Opinion & Analysis
5 Tour Stops the PGA Tour is Missing
Over the course of one season, the PGA Tour and World Golf Championships host 40 events across the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the Bahamas. Of those 40 events, 32 happen within 21 states during the span of 12 months. See the map below for reference (click to zoom):
As you can see, the majority of Tour events take place in major golf markets located in states with warmer climates (the West Coast and the South). There are a few cities across the country that the PGA Tour may want to consider when scheduling future events, however. Here’s my list of these five cities, which includes three courses in each city within a 100-mile radius of a major media market that could make sense for a Tour event.
Seattle
As golf fans saw last season, the city of Seattle loves the game of golf. The 2015 U.S. Open at Chambers Bay provided the golfing world with a glimpse into golf in the Pacific Northwest, and local fans sold out the event months before in anticipation. Seattle houses the 12th largest TV market in the country, and is home to players such as Fred Couples and Ryan Moore.
Top Courses in Seattle Area
- Sahalee CC (Host of 1998 PGA Championship, 2010 U.S. Senior Open, 2016 Women’s PGA Championship)
- Chambers Bay (Host of 2015 U.S. Open)
- Aldarra Golf Club (Fazio Design, Ranked No. 3 in Washington by Golf Digest)
Detroit
From 1958 to 2009, Detroit hosted the Buick Open as an annual Tour stop. Winners of the event ranged from Billy Casper and Hale Irwin to Vijay Singh and Tiger Woods. For long-time golf fans, this was the home to a wonderful tournament atmosphere and one of the rowdiest holes in golf (known as the 2nd largest cocktail party outside of the Florida-Georgia football game). Home to the 11th largest TV market, Detroit would make a GREAT Tour stop during the summer months of the schedule.
Top Courses in Detroit
- Oakland Hills CC (Hosted 6 U.S. Opens, 3 PGA Championships and a Ryder Cup)
- Warwick Hills CC (Former Home of the Buick Open)
- Barton Hills CC (Donald Ross Design, Hosted U.S. Women’s Amateur)
Chicago
While the Windy City has hosted some recent majors and an occasional FedExCup Playoffs event, Chicago really does deserve to have a yearly Tour stop once again. The 3rd largest TV market in the U.S. hosted the Western Open from 1899 to 2006 (the 3rd longest active Tour event behind the British Open, and the U.S. Open), and has also hosted 14 U.S. Opens, 6 PGA Championships and a Ryder Cup. While the playoffs are a nice visit now and then, Chicago is certainly worthy of a yearly event.
Top Courses in Chicago
- Medinah No. 3 (Hosted 3 U.S. Opens, 2 PGA Championships and a Ryder Cup)
- Butler National GC (Host of Western Open from 1974-1990, Ranked in the Top-25 nationally)
- Kemper Lakes GC (Host of 1989 PGA Championship, Grand Slam of Golf)
Denver
Another city that has seen an occasional FedExCup Playoffs event, Denver hosts the 17th largest TV market in the U.S. “The International” was held in the Denver area from 1986-2006, and was the only stableford event hosted on Tour during that time. Denver has also seen 3 U.S. Opens and 3 PGA Championships come through town, so it certainly has the history to back its bid for a potential event location.
Top Courses in Denver
- Castle Pines GC (Former Home of “The International” event)
- Cherry Hills CC (Hosted 3 U.S. Opens and 2 PGA Championships)
- Colorado GC (Host of 2010 Senior PGA Championship & 2013 Solheim Cup)
Tulsa/Oklahoma City
Combined, Tulsa and Oklahoma City create the 21st largest TV market. It’s not just the TV market that makes these cities an attractive stop for the PGA Tour, however; it’s the quality of golf in the area. The golf teams at the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University have developed more than 50 PGA Tour players, and continue to field nationally-ranked teams year after year. Add in some major championship history, and you’re looking at a solid site for a yearly Tour stop.
Top Courses in Tulsa/Oklahoma City
- Southern Hills CC (Host of 4 PGA Championships and 3 U.S. Opens)
- Oak Tree National (Host of the 1988 PGA Championship and 2014 US Senior Open)
- The Patriot Golf Club (Folds of Honor Home Course, Host of Patriot Cup Invitational)
Where do you think the PGA Tour should consider adding a stop? Let us know in the comment section below.
As the editor-in-chief of this website and an observer of the GolfWRX forums and other online golf equipment discourse for over a decade, I’m pretty well attuned to the grunts and grumbles of a significant portion of the golf equipment purchasing spectrum. And before you accuse me of lording above all in some digital ivory tower, I’d like to offer that I worked at golf courses (public and private) for years prior to picking up my pen, so I’m well-versed in the non-degenerate golf equipment consumers out there. I touched (green)grass (retail)!
Complaints about the ills of and related to the OEMs usually follow some version of: Product cycles are too short for real innovation, tour equipment isn’t the same as retail (which is largely not true, by the way), too much is invested in marketing and not enough in R&D, top staffer X hasn’t even put the new driver in play, so it’s obviously not superior to the previous generation, prices are too high, and on and on.
Without digging into the merits of any of these claims, which I believe are mostly red herrings, I’d like to bring into view of our rangefinder what I believe to be the two primary difficulties golf equipment companies face.
One: As Terry Koehler, back when he was the CEO of Ben Hogan, told me at the time of the Ft Worth irons launch, if you can’t regularly hit the golf ball in a coin-sized area in the middle of the face, there’s not a ton that iron technology can do for you. Now, this is less true now with respect to irons than when he said it, and is less and less true by degrees as the clubs get larger (utilities, fairways, hybrids, drivers), but there remains a great deal of golf equipment truth in that statement. Think about it — which is to say, in TL;DR fashion, get lessons from a qualified instructor who will teach you about the fundamentals of repeatable impact and how the golf swing works, not just offer band-aid fixes. If you can’t repeatably deliver the golf club to the golf ball in something resembling the manner it was designed for, how can you expect to be getting the most out of the club — put another way, the maximum value from your investment?
Similarly, game improvement equipment can only improve your game if you game it. In other words, get fit for the clubs you ought to be playing rather than filling the bag with the ones you wish you could hit or used to be able to hit. Of course, don’t do this if you don’t care about performance and just want to hit a forged blade while playing off an 18 handicap. That’s absolutely fine. There were plenty of members in clubs back in the day playing Hogan Apex or Mizuno MP-32 irons who had no business doing so from a ballstriking standpoint, but they enjoyed their look, feel, and complementary qualities to their Gatsby hats and cashmere sweaters. Do what brings you a measure of joy in this maddening game.
Now, the second issue. This is not a plea for non-conforming equipment; rather, it is a statement of fact. USGA/R&A limits on every facet of golf equipment are detrimental to golf equipment manufacturers. Sure, you know this, but do you think about it as it applies to almost every element of equipment? A 500cc driver would be inherently more forgiving than a 460cc, as one with a COR measurement in excess of 0.83. 50-inch shafts. Box grooves. And on and on.
Would fewer regulations be objectively bad for the game? Would this erode its soul? Fortunately, that’s beside the point of this exercise, which is merely to point out the facts. The fact, in this case, is that equipment restrictions and regulations are the slaughterbench of an abundance of innovation in the golf equipment space. Is this for the best? Well, now I’ve asked the question twice and might as well give a partial response, I guess my answer to that would be, “It depends on what type of golf you’re playing and who you’re playing it with.”
For my part, I don’t mind embarrassing myself with vintage blades and persimmons chasing after the quasi-spiritual elevation of a well-struck shot, but that’s just me. Plenty of folks don’t give a damn if their grooves are conforming. Plenty of folks think the folks in Liberty Corner ought to add a prison to the museum for such offences. And those are just a few of the considerations for the amateur game — which doesn’t get inside the gallery ropes of the pro game…
Different strokes in the game of golf, in my humble opinion.
Anyway, I believe equipment company engineers are genuinely trying to build better equipment year over year. The marketing departments are trying to find ways to make this equipment appeal to the broadest segment of the golf market possible. All of this against (1) the backdrop of — at least for now — firm product cycles. And golfers who, with their ~15 average handicap (men), for the most part, are not striping the golf ball like Tiger in his prime and seem to have less and less time year over year to practice and improve. (2) Regulations that massively restrict what they’re able to do…
That’s the landscape as I see it and the real headwinds for golf equipment companies. No doubt, there’s more I haven’t considered, but I think the previous is a better — and better faith — point of departure when formulating any serious commentary on the golf equipment world than some of the more cynical and conspiratorial takes I hear.
Agree? Disagree? Think I’m worthy of an Adam Hadwin-esque security guard tackle? Let me know in the comments.
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Episode #16 brings us Cliff McKinney. Cliff is the founder of Old Charlie Golf Club, a new club, and concept, to be built in the Florida panhandle. The model is quite interesting and aims to make great, private golf more affordable. We hope you enjoy the show!
Last week, I came across a reel from BBC Sport on Instagram featuring Scottie Scheffler speaking to the media ahead of The Open at Royal Portrush. In it, he shared that he often wonders what the point is of wanting to win tournaments so badly — especially when he knows, deep down, that it doesn’t lead to a truly fulfilling life.
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“Is it great to be able to win tournaments and to accomplish the things I have in the game of golf? Yeah, it brings tears to my eyes just to think about it because I’ve literally worked my entire life to be good at this sport,” Scheffler said. “To have that kind of sense of accomplishment, I think, is a pretty cool feeling. To get to live out your dreams is very special, but at the end of the day, I’m not out here to inspire the next generation of golfers. I’m not out here to inspire someone to be the best player in the world, because what’s the point?”
Ironically — or perhaps perfectly — he went on to win the claret jug.
That question — what’s the point of winning? — cuts straight to the heart of the human journey.
As someone who’s spent over two decades in the trenches of professional golf, and in deep study of the mental, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of the game, I see Scottie’s inner conflict as a sign of soul evolution in motion.
I came to golf late. I wasn’t a junior standout or college All-American. At 27, I left a steady corporate job to see if I could be on the PGA Tour starting as a 14-handicap, average-length hitter. Over the years, my journey has been defined less by trophies and more by the relentless effort to navigate the deeply inequitable and gated system of professional golf — an effort that ultimately turned inward and helped me evolve as both a golfer and a person.
One perspective that helped me make sense of this inner dissonance around competition and our culture’s tendency to overvalue winning is the idea of soul evolution.
The University of Virginia’s Division of Perceptual Studies has done extensive research on reincarnation, and Netflix’s Surviving Death (Episode 6) explores the topic, too. Whether you take it literally or metaphorically, the idea that we’re on a long arc of growth — from beginner to sage elder — offers a profound perspective.
If you accept the premise literally, then terms like “young soul” and “old soul” start to hold meaning. However, even if we set the word “soul” aside, it’s easy to see that different levels of life experience produce different worldviews.
Newer souls — or people in earlier stages of their development — may be curious and kind but still lack discernment or depth. There is a naivety, and they don’t yet question as deeply, tending to see things in black and white, partly because certainty feels safer than confronting the unknown.
As we gain more experience, we begin to experiment. We test limits. We chase extreme external goals — sometimes at the expense of health, relationships, or inner peace — still operating from hunger, ambition, and the fragility of the ego.
It’s a necessary stage, but often a turbulent and unfulfilling one.
David Duval fell off the map after reaching World No. 1. Bubba Watson had his own “Is this it?” moment with his caddie, Ted Scott, after winning the Masters.
In Aaron Rodgers: Enigma, reflecting on his 2011 Super Bowl win, Rodgers said:
“Now I’ve accomplished the only thing that I really, really wanted to do in my life. Now what? I was like, ‘Did I aim at the wrong thing? Did I spend too much time thinking about stuff that ultimately doesn’t give you true happiness?’”
Jim Carrey once said, “I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer.”
Eventually, though, something shifts.
We begin to see in shades of gray. Winning, dominating, accumulating—these pursuits lose their shine. The rewards feel more fleeting. Living in a constant state of fight-or-flight makes us feel alive, yes, but not happy and joyful.
Compassion begins to replace ambition. Love, presence, and gratitude become more fulfilling than status, profits, or trophies. We crave balance over burnout. Collaboration over competition. Meaning over metrics.
Interestingly, if we zoom out, we can apply this same model to nations and cultures. Countries, like people, have a collective “soul stage” made up of the individuals within them.
Take the United States, for example. I’d place it as a mid-level soul: highly competitive and deeply driven, but still learning emotional maturity. Still uncomfortable with nuance. Still believing that more is always better. Despite its global wins, the U.S. currently ranks just 23rd in happiness (as of 2025). You might liken it to a gifted teenager—bold, eager, and ambitious, but angsty and still figuring out how to live well and in balance. As much as a parent wants to protect their child, sometimes the child has to make their own mistakes to truly grow.
So when Scottie Scheffler wonders what the point of winning is, I don’t see someone losing strength.
I see someone evolving.
He’s beginning to look beyond the leaderboard. Beyond metrics of success that carry a lower vibration. And yet, in a poetic twist, Scheffler did go on to win The Open. But that only reinforces the point: even at the pinnacle, the question remains. And if more of us in the golf and sports world — and in U.S. culture at large — started asking similar questions, we might discover that the more meaningful trophy isn’t about accumulating or beating others at all costs.
It’s about awakening and evolving to something more than winning could ever promise.
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laremy tunsil
May 6, 2016 at 7:08 pm
Colorado Oregon Washington
Richard Trickle
May 6, 2016 at 7:05 pm
I think a minimum of 3 events in West Virginia would be great. You could call it the West Virginia Swing and have a points race with free lifetime supply of skoal for the winner.
Loki Smizzle
May 3, 2016 at 5:16 pm
The tour has to dodge where a high percentage of minoritys live. Decent people won’t support anything after they take it over. I know everyone will hate this comment but just think about the last restaurant you was in that was minority heavy: it was terrible, wasn’t it?
Atty
May 4, 2016 at 7:59 am
You’re an a$$.
farmer
May 3, 2016 at 3:07 pm
Surprising the hole in the NW. Microsoft could sponsor an event, commercial free telecast, free food, and have a blip on their quarterly earnings report. All they need is a date, and for Bill Gates to stop carelessly trying to make life better for folks in underdeveloped countries.
Steven
May 3, 2016 at 2:00 pm
Since I live in OKC, I would love this. I do think the Tour would have to look past Southern Hills and Oak Tree National because both those courses want to host majors. However, we have 1-2 others (like Patriot Club) that could definitely host an event. Gaillardia Country Club hosted the Senior Tour Championship a few times, and our golf season is longer than most.
MP-4
May 3, 2016 at 12:04 pm
You would think that Microsoft or Amazon could sponsor an event in the Seattle area.
Don’t forget: TPC Snoqualmie Ridge, Salish Cliffs, White Horse, Gold Mountain, Suncadia, and Gamble Sands!
Brad
May 3, 2016 at 2:52 pm
Was in Seattle last summer and stopped by the TPC Snoqualmie Ridge clubhouse for a scorecard and a Boeing Classic polo…beautiful part of the country!
prime21
May 3, 2016 at 7:23 am
Gotta vote for Philly w/ Aronimink being the venue. While there are many great golf courses in the general vicinity, Aronomink is not only the best test of golf in the area, it also is a great layout for spectators. The array of local universities makes transportation easier to accommodate and I’m sure Pat’s & Gino’s would make it one of the favorite stops for food on tour (outside of New Orleans of course). Saucon Valley would also be great, but being a good 45 minutes outside of Philly, I don’t think it can really be considered “within the city limits”.
Evan
May 2, 2016 at 9:51 pm
I’ve been thinking a bit about this. Seattle is inconvenient for the tour schedule even though it has some of the most predictable and best weather in the summer. But US Opens and PGA championships should be held much more frequently in the pacific northwest and upper midwest to really capture larger golf audiences. The US Open at Chambers was a very big deal around here.
I can’t think of a better market/weather for the PGA championship than Seattle/PNW.
Another thought, the weather has been amazing around here lately. Why doesn’t the zurich classic move to Seattle?
B Clizzle
May 2, 2016 at 7:06 pm
Seattle…terrible weather
Detroit and Chicago…full of thugs and criminals
Colorado…trying to do Matt Every a solid
Tulsa/OKC…even the ppl living there don’t wanna be there
Andrew Beck
May 3, 2016 at 11:44 am
I’m not sure you’ve been to Seattle. From the end of June until the end of September there’s almost zero chance of rain. The skies will be blue. And at worst the temps will be in the 90’s, but more likely in the high 70’s to low 80’s. You can’t really ask for better weather than that.
Scott
May 3, 2016 at 11:44 am
wow, what a worldly view. I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Art Williams
May 2, 2016 at 4:06 pm
Philly should have a tour stop with all the great courses in the area and a population that loves and supports golf from Southern NJ to the Lehigh Valley and everywhere in between.
Mike Honcho
May 2, 2016 at 3:21 pm
Hands down, Chi-town. I don’t like the mid-West, mid-Westerners and Windy City sports team, the Blues Brothers can’t sing, could go on and on. But when it comes to golf courses, the town is not getting it’s deserved pro play.
Greg Moore
May 2, 2016 at 3:13 pm
LPGA is playing their Championship at Sahalee this year. Most of the issues with a new event is finding a sponsor who is willing to put up millions of dollars to host an event. The sponsors at established events are happy with where they are holding their tournaments. They’re not going to be happy if their tournament is moved.
reach4aheiney
May 2, 2016 at 3:11 pm
Wisconsin definitely needs to have a regular stop on the tour. Having a major every so often and the upcoming Ryder cup is nice but there are so many fans that I believe would agree. Whistling Straits could be reserved for majors and Ryder cups but the Irish course on the same complex could handle an event of that size without any issues and is a little easier to walk. Erin Hills, where the US Open is next year could host and event as well as The Bull, a Jack Nicklaus design, could also provide a challenging stop year after year. Having the Greater Milwaukee Open and then US Bank Championship was nice but the course that hosted it didn’t provide too much of a challenge and cannot be lengthened due to area restrictions.
Wa
May 2, 2016 at 1:47 pm
Weather has a lot to do with it, they’d rather go to places where it’s mostly predictable and good. Most of those other places are way too unpredictable and tremendously thundering when it does hit, season by season, and to try to fit it into the global golf calendar these days would be very difficult with the WGC getting in the way of bringing top names to smaller events.
Double Mocha Man
May 2, 2016 at 9:49 pm
Did you notice New Orleans this past week, weather wise?
GO
May 4, 2016 at 2:50 am
He said MOSTLY. Duh. Do you understand the English language?
Snowman9000
May 2, 2016 at 1:36 pm
All good candidates. Golf is big around Chicago. And certainly in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota too. The Quad Cities (John Deere) does give Iowa/Wisconsin/Minn/Illinois fans a tourney in the region. But it would be nice to have some kind of rotation involving the western great lake states.
Nick
May 2, 2016 at 12:24 pm
What about Philadelphia?
Merion
Aronimink
Pine Valley (though they would never host an event)
Philly Cricket Club
Lancaster Country Club
Huntingdon Valley
Saucon Valley
Brad
May 2, 2016 at 2:14 pm
Pennsylvania GENERALLY gets the US Open every year (although the west coast has been grabbing more and more bids). Personally, I associate Merion/Pine Valley/etc with the Open
Jim Reed
May 2, 2016 at 4:06 pm
GENERALLY???
8 times in 60 years…that is occasionally, not GENERALLY. The point that was being made is Philadelphia could use a tour stop and it could. There are significantly more world class courses in the region than on Nick’s list….and the largest metropolitan area to not host an event.
03 Blue 07
May 2, 2016 at 5:43 pm
Philly is the largest metro area to not host an event, you say? No, that would be the Chicagoland area, which is larger in population than the Philadelphia metro area by more than 33% (barely 6 million vs. over 9 million). Source: http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?src=bkmk
Tom
May 2, 2016 at 11:35 am
Too bad the PGA will never even consider Butler National for anything until they allow woman at the club.
ben
May 2, 2016 at 11:06 am
I just don’t see a regular event coming to Tulsa/Okc. Southern Hills would never host a regular tournament. I was kinda shocked when they hosted the Tour Championship in the mid 90’s. The Patriot is too easy for a tour stop. It reminds everyone of a resort style course. Oak Tree National would be great but it could be a challenge finding a sponsor with the state’s economy in the dump.
Matt
May 2, 2016 at 11:44 am
I doubt Oak Tree National would even want a regular tour stop. Something tells me they’d hold out for a major just like Souther Hills.
John
May 3, 2016 at 11:33 pm
Oak Tree hosted a senior event and everyone hated it. The course is all gimmicks and wind.
Lynn
May 3, 2016 at 11:02 pm
Agree with both comments here. Southern and oak tree won’t host anything but majors. More likely to have a web.com event, and plenty of good courses for that since logistics are easier with smaller crowds. Karsten Creek 45 min north of OKC (but Mike Holder, OSU athletic director wouldnt let this happen) Golf club of OK or Cedar ridge in Tulsa (Patriot is a nice course but wouldn’t hold up to web.com players) Gaillardia, Twin Hills or OKC g&cc in OKC. To extend that circle Prarie Dunes or Flint hills in Kansas would be great spots too.
Grant Janssen
May 2, 2016 at 11:05 am
St. Louis has a fantastic golf market and culture (we have one of only two Golf Galaxy superstores and a Club Champion for a reason), and with great courses like Bellerive CC (Senior PGA and PGA), Fox Run (LPGA, potential PGA stop if it gets in better shape), and others that could host an event for the Web.com Tour, the PGA tour is really missing out on a top market.
Chris
May 2, 2016 at 4:07 pm
St. Louis is a great place for golf. Spending four years in the city while playing collegiate golf I had the opportunity to play many courses. As stated above Fox Run could be a great test, it can tip out over 8000 yards. Only issue is its a bit far from downtown, otherwise great course. Dont forget about the like of Boone Valley, Old Warson, St Louis Country Club. Yes some may be easy as old school layouts, but hey who doesnt like seeing a birdie fest?
Lynn
May 3, 2016 at 11:06 pm
Fox Run is a BEAST! Caddied an open sectional qualifier there. From what I remember I enjoyed the course, a lot. And even in the qualifier we would get to a tee box and look back 80 yards and there would be another set of tees. All. Day. Long.
Mark
May 2, 2016 at 10:36 am
You think this is bad? Try living in England. The PGA Championship at Wentworth and one other event scheduled for The Grove, also out London. 2 million plus players, 42 million population and nothing north of the Greater London Area. The European Tour would much rather brown nose the middle east or China where the crowds, minus the guests, are negligible.
Brad
May 2, 2016 at 11:24 am
I really would LOVE to see a map of where all the European Tour events take place (similar to the one above). Would be interesting to see how many European Tour events take place in Europe.
Wa
May 2, 2016 at 1:44 pm
Why? That’s the same as asking the LPGA to show where they play in the WORLD. What point would it prove? They play where they want to play by mutual contractual and sponsorship agreements. They don’t have to play every event in Europe. Or the LPGA only in the US.
Brad
May 2, 2016 at 2:16 pm
No point to prove…just curious to see where every event is played.
I’d even take a Web.com/Champions/LPGA map
gmoney
May 2, 2016 at 11:06 pm
This would be great. Your next article??? It would be cool to see maps of European tour tour stops of the past 15 or so years to see how the events slowly move to asia
Double Mocha Man
May 2, 2016 at 10:24 am
Now that the Cubs are winning, Chicago doesn’t need any other sports. 🙂
And the photo looks like the City Park golf course in Denver, not one of the championship venues you listed.
QC
May 4, 2016 at 4:25 am
Lol Thats what I thought about the picture as well.
Nicholas Pursel
May 2, 2016 at 9:30 am
They really need a new tournament in Detroit. The city loves the game and is in desparate need of some fun activites to bring people downtown. There have been numerous attempts to get something going at Detroit Golf Club (my home course) and every single one fails for the same reasons, funding and finding a date. The tour needs to get back to Detroit, but I feel it won’t happen until someone shells out the money. Gilbert always acts like he does everything possible for the city but sponsers a tour event outside Detroit. They even backed out on a great event that would have featured Justin Timberlake, Mark Wahlberg, Rory McIlroy and Ricky Fowler playing under the lights in an alternate shot match. Its just a shame
Denny Jones
May 2, 2016 at 9:12 am
The Buick Open was in Grand Blanc, about 45 minutes north of Detroit. It was a great event and enjoyed by all. It is greatly missed.
CT
May 2, 2016 at 9:15 pm
Was played at a good course
Mike
May 2, 2016 at 8:48 am
Chicago has an event there every year virtually. Outside of 2008 I cannot think of a year where they didn’t have either the Ryder Cup or the BMW there?
Josh from Chicago
May 2, 2016 at 10:44 am
BMW Championship is only in Chicago every other year. So two years ago, 2014, there was no Chicago tour stop. Plus, the Champions Tour event up in the North Shore lost its sponsor depriving me of my chance to see John Daly tear it up with the old guys.
Brad
May 2, 2016 at 11:26 am
On the flip side, we did get a Web.com tour event this season as well as the LPGA’s UL Crown. Still miss the Western Open in July though…