The PGA Tour is coming to the Philadelphia Cricket Club’s Wissahickon course for the primary time.
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The PGA Tour’s Signature Event in Charlotte has a new sponsor and, simply for subsequent season, a new venue.
The Tour introduced Tuesday that Truist Financial Corporation will take over the sponsorship of the previous Wells Fargo Championship in a seven-year settlement with the PGA Tour and common host venue Quail Hollow Club.
“We are honored to be the title sponsor of the PGA Tour’s Charlotte-based Signature Event and thrilled that Philadelphia and Charlotte, two vibrant growth markets for Truist, will be featured on the PGA Tour,” mentioned Truist Chairman and CEO Bill Rogers in a press launch. “We look forward to partnering with the PGA Tour to elevate this wonderful championship event and Truist’s deep community impact, and to further fulfill our purpose to inspire and build better lives and communities.”
But, with Quail Hollow set to host the PGA Championship for the second time in 2025, the Tour additionally introduced the inaugural Truist Championship can be staged on the Philadelphia Cricket Club’s Wissahickon Course in its typical slot, May 5-11, the week earlier than the PGA Championship.
The occasion has been a mainstay on the PGA Tour’s calendar since its introduction because the Wachovia Championship in 2003 and counts earlier winners like Tiger Woods, Jim Furyk, Vijay Singh, Rickie Fowler, Max Homa and Rory McIlroy, who exploded previous Xander Schuauffele within the last spherical to win this 12 months’s occasion.
Wells Fargo had been the title sponsor since 2011 however introduced final December it might not be renewing its sponsorship after the 2024 occasion, its second as a $20 million Signature Event.
All however two editions of the match have been performed at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte. The 2017 match was held at Eagle Point Golf Club in Wilmington, N.C., forward of Quail Hollow internet hosting its first PGA Championship. The 2022 version was held at TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm, outdoors Washington, D.C.
The 2025 Truist Championship will mark the debut of the Philadelphia Cricket Club’s Wissahickon Course on the PGA Tour, however the membership has no lack of championship pedigree. The 1922 A.W. Tillinghast design underwent a restoration in 2014 by Keith Foster and has since hosted the 2015 PGA Professional National Championship, the 2016 Senior Players Championship and the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship this previous May.
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At the 2016 Senior Players, robust winds and agency situations noticed no participant break par for 72 holes as Bernhard Langer made a dramatic par save to win by one over Miguel Angel Jimenez and Joe Durant at one over.
The membership has indicated no modifications are anticipated to be made to the 7,119-yard, par-70 course save for rerouting it. During the Senior Players, the 517-yard par-4 4th gap performed because the 18th gap as grandstands weren’t in a position to be constructed across the conventional 18th gap.
The membership includes a complete of 45 holes, together with the 9-hole St. Martins Course, situated inside the metropolis of Philadelphia, which beforehand hosted the 1907 and 1910 U.S. Opens when it was an 18-hole format. The Militia Hill course, situated on the identical Flourtown location as Wissahickon, is a 2002 Hurdzan/Fry design.
This would be the first PGA Tour occasion held within the Philadelphia space because the 2022 BMW Championship at Wilmington Country Club in Delaware and the primary in Pennsylvania because the identical match was held at Aronimink in 2018. Pittsburgh’s Oakmont will host the U.S. Open this 12 months, making this the primary time two PGA Tour occasions have been held within the state in the identical season since 1978.
