA Tour presence on the Grand Strand [Tournament Site, 2026].
For the Grand Strand’s golf-tourism economy, the Classic functions as a national television showcase for the Dunes Club and the area’s broader course inventory. Visit Myrtle Beach’s title sponsorship places the destination’s name in front of a tour audience for four days each May, giving Horry County’s largest visitor industry the kind of exposure that conventional advertising cannot purchase at comparable rates [Myrtle Beach Area CVB, 2026].
## What Comes Next
Snedeker’s win delivers him to Aronimink with the last available spot in the PGA Championship field and a renewed two-year exemption that secures his PGA Tour status through 2028 [Tournament Site, 2026]. He will arrive at a major championship for the first time in years as a current tour winner rather than a past champion working off conditional status, and the captain’s role waiting for him at the 2026 Presidents Cup gives the year ahead an unusual mix of playing and leadership stakes [Wikipedia, 2026].
The 2027 ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic now faces the challenge of building on a winner whose career predates the tournament itself. With Snedeker’s name on the trophy alongside Chris Gotterup’s 2024 wire-to-wire performance and Ryan Fox’s 2025 playoff chip-in, the event has assembled a three-year history that organizers will pitch to next year’s field as evidence that the Dunes Club produces consequential PGA Tour finishes [PGA Tour, 2024; PGA Tour, 2025].
## Further Reading
– PGA Tour final-round wrap (May 10, 2026): https://www.pgatour.com/article/news/daily-wrapup/2026/05/10/final-round-recap-wrap-oneflight-myrtle-beach-classic-dunes-golf-and-beach-club-brandt-snedeker
– ESPN final leaderboard: https://www.espn.com/golf/leaderboard/_/tournamentId/401811946
– Golf Channel — Snedeker ends nearly 8-year drought: https://www.golfchannel.com/pga-tour/news/brandt-snedeker-wins-myrtle-beach-classic-for-first-pga-tour-title-in-nearly-8-years
– WBTW — third annual Classic, 10th career win: https://www.wbtw.com/sports/brandt-snedeker-wins-third-annual-oneflight-myrtle-beach-classic-to-notch-10th-career-win/
– WMBF News — local recap: https://www.wmbfnews.com/2026/05/10/brandt-snedeker-wins-2026-oneflight-myrtle-beach-classic/
– Today’s Golfer — 2026 tournament preview (opposite-field framing): https://www.todays-golfer.com/news-and-events/tour-news/2026-oneflight-myrtle-beach-classic-preview/
– Tournament site — 2026 dates and sponsorship: https://myrtlebeachclassic.com/pga-tours-oneflight-myrtle-beach-classic-is-set-for-may7-10-in-2026/
– LINKS Magazine — Dunes Golf and Beach Club: https://linksmagazine.com/the_dunes_golf_and_beach_club/
– WBTW — history of the Dunes Club: https://www.wbtw.com/news/grand-strand/myrtle-beach/myrtle-beach-classic/history-of-dunes-golf-beach-club-home-of-myrtle-beach-classic/
– Rees Jones Inc. — Dunes Club redesign: https://reesjonesinc.com/courses/the-dunes-golf-and-beach-club/
– Golf Monthly — 2026 purse breakdown: https://www.golfmonthly.com/news/myrtle-beach-classic-prize-money-payout-2026
– Wikipedia — Brandt Snedeker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandt_Snedeker
– ESPN, 2012 — FedEx Cup victory: https://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/8417650/brandt-snedeker-wins-tour-championship-fedex-cup
– Denver Life Magazine — ONEflight International profile: https://www.denverlifemagazine.com/on-the-job-with-oneflight-internationals-ceo-and-founder-ferren-rajput/
– Myrtle Beach Area CVB — tournament partnership: https://www.myrtlebeachareacvb.com/news/pga-tours-oneflight-myrtle-beach-classic-is-set-for-may-7-10-in-2026
