As the 2024 FedEx Cup playoffs enter the final two weeks, the 2025 PGA Tour schedule is locked into place, and it will look very similar to the current season.
The ’25 schedule includes 39 tournaments, with eight signature events and the 51st playing of the Players Championship.
In one of the few changes for next year, the Memorial Tournament, one of the signature events, will return to its traditional date two weeks before the U.S. Open. Host Jack Nicklaus expressed displeasure with the tournament’s placement immediately before the U.S. Open this year as the major pro tours accommodated the quadrennial Olympics.
Because the PGA Championship will be played at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina, the Truist Championship (formerly known as the Wells Fargo Championship) will move to Philadelphia Cricket Club next year before returning to Charlotte in 2026 and beyond. It will be played the same week in early May leading into the PGA.
The other majors, in addition to the annual stop at Augusta National for the Masters: U.S. Open at Oakmont and Open Championship at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland.
In addition to Memorial, the other signature events are the season-opening Sentry, AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, Genesis Invitational, Arnold Palmer Invitational, RBC Heritage, Truist Championship and the Travelers Championship.
Royal Bank of Canada is returning to host the signature event at Harbour Town Golf Links on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, as well as the RBC Canadian Open. Both are one-year deals, though negotiations between the tour and RBC about a long-term extension are continuing, according to sources.
The signature events, which featured $20 million purses this year, will host minimum 72-player fields. Prize money was not disclosed.
“I think based on the success that we’ve had this year, and you look at what we were talking about at this time last year and as we were building to a signature event and full-field event model, to have 66 percent of the top 50 players retaining their position up until right now, to look at the Top 125, I think a projected 74 percent or roughly 75 percent retention rate, so that dynamic has worked very well,” commissioner Jay Monahan said. “In terms of the changes, we saw a few changes, but I think that’s a reflection of the fact that the schedule in 2024 has worked very well.”
The 2025 Fall Series will not be released until next summer, but Sanderson Farms, which has title-sponsored the tour’s annual stop in Jackson, Mississippi, since 2013, will not return after this fall, according to a report by Ross Reily in the Clarion Ledger newspaper. READ MORE / 2025 SCHEDULE
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Sam Saunders, the maternal grandson of the late Arnold Palmer, retired as a touring professional, he announced on social media. Saunders, 37, missed the cut on the Korn Ferry Tour’s Magnit Championship, his 15th weekend off in 19 starts on the PGA Tour’s top developmental tour this year.
“It was never easy for me, and I never reached my playing goals, but I wouldn’t trade it for anything,” he wrote on X, the former Twitter.
Saunders, who was raised in Palmer’s Bay Hill Club neighborhood in Orlando, Florida, is the daughter of Amy Palmer Saunders, the younger daughter of Palmer and his late wife, Winnie.
Sam Saunders never won in 158 starts on the PGA Tour, which he played full-time for five seasons (2014-19), but he came close, losing to Alex Čejka as part of a five-man playoff at the 2015 Puerto Rico Open. He also shot 59 in a tournament on what then was known as the Web.com Tour.
Saunders took over for Palmer, who died in 2016, as the family’s host at the annual Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill. READ MORE
The rich just grew a bit richer on tour as 10 players, led by six-time winner Scottie Scheffler’s $8 million prize, divvied up $40 million from the season-long Comcast Business Tour bonus pool. READ MORE
Brandt Snedeker was named a vice captain for the 2025 U.S. Ryder Cup team, captain Keegan Bradley announced. Snedeker, 43, a nine-time winner on tour who recently was named winner of the Payne Stewart Award, went 4-2-0 in two Ryder Cup appearances (2012 and 2016). Snedeker joins Webb Simpson as the first two assistants on the staff for the September 26-28 matches at Bethpage Black on New York’s Long Island. READ MORE
Quade Cummins and Kevin Velo clinched their first PGA Tour cards and Brian Campbell has earned a return to the tour, based on their play this season on the Korn Ferry Tour. They rank Nos. 8, 9 and 10 on the KFT points list and are assured of being among the top 30 and earn promotions, the tour announced. READ MORE
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The 2028 Solheim Cup will be played at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky, the LPGA announced. The biennial match-play event pits the top U.S. female professionals against their counterparts from Europe. Valhalla, which hosted this year’s PGA Championship, will join U.S. sites Greenbrier and Muirfield Village and Scotland’s Gleneagles as the only courses to host the Solheim Cup and the Ryder Cup. READ MORE
The first 11 boys were selected for the U.S. and International teams for next month’s Junior Presidents Cup. The final picks for each of the 12-player teams will be made September 5. The match will be played September 22-24 at Le Club Laval-sur-le-Lac in Montreal, ahead of the Presidents Cup at Royal Montreal Golf Club. READ MORE
Compiled by Ron Green Jr. and Steve Harmon