The PGA Tour is coming to the Philadelphia Cricket Membership’s Wissahickon course for the primary time.
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The PGA Tour’s Signature Occasion in Charlotte has a brand new sponsor and, only for subsequent season, a brand new venue.
The Tour introduced Tuesday that Truist Monetary Company will take over the sponsorship of the former Wells Fargo Championship in a seven-year settlement with the PGA Tour and common host venue Quail Hole Membership.
“We’re honored to be the title sponsor of the PGA Tour’s Charlotte-based Signature Occasion and thrilled that Philadelphia and Charlotte, two vibrant development markets for Truist, shall be featured on the PGA Tour,” mentioned Truist Chairman and CEO Invoice Rogers in a press launch. “We stay up for partnering with the PGA Tour to raise this glorious championship occasion and Truist’s deep neighborhood impression, and to additional fulfill our goal to encourage and construct higher lives and communities.”
However, with Quail Hole set to host the PGA Championship for the second time in 2025, the Tour additionally introduced the inaugural Truist Championship could be staged on the Philadelphia Cricket Membership’s Wissahickon Course in its typical slot, Might 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 closing spherical to win this yr’s occasion.
Wells Fargo had been the title sponsor since 2011 however introduced final December it could not be renewing its sponsorship after the 2024 occasion, its second as a $20 million Signature Occasion.
All however two editions of the event have been performed at Quail Hole Membership in Charlotte. The 2017 event was held at Eagle Level Golf Membership in Wilmington, N.C., forward of Quail Hole internet hosting its first PGA Championship. The 2022 version was held at TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm, exterior Washington, D.C.
The 2025 Truist Championship will mark the debut of the Philadelphia Cricket Membership’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 Skilled Nationwide Championship, the 2016 Senior Gamers Championship and the U.S. Newbie 4-Ball Championship this previous Might.
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On the 2016 Senior Gamers, sturdy 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 adjustments are anticipated to be made to the 7,119-yard, par-70 course save for rerouting it. Throughout the Senior Gamers, the 517-yard par-4 4th gap performed because the 18th gap as grandstands weren’t capable of be constructed across the conventional 18th gap.
The membership contains a complete of 45 holes, together with the 9-hole St. Martins Course, positioned inside the metropolis of Philadelphia, which beforehand hosted the 1907 and 1910 U.S. Opens when it was an 18-hole structure. The Militia Hill course, positioned 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 Nation Membership in Delaware and the first in Pennsylvania because the identical event was held at Aronimink in 2018. Pittsburgh’s Oakmont will host the U.S. Open this yr, making this the primary time two PGA Tour occasions have been held within the state in the identical season since 1978.
